Den of Thieves
 lots of facts, little story: James Stewart has done an excellent job of gathering information about the insider-trading scandal of the 1980s, so if you're looking for all the details of these events, you'll find them in this book, which is clearly- [... more]
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Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market
obfuscation at its finest: I found this book to be quite disappointing. Soros talks about his financial investments with extremely dense prose, using some words I think are made up, and thoroughly unenlightening. He relates his "experiments", [... more]
$10.95
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Miracles: A Preliminary Study (C.S. Lewis Classics)
Refreshingly Reasonable: It might first be said that this work is quite unlike many of Mr. Lewis' other popular texts. While his clarity of thought and his uncanny ability to transfer thought to page in such a manner that the reader can clearly [... more]
$7.00
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Africa in History
I'll just add to what's above: Without knowing much on the subject, I will say that all the arguments in this book seem sound. However, it is written in such an incoherant manner - switching back and forth from century to century, that you often don't [... more]
$18.00
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The Abolition of Man: Or Reflections on Education With ...
Amazon.com Review: C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man purports to be a book specifically about public education, but its central concerns are broadly political, religious, and philosophical. In the best of the book's three essays, "Men Without Chests, [... more]
$6.00
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Mere Christianity
Amazon.com Review: In 1943 Great Britain, when hope and the moral fabric of society were threatened by the relentless inhumanity of global war, an Oxford don was invited to give a series of radio lectures addressing the central issues of Christianity. [... more]
$8.00
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The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses
Classic Perceptive Lewis: This book is actually a collection of essays. Lewis addresses various things such as, the glory of man as being a reflection of the glory of God, why he is not a pacifist (where he gives some pretty strong moral, biblical, and [... more]
$11.00
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Unconscious God
Instead Buy: Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning: While this is an excellent and stimulating work, only older copies can be found. But it is available in its entirety within the author's updated version under the title just mentioned. Author: Viktor E. [... more]
$6.70
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The Forest People
The Forest People: I am not completely finished reading the book. However, so far, I have found it entertaining and educational. It is amazing to me how the pygmies can exist in the forest with virtually none of what we would view as essentials. A very [... more]
$9.95
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The Universe Within: A New Science Explores the Human Mind
This is the book that set me on my way as a scientist: I was an Econ major until I read this book - I now have an undergraduate degree in cognitive science and a DPhil in neuropsychology. This book turned me on the fun stuff that is the science of the [... more]
$3.98
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The Craft of the Screenwriter
Lots of advice on screenwriting....: Ok, obviously this book is years out of date, but it's still a great read if you want to be a professional screenwriter. Robert Towne, William Goldman, Paul Schrader. All the big screenwriters from the seventies are [... more]
$10.95
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Top Management Strategy: What It Is and How to Make It Work
From a critical thinking perspective, this book is definitely worth reading!: Among the many classic strategy formulation books that I have owned & read, I treasure 'Top Management Strategy'. One of the principal authors of this book is Benjamin [... more]
$10.00
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