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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent ...
George Crile
Grove Press
, 2007
The Best Non-Fiction I've Ever Read
This is without a doubt the best non-fiction book I have ever read. The plot, the characters and the writing were all brilliant. A truly exhilirating thrill ride. I couldn't put the book down - in fact, I missed my bus stop reading the book. When I finished, I felt ...
Our Man in Havana (Penguin Classics)
Graham Greene
Penguin Classics
, 2007
a pleasure
Nice to see this classic in print again. Hitchen's insightful forward adds to the pleasure of reading Greene's wonderful "entertainment" again. If you haven't read it yet, do so now!
Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools
Beacon Press
, 2006
Science vs. Pseudoscience
Despite the Kitzmiller (2005) decision where expert witnesses for Intelligent Design were clearly shown to have lied on the witness stand and stated that astrology is science, the Discovery Institute continues to try to push religion into public schools. Eugenie ...
The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our ...
Les Standiford
Crown
, 2008
A Joyous and Informative Read
Mr. Standiford's new book is a worthy contribution to the Dickens literature. In a concise way, we learn of the influences on Dickens' life and career. We join Dickens in the creation of the timeless CAROL. In the end, Dickens' achievement appears to be even more of an ...
Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA
Jefferson Morley
University Press of Kansas
, 2008
Fixed Position of Camera Enables the Clear Causal Outline of a Flowchart!
A critical question makes the Kennedy Assassination perhaps more relevant to today than ever:to what extent is the nominal leader, the President, really in control of the permanent military, political, and communications bureacracies that shape his options? In 1961, ...
Nuestro hombre en la DEA/ Our Man in the DEA
Gerardo Reyes
Planeta
, 2008
In Our Image: God's First Creatures
Nancy Sohn Swartz
Jewish Lights Publishing
, 1998
Beautiful story gives animals an important place with God
Spirituality too often dismisses animals and the blessing they are too us. We are taught they are just there for us to use and to eat. I think children are hurt when they are taught that their animals cannot get into heaven, or that they have no souls. This book ...
With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military
Michael L. Weinstein
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Davin Seay
St. Martin's Griffin
, 2008
Beware of religious fascists
More than two years ago the author of this book started the Military Religious Freedom Foundation as a watchdog to make the military obey the laws of separation of Church and State. His concern started with a specific evil at his alma mater, the Air Force Academy, the ...
Our Last Hope: Black Male-Female Relationships in Change
Delores P. Aldridge
AuthorHouse
, 2008
Our Last Hope: Black Male-Female Relationships in Change is designed to provide information that has been carefully researched and written about a critical topic for those who would seek to understand the future of Black families-- the foundation of the Black community. While the book sets forth a theoretical model -Lens Model-for examining ...
We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves, Polygyny~Copartnering: A Relationship, Marriage and ...
Patricia Dixon
Oji Publications
, 2002
worth a read
Though many of our best citizens come from single-parent families, as the percentage of those families increases in a community, statistics show that the community generally suffers. Prof. Dixon argues that single parenthood is a numbers game....that the problem arises ...
To Deny Our Nothingness: Contemporary Images of Man (Midway Reprint)
Maurice Friedman
Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx)
, 1984
provides deep insight & instills a sense of the profound
the urgency for an "image of man" during our post-modern age suggests that publishers should recrudence its publication. Covering a range of images including the socialist, vitalist, mystic, modern 'saint', gnostic, & existentialist, Friedman exposes the mystery of ...
Our Man in Damascus: Elie Cohn
Eli Ben-hanan
Steimatzky
True Story
Red softcover with photo of title personage on front (after trial by Baathist Syrian party) The true spy story of Israeli patriot Elie Cohn who posed as an Arab businessman from Argentina in order to penetrate the regime of Hafez Al-Assad, dictator of Syria. ...
Our man in Camelot
Anthony Price
J. Curley
, 1984
Cerebral mystery, compulsively readable
Unlike the previous review, I have not read all of Price's work, just this one novel. It was in my opinion a wonderful example of the cerebral sort of short novels that seem to have been more plentiful in the 70s than they are nowadays. The American CIA agents ...
Our Man in Panama: How General Noriega Used the United States- And Made Millions in Drugs and Arms
John Dinges
Random House
, 1990
Invading an entire country.......to get one man
Manuel Noriega was a manipulative, violent, untrustworthy, power hungry and generally unsavory guy. This book convincingly connects the dots in his rise to power and the relationships he used to his advantage. He appears to be no great nationalist, but an ...
Our Man in Damascus: Elie Cohn
Eli Ben-Hanan
Steimatzky House
, 1969
A Truly Touching Book on a Great Man
This is the story of a man who became a world-renowned spy, whose government offered millions of dollars worth of military equipment for his return, and whose death was preluded by outcries from all quarters. The book is written in an intimate yet unswerving style, ...
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