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The Great Chinese Revolution 1800-1985
John King Fairbank
Harper Perennial, 1987
Fairbank's Crowning Glory
+ Erudition -- Plain and Simple
+ Highly readable and authentic
+ Very interesting interpretation
+ Refreshing Storytelling
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Nicholas and Alexandra
Robert K. Massie
Ballantine Books, 2000
The Tragedy of The Twentieth Century
+ A Heartbreaking History
+ A Transformative Reading Experience
+ best book on royal couple
+ Among my Top 20 Books
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John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity
Linda C. Raeder
University of Missouri Press, 2002
"Today, I believe, one ought to keep total silence on the question of religion when writing for an English audience, though indirectly one may strike any blow one wishes at religion beliefs."—John Stuart Mill to Auguste Comte (1845) "John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity" introduces material that requires significant reevaluation of John Stuart Mill's contribution to the development ...
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The Cave
Jose Saramago
Harvest Books, 2003
Potter fires up the kiln and achieves perfection: Allegory at its best
+ Powerful Illuminated Masterpiece
+ Nobel Notable Pleasure
First things first, this is a play upon Cicero and Plato's Republic. One cannot deny the comparisons. Dive into this book as you would a cool blue pool at an island resort resting beside the ocean. So some may say that Saramago is a hard read. Look again. No dialogue tags pulls you closer to the ...
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Godless: The Church of Liberalism
Ann Coulter
Crown Forum, 2006
Coulter Speaks Her Mind - What a Mind!
+ Evolution v. Intelligent Design
+ This One I Keep...
+ She's cool
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
Three Rivers Press, 2005
Exceptional Scholarship; Exceptional Interpretation
+ A MUST READ
+ What a book!
+ Genghis Kahn as you never knew him
+ No pleasure domes.
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Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
Frank Herbert
Ace, 1990
Arrakis
+ 4 1/2! All the hype had me skeptical
+ Worth reading even if you saw the movies already.
This is a great sci-fi story. A must read for any sci-fi fan. A real page turner and a heck of a lot of fun.
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BMW 5 Series (E39) Service Manual: 1997-2002 (2 volume set)
Bentley Publishers, 2003
Great buy
+ BMW E39 manual
+ bmw 5 manaul
+ Excellent source of knowledge for BMW repairs
+ BMW 5 Series (E39) Service Manual: 1997-2002 (2 volume set)
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Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Prentice Hall, 1973
Learn from it but there is no need to worship it
+ Language games: controversial notion, but most thought provoking
+ essential philosophy for intelligent reader
This is a book which at one time was worshipped. It was taken to be the holy text that gave the true answers to the philosophical puzzles that graduate students in philosophy were puzzling over. Wittgenstein was the hero and his manner of ' doing philosophy' of walking and holding his forehead, and ...
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John Adams
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 2002
Terrific Book for U.S. History
+ John Adams is a fascinating read!
+ John Adams - a much unappreciated man
+ Read it twice, no, three times!
+ Details give it life
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An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere ...
Nancy Maguire
PublicAffairs, 2006
Excellent. A literary and religious breakthrough
+ Amazing!
+ An unlikely page turner
+ A window into an unknown world
+ Reality, not hagiography
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The Butlerian Jihad (Legends of Dune, Book 1)
Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
Tor Books, 2003
Nascent stories woven together make fascinating reading.
+ A Thoroughly Enjoyable Read
What would it be like to converse with and fight with machines that can think? Can a robot learn to appreciate art? This book did a splendid job of exploring those subjects and of course much more. This is the story of the known universe over 10.000 years before "Dune". The characters and ...
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The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas
Umberto Eco
Harvard University Press, 1988
St. Thomas comes alive
Many of us have heard of the masterpiece written by St. Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century, the Summa Theologiae. However, this very little known work by the Semiotician, Umberto Eco, writter of the novel In the Name of the Rose, presents in an easy to understand, and with great depth, the ...
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Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Prentice Hall, 1973
Learn from it but there is no need to worship it
+ Language games: controversial notion, but most thought provoking
+ essential philosophy for intelligent reader
This is a book which at one time was worshipped. It was taken to be the holy text that gave the true answers to the philosophical puzzles that graduate students in philosophy were puzzling over. Wittgenstein was the hero and his manner of ' doing philosophy' of walking and holding his forehead, and ...
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John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity
Linda C. Raeder
University of Missouri Press, 2002
"Today, I believe, one ought to keep total silence on the question of religion when writing for an English audience, though indirectly one may strike any blow one wishes at religion beliefs."—John Stuart Mill to Auguste Comte (1845) "John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity" introduces material that requires significant reevaluation of John Stuart Mill's contribution to the development ...
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