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Walden and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics)
Henry David Thoreau, Peter Matthiessen
Modern Library, 2000
FIVE STARS FOR THE GIRL IN WYOMING!
I have no intention of reviewing the writings of Thoreau. The way I figure it is this : if you don't "get it" (and the world around us clearly testifies that few do), I'm not about to explain it. Besides, several other reviewers here have already done a very ...
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The Wages of Wins: Taking Measure of the Many Myths in Modern Sport (Stanford Business Books)
David Berri, Martin Schmidt, ...
Stanford Business Books, 2007
Great intro to the analysis of sports based on analytics.
WoW is a great introduction to thinking more critically about sports and how we define "the best".
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The PowerScore 2004 LSATs Deconstructed
David Killoran; Jon Denning; Steve Stein; Jason Crandall; Brook Miscoski
PowerScore Publishing, 2007
Very helpful!
I have read the PowerScore Logic Games Bible and the PowerScore Logical Reasoning Bible and both were extremely helpful to me. I have been preparing for the upcoming June LSAT and I needed help increasing my score. With these books my score has already gone up 10 ...
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Worlds Away
John Archer, David Brooks, ...
Walker Art Center, 2008
The suburbs have always been a fertile space for imagining both the best and the worst of modern social life. Portrayed alternately as a middle-class domestic utopia and a dystopic world of homogeneity and conformity--with manicured suburban lawns and the inchoate darkness that lurks just beneath the surface--these stereotypes belie a more ...
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The World of Shannara
Terry Brooks, Teresa Patterson
Simon & Schuster, 2001
A Great Companion Book
This is a coffee-table companion book to Terry Brooks' ongoing Shannara epic fantasy series. It's by the same lady who did The World of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. It has the same format of that book, in that it's a history of the world with illustrations of ...
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Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
David Brooks
Simon & Schuster, 2001
Agreement
My first reference to this was in Aliens in America: The Strange Truth About Our Souls by Peter Augustine Lawler who uses the Brooks' concept of Bobo. A second reference to the book came by way of moral imperative when a friend handed the book to me and said "Read it." ...
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On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense
David Brooks
Simon & Schuster, 2005
An humorous and thought-provoking read
After writing "BoBos in Paradise," David Brooks certainly had a tough act to follow. I found that BoBos captured the psyche of the affluent baby boomers in a way that was both enlightening and rip roaringly humorous. For me, it's no overstatement to say that BoBos was ...
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The Great World Search (Great Searches - New Format)
Kamini Khanduri
Usborne Books, 2005
Best in the series!
This is our favorite Great Search book by Usborne. It has a few puzzle within a puzzle activities for older users, though it is still a simple and enjoyable search book for toddlers. Unless you plan to do every page with your child (all day, every day!), it may be ...
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An Introduction to PHP for Scientists and Engineers: Beyond JavaScript
David R. Brooks
Springer, 2008
PHP, originally created in 1994 as a ‘Personal Home Page’ tool, is a server-side programming language that can be used to solve numerous computing problems that a client-side language like JavaScript cannot. This highly useful text/reference presents key information needed to write your own online science and engineering applications, ...
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The Usborne Internet-Linked First Encyclopedia of Our World
Felicity Brooks
Usborne, 2002
AWESOME!
This is a beautiful book that encourages children to learn about their world. Information is provided in bits, making it easy for children to digest. In addition, the internet links provide unlimited learning on the topics in the book. As far as the person who ...
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Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture
Andrea Bacchi, Catherine Hess, ...
Getty Publications, 2008
Gian Lorenzo Bernini was the greatest sculptor of the Baroque period, and yet--surprisingly--there has never before been a major exhibition of his sculpture in North America. Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture--on view from August 5 through October 26, 2008, at the J. Paul Getty Museum and from November 28, 2008, through March 8, ...
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Childrens Encyclopedia: The Usborne Internet-Linked (First Encyclopedias)
Felicity Brooks, Fiona Chandler, ...
Usborne Books, 2004
Great Resourse for a younger child
I have been homeschooling my 5 year old using the Usbourne Children's Encyclopedia. Great intro to social studies and geography. I just use one page at a time and make up a list of questions that I use afterwards to see if he remembers and if not we discuss the topic ...
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The Ring Bear
David Michael Slater
Flashlight Press, 2004
The Ring Bear will tug at your heart strings!
This highly original book by author David Michael Slater is a fascinating picture book that enthralled me from cover to cover, even as it captivated children all around the world. Published by Flashlight Press, one of my favorite children's publishing houses, the book ...
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An Introduction to HTML and JavaScript: for Scientists and Engineers
David R. Brooks
Springer, 2007
The JavaScript language is widely used for simple online applications. This useful book presents HTML and JavaScript in a way that uniquely meets the needs of students in the sciences and engineering. It explains how to create simple, client-side applications for scientific and engineering calculations. It includes many complete HTML/JavaScript ...
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Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing: Concepts and Practice
Bonnie Rogers, David Lewis, ...
Saunders, 2003
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EXCELLENT resource for any involved in occupational health nursing or wanting to conduct research in this field and needing basic information to inform him/her about the field.
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