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The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 759 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison
Andy Worthington
Pluto Press, 2007
A "war" with no Geneva Conventions
+ Underlying evil
British journalist Andy Worthington is perhaps the world's leading expert on Guantánamo Bay and its inmates. Basing his research mostly on the Pentagon's own documents, obtained under freedom of information legislation, Worthington has produced a unique compendium of individual histories, combining ...
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The Politics of Freedom: Taking on The Left, The Right and Threats to Our Liberties
David Boaz
Cato Institute, 2008
Required Reading for the Upcoming Election
+ Politics of Freedom: A book that champions liberty.
+ Should be assigned as supplemental reading for any classes debating civil liberties.
+ A powerful persuasion of the value of freedom from government follies
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Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak
University Of Iowa Press, 2007
Guantanamo Poems open eyes
+ most honest poetry in the history of literature
+ FOR JUDGES AND PEOPLE OF CONSCIENCE
Poems from Guantanamo should be required reading in high schools. Students need to read the effects of this administrations policy on human lives. When the history books are written, this country will have to apologize for creating a concentration camp with dehumanizing and life-crushing ...
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Casino - Heads we win tails you lose (Spawater Chronicles III) How casinos really work
Barry Tighe
Can Write Will Write, 2007
casino is the BEST!!!
This is a great book that is certain fun for anyone who reads it! With multidimensional views, quirky characters, great analagies, and side splitting quotes, this book is guaranteed to make you laugh. I recommend reading all three books in order, to understand the characters better. The characters ...
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The Freedom Writers Diary : How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World ...
Freedom Writers, Zlata Filipovic
Main Street Books, 1999
Freedom Writers a must read for all students and adults
+ The Freedom Writers Diary
+ The Freedom Writers Diary : How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
+ books
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The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
Ali A. Allawi
Yale University Press, 2008
Excellent history of the Iraq war
+ best book there is on Iraq
+ An Iraqi Account of the War
+ An Iraqi perspective
+ book:The Occupation Of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
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Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
Milton Friedman
University Of Chicago Press, 2002
Great book, life changing reading!
+ Friedman is best on Economics this is a must read
+ Capitalism and Freedom
Reading this book gave me a whole new perspective about life, economics and individual responsibility. It's a must for everyone, even if you are not a student of economics.
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Gone Fission - Its a Power Thing
Barry Tighe
Can Write Will Write, 2008
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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Linda J. Bilmes
W. W. Norton, 2008
$3 trillion would have been cheap
+ Needs a Revision
+ A must read
This book puts forth a lot of numbers and tries to put a price on certain things that should not have to have a price on it: such as the price of a human life. But it needs to happen because obviously this country does not value the lives of its soldiers.
This book backs up the sentiment that ...
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America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
Mark Steyn
Regnery Publishing, 2008
Serious work with an ironic twist, or two.
+ Every American should read this book
+ Disturbing
+ Everyone Should Read!
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Identity Cards - Nothing to hide nothing to fear...? ( Spawater Chronicles II ) Government control-freak ...
Barry Tighe
Can Write Will Write, 2007
our friends are at it again
When Spawater is selected as the guinea pig for universal government ID cards, our friends are thrown into a tizzy. One is even selected to run the database, threatening his friendship with the others. Meanwhile, nefarious "architects" from out-of-town are trying to steal the town's ancient Roman ...
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The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
Naomi Wolf
Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007
Must Read!
+ Right and Left
+ A Timely Warning
+ Organize, and fill the streets with protest
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Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than ...
Jean M. Twenge
Free Press, 2006
I am very grateful for the book
+ Everyone needs to read this book!
I was born in 1959 and my son in 1984. The book helped me to see myself as a member of my generation. I was born and spend first 30 years of my life in Russia and would never expect to fit description of American baby boomers. Never-the-less a lot of things are pretty true for me.
The book ...
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Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Jonah Goldberg
Doubleday, 2008
A Book for the Intellectually Honest Seeking Truth About American History
+ Awesome!!!!
+ should be required reading
It is very unfortunate that people use the review process to attack a book which they are very unlikely to have read. It is always fascinating that the very same people who so often lecture to all of us about "tolerance" are the least so. It is particularly bothersome that Amazon chose to use one ...
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Identity, Privacy, And Personal Freedom: Big Brother vs The New Resistance
Sheldon Charrett
Paladin Press, 1999
Now I get it.
+ Big Brother part is scary. Great ID section!
+ Covers all the bases; very informative
ID/Privacy books generally raise more questions than they answer. This book answers all those questions raised by other ID/Privacy books. My only complaint is that the author tells TOO much about how to get birth certificates and fake drivers' licenses. I'm concerned that this will alert ...
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