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Strategy: Second Revised Edition (Meridian)
B. H. Liddell Hart
Plume, 1991
Modern Classic
Though I am not sold on Liddell Hart's thesis in this book, it provides such an expansive analysis of historical military accounts that I cannot discount its indelible mark on my future thoughts of military strategy. Clausewitz puts me to sleep, but Liddell Hart kept ...
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy
Vintage, 1992
Wash The Blood From Your Hands
I read this book twice now, finishing an audio version just recently. I know I will read it again, and I know that even after that reading, I will still wonder what all I have missed in this complex and compelling read.
A quick google search of the book will let you ...
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A Field Guide to Western Birds: A Completely New Guide to Field Marks of All Species Found in North America ...
Houghton Mifflin, 1998
The best just got better!
This has always been the reliable and preferred reference for my wife and I. We have worn out two of the paperback version over many years of use. Now, with the revised arrangement of the book it is even easier to use and may cause it to wear out prematurely due to ...
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Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists
Thomas W. Myers, Leon Chaitow, ...
Churchill Livingstone, 2001
Easy Reading
A huge topic with tons of minutia that is broken down in an easy reading format. I really liked the way the book is set up. Great way to look at the body as a whole and to start thinking about alternative and complimentary modes of treatment up the kinetic chain that ...
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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Giorgio Agamben
Stanford University Press, 1998
Homo Sacer is a must read.
Agamben's best known work lives up to the hype. One of the most powerful aspects of this book is its shocking predictions about the world to come. Published many years before the initiation of the war on terror, Agamben signals the beginning the of a style of ...
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Wallace Stegner
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1992
Educational but not boring
I kept waiting for this book to get boring. It has all the potential to be boring. But it's not. It's an excellent introduction to the history of the West. I learned little tidbits about all sorts of varied subjects - Native American tribes, government, the history ...
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Money in the Ground-Insider's Guide to Oil and Gas Deals (4th Ed.)
John Orban
Meridian Press, 2001
Great Book For Investors
I bought this book to evaluate an oil investment opportunity. Prior to reading this book, I knew nothing about the oil business. After reading the book, I felt comfortable enough to invest. The book gave me the knowledge I needed to ask the right questions and to ...
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Life Energy: Using the Meridians to Unlock the Hidden Power of Your Emotions
John Diamond
Continuum International Publishing Group, 1990
Practical, thought-provoking, inspiring
This book has been essential for me in developing a concept of the healing force in myself and in everybody -- Life Energy, as the title succinctly puts it -- and how this force can be activated. The specific details about our emotions -- and how they relate to the ...
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The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian
Shelby Foote
Vintage, 1986
An Iliad of American agony
I read all three volumes of the great Shelby Foote's Civil War narrative in the 80s. This volume is yet another of his logically well-integrated, dramatic trio on that war and speaks a soft/loud pianoforte of war from the Southern perspective. It contains many a large ...
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The Energy Medicine Kit
Donna Eden
Sounds True, 2005
miracle cure
Donna Eden's medicine kit has helped me cure facial muscle spasms for which regular medicine was going to inject me with botox as a 'cure' to paralyze the spasms.
'There was nothing else they could do" they said.
As a yoga teacher myself I know quite well how to ...
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Cities of the Plain: A Novel (Border Trilogy, Vol. 3)
Cormac McCarthy
Alfred A. Knopf, 1998
Omit epilogue
I think the epilogue adds nothing to the novel, unless somehow I missed the point entirely. C. M. has elsewhere more skillfully put forth his theme that our destinies are predetermined practically from the "big bang" and that, appearances to the contrary, we really ...
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Blood Meridian (Picador Books)
Cormac McCarthy
Picador, 1994
A Cormac McCarthy vocabulary quiz
As I read Blood Meridian, I jotted down words that were either unusual or new to me or familiar yet not quite recognizable. This is the case with every McCarthy book one reads - astonishment at the writer's extensive vocabulary. I've deliberately left out most of the ...
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The Open: Man and Animal
Giorgio Agamben
Stanford University Press, 2003
erudition as art as thought as action
A magisterial meditation on the question of the "human" -- used as an adjective. This short book is Agamben's 'Duino Elegies': thalassically poetic and swirling with thought that hovers, indifferent to the gravity of common sense. The title refers to Heidegger's term ...
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Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata (Meridian Classics)
Aristophanes
Plume, 1994
Great Ancient Greek Political Parodies
I should first point out that I read a different edition of this book, and the one that I had had only two plays - The Birds and The Frogs. I will review only these two. Aristophanes has a "no holds barred" type of approach to controversial political decisions and ...
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The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy (Meridian)
Victor E. Frankl
Plume, 1988
Everyone should read at least one of Frankl's books
This book and Frankl's other popular book, "Man's search for meaning" offer a great deal of overlap. Yet I fond both extrememlty interesting and helpful. Frankl posits that we all have an innate tendency to mental/spiritual health which he calls the will to meaning. ...
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