books by Times Books     books:     Times Books      The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World Larry Diamond Times Books, 2008 Insightful and engaging The author opens this extremely interesting book by asking whether it will be possible for the entire world to become democratic and asserts that the answer is yes. What follows in the book is an explanation of why he believes this is the case and what can be done to ...             China's Great Train: Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet Abrahm Lustgarten Times Books, 2008 An Excellent Insight into China and Tibet As a recent visitor to China where I took several trains I look for books about this fascinating country. This book is really a mix of the political history of Tibet and China and the building of the train line. The author gets into the background through the lives of ...             Parenting, Inc. Pamela Paul Times Books, 2008 Sobering look at raising kids Pamela Paul, who has written lucidly and piercingly about other issues in American culture, here examines the money and mentality of raising children. She begins by discussing baby sign language, and, right away I thought about the choices I made for my children. I ...             Zachary Taylor: The 12th President, 1849-1850 (The American Presidents) John S. D. Eisenhower, Arthur M. Schlesinger Times Books, 2008 Super American Another home run in the superb American President's series. John Eisenhower paints a picture of Zachary Taylor that leaves us wishing he was among today's candidates for President. Had he lived, he may have been able to head off the Civil War, we will never know. In ...             Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq Stephen Kinzer Times Books, 2007 It Didn't Start With Iraq This is an excellent overview of the attempts by the United States government to change the leadership of other countries over the last century or so. Its a timely book which includes much information about the current Iraqi quagmire, helping Americans recognize that, ...             Class Matters The New York Times Times Books, 2005 Everyone should read this If you're like me and you live in a community that is pretty much isolated from truly interacting with the lower-classes in any meaningful way, this book is educative to the extreme. It takes truths that we know about, but haven't experienced ourselves, like not ...             Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future Bill McKibben Times Books, 2007 Changed the way I see the world I must admit, I wasn't particularly enthused about "Deep Economy" when I picked it up... it was one of several shorter texts required for my senior seminar class as a business major. I'm so glad I stuck with it... because it's had a lasting impression upon me. I won't ...             The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics Michael Shermer Times Books, 2007 Why Evolution Is Sound Economics Michael Shermer's "The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics" is yet another insightful, and provocative book from him, making the best, most persuasive case why accepting evolutionary theory ought to be ...             Retire on Less Than You Think, Revised Edition: The New York Times Guide to Planning Your Financial Future Fred Brock Times Books, 2007 Retirement 101 This is a great beginners book for people looking to begin there plans for retirement. It is very basic advice with the biggest angle it uses is if you own a large house in a metropolitin area then sell that house and by a small one in a place with a lower cost of ...             Never Shower in a Thunderstorm: Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live ... Anahad O'Connor Times Books, 2007 Great Fun and Most Informative This book was great fun to read. Many myths, legends, sayings, old wives' tales, etc., all related in some way to health and life, are either debunked or confirmed - and rationales are provided. The author appears to have researched each topic quite exhaustively - not ...             George Washington (The American Presidents) James MacGregor Burns, Susan Dunn Times Books, 2004 Another good short biography in American President series This book is cowritten by one of my favorite authors from my college days, decades ago. James MacGregor Burns wrote a classic about presidential and congressional politics entitled "The Deadlock of Democracy." That book was about the interaction between presidential ...             102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn Times Books, 2006 The view behind the smoke and fire. That day, through the television, I watched the buildings and tried to see through the smoke and the fire to the people inside. In fact, I remember saying to one of my sons, "The people! What about all the people up on those higher floors?" Then, in that first ...             James Buchanan (The American Presidents) Jean H. Baker Times Books, 2004 And nooww... James! Buchanan!!! There are 72 reviews of this brief and simply-written biography of a President who came to office with superb qualifications and who bungled the job that perhaps no one could have done. I found the book quite adequate as an introduction to the decade of the 1850s. ...             Benjamin Harrison (The American Presidents) Charles W. Calhoun Times Books, 2005 Nice presentation of a lesser-known president If you ask most people what they know about Benjamin Harrison they might tell you two things they remember from history class...that he was the grandson of a president (William Henry Harrison) and that his term was sandwiched in between the two non-consecutive terms of ...             The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America Jeffrey Rosen, Thirteen/WNET Times Books, 2007 The real Justice League of America It's one of the fundamental principles of the U.S. Constitution that the three branches of government are more-or-less equal, with checks and balances assuring that no branch takes over. The reality, of course, is different: at times - particularly in the 1800s - the ...          products you might be interested in search for books communities, compassionate, competitive, evolutionary, personalities, thunderstorm      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: Pro Oracle Database 10g RAC on Linux: Installation, Administration, ...