Frances de Pontes Peebles
Frances de Pontes Peebles was born in Pernambuco, Brazil. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has received several awards, including Brazil's Sacatar Artist's Fellowship and the Michener-Copernicus ... [... more]
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What Nietzsche Really Said
 From Amazon.com: Kathleen Higgins and Robert Solomon's comprehensive, lucid, and often humorous overview of Nietzsche's philosophy sings with the joy of his own work--a joy, the authors point out, that is often misunderstood or overlooked. Central to [... more]
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Jenna Bush
Jenna Bush shares her mother's love of reading and teaching. Jenna taught elementary school in Washington, D.C. after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 with a degree in English. She has also written articles for CosmoGIRL! ... [... more]
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Lynda S. Robinson
Lynda S. Robinson holds a Ph.D. in anthropology, with a concentration in archaeology, from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of three earlier Lord Meren mysteries: Murder in the Place of Anubis, Murder at the God's Gate, and ... [... more]
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Christopher Reich
Christopher Reich was born in Tokyo in 1961. A graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Texas at Austin, he worked in Switzerland before returning to the United States to pursue a career as a novelist. The bestselling author of ... [... more]
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Philip Bobbitt
Philip Bobbit is Professor of Law at Columbia University, and Distinguished Lecturer and Senior Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He has served in a number of posts in the U.S. government, incuding as associate counsel to the ... [... more]
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John Rumrich
John Rumrich is the author of Matter of Glory and Milton Unbound. He is Thaman Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the co-editor of the Modern Library edition of Milton's Paradise Lost. John Milton's Paradise Lost, an ... [... more]
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L. Michael White
L. Michael White is Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Classics and Christian Origins and is the director of the Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins at the University of Texas at Austin. He was featured in two award-winning PBS ... [... more]
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Discussion of the Method: Conducting the Engineer's ...
Brilliantly Original Synthesis of many Disciplines: This book came recommended to me by a professional engineer. As I started turning the pages during a first skim read, it struck me that Koen has brought together a huge amount of experience on [... more]
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A Better Way to Think About Business: How Personal ...
From Amazon.com: Excellence in business depends on "integrity, values and virtues" as much as profits, says philosopher Robert C. Solomon. In A Better Way to Think About Business, Solomon says that business leaders shouldn't be torn between [... more]
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The Lives of Animals
Good answers for questions about vegetarianism: The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee is a philosophical look at the heart of vegetarianism and animal suffering rather than a discussion of the hard raw facts that most books include on the subject. It [... more]
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Speaking in Tongues
From Amazon.co.uk: Observe as David Byrne finally learns to dance. Non-Western sounds and funky rhythms had infected Talking Heads' music prior to this 1983 pop breakthrough, but Speaking in Tongues is where the beat truly gels. The band's quirky, nerdy [... more]
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