books about: ignorance

books about: ignorance

books:

Ignorance

The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays

Wendell Berry

Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006

A Timely and Important Contribution to the Present Zeitgeist
This book is disturbingly honest. The honesty oozes from the pages of these analytic and interpretative literary compositions. It's a bracing honesty that I am not always prepared for -- but have come to expect from this septuagenarian agrarian. In my favorite of ...

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

Jonah Goldberg

Doubleday, 2008

Great Book As Evidenced by Liberal Reviews & Placement
Plainly this book has been out for quite some time but until it showed up on audio I didn't even know it existed. Why? Because it was well hidden by the major book stores that typically hide anything conservative on the bottom shelf of some sociology section in the ...

War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism

Douglas J. Feith

Harper, 2008

a good first draft of history
This is an excellent background and first draft of history for the last seven years. Feith was a policy/ analyst guy. He is not a foaming at the mouth, neo-con ideologue. He is a DC area lawyer, that worked in the NSC under Reagan/ Bush the elder and then more law ...

Confessions of a Subprime Lender: An Insider's Tale of Greed, Fraud, and Ignorance

Richard Bitner

Wiley, 2008

Layman's book for understanding Subprime and how the mortgage markets work
If you want to understand the current Subprime crisis, this is the book for you. I was trying to find some books in Jun 2008 on this Subprime and Credit Crisis topics since from reading the daily news on this, I didn't have a clue what is subprime, prime and all ...

The New Dare to Discipline

James C. Dobson

Tyndale House Publishers, 1996

An excellent book
I have serious doubts as to whether or not many of these reviewers have even read this book. I suspect that they used a link from an anti-corporal punishment webpage called "stoptherod". Dr Dobson recommends giving your children lots of love, and you should read the ...

Holy Bible, Giant Print Presentation Edition: King James Version

Oxford University Press, USA, 2000

excellent choice
Very good product. The large print is good, and the pages are not cluttered with notes. This is the King James Version as it was written-- just what I wanted. Good price.

The Book of General Ignorance

John Mitchinson, John Lloyd

Harmony, 2007

what a fun book!
i loved this book! it's a collection of short (like, 1 page) mini-essays about things we commonly believe to be true, but aren't. each is written as a question. then the correct answer is revealed, with a load of back up and ancillary information. a few of the ...

Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution

Michael J. Behe

Free Press, 2006

Darwin's fantasy.
Excellent book. Not for the faint of heart and has some very technical reading. As I continue my research of creationism vs. evolution it's incredible how our schools continue to teach the wrong history with the mountains of obvious evidence against evolution and the ...

Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve

William Fleckenstein, Fred Sheehan

McGraw-Hill, 2008

Masterly of Sir Alan
Alan Greenspan, called The Maestro, has almost singlehandedly created the two largest financial bubbles in world history. Federal Reserve is the worlds biggest central bank, and should have understood the nature of the both the it-bubble in the last half of the ...

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins

Houghton Mifflin, 2006

A great read
While the arguments and examples in the book are very good, I have to say the best part is that it is actually quite enjoyable to read. Dawkins has a subtle wit and a talent for writing which makes a page-turner out of subject matter which is ordinarily quite dull. ...

The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong
John Mitchinson, John Lloyd

Harmony, 2008

Fast on the heels of the New York Times bestseller The Book of General Ignorance comes The Book of Animal Ignorance , a fun, fact-ﬁlled bestiary that is sure to delight animal lovers everywhere. Arranged alphabetically from aardvark to worm, here are one hundred of the most interesting members of the animal kingdom explained, ...

Godless: The Church of Liberalism

Ann Coulter

Crown Forum, 2006

It's ok to believe in God and have independent thoughts
I know that if you are a liberal, you will hate this book. The book lays out in a very organized manner that being a conservative and believing in God is ok - even good for the country. Most people in the US are not liberal and it is time for those people to read ...

Illusions and Ignorance: Mary Bennet's Story

S. E. Ward

Outskirts Press, 2007

I never thought I would like Mary Bennet !?
But I really did after reading this book. Her character doesn't change from P&P (she is still prim, judgmental and interested only in books and music) but you get an insight into her mind that portrays her as much more sympathetic and believable. It is comforting to ...

The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge (Culture of the Land)

University Press of Kentucky, 2008

Human dependence on technology has increased exponentially over the past several centuries, and so too has the notion that we can fix environmental problems with scientific applications. The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge proposes an alternative to this hubristic, shortsighted, and dangerous ...

When Did Ignorance Become A Point Of View

Scott Adams

Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2000

Possibly the best of the "Dilbert" books
And that's saying quite a lot, given how funny all of the "Dilbert" books are. For those of you who've just stepped off a plane from outer Mongolia, or some other sufficiently isolated place that you're unfamiliar with the "Dilbert" books, the basic concept is that ...