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by: Benjamin Hoff List Price: $11.95 Amazon.com's Price: $9.56 You Save: $2.39 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is a well written, easily read book that provides an introduction and explanation of the general tenets of Tao through 5 main characters and the circumstances they are confronted with. Metaphor and real-life analysis and observation of how we live and think, and how Taoism can be applied to our perspectives and daily lives, if we want it to. Selection from the writings of Tao Te Ching, and other Taoist thinkers to the books characters and stituations help explain the meanings for the neophyte. ... Read More  Read Reviews and Description
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| 112. Bush Must Go: The Top Ten Reasons Why George Bush Doesn't Deserve a Second Term | |
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by: Bill Press List Price: $21.95 Amazon.com's Price: $15.37 You Save: $6.58 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Bush stated recently it mattered not what information he had at hand or whether it was erroneous or not. He's now saying he would have gone to war in Iraq anyway. So good intellignece info or not he was determined to go to war, period. Not to mention the fact that he has changed his justification for going to war at least four times that I can remember. The Republican party had Hussein targeted for a hit long before 9-11. Revisit the 2000 Republican campaign ads where they state clearly that ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 113. From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East | |
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by: Bernard Lewis List Price: $28.00 Amazon.com's Price: $19.04 You Save: $8.96 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Bernard Lewis was the person who really invented the phrase the clash of civlisations and in a way very different from the notorious Samuel Huntington. Lewis's famous article is here along with most of your other favourite Lewis writings. Christopher Catherwood, author of CHURCHILL'S FOLLY: HOW WINSTON CHURCHILL CREATED IRAQ (Carroll and Graf 2004) Read Reviews and Description
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| 114. Rising from the Rails : Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class | |
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by: Larry Tye List Price: $26.00 Amazon.com's Price: $17.68 You Save: $8.32 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description You can't see train porters anymore, except in the movies. Everyone knew the role of the ubiquitous porter, a role with duties, uniform, and demeanor. In the movies, actors played porters as porters had played their occupational roles, busy and even servile, humorous and fawning, wise to the needs and foolishness of their passengers and ignorant as members of their race were held to be. The paradoxes of the porters get a wonderful historical evaluation in _Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 115. The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child; Volume 1: Ancient Times | |
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by: Susan Wise Bauer Amazon.com's Price: $16.95 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description My children (ages 7 and 9) and I just finished Story of the World Vol. 1 and so enjoyed it (we just started Vol.2, Middle Ages and also love it so far). The author did a wonderful job making world history interesting and understandable. This approach to history (chronologically, beginning with the ancients and moving progressively towards modern) creates a really nice, cohesive "big picture" of the flow of history that is sadly missing in our public school system (which for some reason teaches history in an out of ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 116. Doubt, a History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson | |
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by: Jennifer Michael Hecht List Price: $27.95 Amazon.com's Price: $19.01 You Save: $8.94 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description As a child I was forced to go to church by my parents. They didn't go them selves, except of course on holidays. There was a lot of Latin, sit, stand and kneeling. I didn't understand. As an adult I searched for God, and still do, but I don't go easy. I ask difficult questions, and clergy who are at first evangelistic, tend to cool down quickly when dealing with me. I tried to "just believe", but I couldn't. I am not a scholar by any means and Doubt was a tough read for me. But what an eye opener it was! I mean Thomas ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 117. A History of the American People | |
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by: Paul M. Johnson List Price: $20.00 Amazon.com's Price: $14.00 You Save: $6.00 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This book gives a reasonably good overview of early american history until it reaches the 20th century, and then Johnson destroys his credibility by becoming a conservative apologist. Roosevelt, Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton are demonized, while Nixon and Reagan are portrayed as giants or viticms of the left-wing media. One of the most striking examples of this is Johnson's account of Watergate. He describes it all as a left-wing witchhunt, led by Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, who Johnson believes let his paper pursue ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 118. This Man's Army: A Soldier's Story from the Front Lines of the War on Terrorism | |
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by: Andrew Exum, SOLDIER X. List Price: $25.00 Amazon.com's Price: $17.00 You Save: $8.00 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description "This Man's Army" belongs on the shelf with the defining war memoirs as well as (and maybe more importantly) on the shelf with the great American "coming-of-age" works. The effortless tone and pacing of the book succeed in communicating the flavor of the war in Afghanistan, but that is only part of the story. The book is ultimately about an individual and his experiences as an American, a Southerner, a son, a student, a child, an individual - and, obviously, as a soldier. In this account of modern American army life as a Ranger, ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 119. Orientalism | |
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by: Edward W. Said List Price: $15.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.50 You Save: $4.50 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This book and Edward Said in general seem capable of generating such intense controversy. Many reviewers of this book seem to forget actually to review the work and focus on attacking Edward Said as a person, many others still forget to review the book and proceed to speak for Palestinian rights and the negative western attitudes of Islam. I will attempt to present an actual review of this book based on MY own reading of it. In Orientalism, Said sets about dismantling the study of the "orient" in general with primary focus ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 120. Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love | |
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by: Dava Sobel List Price: $15.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.50 You Save: $4.50 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Galileo's Daughter is a rare gift. This marvelous duo biography of Galileo Galilei and his daughter Virginia evokes a sense of time and place, character and action and of cosmic importance that are usually the province of great works of fiction. Author Dava Sobel's meticulous scholarship and keen insights provide us a literary microscope with which we can examine Galileo's seventeenth-century world as the great astronomer explored the heavens with his telescope. Galileo's numerous scientific discoveries and his condemnation ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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