| 141. Patrick O'Brian's Navy: The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey's World | |
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by: Richard O'Neill, Chris Chant, David Miller, Clive, Dr., Phd Wilkinson List Price: $30.00 Amazon.com's Price: $20.40 You Save: $9.60 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Richard O'Neill's coffee table book is a splendid, though terse, overview of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. It does a fine job covering virtually every aspect, from the types of ships to their crews and various subjects such as punishment and entertainment available onshore and off by seamen. It is not the definitive word on the Royal Navy during this period, nor is it meant to be, since O'Neill spends much time relating the real history to the events ... Read More  Read Reviews and Description
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| 142. Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate | |
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by: Robert Bryce List Price: $26.00 Amazon.com's Price: $17.68 You Save: $8.32 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I am a history buff and this is the most interesting book I have ever read! I was a Vietnam Helicopter Pilot, a Helicopter Instructor Pilot in Iran for Bell Helicopter International and I spent 12 years flying the oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico. So this book has a personal interest to me beyond the average reader. Through my decades of reading history,I know that what appears on the surface is not indicative of what is really going on. Therefore I feel THIS BOOK SHOULD BE READ BY EVERYONE ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 143. The Bone Woman : A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda,Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo | |
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by: CLEA KOFF List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $17.46 You Save: $7.49 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description The book seems to read as a journal that was written up into a book. The majority of the book follows the author's thoughts and observations over a few significant years in her life, in pretty much chronological order. To a reader who's not paying attention, the whole thing might seem like an "I was there" account. However, one gets insight into how the author approaches her work, with careful observation, dispassionate analysis, and contemplation of the pieces to solve a larger puzzle. She also convincingly ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 144. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex | |
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by: Nat Philbrick List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This book presents a human tragedy of lost lives, on the one hand, and a tale of indomitable spirit and courage on the other. Even so, Nathaniel Philbrick avoids the temptation to idolize the survivors. If anything, he underscores the role of simple luck in their good fortune, and even deals with how poorly some of them handled all the aftermath and the guilt associated with resorting to cannibalism. In this respect, it becomes easy for the reader to imagine himself or herself as one of the personna in this gripping ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 145. The International Spy Museum's Handbook of Practical Spying | |
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by: Peter Earnest, Jack Barth List Price: $14.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.47 You Save: $4.48 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description As I am not a real spy, I don't know what a spy actually is. I don't know is it that spy is behave in a way that this book describes. However, this book do give great tips of how to become a more "street smart" guy. It gives you tips of improving your memory, how to observe a person, how to obtain information wisely........... Those tips towards normal persons do work!!! The only thing that this book miss a star from my rate is that although alot of tips is given, but it haven't deeply describe those tips. Somehow it is ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 146. Fugitives and Refugees : A Walk in Portland, Oregon (Crown Journeys) | |
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by: CHUCK PALAHNIUK List Price: $16.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $4.80 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I was born in Portland and spent my first 27 years there, but I guess I lived something of a sheltered life. Sure, I'd been to Powells Book's (many times), to Darcelle's (once) and had seen the 24-hour Church of Elvis, but in this book, Chuck Palahniuk introduced me to a lot of Portland I never knew. Oh, what I was missing! In a coversation with writer Katherine Dunn at the beginning of the book, she shares with Palahniuk a theory I've heard others advance--that the city (and this region) attracts more than its ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 147. In the Company of Soldiers : A Chronicle of Combat | |
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by: Rick Atkinson List Price: $25.00 Amazon.com's Price: $17.00 You Save: $8.00 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description As opposed to earlier selections from Atkinson's works, In The Company of Soldiers falls far short as a work of serious historical perspective. Like much of what passes as journalism today, Atkinson's effort seems more preoccupied with conveying his opinion than with informing the reader with an accurate account of the events. With the exception of an overreliance on military parlance, the book is well written and engaging. Regrettably, Atkinson ruins the experience by continually interjecting a few themes that have no place ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 148. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux | |
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by: Black Elk, John Gneisenau Neihardt List Price: $14.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.47 You Save: $4.48 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is one of the singularly most powerful narratives I have ever read, and, being an academic focused on Native Languages, I have had the opportunity to read many. Black Elk tells the story of his life and his spiritual experiences unabashedly, and with the force and clarity that come with wide experience and careful contemplation. He was a singular individual, and his story is unique, even among his own people. His account is dense and complex, especially regarding his spirituality - and it is naturally very confusing to a Westerner. ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 149. Black Like Me | |
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by: John Howard Griffin Amazon.com's Price: $6.99 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me is the best book that I have read in years. I admire his nerve for being so gutsy. He now knows what we dark skinned people have been putting up with for 400 years. I learned something valuable: The white people were more afraid of their friends, peers and family members than they were the dark-skinned people. He took a risk of losing his health to feel what we have always felt. I admire him for his courage and compassion for the love he had for others.This book is a great book. It describes the ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 150. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda | |
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by: Philip Gourevitch List Price: $15.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.50 You Save: $4.50 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description In "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families," Philip Gourevitch goes far beyond the media descriptions of the Rwandan genocide in explaining not just how but why it happened. His travels in Rwanda began in 1995 almost a year after the Hutu led government rallied its supporters and carried out the organized slaughter of the Tutsi minority. Much of the book tells the chilling stories of indidivual survivors as well as those who participated in the massacre. It is these stories that give the book much of its ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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