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Schott's Almanac 2007
Schott in the dark - A high caliber almanac: Slide-rule companies pretty much went out of business with the advent of computer age. Though in the Internet age the printed page is far from endangered, traditional reference works are. All the words of the [... more]
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Beard on Food: The Best Recipes and Kitchen Wisdom from ...
When Chef's were Chef's: There was a time when we had real chefs and food writers in America - authentic professionals such as Julia Child, Craig Claiborne, Edna Lewis, M.F.K. Fisher, and Jim Beard (we still have Jacques Pepin!). They were dedicated [... more]
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My Mother's Wedding Dress: The Life and Afterlife of Clothes
A warm, rich survey: MY MOTHER'S WEDDING DRESS: THE LIFE AND AFTERLIFE OF CLOTHES isn't just about clothes, but about their relationship to human lives. Stories of the author's family, friends, and the fashion business blends with reflections on clothes [... more]
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The Genius of America: How the Constitution Saved Our ...
Required reading (the quiz? look around you): The right of habeas corpus, established in England in 1215, is a glory of the American Constitution. But when habeas corpus was effectively abolished at the federal level in 2006 --- not by a Constitutional [... more]
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Confessions of a Teen Sleuth: A Parody
Take it for what it is....: a quick read that is a whimsical spoof of a much beloved classic character. After reading some of the reviews I was afraid I might find it offensive, but I bought it anyway and I'm glad I did. I thought it was funny and [... more]
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Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, ...
I couldn't even finish it...: I bought this book because it seemed like something right up my alley. I absolutely love anything related to sociology, anthropology, etc. However, although this had its moments, Watters simply could not hold my attention. [... more]
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Cave in the Snow: Tenzin Palmo's Quest for Enlightenment
Amazon.com Review: It sounds like a legend out of medieval Tibet: the ascetic who leaves home to join the Buddhist order, then spends 12 years in a cave, 15 hours a day in a meditation box. This is no legend, but you could call Tenzin Palmo legendary in [... more]
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4th of July, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised Land
Who knew?: Who knew that the history of a town that I had never heard of in New Jersey would yield such an interesting read? The town is set up in such a way that it resembles some of the seedy racist behaviors that all of us would like to believe don't [... more]
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Mighty Fitz: The Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Brings Gordon Lightfoot's Haunting Song to Life: Michael Schumacher's "The Might Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a very good but superficial narrative of the tragic loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald in November 1975 and the [... more]
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Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now
Three stories about living and dying in the City: GHOST TOWN is part of Bloomsbury's Writer in the City series, in which a writer provides a story that captures the essence of a certain city. In this volume, Patrick McGrath takes on Manhattan and gives [... more]
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Schott's Food and Drink Miscellany
Fun collection of low-cal snacks for the brain: As in his _Original Miscellany_ (2003), the author has simply collected a large number of factoids, grouped under useful headings, but where the first published collection ranged far and wide, this one is [... more]
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Eleanor Rigby: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: Liz Dunn isn't morbid, she's just a lonely woman with a very pragmatic outlook on life. Overweight, underemployed, and living in a nondescript condo with nothing but chocolate pudding in the fridge, she has pretty much given up on [... more]
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