Hail Caesar
Courtesy of Teens Read Too: HAIL CAESAR is the story of the big-shot. That one guy everyone knows or knows of and can't help respecting, loving, wanting to be or to be with. PUSH Writing Intern alumna Thu-Huong Ha began writing HAIL CAESAR when she was [... more]
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Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
From Amazon.com: Michael J. Behe, a biochemist at Lehigh University, presents here a scientific argument for the existence of God. Examining the evolutionary theory of the origins of life, he can go part of the way with Darwin--he accepts the idea that [... more]
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Criticizing Photographs
"It takes more time to make a picture than to appreciate it": This is an excellent book. These are some questions the book deals about: How a photograph is made? What are its purposes? How should its context be considered? Was that photograph [... more]
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One Jesus Many Christs
Strong argument for Christian diversity: The Kirkus review above gives a good description of the book. The author, Gregory Riley, is a professor at Claremont College in California. He provides a good history of Greek and Jewish legends, along with the [... more]
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Playing The Moldovans at Tennis
From Amazon.co.uk: Tony Hawks' debut book, Round Ireland with a Fridge, was an irreverent satire. The topic of the sequel is even more absurd. Like Round Ireland, it supposedly originates from an obscure bet. This time, Hawks bets he can't track-down the [... more]
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Ancient Mysteries
From Amazon.com: There may be a wide gap between uncritical belief and hard-line skepticism, but that doesn't mean many writers have chosen to explore this territory. Now science writer Peter James and archaeologist Dr. Nick Thorpe have teamed up again [... more]
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Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to ...
"It takes more time to make a picture than to appreciate it": This is an excellent book. These are some questions the book deals about: How a photograph is made? What are its purposes? How should its context be considered? Was that photograph [... more]
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Cat Count
Well-conceived and humorously drawn: This full-color edition of "Cat Count" is a welcome improvement over the original 1981 black-and-white original. The title has always led one to believe this is another one-to-ten counting book, when in fact [... more]
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Playing The Moldovans At Tennis
From Amazon.co.uk: Tony Hawks' debut book, Round Ireland with a Fridge, was an irreverent satire. The topic of the sequel is even more absurd. Like Round Ireland, it supposedly originates from an obscure bet. This time, Hawks bets he can't track-down the [... more]
CDN$18.95
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Normandie: Scandal on Pier 88
Not What One May Think .....: Maritime researchers / liner lovers take note, this is a piece of fiction. A novel. The cover style (using an actual photograph of the capsized Normandie) and the 'two line' title may lead one to believe that this is an ' [... more]
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Mammoth Book of Chess
Chessboard or smorgasbord?: This is sort of a buffet of a chess book. There's a little of everything, and not a lot of depth in anything, but what's there is fun, though in some spots Burgess seems to be writing for everybody: there are arcane references [... more]
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Psychology 101.5: The Unspoken Rules For Success in Academia
Beware: George Bush Also Hails From Yale: If a train filled with overused cliches leaves Yale University in New Haven, CT, at the same time that a train filled with cheap advice leaves the American Psychological Association in Washington, DC, where will [... more]
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