| 151. It Happened in Idaho (It Happened In Series) | |
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by: Randy Stapilus Amazon.com's Price: $9.95 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Stapilus collects the highlights of Idaho stories and presents them in readable vignettes. Some of the stories were familiar to me, after living here 27 years, but many were new, and delightful. How Idaho potatoes became famous, the first city electrified with nuclear power, the compact synopsis of "Big Trouble" in 3 pages, murderin' mountain man Claude Dallas' moment of infamy and more. Once it's done, you'll wish there were another layer of chocolates underneath the first one, or maybe ... Read More  Read Reviews and Description
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| 152. Absolutely American : Four Years at West Point (Vintage) | |
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by: DAVID LIPSKY List Price: $14.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.47 You Save: $4.48 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Absolutely American is the quintessential American feel good book. In the face of a pervasive cynicism in our culture and perhaps a generation's collective amnesia, the characters who grace the book's pages remind us of what has made us great as a people. It's the Herzogs, the Ignacios, the Supkos who have responded to the call to arms...who have accepted the responsibility of preserving our liberty, who have embraced higher ideals - duty, honor, country. In their West Point and post-West ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 153. The Making of the Atomic Bomb | |
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by: Richard Rhodes List Price: $20.00 Amazon.com's Price: $14.00 You Save: $6.00 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I had a great time reading this book. Content aside, Rhodes is a great writer. That he has written (approximately) equal amounts of fiction and nonfiction shows in his concise and entertaining style. In my opinion, what makes this book such fun to read is that it's as much an incredible story as it is a book about a scientific achievment. Of course, Rhodes' science is well-researched, throrough, and is described in a clear and understandable matter. When the science is known publicly, he describes ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 154. Idaho Echoes in Time: Traveling Idaho's History and Geology : Stories, Directions, Maps, and More | |
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by: R. G. Robertson, Karen A. Robertson Amazon.com's Price: $15.95 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I had a great time reading this book. Content aside, Rhodes is a great writer. That he has written (approximately) equal amounts of fiction and nonfiction shows in his concise and entertaining style. In my opinion, what makes this book such fun to read is that it's as much an incredible story as it is a book about a scientific achievment. Of course, Rhodes' science is well-researched, throrough, and is described in a clear and understandable matter. When the science is known publicly, he describes ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 155. Scribbling the Cat: Travels With an African Soldier | |
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by: Alexandra Fuller List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.97 You Save: $7.98 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I don't know what to say; rather, I have too much to say. I didn't grow up in a godforsaken war zone as Fuller did in Africa but I was neck-deep and more in the colonial environment of Panama. This book cut me to the quick. Even without my background, however, the book is a special compilation of pages that very much need to be read. It's an unusual and amazing book; a reminder of how humanity stretches and can be brought to the edge of redemption before it knows it's not quite human any more. This book will be on ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 156. The Buffalo Creek Disaster : How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history broughtsuit against the coal company--and won | |
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by: GERALD M. STERN Amazon.com's Price: $10.20 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description My Civil Proceedure Prof. assigned this to us over Christmas Break so we could become familiar with "piercing the corporate veil", which merely refers to the rare legal opportunity to cut through a corporation's legal armour and attack some of the meat and money, i.e. personal assets of the officers. This only happens when there is extreme wrong doing by those suits running the business, and if you want to know what extreme worngdoing is, this is the book that will lay it out for you, pretty as a penny. I have to ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 157. 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 This book is a must-read! My sister gave it to me and now I'm giving it to several people for Christmas. I couldn't put it down! I've always been interested in religious doubters, but this book changed the whole way I think about the subject. The book covers famous philosophers' doubt and also the doubt of a lot of ordinary men and women, like victims of the Inquisition, or less-known people in the Bible. There are also a lot of people in the book who are famous for something else now but were known for their doubt when ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 158. Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China | |
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by: Jung Chang List Price: $15.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.50 You Save: $4.50 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is the best memoir about China that I've read (including both "Life and Death in Shanghai" and "Red Azelea", both of which are excellent). The writing is wonderful! But more, the story evolves through 3 generations, from pre-Communist China, through the days leading up to the October 1949 Communist state, the early days of Communist China (including very important, personal factual accounts about the so-called "Great Leap Forward," etc.), through the Cultural Revolution, and into the dawn of post-Mao China. It is written from ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 159. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions) | |
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by: Benjamin Franklin Amazon.com's Price: $3.99 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description The prevailing conception of the American character found its apotheosis in the persona of Benjamin Franklin. In early American culture Franklin was considered the typical American whose life philosophy exemplified American attitudes towards life, wealth, and happiness. The proof of this philosophy was found in Franklin's life and both are interwoven in his autobiography. Certainly Franklin became omnipresent in American history (the greatest president who was never president, as I recall) partly because of his own efforts at ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 160. The Battle for God | |
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by: Karen Armstrong List Price: $15.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.17 You Save: $4.78 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description IÕve always been interested in comparative religion, but in the aftermath of September 11, it has felt urgent to understand what brings people to beliefs that are so obviously grotesque distortions of any religious tradition. I picked up Karen ArmstrongÕs book because after reading several articles about Islamic fundamentalism, it seemed to me she was the only writer I encountered who had a clue what she was talking about. While others spouted platitudes and engaged in useless debates about whether Islam was a religion of peace or war (virtually ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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