| 201. The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir | |
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by: Joseph Wilson List Price: $26.00 Amazon.com's Price: $18.20 You Save: $7.80 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I have read a number of Bush books recently, and I seem to be devouring them at an ever increasing clip. As an independent fundamentally uncomfortable with highly partisan politics, I have found Paul O'Neill's book (The Price of Loyalty, actually written by Ron Suskind about O'Neill) to be one of the best. Richard Clarke's "Against All Enemies" is also chilling and insightful. Both these books were written by conservative, Republican mavericks with close insight into this administration, and the ... Read More  Read Reviews and Description
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| 202. 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 I picked up Captain Exum's book because, like all Americans, I have more than a passing interest in the subject matter. I did not expect that I would read the book almost in one sittting. I couldn't put this one down. Exum knows how to tell a story. With what seems to be an innate sense of rhythm, he has crafted a book that is alternately exciting, witty, and insightful---but retains the unmistakeable ring of honesty throughout. This book should be required reading. But unlike most books ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 203. Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year | |
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by: Esme Raji Codell List Price: $10.95 Amazon.com's Price: $8.76 You Save: $2.19 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year is one of the best books I have ever read. When I came to the end, I cried because it was over. Esme Codell is a defiant, tell-it-like-it-is, awe-inspiring, creative and brilliant first year teacher in an inner-city classroom of Chicago and gives her first-hand account of the ups and downs of her fifth grade class. The book is heartwarming and heartbreaking, laugh out loud funny and bring tears to your eyes sad, and above all else - inspiring. From someone who is currently ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 204. Lucky : A Memoir | |
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by: Alice Sebold List Price: $11.95 Amazon.com's Price: $9.56 You Save: $2.39 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Like her wonderful novel The Lovely Bones - which I've also reviewed and which you must read - Lucky is a harrowing, heart-wrenching book about the worst possible thing that can happen to a woman. Alice Sebold tells the raw story of her rape ordeal and her subsequent struggle for recovery with an honesty and warmth which is compelling. Lucky reads almost like a novel itself at times, with gripping moments of suspense, particularly during the court trial scenes. Alice Sebold was the innocent victim of an unforgivable crime ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 205. Random Family : Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx | |
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by: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Phew. What can I say? Reading this book reminded me of people living in poverty that I observed growing up in the Bronx. The author, LeBlanc, takes the reader into the intimate lives of the main characters. We read about the countless bad choices they continue to make, never learning from previous mistakes of friends and family. I was left shaking my head at things that were said, done and NOT done. Common sense never seemed to exist to these folks. Children are born one after another for no reason other than bragging rights for the ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 206. Sun Certified Programmer & Developer for Java 2 Study Guide (Exam 310-035 & 310-027) | |
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by: Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates List Price: $49.99 Amazon.com's Price: $33.99 You Save: $16.00 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Imagine this: you're in college, studying for the final exam -- and the teacher gives you all of her notes that spell out EXACTLY what you need to know, what you DON'T need to worry about, and even points out all the little traps she'll try to catch you in when you take the exam. Kathy Sierra, the co-developer of the 310-035 Programmer's exam, with the help of Bert Bates has done just that. The 3rd edition of Osborne's Sun Certified Programmer and Developer for Java 2 is an awesome book. Get this -- it's actually entertaining ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 207. The Girlfriends' Guide to Toddlers | |
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by: Vicki Iovine Amazon.com's Price: $13.00 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Let's face it, toddlers are a funny breed. They do and say very funny things. Thus the perfect material for a book eh? Vicky Iovine is very funny in her delivery of common sense child raising. Sometimes she is too laid back about certain issues and other times she is too gungho. So, depending on your parenting style, you may not like this book. However, she helps you find your funnybone during a time when you may not feel so funny toward your child...she reminds us to laugh at things, and take things in stride. Each stage in childhood has it's challenges, ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 208. Basic Economics: A Citizens Guide to the Economy, Revised and Expanded | |
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by: Thomas Sowell List Price: $35.00 Amazon.com's Price: $23.80 You Save: $11.20 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Thomas Sowell may be the most widely read economist in the U.S. His books and essays are invariably well written and free of jargon, and clearly explain economic principles that other writers only complicate or confuse. This book is a tour of the key elements of economics, written for a general audience, without equations or math. The book discusses many things that seem counterintuitive until you read Sowell's explanation. He debunks many theories that are widely used by public figures and reporters seeking to make a political point rather than state possibly ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 209. Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There | |
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by: David Brooks List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description When considering Mr. David Brooks' Bobos in Paradise, it is best to begin with a very important fact - Mr. Brooks considers himself a "bobo." He is very forthcoming with this important bit of information. With it, the reader is advised from the start that although this will be a somewhat comical and occasionally insightful work of social - I don't particularly like to use the word here but there seems no other choice - criticism, it will not be an icon shattering indictment of the society nor will it investigate any topic to a degree that might make the present paradigm ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 210. Respect: An Exploration | |
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by: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot List Price: $17.50 Amazon.com's Price: $12.25 You Save: $5.25 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description In the book, "Respect" the author goes through many storeies of cases where people have given respect to others, some who are poor, sick etc. Lightfoot first goes into and talks about Respect in general, about how we all should give respect and be very respectfull to others in need. At first, there is stories of young mothers pregant who can not afford hospitlzation, and how the lady has a open clinic and takes care of numerous patients a day, for free. There is many other stories that are happy, sad, and humerous. This book opens a new world to me, and i think the more i think about ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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