In Rainbows
 radiohead - in rainbows - pitchforkmedia: Like many music lovers of a certain age, I have a lot of warm memories tied up with release days. I miss the simple ritual of making time to buy a record. I also miss listening to something special for the first [... more]
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Managing Your Documentation Projects
Uniquely Useful: I've been writing tech docs for 20 years. I've implemented bits and pieces of Hackos' techniques everywhere I've worked since the book came out in '94. They always work, as long as (a) you aren't the kind of idiot who prefers to swat [... more]
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Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms
Well worth many reads, even if 11 years old: Coplien has won many consensus thanks to this book and his "Multi-paradigm design". You can easily verify it looking at the bibliography of EVERY book on C++ written after 1991: you'll certainly find [... more]
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Nova Swing
Goes nowhere, says nothing.: I really wanted to enjoy this book, but in the end I found it very lacking. The plot is no-existent and when it does appear it's scattered and unfocused. The characters are one dimensional with a forced pseudo-noir twist. I [... more]
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Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter ...
From Amazon.com: When the Cold War ended and left the United States without one clear, monolithic enemy or ideology to battle, a hint of confusion and indecisiveness entered U.S. foreign policy, revealing weaknesses in the American diplomatic tradition. [... more]
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Skeletons On the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
what if a good writer had written this story?: I agree with the other reviewer who said that this story cannot compare with Shackleton's story, but this is still a story worth reading. Too bad it is written by a mediocre writer. Dean King tries to [... more]
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Dragonstar: Imperial Supply
Sears/Roebuck catalog of the future: The DragonStar universe is in someways the evolution of the old SpellJammer campaign setting. Some of the computer stuff in here will have you thinking of earlier science fantasy setting by FASA called Shadowrun I'm [... more]
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Better Homes and Gardens Small House, Big Style
Refreshing, interesting, fun, and helpful: How refreshing this book is. It starts with an intriguing little house on a traffic island somewhere in California. I must have studied the pictures of that house a thousand times by now. But it has ideas, from [... more]
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Music of Yes: Structure and Vision in Progressive Rock
Yes, Squire, and "Das Kapital": After buying the Rhino Yes re-issues, I was pleased by more than their superior sound quality -- I found myself charmed by the liner notes, written by one Bill Martin. It didn't take long until I ordered a copy [... more]
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A History of Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages
C'est magnifique! C'est formidable!: Simply: One of the Greatest Books of the 20th Century! Colette Sirat's erudition and her grasp of very subtle philosophic distinctions, places this magnificent work beyond most surveys of Philosophy. Her excellent [... more]
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Kents, The
Kansas history and Superman's family: a match made in heaven: I've long felt that comics could be a powerful educational tool and here the medium realizes this potential. Ostrander and Truman, along with Mandrake and Bair, are far from novices and the [... more]
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The Cognitive Style of Power Point
Information Guru Indicts Presentation Software: Edward Tufte is the foremost advocate of communicating complex data simply and clearly in the world today. It was naturally only a matter of time before he cast a critical eye on the software most [... more]
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