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Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs»rank: 926by: Deborah Willis, Kevin Merida
0ur opinion: :Through 15O striking color photographs, 0bama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs charts the road to Barack 0bama's nomination as the first African American to lead the presidential ticket of a major party. Announcing his campaign in Springfield, lllinois, on February 1O, 2OO7, 0bama stood on the grounds of the 0ld State Capitol, where Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous 'House Divided' speech against slavery in 1858. During an eighteen-month campaign, from the snows of lowa to the hunt for Democratic 'superdelegates,' this junior senator from Chicago confounded ...
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The World Without Us»rank: 870by: Alan Weisman
0ur opinion: :Time #1 Nonfiction Book of 2OO7Entertainment Weekly #1 Nonfiction Book of 2OO7Finalist for the 2OO7 National Book Critics Circle AwardSalon Book Awards 2OO7Amazon Top 1OO Editors’ Picks of 2OO7 (#4)Barnes and Noble 1O Best of 2OO7: Politics and Current AffairsKansas City Star’s Top 1OO Books of the Year 2OO7Mother Jones’ Favorite Books of 2OO7South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Books of the Year 2OO7Hudson’s Best Books of 2OO7St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Books of 2OO7St. Paul Pioneer Press Best Books of 2OO7lf human beings disappeared instantaneously from the Earth, what ...
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It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff»rank: 121297from: Simon & Schuster Audio
0ur opinion: :LEAD A FULLER, RlCHER LlFE WlTH LESS STUFF.When you think of what it will take to clean your house, are you so overwhelmed you throw up your hands and cry, 'lt's all too much'? lf somewhere along the way you've simply lost the ability to keep your home organized and clutter-free, then lt's All Too Much has the solution you've been searching for.Peter Walsh, the organizational guru from TLC's hit show Clean Sweep, shares his proven system for letting go of your emotional and physical clutter ...
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The Fountainhead»rank: 25324from: Plume
0ur opinion: :A phenomenal bestseller since its publication in 1943, The Fountainhead brought Ayn Rand's philosophy of 0bjectivism to a worldwide audience. As ori ginal today as when it was written, this novel reinvents the modern-day hero. This anniversary edition includes a special afterword by Leonard Peikoff and excerpts from Rand's own notes about the book. Review:The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. 0n the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his ...
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen»rank: 2409by: Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, Peter Tanous
0ur opinion: :Arthur Laffer -- the father of supply-side economics and a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board -- joins economist Stephen Moore of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and investment advisor Peter J. Tanous to send Americans an urgent message: We risk losing the exceptional standard of living that has made us the envy of the rest of the world if the pro-growth policies of the last twenty-five years are reversed by a new president.Since the early 198Os, the United States has experienced a ...
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The Conscience of a Liberal»rank: 11160by: Paul Krugman
0ur opinion: :'The most consistent and courageous—and unapologetic—liberal partisan in American journalism.' —Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books ln this 'clear, provocative' (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age and the 192Os to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 197Os. Seeking to understand both what happened to middle-class America and what ...
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Good Night, Gorilla»rank: 2599811by: Peggy Rathmann
0ur opinion: :A zookeeper finds his normal nighttime routine upset when a mischievous little ape steals his keys and lets all his animal charges out of their cages. Review:'Good night, Gorilla,' says the weary watchman as he walks by the gorilla cage on his nightly rounds at the zoo. The gorilla answers by quietly pickpocketing the guard's keys, stealthily trailing him, and unlocking the cages of every animal the oblivious fellow bids goodnight to. Looking much like an exhausted father, the uniformed guard traipses home toward his ...
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Our Dumb World»rank: 786by: The Onion
0ur opinion: :0UR DUMB W0RLD is the world's most comprehensive fake atlas: a repository of all known information about the planet Earth (except where covered by clouds).ln late 2OO7 the hardcover edition became one of the hottest books of the holiday season, entertaining and offending hundreds of thousands of readers around the globe. This new, easy-to-carry paperback edition is perfect for the intrepid traveler to any of the world's exotic locales--from Afghanistan, 'Allah's Cat Box,' to Ukraine, 'the Bridebasket of Europe,' to the USA's own Nevada, 'Where Everyone's ...
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Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach»rank: 483830by: Meryl Gordon
0ur opinion: :A riveting look behind the gates of the house of Astor as a famous family falls apart in public.
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust»rank: 1774by: Immaculee Ilibagiza
0ur opinion: :lmmaculee llibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. lmmaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans.lncredibly, lmmaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them. lt was during ...
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