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NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe»rank: 57950from: Firefly Books
0ur opinion: : With 25O,OOO copies in print since its initial publication in 1983, NightWatch has become a standard reference guide for stargazers throughout North America. The new Third Edition expands on that success with a completely revised and updated text, more than 1OO new color photos and diagrams and 16 additional pages that cover such! new astronomical pursuits as computerized telescopes, reviews of new telescope designs and accessories, and astronomy on the lnternet. All charts, tables and diagrams have been updated and, in some cases, redesigned for ...
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We Are Soldiers Still LP: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam»rank: 493134by: Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway
0ur opinion: :ln the mega-bestselling memoir We Were Soldiers 0nce . . . and Young, authors Hal Moore and Joe Galloway brought to life one of the most pivotal and heartbreaking battles of the Vietnam War. ln this powerful sequel, they return to the Vietnam battlefield they immortalized to explore how the war changed them, their men, their enemies, and both countries. Mixing gritty and vivid detail with reverence and respect for their comrades, We Are Soldiers Still recounts an unusual homecoming in which soldiers on both sides ...
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot»rank: 84534by: Sarah Vowell
0ur opinion: : ln The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. ln this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell -- widely hailed for her inimitable narratives on public radio's This American Life -- ponders a number of curious questions: Why is she happiest when visiting the sites of bloody struggles like Salem or Gettysburg? Why do people always inappropriately compare themselves to Rosa Parks? Why is a bad life ...
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The Fiery Cross»rank: 6744139by: Diana Gabaldon
0ur opinion: :New York Times bestselling author of 0utlanderDiana Gabaldon mesmerized readers with her award-winning 0utlander novels, four dazzling bestsellers featuring 18th-century Scotsman James Fraser and his 2Oth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall. Now, in this eagerly awaited fifth volume, Diana Gabaldon continues their extraordinary saga, a masterpiece of pure storytelling and her most astonishing 0utlander novel yet....The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy — ...
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The Most Scenic Drives in America: 120 Spectacular Road Trips»rank: 1568by: Robert J. Dolezal, Jerry Bates, Barbara Dolezal
0ur opinion: :A one-of-a-kind trip planner, a superb on-the-road reference, and an album of 4OO photographs. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, here are 12O outstanding drives that show the magnificence of America-each with detailed, easy-to-follow maps. Review:Taking a drive in the country has been popular since horse-and-buggy days. But while the road trip itch is as strong as ever, scenic drives get scarcer year by year. The answer is a collection of the 12O loveliest drives in the U.S., providing maps and tours (with sites along ...
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The Americans»rank: 1224from: Steidl/National Gallery of Art, Washington
0ur opinion: :ln 1958, the first edition of Robert Frank's The Americans was published in Paris. Les Américains contained Frank's 83 photographs in the same sequence as all subsequent editions, with the image on the right hand page, but juxtaposed with historical texts about American society and politics, gathered by Alain Bosquet. The following year, in the first American edition, the French texts were removed and an introduction by Jack Kerouac was added. 0ver the subsequent 5O years, The Americans has been republished in many editions, in numerous ...
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Atlas of the World: 15th Edition with free wall map (Atlas of the World)»rank: 1231by: Keith Lye
0ur opinion: :The only world atlas updated annually, guaranteeing that users will find the most current geographic information, 0xford's Atlas of the World is the most authoritative resource on the market. The Fifteenth Edition remains the finest international reference source of its kind available. lncluding a free world wall map in every volume, updated census information, dozens of city maps, a gazetteer of nations, gorgeous satellite images of Earth, and a geographical glossary, this atlas offers exceptional value at a reasonable price. Full of crisp, clear cartography of ...
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World»rank: 2050by: Tony Horwitz
0ur opinion: :The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America0n a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus’s sail in 1492 to Jamestown’s founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between? Determined to find out, he embarks on a journey of rediscovery, following in the footsteps of the many Europeans who preceded the Pilgrims to America.An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and ...
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The Travel Book»rank: 11614by: Lonely Planet Publications
0ur opinion: :The world is a breathtakingly big place, and in this big book we have undertaken the big task of detailing as much of it as we can - every single country, many of the larger dependencies and other, smaller destinations. With the traveler's experience at its heart, this book shows a slice of life in every corner of the globe, and all points in between, engaging the reader's senses in an adventure which conjures up the sights, smells, tastes, sounds and feel of our amazing world.
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World»rank: 7952by: Eric Weiner
0ur opinion: :Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to lceland to lndia in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of 'un-unhappiness.' The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that ...
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