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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Kay Redfield Jamison
Vintage, 1996
Kay Jamisons credentials
+ An Unquiet Mind
+ Really Helps to Understand
I'd just like to correct something is one of the reviews.
Kay Jamison is not a psychiatrist. She is a psychologist who heads a psychiatric department. If you have read this book, you know that.
I've read over a dozen books on Bipolar Disorder. Being Bipolar myself, I really felt a kinship ...
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American Sphinx The Character of Thomas Jefferson
Ellis Joseph J
Alfred a . Knopf, 1997
american sphinx
this book, along with everything else I have read of Joe Ellis are must reads. Very indepth presentation of the 3rd president and very, very well written. Highly recommend!
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The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won
Peter Navarro
FT Press, 2006
Surprisingly scholarly and a must for anyone concerned about America's greatest potential military threat.
+ The Coming China Wars
China has over one billion people and the largest military in the world. Now in a newly revised and significantly expanded edition, "The Coming China Wars" is a discussion of what many politically savvy Americans fear, something that may or may not be inevitable - war with China. Explaining the ...
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Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
Another thought provoking work from Pfeffer
+ Profiting From Evidence-Based Management
+ Great scientific evaluation of many management beliefs
+ Rigorous Research Put Into Practice
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The Frog King
Adam Davies
Riverhead Trade, 2002
Shockingly provocative
+ Excellent
+ Funny, delightful, clever, heartwarming
I read "Goodbye Lemon", the author's second novel. I found it so compelling that I was left thinking about the characters long after the last page was turned. I begged my husband to get me "The Frog King" since I could not find it at Borders or any other book store in the area. Enter Amazon. ...
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The Sikh Diaspora: The Search for Statehood (Globaal Diasporas , No 3)
Darshan Singh Tatla
University of Washington Press, 1999
To Dr Darshan Singh Tatla
+ The 'situational' nature of ethnic consciousness
The Sikh DIASPORA, is a very thourgh and excellent written book, not only for academics alike but for our future generations, Tatla explains fully within context to the reader, a past, present and future look of Sikh movements, an excellent book and well contributed to the series of Diasporas ...
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We (Modern Library Classics)
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Modern Library, 2006
Primo
+ Good, but...
+ The Original Dystopian Novel of the 20th Century
+ I is We...
+ Literary Masterpiece, Thought Provoking
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Hope For the Separated: Wounded Marriages Can Be Healed (Chapman, Gary)
Gary Chapman
Moody Publishers, 2005
Wonderful, appropriate, practical resource
+ gary chapman puts it in perspective
+ Awesome!
+ Hope for the seperated
+ Much needed guidance
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Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything
James Gleick
Vintage, 2000
entertaining collection of observations
+ " The faster we are forced to go, the slower we may need to go"
Jam-packed with information and covering subjects that range from Richard Feynman's observations of theoretical physics to the rise of MTV, this book reads, well, fastly. I got a kick out of it and learned a lot. It has a very large number of chapters which are not always that closely tied ...
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
Picador, 2001
The Most Super of All Powers
+ Chabon vents his issues
+ Great Fiction
+ Comic history in the making
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The Realm of Prester John
Robert Silverberg
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History, 2001
Great background for Eco fans
+ Prester John -- light on a shadowy figure
After finishing Umberto Eco's "Baulolino", I hit the library looking for books on the Prester John myth and came across one. It was extremely interesting and well written. Only the first 150-200 pages cover the history relevant to Eco's book and they were all I originally planned on reading, but ...
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The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell
Anchor, 1991
Resonates with the song of the universe deep inside us.
+ the Power of Myth
+ Thought-provoking
+ Outstanding
+ A fitting Introduction
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Depraved: The Definitive True Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-of-the-Century ...
Harold Schechter
Pocket Star, 2004
superb
+ Pretty good; worth reading if you're interested in Holmes et al.
+ Not As Good As Deranged
+ A True Psychopath
+ Every Bit As Good As I Had Hoped
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Japan's War: The Great Pacific Conflict
Edwin Hoyt
Cooper Square Press, 2001
Japan's Tragedy
+ Unusual point of view
+ "Win first, fight later"*
Tragedy has been described as a drama in which the main character is brought to ruin as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances. The story of Japan from the moment it was opened up to the West by Commodore Perry until its surrender is, as ...
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Night (Oprah's Book Club)
Elie Wiesel
Hill and Wang, 2006
Elie, a brave boy and a survivor
+ Scary reminder of what mankind is capable of
+ heart wrenching
+ The banal becomes terrifying, the terrifying becomes everyday "normal"
+ Human Words Cannot Convey the Story
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