In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
 Amazon.com Review: Amazon Significant Seven, January 2008: Food is the one thing that Americans hate to love and, as it turns out, love to hate. What we want to eat has been ousted by the notion of what we should eat, and it's at this nexus of hunger and [... more]
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green ...
Amazon.com Review: Book Description Thomas L. Friedman's phenomenal number-one bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the world in a new way. In his brilliant, essential new book, Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at [... more]
$27.95
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Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin
Amazon.com Review: Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008: The eccentric and engaging food-lit manifesto, Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin, collects the wisdom, rants, and recipes of New York's most legendarily cranky, publicity-hating [... more]
$24.95
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The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in ...
Amazon.com Review: Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008: Long before Willy Wonka sent out those five Golden Tickets, Roald Dahl lived a life that was more James Bond than James and the Giant Peach. After blinding headaches cut short his distinguished [... more]
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Retired Kid, The
Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children: Jon Agee has done it again with taking a well known idea and turning it upside down. The main character, Brian, is tired of working so hard and decides to retire to the Happy Sunset Retirement [... more]
$16.99
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The Last Lecture
Amazon.com Review: "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." --Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what [... more]
$21.95
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Amazon.com Review: Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: Now that he's gotten us talking about the viral life of ideas and the power of gut reactions, Malcolm Gladwell poses a more provocative question in Outliers: why do some people succeed, living [... more]
$27.99
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The Lazarus Project
Amazon.com Review: Amazon Best of the Month, May 2008: America has a richer literary landscape since Aleksandar Hemon, stranded in the United States in 1992 after war broke out in his native Sarajevo, adopted Chicago as his new home. He completed his [... more]
$24.95
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (Oprah Book Club #62)
Amazon.com Review: Amazon Best of the Month, June 2008: It's gutsy for a debut novelist to offer a modern take on Hamlet set in rural Wisconsin--particularly one in which the young hero, born mute, communicates with people, dogs, and the occasional ghost [... more]
$25.95
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Duma Key: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: Amazon Significant Seven, January 2008: It would be impossible to convey the wonder and the horror of Stephen King's latest novel in just a few words. Suffice it to say that Duma Key, the story of Edgar Freemantle and his recovery from [... more]
$28.00
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Netherland: A Novel
Why all the hype?: After much ado, I decided to read O'Neil's Netherland. It was largely a disappointment. I won't go into a synopsis of the story as that has been done in numerous reviews, but I will recommend that you do not waste your time. While the [... more]
$23.95
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Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture
Inspiration for the concrete jungle: A magnificent book, which is indeed current to within the last year, including buildings such as `The birds nest' used in the Chinese Olympics and Toronto's ROM, but not their recently updated AGO. The buildings are [... more]
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