Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and ...
 Amazon.com Review: Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?" In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last, concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver [... more]
$29.99
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Amazon.com Review: On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and [... more]
$14.95
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Personal History
Amazon.com Review: In lieu of an unrevealing Famous-People-I-Have-Known autobiography, the owner of the Washington Post has chosen to be remarkably candid about the insecurities prompted by remote parents and a difficult marriage to the charismatic, [... more]
$15.95
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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Over rated: Many people I know have read this book and rave about how good it is. However it is really just a factual account of the events with no real insight. The writing is ok but you are not transformed into the action. You get no since of the [... more]
$16.95
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Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us ...
Amazon.com Review: In the follow-up to his bestseller, Genome, Matt Ridley takes on a centuries-old question: is it nature or nurture that makes us who we are? Ridley asserts that the question itself is a "false dichotomy." Using copious [... more]
$25.95
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Good Enough to Eat: A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition
recommended: This is very easy to understand for kids and helpful if you want them to understand why you want them to eat certain foods, it explains food groups, carbs, protein, etc on a level they can understand. I got very into nutrition and wanted a [... more]
$17.99
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
reasonable history, but flawed: There is no shortage of books that cover the post-WWI peace process. There isn't much to distinguish this one from the rest. As a generalist history, it doesn't have much depth to it or much new insight. The writing is [... more]
$35.00
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Amazon.com Review: In retrospect, it seems as if the American Revolution was inevitable. But was it? In Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis reveals that many of those truths we hold to be self-evident were actually fiercely contested in the early days of [... more]
$14.95
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of ...
Amazon.com Review: In a wonderful weave of science, metaphor, and prose, David Quammen, author of The Flight of the Iguana, applies the lessons of island biogeography - the study of the distribution of species on islands and islandlike patches of [... more]
$22.00
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life ...
Everyone from California should read this: This is a good read for anyone who loves adventure and a great read for anyone interested in Californian history. More to the point, this book was *THE* book on California for Americans living between 1840 and 18 [... more]
$12.95
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
Cahill's Hinges of History: This is another of Thomas Cahill's wonderful series he calls the Hinges of Hisory. It is informative and entertainingly written, providing the link between the ancient Greeks and our own art, attitudes and institutions of [... more]
$27.50
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Amazon.com Review: Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological [... more]
$17.95
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