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Extreme Measures: A Thriller
Vince Flynn
Atria Books, 2008
In the newest devastatingly intense thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Vince Flynn, his deadly and charismatic hero Mitch Rapp wages a war against a new enemy with the help of a fellow soldier as dedicated and as lethal as they come. Vince Flynn's thrillers, featuring counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp, have dominated the ...
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Extreme Pumpkins: Diabolical Do-It-Yourself Designs to Amuse Your Friends and Scare Your Neighbors
Tom Nardone
HP Trade, 2007
Happy Halloween!
I love this book! Not only are the pumpkin carving ideas amazing, but the guy has great suggestions with a good sense of humor. My only regret was that I ordered it late in October and I didn't get the book in time to pursue some of the projects for Halloween night. ...
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Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes
Maurice Isserman, Stewart Weaver
Yale University Press, 2008
The Age Of Adventure
Mountain climbing has always had a last frontier quality. The race to the North and South Poles ended in the early 1900's, Africa and South America were explored by the 1930's, leaving the Himalayan Mountains as the last challenge for adventure. Mr. Isserman and Mr. ...
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Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath
Rick Wartzman
PublicAffairs, 2008
Likely to Become the Defining Work on the History of Labor and Farming in the Valley in the 1930s
Was the "Grapes of Wrath" a nonfiction work disguised as a novel? Apparently, the County Board of Supervisors in Kern County California thought just that. The book, and Steinbeck, irritated them to the point that they decided to ban the work and prohibit its sale from ...
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Extreme Pumpkins II: Take Back Halloween and Freak Out a Few More Neighbors
Tom Nardone
HP Trade, 2008
Very good book
The author was featured on a recent halloween show and had several of his designs in the book on the show. Very clever and simple designs most anyone can do.
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Effective Project Management: Traditional, Adaptive, Extreme
Robert K. Wysocki
Wiley, 2006
A solid introduction the basic principles, concepts, and approaches to project management
Project management is often treated as a belief system and adherents to one cult reject and condemn all others. This is unfortunate because project management has been subjected to honest research and decades of practice have also yielded objectives results. This ...
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Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional)
Ken Schwaber
Microsoft Press, 2004
A Handbook with Case Studies
There's plenty of books on SCRUM - and finding the right one is a tough job.
This book is what you're looking for if you want a basic introduction and examples of applications - because there's plenty of case studies. SCRUM techniques are described and then ...
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Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
Mary Shelley
Pocket, 2004
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
I bought this for my son for a school reading assignment. He did not like the book at all. Me, on the other hand, I liked it. I read it years & years ago but I enjoyed it the 2nd time around.
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Extreme Fat Smash Diet
Ian K. Smith
St. Martin's Griffin, 2007
Really works... if you're up to it!
What I really liked about this book is that it tells you exactly what to eat & exercise to lose weight quickly. It teaches you the healthy way & changes your way of thinking about food. I had a baby and needed to lose 20 lbs. It took me 6 weeks. The first 3 days is the ...
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The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet)
Stephen King
Signet, 1991
Insane, epic and brilliant
There are plenty of pitfalls that drag epic, amibitous novels down; plots that don't hold up for a thousand plus pages, characters that grow tiresome, repetitive themes that feel like a broken record halfway through the book.
The Stand avoids all of these. The cast ...
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The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America
Ronald Brownstein
Penguin Press HC, The, 2007
Thought provoking, impeccably researched and argued
Why is is so difficult for Congress or the President of the United States to get anything done? Why is it that our elected leaders cannot tackle so many of the deep and important challenges facing the nation? Journalist Ron Brownstein attempts to answer these important ...
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The Girl Next Door
Jack Ketchum
Leisure, 2007
Riveting
The Girl Next Door is one of the few books that I have read that I absolutely could not put down. I devoured the book in just under 24 hours. The story focuses on David, a young teen, and what he witnesses as Meg and her sister move in with a neighbor, Ruth.
The ...
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The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership
Steve Farber
Kaplan Business, 2004
Simple story with a very deep meaning - not for the close minded
I have to admit I bought this book on a whim because I liked the title. I bought the second copy to loan to all my friends who kept asking to borrow it. The story flows well and leads you to some very deep thinking. Farber does an excellent job of tying in a fiction ...
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The Art of Agile Development
James Shore, Shane Warden
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007
An extremely practical guide to extreme programming
This book has three parts in it - introduction to agility, guide to extreme programming and afterthoughts. You may want to read this book if you want to set up XP in your team or participate in it. It is mostly beneficial for the developers or project managers to read ...
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Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Get Real Meals: Eat Healthy Without Going to Extremes
Rachael Ray
Clarkson Potter, 2005
Question
Does this book have nutritional information as well as decent pictures? Sorry this isn't a review! Thanks.
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