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148 reviews
Michael Crichton

Ballantine Books, 1994

Don't forget the film adaptation
I read this book after watching the movie. Usually the books are more enjoyable than the movie. In Disclosure, the movie is much more enjoyable. Don't get me wrong. The book is fun to read, too. Cold Eyes

The Official Illustrated History of Manchester United: The Full Story and Complete Record 1878-2007 (Football)
Manchester United

Orion, 2008

The definitive history of the world?s most popular football club, featuring a complete statistical record, is now fully updated! Take an amazing journey from the club?s humble beginning in 1878?when it was founded by a group of railway workers?through the golden Edwardian era, Munich Air Disaster of 1958, 1968 European Cup triumph, and recent successes: eight League titles plus a unique Treble in 1999, when the team won the League, FA Cup, and ...

Selected Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

5 reviews
Robert Walser

NYRB Classics, 2002

Genius Worth Rediscovering
Although his novel "Jakob von Gunten" is a masterpiece, the maniacal genius of Walser is more easily discovered in his short fiction. If Kafka's vision is maddening and claustrophobic, Walser, who deals with a similar kind of surrealistic world, applies a lighter, more deftly playful touch. Sometimes, the puns and literary license Walser take can be willful and test a reader's patience, but the ...

Belles on Their Toes

21 reviews
Frank B. Gilbreth, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Harper Perennial, 2003

Awesome sequel
I can't believe I didn't know this book existed till very recently; I would have bought and read it a whole lot sooner had I known, having read the first book about five or six times. It's in the same funny spirit as the first, though the focus has shifted from the antics of the entire family to the mother's struggle to take care of her eleven children after her husband died. And the funny ...

William James : Writings 1878-1899 : Psychology, Briefer Course / The Will to Believe / Talks to Teachers and ...

4 reviews
William James

Library of America, 1992

An Atheist & The Will to Believe
OK--I readily admit it: I am both a big loser & a nerd. I had heard passing reference to William James is the abundance of schooling I have had, but never tried to read anything he wrote. Then, during one otherwise unmemorable episode of Star Trek--Next Generation, Patrick Stewart qua Captain Picard was enthralled with an "antique" volume by William James. The show did not mention which work ...

The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
Corinne May Botz

Monacelli, 2004

The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death offers readers an extraordinary glimpse into the mind of a master criminal investigator. Frances Glessner Lee, a wealthy grandmother, founded the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard in 1936 and was later appointed captain in the New Hampshire police. In the 1940s and 1950s she built dollhouse crime scenes based on real cases in order to train detectives to assess visual evidence. Still used in ...

The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California

8 reviews
Richard Rayner

W. W. Norton/Atlas & Company, 2007

Fascinating read; another good job by author
This book covers the history of the railroad to California, but with a special emphasis and focus on the wheelings and dealings of the railroad barons/masterminds who pulled it off. Sometimes through means (stock fraud, etc) that look pretty shady in retrospect. If you find this aspect of interest, this is the book. The author has written previously about charlatans and frauds who left little ...

A Million Little Pieces

1833 reviews
James Frey

Anchor, 2005

Read it and make your own opinion.
Fiction or not, this book was beautifully written, insightful and hopeful. Do not let the controversy stray you away from giving it a chance - it is an amazing, touching story.

War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden, Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry

6 reviews
Lindy Woodhead

Wiley, 2004

When Business Women were just that.....
I knew a fair amount about Helena Rubenstein, but knew little about her rival Elizabeth Arden, and this book pulled no punches about their rivalry. It was a time when those two created their own fortunes and companies from the ground up, something that doesn't seem to happen in the cosmetic industry today. It seems all you have to do is be a "media darling," sign a contract, and your name is ...

Birthright

105 reviews
Nora Roberts

Jove, 2004

Birthright
Callie Dunbrook is an acclaimed archaeologist at the top of her game, but one appearance on television changes her life forever. While working on a historic dig in Maryland, she discovers she was kidnapped when she was an infant and raised by another family. As she struggles to deal with her new family ties, the sudden appearance of her anthropologist ex-husband Jake Graystone, she also has to ...

Margaret's Story: A Novel

4 reviews
Eugenia Price

Ty Crowell Co, 1980

Wonderful love story
This is a wonderful love story that really envolvs the heart. I enjoyed this book at a young age and I still enjoy it today. I think that this book speaks to all ages. Every time I read Margaret's Story I seem to get a new understnading for the charecters in it.

Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg (Poetry For Young People)

2 reviews

Sterling, 2008

ANOTHER ONE FOR YOUR CHILD'S LIBRARY - ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL
This is another addition to one of the best literary projects to come along in quite some time...Poetry for Young People. This particular work of course deals with the works of Carl Sandburg. It is illustrated by Steven Arcella. The book, as with the others in this series, starts with an introduction to the poet. This is good stuff alone. It is good to know something about the author of the ...

The Life and Times of Pancho Villa

21 reviews
Friedrich Katz

Stanford University Press, 1998

Very well done!
Katz provides the best biography of Pancho Villa. It is lengthy but is thorough and covers the relevant times in his life. Villa was a thug and a thief and Katz shows that well. His attacks against the government and the United States are clearly laid out and Katz analyzes the surrounding characters very well. If you are interested in the Mexican Revolution this is an essential book to have. ...

Martin Buber's I and Thou: Practicing Living Dialogue

1 review
Kenneth Paul Kramer

Paulist Press, 2004

A Classic Companion
Martin Buber's I and Thou: Practicing Living Dialogue is an excellent introduction and overview of Buber's I and Thou. Kenneth Kramer is extremely readable and conveys complex ideas in a manner that allows the reader to grasp the concepts with much more facility. Through the use of illustrations, referencing other work by Buber, side by side exerpts of Smith's and Kaufmann's translations, and ...

Major Taylor: The Extraordinary Career of a Champion Bicycle Racer

5 reviews
Andrew Ritchie

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

Important History - Not Just About Bicycling
This book was originally published by Bicycle Books in San Francisco. I would hope that it would still be available, even though 5 years ago hardback copies were selling at chain bookstores for as little as $4 a copy. The Ritchie book is written not just from the perspective of bicycling history (although it is well-researched from that point of view), but as an important social history. In ...

Cheaper by the Dozen (Perennial Classics)

149 reviews
Frank B. Gilbreth, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002

You only need one word to describe this book: fun!
It is very, very rare to come across a book that is purely and simply fun to read. The reason that this book is a classic is that it has managed to be just this. This is the story of Frank Gilbreth, his wife, and their twelve children around the turn of the 20th century. If you imagine that a family of fourteen would provide many, many occasions for humor, you would be very correct. This book ...

Tough Trip Through Paradise, 1878-1879

12 reviews
Andrew Garcia, Bennett H. Stein

University of Idaho Press, 2001

One of the 10 best "documentaries" I have ever read!
I had read this book some 40 years ago and thought it was great! Recently I purchased it on Amazon and read it again; even better the second time around. Provides fascinating insight to a time of historical importance to the American West.

Self-Remembering

21 reviews
Robert Earl Burton

Red Wheel / Weiser, 2007

The Awareness of Self
This book "Self Remembering" is the most important work I have read in years. It seems clear that we are on this earth for a purpose. That purpose is perfection of ourselves. By pointing out that we are responsible for the work of growing and can only appreciate what we have earned trough our own efforts, the author goes on to tell us what we must focus on in order to become our best self. ...

The Stone Woman

7 reviews
Tariq Ali

Verso, 2001

Seductively Enchanting
A friend recommended this book, and i am so pleased that she did. What a novel i am absolutely swayed by it. Stone Woman my first of Tariq Ali, but certainly not the last. I read with initial resistance, but was lured to it from the first page. Mystically he draws the attention with the words which encapsulates the reader as a silent observer witnessing the developments in the palace of Pasha. ...

William Cullen Bryant: Author of America

1 review
Gilbert H. Muller

State University of New York Press, 2008

"William Cullen Bryant: Author of America"
A well writen comibation biography/history. For those whom Bryant is an unknown he was an early to mid 19th. Century American Poet/Newspaper Owner/Editorial Writer. Prof. Muller combines these two side of Bryants live very well in his narrative. Bryant was a Northern Democrat who dealth with the changing opinion on slavery during this volital period. This personal transformation and him still ...

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