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Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
Earth Changing Trends and Solutions
+ Great service
+ Global Changes
+ common wealth
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An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore, Billy West (II)
Paramount, 2006
Changed my view of the world...
+ Al Gore is awesome
We watched this in school for science class, our whole class stunned by it. Not only is it entertaining, but factual. We should have voted Al Gore for the president -_-
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Liberalism with Honor
Sharon R. Krause
Harvard University Press, 2002
A new member of our contemporary canon.
This is a brilliant, learned, and wise book on why liberal democracies need honor, and how a supposedly outdated aristocratic ideal fuels movements for rights and justice. It belongs on the shelf next to the classic works on the rethinking of liberalism: Galston and Taylor, Rosenblum and Macedo ...
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Love and Power: The Role of Religion and Morality in American Politics
Michael J. Perry
Oxford University Press, USA, 1993
Not quite a work of genius, but a good discussion!
I read this book and am writing this review after the famous/infamous supreme court ruling of Lawrence v. Texas, the one that repeals the Texas gay sodomy law. Needless to say, there is much discussion for and against this decision. Many objectors are using religious arguents. Should they or should ...
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Bowling for Columbine
Michael Caldwell, Dick Cheney
MGM (Video & DVD), 2003
The public criticism of a frightful America
+ Very good at times, but also aggravating and annoying....
Michael Moore films an America that is frightful. The topic is "limited" to the lifestyle of Northern American People imbued with a rare violence on the scale of humanity.
Is this normal in a country not at war, that its citizens have at home several lethal firearms? Michael Moore thinks that ...
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Magnolia, 2006
Lions for Lambs
+ Worthy of Euripides- A True American Tradgedy.
+ Unfettered Hubris Drives Intriguing Account of Enron Scandal
+ Finally, a logical and watchable explanation
+ Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
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The Ethics of Abortion : Pro-Life Vs. Pro-Choice (Contemporary Issues)
Prometheus Books, 2001
The Ethics of Abortion: The Discussion's Ablest Contributors
I'm an M.A. student in philosophy who has found this collection very useful and representative of the current state of the issue in American ethics. It contains landmark essays by landmark people and could be of much use both to the lay reader and in ethics classes. One must conclude that the ...
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TIME (1-year)
The Time Inc. Magazine Company, 2001
Best price based on magazine price search engine
+ Be the smartest person you know.
+ super time
+ Time magazine
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The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Thomas L. Friedman
Picador, 2007
Motivation at its Finest
+ Every American should read this!
+ Amazing
"Flat" is not self-help, but as far as motivational books go it's probably the most effective. It's a wake up call to all Americans: we need to stay extremly competative on a global scale because other countries are starving for success. Reread the last sentance, look at the people at your local ...
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"They Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration
Aviva Chomsky
Beacon Press, 2007
Key to any collection strong in immigrant history
+ Just 20 myths about Immigration?
+ Not a textbook, but just as informative.
"THEY TAKE OUR JOBS!" AND 20 OTHER MYTHS ABOUT IMMIGRATION is key to any collection strong in immigrant history, culture and issues in America, whether it be for a public lending library or a high school or college collection seeking to foster debates and education on the topic. Over twenty of the ...
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Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Stephen J. Dubner
William Morrow, 2006
Response to Goosecat
+ Freakish curiosities and economic data...
+ Review for Freakanomics
+ Gave as a gift for my son majoring in Economics
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Who Killed Health Care?: America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - and the Consumer-Driven Cure
Regina Herzlinger
McGraw-Hill, 2007
Tip of the iceberg, see the image
+ innovative approach for radical improvement
+ Courageous insight
+ A must read!
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The Post-American World
Fareed Zakaria
W. W. Norton, 2008
Insightful and articulate
+ "What will it mean to live in a post-American world?"
+ Good Survey of the 21st Century World
+ a simple review...
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005
Thomas E. Ricks
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
Best Documentation of Iraq War to date
+ The story of an incredible American folly
+ INCOMPETENCY AND LEADERSHIP.....WORST IN HISTORY
+ Not the Left-Wing Hit Piece I Expected
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Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriage
David Moats
Harcourt, 2004
A Remarkable Journey
+ It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that ring!
+ Straightforward and fascinating
+ A superbly balanced account
+ There Are Many Heroes Here
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