Being Digital
 Amazon.com Review: As the founder of MIT's Media Lab and a popular columnist for Wired, Nicholas Negroponte has amassed a following of dedicated readers. Negroponte's fans will want to get a copy of Being Digital, which is an edited version of the 18 [... more]
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Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy
Amazon.com Review: At first blush, the subtitle of intrepid traveler Eric Hansen's floral account might seem, well, hyperbolic. After taking this whirlwind tour of the hidden world of rare orchid collectors, the reader will find the words well chosen. [... more]
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Deep in the Green: An Exploration of Country Pleasures
Gardening for life...: This book is more personally revealing than the garden columns Anne Raver usually writes for the New York Times. Her columns tend to be filled with practical advice interspersed with personal anecdotal information. In her book, [... more]
$15.00
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The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, ...
Amazon.com Review: As the world becomes more complex, so do its problems--and the solutions to these problems become tougher to grasp, writes University of Toronto professor Thomas Homer-Dixon in The Ingenuity Gap. "As we strive to maintain or [... more]
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Empire Falls
Amazon.com Review: Like most of Richard Russo's earlier novels, Empire Falls is a tale of blue-collar life, which itself increasingly resembles a kind of high-wire act performed without the benefit of any middle-class safety nets. This time, though, the [... more]
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A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)
Emotionally draining.: This book actually beat out The Jungle by Upton Sinclair as the most depressing book I've ever read. Although both stories contain equal amounts of death, disfigurements and hopelessness, this one does a better job of painting the [... more]
$15.95
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Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
Little More Than Sensationalist Fiction: I read this book when I was actually in Borneo where I spent over a year, visiting many of the places described in the book. I found it plainly ridiculous! The real Borneo is nothing like the mystical " [... more]
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The Technological Society
Technique - the bedrock of the modern world: Before proceeding with this review, let me just say that no fewer than a hundred pages could be trimmed from its content without diluting its message at all. Many of the examples used in the book are extremely [... more]
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Rescuing Prometheus: Four Monumental Projects That ...
Amazon.com Review: Building the pyramids was child's play compared with designing the Internet and other highly complex 20th-century projects. So many individuals and organizations had to come together to successfully build these more recent monumental [... more]
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A Natural History of the Senses
Amazon.com Review: "One of the real tests of writers," notes Ackerman in this liveliest of nature books, "is how well they write about smells. If they can't describe the scent of sanctity in a church, can you trust them to describe the [... more]
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I Praise My Destroyer: Poems
Messenger of Wonder: If you love great poetry, read this book. If you love nature, and suffer to see it destroyed, and want to learn to suffer without hating, read this book. Diane, you are truly a messenger of wonder. Gorgeous poetry about coming to [... more]
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Deep Play
Amazon.com Review: "Deep play" is what helps humans survive, grow, and spiritually transcend, according to acclaimed poet and author Diane Ackerman. Children are of course drawn to deep play--those activities that catapult them into an altered [... more]
$13.95
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