Learn from Bobby Fischer's Greatest Games
 Avoid at all costs: Way too many errors in this book both analytically and historically. The author doesn't seem to know that Max Euwe was once World Champion. He refers to him as a "contender for the world championship." Schiller also writes [... more]
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Voyage to the End of the Room
Dissapointing at best: Tibor Fischer is known for his inventive narratives and his off-the-wall characters and situations. This book has neither. Instead, we get a dull story interspersed with "tall tales" that make little sense, aren't very [... more]
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Political Economy in Macroeconomics
A must in any economist's library: Numerous issues concerning conflict of interest and strategic behavior are involved in political matters and economic policy decisions in particular, and in macroeconomic outcomes in general. Allan Drazen presents the [... more]
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the ...
From Amazon.com: In a work that is as authoritative as it is explosive, Goldhagen forces us to revisit and reconsider our understanding of the Holocaust and its perpetrators, demanding a fundamental revision in our thinking of the years between 1933-1945. [... more]
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Paul Revere's Ride
New Perspective of An American Legand: In Paul Revere's Ride, David Hackett Fischer revisits the familiar story of Revere's midnight ride, but from a different angle. My first impression of the book is that the title does not accurately describe the [... more]
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Symphony 8 & 9
From Amazon.com: Dvorak's last two symphonies get very personalized, dramatic performances from Ivan Fischer and his orchestra. Dynamics are extremely wide, numerous details that go unheard in other performances are carefully observed, and the readings [... more]
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Washington's Crossing
Very Good Narrative of a Pivotal Encounter: I found that this book is a very good, though somewhat incomplete, narrative of the 1776 New Jersey campaign. The most helpful thing I did before reading this book was to read Thomas Fleming's "1776 Year [... more]
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Spassky
best games by a great champion: the author bernard cafferty is a russia expert who followed spassky's chess career closely. spassky himself is famous as bobby fischer's opponent in the reykjvik match of the century between the reps of the usa and ussr. [... more]
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The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
From Amazon.com: David Hackett Fischer is a master storyteller, capable of writing challenging histories in highly enjoyable prose. His earlier works, Albion's Seed and Paul Revere's Ride, have both been hailed for their extraordinary success as both [... more]
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Play Like A Grandmaster
Kotov's best book: This is the best book of the series, better than "Think" and "Train". Play Like a Grandmaster is written in algebraic notation and is worth owning for players rated 1600 and up. Terrific textbook on planning in the [... more]
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Ethical Theory: Classical and Contemporary Readings
Provides a well-balanced overview of ethical theory.: Pojman takes a variety of selections from opposing viewpoints to create a well-balanced text that serves as an excellent resource for an introductory philosophy or ethics class. Includes sources from [... more]
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History of Writing
Great intro to epigraphy and the history of scripts: Remarkable for its breadth, this work presents a concise history of writing authored by a linguist well known for his work on the Rongorongo script of Easter Island (Oceania's only pre-twentieth [... more]
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