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To war with

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

Leonard Susskind

Little, Brown and Company, 2008

A new rewiring of the brain of physicsts
This book tells the story of the "battle" between the author and Stephen Hawking regarding the latter claim that information is irretrievably lost in black holes. This story is the extraordinary account of the paradigm shift that has occurred in physics in the last 25 ...

We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah

Patrick K. O'Donnell

Da Capo Press, 2007

Well done
I just read the book. I went back to post a review and was actually pissed off to read that one of the men died after the publishing of the book. I was "rooting" for him and all of these men the whole time. The book does have some typos in it. I teach HS and catch them ...

Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond

Robert D. Kaplan

Vintage, 2006

370 pages of thrill
Hectic read, absorbing, masterfully told. This is one writer i am going to follow from now on. Whatever you think you are not going to go bored reading his stories. I was happily surprised to notice his lack of arrogance -as one would expect to find from a reporter ...

Victory Was Beyond Their Grasp: With the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division from the Huertgen Forest to the Heart ...

Douglas E. Nash

The Aberjona Press, 2008

The Best View From the Other Side of the Hill in Years
In recent years, a growing community of active duty military historians has enriched the discipline through the type of scholarship gained at our nation's post graduate service schools. Names like Edward G. Miller, Mark J. Reardon, and Peter R. Mansoor, just to name a ...

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War With a New ...

Eric Foner

Oxford University Press, USA, 1995

Excellent background
This book is an excellent background study for anyone interested in the origins of the Republican Party in the 1850's before it became the Party of Jefferson Davis and Southern social conservatives in the 1970's and 1980's.

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam

John A. Nagl

University Of Chicago Press, 2005

Theory From One Who Gets It
To use a term that many in the military are fond of, Nagl "gets it." His understanding of counterinsurgency operations is both broad and deep, and his writing is smooth enough for the lay reader to comprehend without any difficulty. Nagl's departure from the US Army ...

So Far from God: The U.S. War With Mexico, 1846-1848

John S. D. Eisenhower

University of Oklahoma Press, 2000

The best book on this war
Interest in the war with Mexico fluctuates from low to none. Most authors simply do not consider this war as anything but a precursor to the American Civil War. These histories focus not on this war but on the junior officers that were important in the next one. ...

Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam

Mark Bowden

Grove Press, 2007

Bowden Delivers a Masterpiece
Guests of the Ayatollah presents the extensively researched, impelling non-fiction style for which Bowden has become widely acclaimed through his other best sellers. As someone who has read other Bowden books, I felt Guests of the Ayatollah is his best book to date. ...

Push Not the River

James Conroyd Martin

St. Martin's Griffin, 2004

A Polish Love Story in the Time of King Stanislaw
This excellent novel, which gets its name from the Polish proverb "Push not the river; it will flow of its own accord", is the story of two cousins, both countesses, who are in love with the same untitled man in a period of eightieth century history, a time when ...

Write It When I'm Done: Remarkable Off-the-record Conversations With Gerald R. Ford

Thomas M. DeFrank

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2007

So Much Better Than I Ever Expected-Not Your Usual Political Book
Who ever knew that Gerald Ford could be so interesting? I read over 70 pages in just the first day I got it and did not want to put it down. This is not a straightforward biography for a change-there are plenty of those out there. This is personal insight into a man ...

Family Wars: Classic Conflicts in Family Business and How to Deal with Them

Grant Gordon, Nigel Nicholson

Kogan Page, 2008

Advice that will keep families staying together while keeping the business profitable
Family businesses should be stress free - if anyone can get along it can be family, right? "Family Wars: Classic Conflicts in Family Business and How to Deal With Them" realizes that even families can have conflicts, and they can do far more damage than a conflict ...

Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War ...

Gary W. Gallagher

The University of North Carolina Press, 2008

How we see the Civil War
The Civil War is one of the most important events in American history, generating tons of books, magazines, memorials, paintings and statuary. The day the war ended, participants seem to have started books on their experience. Publishing has not stopped and seems to ...

From Slavery to Freedom with Study Guide

John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Moss Jr.

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2000

Grateful
I wasn't too concerned about the quality of this book, although overall it was in good condition for a used textbook. I already placed my order for the textbook because my class was in session and I was in a haste to catch-up. I e-mailed the seller and asked him if ...

When You Ride Alone You Still Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the ...

Bill Maher

Phoenix Books, 2007

New Rule: Everyone should have to read this book.
When You Ride Alone You Still Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism - And Still Isn't is a parody of a World War II propaganda poster that read "When you ride ALONE you ride with Hitler !", which suggested ...