Peter Canning
Peter Canning is a full-time paramedic in Hartford, Connecticut. In addition to his government jobs, he has worked as a cab driver, cook, meatpacker, telephone solicitor, book reviewer, and laborer. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, ... [... more]
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Penguin Lives George Herbert Walker Bush
Not one for the ages: I've read four or five other Penguin Lives biographies besides this one of George H.W. Bush, and I'm generally a fan of the series and the approach. Designed to be summary overviews, writers are forced to choose key elements and [... more]
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Great Jobs for English Majors
This Book is Major for English Majors!: "Great Jobs for English Majors" answers many of the questions a person seeking guidance in job-seeking may have. It covers many different occupations which would be of interest to "English Majors.& [... more]
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Grizzly Years: In Search Of The American Wilderness
From Amazon.com: Doug Peacock, the model for the George Hayduke of Edward Abbey's novels The Monkey Wrench Gang and Hayduke Lives!, served two tours of duty in Vietnam as a Green Beret medic, ministering to the Montagnard and Hre peoples of the highlands [... more]
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Lincoln: A Novel
From Amazon.com: Lincoln is a masterwork of historical fiction, in which Gore Vidal combines a comprehensive knowledge of Civil War America with 20th-century literary technique, probing the minds and motives of the men surrounding Abraham Lincoln, [... more]
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America's Greatest Places to Work with a Law Degree: And ...
Beware . . . .: I actually worked at one of the places she suggests (a government agency), and it was the worst place I have ever worked. It had a very high turnover rate, especially for a non-firm employer. I got the impression that the recruiter was a [... more]
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Economics in One Lesson: 50th Anniversary Edition
brilliant introduction to economic thinking: the joy - the joy! this book opened my eyes to the wonderful world of economic thinking, especially socalled political economy. this book, using insights of the austrian school of economics, totally debunks [... more]
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