How to Be a Fool
Well economic downturns are great for some financially driven businesses. Banks thrive, new trends arrive such as short sale specialists. The charlatans come out of the closet with stock picks and investment advice. You can lose your shirt being ... [... more]
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Practical Speculation
 a horrible mismash of trivia, confusion, and self-promotion: The author's main qualification for writing this book is having lost millions (perhaps billions) of investor dollars mismanaging a hedge fund during the 1990s. He's very defensive about his [... more]
$29.95
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The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground
DIVIn an increasingly secular age of high-speed travel and advanced technology, it is surprising to learn that the ancient tradition of religious pilgrimage is on the rise. Charting this phenomenon from Ireland to India, Rosemary Mahoney turns her sharp [... more]
$46.00
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SIGN OF THE CROSS, THE: Travels in Catholic Europe
Toibin, a "collapsed" Catholic, offers an odyssey into his inner self as he reckons with the religious demons of his past. Here are the rituals, the pilgrimages, the shrines, the fanatics, the charlatans and the sincerely devout Toibin [... more]
$1.58
A1 Books |
Push the Button | AEC One Stop
When the big beat boom gradually subsided, the Chemical Brothers initially sought refuge within a carefully crafted version of house music both epic and psychedelic. Still, the duo are fusion fans at heart, and their fifth studio album, Push the Button, [... more]
$15.99
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Mountebanks and Medicasters: A History of Italian ...
Italian medical charlatans, wandering quacks who traded in remedies, accompanied real medicine like a dark shadow during its slow progress. Over the centuries, these cunning individuals infuriated orthodox physicians with their ability to capture [... more]
$24.30
A1 Books |
2006 Guide To Literary Agents (Guide to Literary ...
Caveat Scriptor: This book will help you locate agents. What happens to you after that is up to you. Literary agents are probably the most misnamed hucksters on the planet. Probably 10% of the people who call themselves literary agents in united states [... more]
$24.99
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Rose Garden of Sa'di
A bright gem of Sufi literature: Short, but rich with tremendous philosophical depth and command of style, Sa'di's work symbolizes all that is beautiful in the liberal Islamic poetic tradition. It emerged at a time when Baghdad was once a great center of [... more]
$16.95
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Junk Science: An Overdue Indictment of Government, ...
Junk Junk Science: I am trying to figure out whether or not this is a parody. He spends much of the book using the non-scientific approach he rails against to make his point. He quotes non-specfic sources (no footnotes), he generizes large groups into [... more]
$14.95
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Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta
Very well done: It's always interesting to see the outsider's view of something you have come to understand in one certain way; to see it through fresh eyes can make it new again. This book is a superb example of exactly that. It is probably impossible [... more]
$9.95
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The BREAKTHROUGH FACTOR
Rad it: Back to the "data-driven...stuff". What I do show contempt for is the charlatans who repeat over and over the same silly lab tests and draw unfounded conclusions to support their theories on training. As Master Po has said before, " [... more]
$23.00
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The Devil Is a Gentleman: Exploring America's Religious ...
More Biography Than Exploration: The jacket copy for this book is misleading. It's not really an exploration of America's religious fringe. It's a biography of William James. (Hallman basically admits as much in the epilogue.) The chapters actually [... more]
$25.95
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