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Pentagon Of Power: The Myth Of The Machine, Vol. II Best Price: $23.82 Nobody writes like this anymore. I hadn't expected the eminent urban historian to write...	Present Concerns Best Price: $15.98 Lewis's shorter works were generally originally composed as speeches or as articles for...	Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman-revised edition Best Price: $122.38 Intertwining Identities Hannah Arendt's Rachel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess is the...	Succession: A Novel Of Elizabeth And James Best Price: $8.74 I love the way Garrett writes, and have enjoyed all of his books that I have read, but this book...	The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection (Harvest/HBJ Book) Best Price: $12.78 From a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this...



Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography Best Price: $2.20 Pringle's biography of Theodore Roosevelt provides a fascinating chronicle of TR's many...	Tyranny Of Words Best Price: $20.58 . This book largely follows Korzybsky's work on General Semantics, the science of...	The Uses of Literature Best Price: $4.35 In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative...	V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II Best Price: $12.24 In this look at the American home front, Blum looks at the cultural values that the war nurtured...	The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry Best Price: $6.50 I've been known to bristle: to bristle at condescension; to bristle at unsupportable...



The Ascent to Truth Best Price: $7.49 The mystical literature of John of the Cross is known for its literary beauty and spiritual...	The Common Reader: First Series, Annotated Edition Best Price: $5.25 As background information, I read most of her work starting with her first novel "The...	Maigret and the Man on the Bench (Maigret Mystery Series) Best Price: $4.26 Simenon is said to have described his stories as sketches, somewhat like preliminary drawings by...	The Canal House (Harvest Reading Guides) Best Price: $1.95 I don't typically enjoy novels about war but this story is so much more than war. I found...	Anything Can Happen Best Price: $0.75 The author of the deft Rules for Aging returns with thirty hilarious and engaging tales about...

The Fox's Walk Best Price: $1.00 As a quick synopsis, a young girl is left behind by her parents in Southern Ireland during World...	The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense Best Price: $0.01 The world portrayed in Joyce Carol Oates fiction is one filled with sudden violence, violence...	The Island of the Day Before Best Price: $0.30 This is a tough book to criticize. I really wanted to like this book. I really wanted to...	Open Closed Open: Poems Best Price: $5.00 There is a translation mistake on p. 45: "God's love for His people Israel is... almost...	A Case of Curiosities Best Price: $0.19 A unique adventure lurks in the pages of a Case of Curiosities: one mans life, dreams,...

Inez (Harvest Book) Best Price: $0.29 I read this short, enigmatic novel, "Inez" by the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes...	Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope: All-Story 2 Best Price: $4.81 The literary journal Zoetrope , founded in 1997 by film director Francis Ford Coppola, proved...	The Advent of the Algorithm: The 300-Year Journey from an Idea to the Computer Best Price: $8.67 (I wrote this review of Berlinski's The Advent of the Algorithm, A Tour of the Calculus, and...	Scar Vegas: And Other Stories Best Price: $5.85 Gosh, this is really lively work. Which in this instance should be read as a synonym for...	Crooked River Burning Best Price: $21.81 Aside from an airport connection in Cincinnati, I have never set foot in Ohio so I can...

Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement Best Price: $3.98 This book is fascinating even if you never leave home. It's both a travel guide and a...	Getting Out Best Price: $11.20 When Hannah Blue joins the Adventurer's Club, she pictures campfires and star-filled nights....	On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature Best Price: $8.45 This collection primarily contains Lewis' essays and reviews concerning fantasy and science...	Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run Best Price: $0.16 David Detzer's third book in his trilogy about the beginning of the American Civil War in...	Dangerous Doses: A True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters, and the Contamination of America's Drug Supply Best Price: $1.79 As someone who has worked with pharmaceutical manufacturers for over 20 years, I never imagined...

The Great Stink Best Price: $0.01 I really enjoyed this dirty, grimy, gritty novel set in London in 1855. Clare Clark takes her...	Wonderdog Best Price: $2.00 I decided to read Wonderdog because Inman Majors was featured at my local library's Southern...	Strange Fits of Passion: A Novel Best Price: $1.75 Today I am in a very happy and abusefree relationship, but between 1975 and 1997 I was in...	The Voyage of the Vizcaina: The Mystery of Christopher Columbus's Last Ship Best Price: $0.01 Of all the great seafaring vessels of the Age of Discovery, not one has been recovered or...	Please Don't Come Back from the Moon Best Price: $1.62 I'm confused by the poor reviews...as an English major I was captivated and intrigued from...

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A Life of its Own: The Politics and Power of Water Best Price: $3.98 Is water a natural resource, or is it a commodity, to be sold for industrial, residential, and...	Literary Essays Best Price: $11.55 A companion volume to Biographical Essays, this collection of twenty-five pieces includes two of...	Maigret in Montmartre Best Price: $44.49 It is four o'clock in the morning and out of the rain-slick cobbled streets of Montmartre...	Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History Best Price: $5.19 Imagine a grand winning case that is laid before the Supreme Court to change the course of...	Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development Lewis Mumford was one of the 20th century's most important philosophers, and the two-volume...

Narrative Poems of C.S. Lewis Best Price: $5.99 Narrative poems are distinguished because of their aim to tell a story, rather than share a few...	On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature (Harvest Book) Best Price: $19.85 Alfred Kazin was one of the great literary critics of his generation. 'On Native...	Paris Journal, 1944-1955 Best Price: $11.29 Janet Flanner who went by the name of Genet for the New Yorker again publishes the brilliance of...	The Right Mind: Making Sense of the Hemispheres Best Price: $4.69 Ornstein's early writings on right brain/left brain differences led to a veritable explosion...	Field Guide Best Price: $1.95 This is a cerebrally-rich novel delving into the mindset of a young female grad student ...

Casanova in Love (Harvest Book) Best Price: $1.79 Lydia Flem's stunning, intense biography "Casanova: the Man Who Loved...	Best New American Voices 2001 Best Price: $3.95 I read the 2000 Best New American Voices and was a bit disappointed. A friend highly recommended...	Jackstraws: Poems Best Price: $1.33 Charles Simic, Jackstraws (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1999) I've written so many glowing...	Blood Is Dirt (Bruce Medway Mysteries, No. 3) Best Price: $3.39 Private Investigator Bruce Medway's new client runs into an obstacle getting to the office:...	Stolen Words - The Classic Book on Plagiarism Best Price: $8.75 Seeing that this book had not yet garnered any reviews, I thought I would put in a word for...

On Parole (Harvest Book) Best Price: $8.50 "On Parole" by Akira Yoshimura is a straight forward and rather intense walk through...	Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition Best Price: $1.20 Why only two stars? I'm fascinated by books about the origins and evolution of language,...	With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman Best Price: $11.33 Never having heard of Howard Thurman previously I was drawn to him after seeing a quote of his...	ANIMAL PEOPLE PA Best Price: $102.60	Selected Poems and Translations: 1969-1991 Best Price: $2.49 "The road is what the car drinks/traveling on its tongue of light/all the way home."...

The Vault.com Guide to Schmoozing Best Price: $32.50 This book is a good starting point for those people who are just beginning to build their...	The VaultReports.com Guide to Mastering Chemistry Best Price: $23.68 The text is extremely well organized, laced with humor, and complemented with exercises and...	The VaultReports.com Guide to Mastering Microeconomics Best Price: $405.13 I bought this book to help me with my first year introductory course in economics. I found the...	The Best American Short Stories 1998 Best Price: $8.50 The honest reason why I pick up the Best American Short Stories series is because I typically...	Mastering Guerrilla Marketing: 100 Profit-Producing Insights That You Can Take to the Bank Best Price: $4.57 Guerrilla Marketing involves using your time, energy, and imagination to fuel your marketing...

Magnificent Obsession Best Price: $8.12 "Magnificent Obsession" is the inspirational story of an aristocratic and reckless...	The Last Chinese Chef: A Novel Best Price: $3.44 I was pleasantly surprised by "The Last Chinese Chef." While at first, it seemed just...	With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman Best Price: $11.33 Never having heard of Howard Thurman previously I was drawn to him after seeing a quote of his...	ANIMAL PEOPLE PA Best Price: $102.60	Selected Poems and Translations: 1969-1991 Best Price: $2.49 "The road is what the car drinks/traveling on its tongue of light/all the way home."...

The Vault.com Guide to Schmoozing Best Price: $32.50 This book is a good starting point for those people who are just beginning to build their...	The VaultReports.com Guide to Mastering Chemistry Best Price: $23.68 The text is extremely well organized, laced with humor, and complemented with exercises and...	The VaultReports.com Guide to Mastering Microeconomics Best Price: $405.13 I bought this book to help me with my first year introductory course in economics. I found the...	The Best American Short Stories 1998 Best Price: $8.50 The honest reason why I pick up the Best American Short Stories series is because I typically...	Mastering Guerrilla Marketing: 100 Profit-Producing Insights That You Can Take to the Bank Best Price: $4.57 Guerrilla Marketing involves using your time, energy, and imagination to fuel your marketing...

Magnificent Obsession Best Price: $8.12 "Magnificent Obsession" is the inspirational story of an aristocratic and reckless...	The Last Chinese Chef: A Novel Best Price: $3.44 I was pleasantly surprised by "The Last Chinese Chef." While at first, it seemed just...	Bride Of Innisfallen & Other Stories: And Other Stories Best Price: $2.50 This collection combines stories set in Welty's special province, the rural South, with...	The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects Best Price: $13.78 I'd agree with some of the other reviewers who found the first 3/4 of this book interesting...	City of Truth (Harvest Book) Best Price: $1.86 City of Truth is an amazing study of one of the most important issues our society and every...

Eden (Helen & Kurt Wolff Book) Best Price: $10.96 A crew of six survives a crash landing on Eden, a beautiful opalescent world. After alotting...	Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold Best Price: $0.87 It is difficult to imagine anyone actually reading nineteenth century biographies. If...	The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 1: 1904-1912 Best Price: $18.13 Reading a book of reviews is an odd experience. Many of the works reviewed here were then...	Galina: A Russian Story Best Price: $17.90 "...We were actors in real life and human beings on the stage." Thus spake Galina...	The Hill of Evil Counsel Best Price: $4.91 This is a series of three stories, all of which share the same time period and location,...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Best Price: $2.00 This book is the memoir of an ex-slave woman published in 1861. The author is a gifted...	Some Great Thing Best Price: $0.07 Jerry McGuinty is a simple, self-made builder who claims he can plaster a wall that will change...	Let Me Finish Best Price: $0.01 Roger Angell, at 88, is a lucky man. He thinks so himself. He's survived his knocks, his...	All Souls Best Price: $1.39 This quiet little book is about a group of girls (and their families) who attend an elite...	The Sea Lady Best Price: $0.01 For readers who prefer a strong dose of facts with their fiction, Margaret Drabble's The...

Airman's Odyssey Best Price: $15.88 This trilogy consists of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's three most famous early aviation books: ...	Anabasis Best Price: $4.95 "Anabase" (Anabasis, the Classical Greek word for a journey up country) was the first...	Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching, Learning, and Living Best Price: $1.86 "Those who write well have more power and therefore have more control over their...	The Ascent to Truth Best Price: $3.49 This is the young Thomas Merton tackling a great Spanish mystic that he was able to read in the...	Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, Vol. 2: Muckraking/Revolution/Seeing America at Last Best Price: $11.96 This book holds the premier position in my book collection. It is a book that looks at how a...

Banjo: A Novel Best Price: $11.47 The years after World War One were a time for youth with adventure on their minds to follow what...

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