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Memoirs of a Spymaster
Markus Wolf, Anne McElvoy
Pimlico, 1998
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Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eye
Michael R. LeGault
Threshold Editions, 2006
Think Before You Blink
+ Enhance creativity and improve reasoning
In light of the present housing crisis and pending recession, this book could not have been written at a better time. Obviously upset at the flawed, subjectivist logic of Malcolm Gladwell, Michael LeGault has responded in kind with this well-written book.
Essentially, LeGault believes that the ...
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Mao: The Unknown Story
Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
Anchor, 2006
Much new research, the style matters not
+ Exhaustive Masterpiece!
+ The passive-aggressive way to world domination...
This is my third biography off Mao this summer, following Lucian Pye's Mao: The Man in the Leader, and Li Zhisui's portrait of Mao based on his time as the Great Helmsman's personal physician. And I'vee recently read Walter Laquer's Staklain: The Glasnost Revelations, and Dmitri Volkogonov's ...
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My Dam Life (Condon) (Travel Literature)
Sean Condon
Lonely Planet, 2003
'Dam Right
+ Writing is a job too
+ Amsterdamnation
Sean Condon has written a funny, realistic picture of what it is like to live in Amsterdam. I have lived in Amsterdam and all the things he talks about are right on the money. While living in Europe's most beautiful city can be difficult, painful and frustrating, it is all worthwile to call this ...
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A Brief Guide to Islam: Faith, Religion, Politics
Paul Grieve
Running Press, 2006
worth 100 stars
+ Good introduction, but shows bias
+ A great guide to Islam for the "beginner..."
While searching for a good guide to Islam, I saw a favorable book review on this one, and bought it. From the beginning, I was riveted--I could hardly put it down. This "brief" guide is exactly what he promises: a brief but COMPLETE guide, describing and explaining every aspect of this great ...
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The Best of Slate: A 10th Anniversary Anthology
PublicAffairs, 2006
If you like Slate you will love this
If you read Slate on a daily basis you will have seen some of what is contained in this book but this is still an excellent choice. Great book to take with you when you have just a short time to read because each article is self contained. You will find things you missed and be reminded of the ...
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Timbit Nation a Hitchhikers View of Canada
John Stackhouse
Random House of Canada Ltd, 2003
After spending years travelling through some of the poorest nations of the world, seeking out the people’s story, award-winning journalist and bestselling author John Stackhouse turns his keen eye toward his own country. Most people who travel across Canada begin their journey at either end of an impressively long strand of national highway. But Stackhouse, thumb out and knapsack in hand, ...
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The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage)
Lawrence Wright
Vintage, 2007
Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to Insanity
+ The Definitive Account of The Genesis of Al Qaeda
+ The Looming Tower .......and The Wall.
+ A Monumental, but Flawed Work
+ An Excellent Primer on Al-Qaeda's Birth and Growth
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope, Revised and Expanded Edition
Tariq Ali
Verso, 2008
great book
This book is great if you want the facts and truth from the actors in the show. Instead from fox news or people trying to horn swaggle the reader or viewer. Freedom isnt just for americans or western civilisation. Tariq ali lets us see inside the revolution from first person view.
This book ...
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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Roméo Dallaire, Samantha Power
Da Capo Press, 2004
Well written book about what never should have happened
+ What can I say ...
+ Heart-wrenching, gutting...
+ When politics and diplomacy fail, humanity fails
+ The best, most objective book on the Rwanda genocide
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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
+ Gave as a gift for my son majoring in Economics
+ Freakonomics
Just to respond to a review that was extremely critical of this book - Economics is just that STATISTICS WITH A THEORY.
If you took any undergraduate economic classes you'd understand that economics is the formation of theories to explain trends that are portrayed in data. No matter how ...
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Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence
Ian Buruma
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
Exceeds expectations
+ Dutch tolerance?
+ A different look at an issue that affects our lives every day
I had traveled to Amsterdam twice before picking up Buruma's book with only a faint understanding of who Theo Van Gogh was or why he was murdered, but this book weaves European history, demographics and an understanding of radical Islam into a cogent explanation of why the Dutch filmmaker was ...
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In Defense of Elitism
William A. Henry
Anchor, 1995
"Tearing The Veils Off The Great Lie"
+ What a great book!
+ Gets more relevant day by day
+ Interesting, but needs better editing
+ Compelling and thought provoking
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Palestine
Joe Sacco, Edward Said
Fantagraphics Books, 2002
Accurate and Heart-Rending Portrayal
+ A Dose of Reality
+ Tells a seldom told side of the story
+ The Truth behind all the Pain ..
+ A real achievement.
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell
Back Bay Books, 2002
A year later and I'm still marveling over this book!
+ Interesting stories, not that useful
+ Fundamental Reading
+ Gladwell Points Out Some Very Insightful Tips!
+ powerful concept behind this book
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