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Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition)
Bryan Peterson
Amphoto Books, 2004
Understanding Exposure
I'm a novice photographer with a new Nikon DSL and looking to understand more about the basics of light. This book gives you a great basic understanding of many of the fundamentals such as shutter speed and depth of field. Excellent pictures are included to visually ...
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Last Words: A Memoir
George Carlin
Free Press, 2009
Carlin = Excellence
I am biased. George and I are four days apart in birth. He got the brains, I got the looks. I followed his career, his growth, and this book completes the journey in an appropriate manner. Lots of imitators, none like him. Integrity is his name. This book is pure ...
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
Penguin Books, 2007
shared visions
I've read & re-read "Three Cups of Tea" many times over the years, and shared it with family, friends & co-workers. As a mother of career soldiers, sons who have had multiple tours of duty in Iraq, Korea, etc. ... I am especially appreciative of Mortenson's approach. ...
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Jeff Kinney
Amulet Books, 2008
Laugh and Bond
Great book to read with your child. These books helped my kids and I bond together. Really funny. I don't remember books like this growing up! If you need to spend some down time with your child, get this series!
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The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
HarperCollins, 2008
hardback..
Because of limited space and a life spent moving from place to place, I own few books. I have found only a relatively small number of books worth having as hardback; this novel now joins my small club of truly wonderful books, which also includes books such as Jane ...
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Halo Encyclopedia
DK Publishing
DK Publishing, 2009
Covers it all
This adds some value to anyone who is interested in the Halo universe. If you have read all the novels you already have a good idea of most of the things covered but the amount of detail is pretty crazy.
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More Diners, Drive-ins and Dives: A Drop-Top Culinary Cruise Through America's Finest and Funkiest Joints
Guy Fieri, Ann Volkwein
William Morrow Cookbooks, 2009
awesome
I got the book really fast. I'm looking forward to looking through the book. I really liked the first book.
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Autobiography of Values
Charles A. Lindbergh
Harvest Books, 1992
GREAT
This is a great biographie on one of the greatest people ever! THIS IS A MUST READ
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan
Penguin, 2007
yummy food!
if you don't like good reporting, or in depth understanding this book will be a struggle for you, but if you love food, and more knowledge is better than less you are in for a TREAT!
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Christopher McDougall
Knopf, 2009
An excellent book on running and the human race
This is one of the best books on running I've read. I'm not sure if I wanted to keep reading it because of the story or because of the science behind the theory. In any case, both are compelling.
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
Timothy Egan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009
Their stories are now burned into my brain. Wonderful work!
In September as we rode through Idaho, the memory of Timothy Egan's Big Burn was etched in my brain. The vivid writing made it easy to conjure a hot wind whipping through that slot canyon leading to Wallace Idaho, blowing deadly smoke and flame into a town crowded in ...
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The New Best Recipe: All-New Edition
Cook's Illustrated Magazine
America?s Test Kitchen, 2004
The canonical source for REAL cooking
I'm a fair cook, of the country meat and potatoes and apple pie variety. Well, include Italian dishes in that. And Tex-Mex. And catfish, and a few other things. I was a charter subscriber nearly thirty years ago to Cook's Illustrated and there's seldom an issue goes by ...
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith
Quirk Books, 2009
Ehhh
It's OK.
The conceit of inserting zombies into P&P is a clever one (imagine the climactic meeting between Elizabeth Bennet and Lady Catherine as a battle to the death between two hardened Buffy-the-Vampire-Slayers and you get the general idea), but it's not carried ...
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The Next 10 Actual, Official LSAT PrepTest (Lsat Series)
Wendy Margolis
Law School Admission Council, 2007
I will buy this instead of GOLD!!!!
These exams are like gold. These are actual LSAC exams. Although they are dated their value is not reduced by any means. I took one of these exams as a diagnostic in the beginning of my LSAT test prep. Then I went through a prep course and also did the standard logic ...
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Wolf Hall: A Novel
Hilary Mantel
Henry Holt and Co., 2009
Not a thriller - a real world you can enter
Those who read Wolf Hall expecting a pacy historical thriller a la Ken Follett have obviously been disappointed and are inclined to insult both Mantel and her admirers. But she doesn't set out to write page turners in that sense. She has created a world for us to ...
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Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 21st Edition (Thumb Index Version)
F A Davis Co, 2009
Tabers
I used this dictionary in nursing school and it got misplaced through the years. It is a good solid source for nursing students.
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Under the Dome: A Novel
Stephen King
Scribner, 2009
So Far So Good!
Any Horror book that has someone getting murdered in the first 50 pages has got to be good. This book grabbed me right away with shock, mystery, and intriging characters. I am just getting started with this book but I cannot wait to pick it up again after I put it down.
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
Knopf, 2009
heartbreaking truth
This is a fantastic easy to read book, full of the heartbreaking truth that is hidden from the western world, heart wrenching yet inspiring at the same time, a must read for everyone and anyone it will open your eyes and your heart.
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Christopher McDougall
Knopf, 2009
An exhilirating romp through the human need to run (and how Nike screwed it up)
Christopher McDougall's "Born to Run" is flying off shelves and winning converts by the thousands. Converts to what, exactly? McDougall might say, to revert to our true nature as endurance runners.
At the outset of the book, McDougall and I share a frustated love ...
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Crash Course in Love
Steven Ward, JoAnn Ward
VH1, 2009
Finding love
If you want to find the oppurtunity to shine in a relationship, or just keep it alive this is the book for you. Steve Ward and His mother do an excellent job at giving the hard facts about do's and don'ts in a relationship.
Crash Course in Love is a short version of ...
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition
American Psychological Association (APA), 2009
Barb's review
When I received the book, not too long after that, I received an email that it was the wrong edition and to contact the writer and send it back. It is a wonderful book that will definitely be needed in the field that I am studying.
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Food Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 Extraordinary Places to Eat Around the Globe
National Geographic
National Geographic, 2009
Love the "lists of 10"
This book represents my secret -- I don't eat when I am out travelinig, but I travel to eat.... And imagining what I am going to eat when I go to places is really almost as good as being there (not really, but it does help to build the anticipation.) I found myself ...
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Have a Little Faith: A True Story
Mitch Albom
Hyperion, 2009
have a little faith
This was a wonderful book, the flow and verbal images were superb. This would make a great selection for a book club.
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Vision in White (The Bride Quartet, Book 1)
Nora Roberts
Berkley Trade, 2009
Vision in White
Another good series by Nora Roberts, romantic, dreamy, possible. Looking forward to reading the next three.
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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
Alexandra Horowitz
Scribner, 2009
For all dog-lovers
This book is not just about dogs. Author Horowitz challenges us to look at our surroundings through the eyes (and nose and ears) of our pet. It is a serious work, the science well documented. (There are 30 pages of notes!) But it is written with the wit and warmth ...
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Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 9)
Charlaine Harris
Ace Hardcover, 2009
One of the Best in the Series
I loved this book. I, like other people am not sure I read the same book as everybody else. There are some things that contridices the other books and that is annoying, but the story is good. Sookie is tricked into a vampire marriage, but she is also very distured by ...
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Eating the Dinosaur
Chuck Klosterman
Scribner, 2009
Like Pepsi, it's fun AND delicious
On the back of EATING THE DINOSAUR, a question is posed: "Should I read this book?" The answer really does sum up what you will find between these covers: "Probably. Do you see a clear relationship between the Branch Davidian massacre and the recording of Nirvana's In ...
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Diners, Drive-ins and Dives: An All-American Road Trip . . . with Recipes! (Food Network)
Guy Fieri, Ann Volkwein
William Morrow Cookbooks, 2008
Present
Combined this with a gift certificate of a nearby DDD place and it ended up being a great gift!
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