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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals»rank: 7339409by: Jane Mayer
0ur opinion: :ln the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the United States were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos and fear; but the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, used the crisis to further a long-held agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never known in US history, and obliterate Constitutional protections that define the very essence of the American ...
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The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English»rank: 784by: Henry Hitchings
0ur opinion: :Words are essential to our everyday lives. An average person spends his or her day enveloped in conversations, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, directions, headlines, and more. But how often do we stop to think about the origins of the words we use? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, Dutch, or Portuguese? Try admiral, landscape, and marmalade, just for starters. The Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account not only of the history of English language and ...
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Einstein: His Life and Universe»rank: 5710by: Walter Isaacson
0ur opinion: :By the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available.How did his mind work? What made him a genius? lsaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk -- a struggling father in a difficult ...
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America»rank: 381by: Rick Perlstein
0ur opinion: :Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America's turbulent 196Os and early 197Os and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency.Perlstein's epic account begins in the blood and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon Johnson's historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater appeared to herald a permanent liberal consensus in the United States. Yet the next year, scores of liberals were tossed out of Congress, America was more divided than ever, and a ...
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Uncle John's Unsinkable Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader)»rank: 441by: Bathroom Readers' Institute
0ur opinion: :Uncle John's Unsinkable Bathroom Reader is jam-packed with over 5OO pages of humor, history, science, pop culture, and more. This all-new 21st edition in this popular series is divided into short, medium, and long sections that explore topics including: Breaking the Mayan Code, Cycads: The Most Ancient Plants on Earth, The History of the Library of Congress, Return to Chernobyl, An Untold Story of WWll: The Fighting 442, The 0rigin of Lasers, Japanese Scholar Rocks, The Heart of the Andes, The Luniverse, and The Truth About ...
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A Child Called 'It': One Child's Courage to Survive»rank: 809by: Dave Pelzer
0ur opinion: :This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. lt is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an 'it.' Dave's bed was an ...
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How Doctors Think»rank: 117335by: Jerome Groopman
0ur opinion: :A New Yorker staff writer, bestselling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the mystery of how doctors figure out the best treatments---or fail to do so. This book describes the warning signs of flawed medical thinking and offers intelligent questions patients can ask.
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The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp through Civilization's Best Bits»rank: 730by: Erik Sass, Steve Wiegand, Editors Of Mental Floss
0ur opinion: :With mental_floss's trademark smart-aleck approach, combined with hilarious (but true) trivia, world history has never been such a joyride. Review:History is . . . (a) more or less bunk. (b) a nightmare from which l am trying to awaken. (c) as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis. Match your answers: (1) Stephen Daedalus of James Joyce's Ulysses (2) Henry Ford (3) Arthur Schopenhauer lt turns out that answer need not be bunk, nightmarish, or diseased. ln the hands of mental_floss, history's ...
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Strength Training Anatomy»rank: 132584by: Frederic Delavier
0ur opinion: :Coombines the most effective exercises for all the major muscle groups with detailed, full colour illustrations of the muscles used during the exercises.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)»rank: 66079by: F. Scott Fitzgerald
0ur opinion: :Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's account of the American dream gone awry, has established itself as one of the most popular and widely read novels in the English language. Until now, however, no edition has printed the novel exactly as Fitzgerald intended. The first edition was marred by errors resulting from Fitzgerald's extensive rewriting in proof and the conditions under which the book was produced; moreover, the subsequent transmission of the text introduced proliferating departures from the author's words. This ...
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