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The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples
Shirley Hazzard, Francis Steegmuller
University Of Chicago Press, 2008
Canta Napoli
Ms. Hazzard and Mr. Steegmuller have written a most astute and heart-warming book about Naples, Italy. They have felt the pulse of Naple, the temperament of the locals and written about it in beautiful prose.
Naples is always a mixture of chaos and calm; of ...
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
Anderson Cooper
Harper Paperbacks, 2007
Such an honest account!
This book is fantastic! I purchased it and read the entire book within 72 hours. His descriptions of the accounts are breathtaking. The section that touched me most was about Katrina and the Aftermath. I lived in New Orleans as a volunteer relief worker for 1 year, ...
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The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier
Tony Jones
Jossey-Bass, 2008
good read
This is an important read for anyone interested in the emergent conversation. The personal history of the author's journey and the concepts developed, in this journey, give this book 5 stars from this reviewer. The reviewer feels that more acknowledgement that there ...
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Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett's Omaha: A Hedge Fund Manager's Dispatches from Inside the Berkshire Hathaway ...
Jeff Matthews
McGraw-Hill, 2008
What Warren and Charlie try to educate us?
Every year, I read the Q&A of BRK Annual Meeting done by various nice people sharing their experiences in Omaha. To be frank, not all Q&A are that easy to understand without knowing the history and background of those subjects and this book supplements those history, ...
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Highway to Hell: Dispatches from a Mercenary in Iraq
John Geddes
Broadway, 2008
iraq guns for hire
I Tried to get this book for at least a year and wasnt dissapointed. Well written gunns for hire, feel like your there , rideing in the seat with the gun pointing at the door!!
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Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm
Jon Katz
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008
/dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm
Jon Katz books are great gifts for owners of Border Collies. This sequal to The Dogs of Bedlam Farm was much appreciated.
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Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire
Matt Taibbi
Grove Press, Black Cat, 2007
Smells Like Dead Elephants is a brilliant collection from Matt Taibbi, ?a political reporter with the gonzo spirit that made Hunter S. Thompson and P. J. O?Rourke so much fun? ( The Washington Post ). Bringing together Taibbi?s most incisive and hilarious work from his ?Road Work? column in Rolling Stone, Smells Like Dead Elephants shines an ...
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
Joe Bageant
Three Rivers Press, 2008
Why Rednecks Vote Republican
Bageant hits a home run in "Deer Hunting With Jesus." Only a skilled expatriate writer returning to his roots in Appalachia could weave a story explaining why dirt poor white folk put their faith in political dogmas that run against their own best economic interests. ...
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Tony Horwitz
Vintage, 1999
A Really Good Read for Understanding and Reflection
This is a book I would never have read, except for the fact that I have a remarkable step son who likes to challenge my reading habits and try to make me a better person. With this book as a Christmas gift this year, I hope he has done both.
A son of the North, born ...
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Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onion
Robert Siegel, Onion Staff, ...
Three Rivers Press, 2001
The Onion is GREAT reading!
What a great price for hours of humorous reading! Funny funny funny!
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Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate
Naomi Klein
Picador, 2002
Frightfully enlightening
Early last year I added myself to the Naomi Klein fan club - unfortunately I did not discover her sooner.
Since then I've read many of her books, checked out some web sites and seen her interviewed by Charlie Rose.
What a welcome phenomenon to the world of ...
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Winging It: Dispatches from an (Almost) Empty Nest
Catherine Goldhammer
Hudson Street Press, 2008
Poignant but practical
Loved this second book by Catherine Goldhammer. She has a beautiful honesty about this next phase of life and I think many people will find her observations interesting. If you have gone through any of the life changing events that Catherine writes about you will ...
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Dilbert's Guide To The Rest Of Your Life: Dispatches from Cubicleland
Scott Adams
Running Press, 2007
The BEST Dilbert book yet!
Scott Adams has outdone himself AGAIN. He has truly captured 'life in a cubicle'. It seems like he has hidden cameras in our cubicles and is spying on us...getting new insight into cubicle living for his next book. Thanks, Scott, for another great book to bring ...
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A Man's Life: Dispatches from Dangerous Places
Mark Jenkins
Rodale Books, 2007
"A Man's Life" indeed
While I'd read and enjoyed Mark Jenkins's writings in "Outside" magazine for a long time, this is the first of his books I've read and I was sorry that it had to come to an end. I now look forward to reading his older books. Jenkins's writing style makes for easy, ...
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A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
Anna Politkovskaya
University Of Chicago Press, 2007
Biased?!!!
Yes, it is a shock therapy book. It is filled with some of the most cruel and bloody imagery. But this shock therapy is needed, both in Russia and in the West. Because that imagery is not a figment of somebody's imagination nor is it some particularly violent page of ...
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