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The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
Rodney Stark
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006
This book is a victory for reason
+ The Christian Foundation for Western Success
+ The Victory of Reason
+ I have purchased 4 copies so far
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The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People
David P. Barash, Judith Eve Lipton
Holt Paperbacks, 2002
Very Enlightening & Entertaining
+ very interesting and informative
+ Iconoclasm in fine form
+ Excellent information
+ Broken Promises or Nature?
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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
William Easterly
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
How Global Aid became a Cash Laden Cow instead of a Thoroughbred Racehorse (or Bureaucracies eat oats too, don't they?)
+ Review of White Man's Burden
+ Want to understand the World?
+ Despite the title, a little to PC to be effective
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Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform
Diane Ravitch
Simon & Schuster, 2001
What scholl reform ?
+ Not so progressive
+ The last 100 years of education reform, a very good history
+ best service
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Code Red: An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System without Destroying It
David Dranove
Princeton University Press, 2008
Great healthcare econ reading
+ Execellent assessment
+ Book Review - Code Red
+ Excellent
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The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political ...
Lawrence Solomon
Richard Vigilante Books, 2008
Man made global warming fails the scientific test
+ Holocaust Revisionists and Global Warming Skeptics...
+ The Deniers
+ Debunking the Fossil Fuel Caused Global Warming Scam
+ A must for every thinking citizen
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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
I've been thinking about publishing a book on health intelligence, and borrowed this from a colleague.
My contribution will be the image I created while thinking about what the book should look like--the inner square was co-created with another person.
This book can be summarized with three ...
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Basic Economics 3rd Ed: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 2007
difficult, yet worthwhile read
+ Required Reading for Inquiring Americans
+ Timely and in Great Condition
+ A great economic treatise for non-economists
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The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families
James Q. Wilson
Harper Paperbacks, 2003
Marriage in a sociological and historical context
+ A very level-headed, fact intensive examination of an emotional issue
+ Children Suffer
+ Why marriage matters
+ Excellent background information on the topic
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003
Blank Slate is erased
+ Nature vs. Nurture
+ This Will Change You (Nature v. Nurture)
+ One of the best books ever
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Economic Facts and Fallacies
Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 2007
Required Reading for candidates
+ Economic Facts and Fallacies
+ Further your economic education
+ Solid and Interesting
+ Almost mesmerizing
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Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?
Thomas Sowell
Harper Perennial, 1985
Thomas Sowell, Exposer of False Dichotomies
+ Stellar.
+ I seem to need to know "why" . . . again.
+ The intentions and realities of civil rights
+ As If It Were Written Last Week
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The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them
E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Anchor, 1999
Refreshing change from the "warm-fuzzy" approach to schooling. Watch for printing errors in paperback edition.
+ Some Things Need To Be Said More Than Once!
+ Schools that we do not have and never will
+ Facts, not Feelings
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The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Timothy Keller
Dutton Adult, 2008
The gentle approach toward non-believers and the world.
+ "The wisdom from above is reasonable..."
+ BUY THIS!!!
+ Wonderful, thoughtful book
+ The Reason for God
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The Great American Crime Decline (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
Franklin E. Zimring
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
Social Science at its Best
+ Best social scientific explanation of crime decline thus far
The Great American Crime Decline is a model of what social science research can be. It deserves a place next to Durkheim's Suicide, Putnam's Bowling Alone, and Conley's The Pecking Order for its clear crisp writing, brilliant analysis and rigorous and understandable use of statistical graphics. ...
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