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Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth

39 reviews

Random House, 2010

Amazing adventure story
Blind Descent is a fascinating story about the quest to discover the deepest place on Earth. Our two main characters are Bill Stone, an American who has devoted years to exploring the vast Cheve Cave in southern Mexico, and Alexander Kimchouck, who is exploring the Krubera supercave in the Republic of Georgia. I knew nothing about the world of supercaves so I found the book to be particularly ...

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

654 reviews
John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

Harper, 2010

Great Insiders' Look, With a Grain of Salt
This book was fantastically riveting. It contains nearly 450 pages of inside stories from the campaign, drawn from over 300 interviews the authors performed with more than 200 people who were in-the-know. It is presented in an easy-to-follow narrative format that grips your attention from the get go. There ought to be a warning, I suppose: if you want to hold onto untarnished views of any of ...

Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

13 reviews
Raghuram G. Rajan

Princeton University Press, 2010

A must-read book on the financial crisis
Fault-Lines is one of a handful of must-read books on the recent financial crisis. What makes this book a tour de force is that it goes beyond the surface-level explanations of the sources and origins of the crisis- such as the greedy bankers and inept regulators- to describe the interplay between the economic and political forces that brought about the crisis. The central thesis of the book is ...

Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century

16 reviews
Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Regnery Press, 2010

A fascinating proposal and argument for checking unlimited Federal power
While we get precious little serious public debate about our Constitution and the nature of our Federal and State governments anymore, this was not the rule over most of our history. The bumper sticker level of discourse flows from the needs of TV and the way our politicians and their sycophants in the "news" media provide a context that promotes an all powerful central government and treats the ...

Zeitoun

137 reviews

Vintage, 2010

Must Read for every American
This is a must read for every American whether your roots are in Middle America or the middle East. The story is a tale of a man living The American Dream and how this dream can turn into a nightmare in times of "Martial Law" "dictated by the times." It is a look into the future of our "Freedom" and how quickly it is being eroded and replace by "Atlas Shrugged" type of government. If you ...

The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists

124 reviews
Aaron Klein, Brenda J. Elliott

WND Books, 2010

Please read this!!!!!
Please read this book! Anyone who cares about this country needs to see what is offered between the pages of this book. Draw your own conclusions, as you like, but read the book!

Decision Points
George W. Bush

Crown, 2010

President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life. Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America?s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life. In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President Bush brings readers inside the Texas Governor?s Mansion on the night of the ...

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home

117 reviews

Henry Holt and Co., 2010

A former Mennonite Reviews
As a former Old Order Mennonite, I was anxious to read Mennonite in a Little Black Dress. First, I congratulate author Rhoda Jansen for her creative title. All girls know about the little black dress, the one we have stashed on a hanger in the back of our closet. It's our "just in case" dress, the dress we put on when at wit's end and have nothing else to wear. And it's perfect, and ...

Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century

The MIT Press, 2009

Many teens today who use the Internet are actively involved in participatory cultures?joining online communities (Facebook, message boards, game clans), producing creative work in new forms (digital sampling, modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction), working in teams to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (as in Wikipedia), and shaping the flow of media (as in blogging or podcasting). A growing body of scholarship suggests potential benefits ...

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

440 reviews

W. W. Norton & Company, 2010

Great Perspective for understanding the Financial Meltdown
Great Book !!! If you're interested in learning about the financial meltdown and wondered why nobody knew it was coming you MUST read this book. The perspective of smart people figuring out what 99.9% of the world was blind to make this a really good read. I also liked understanding how much of the credit deservingly flows back to Michael Burry, and how he himself after amazing results was ...

Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse

85 reviews

Wiley, 2009

A true state of the union, and a roadmap from here
If I'm going to listen to someone talk about the economy, I'd prefer to listen to someone who's been right in the past. No one has been more right than Peter Schiff. Take a look on YouTube to get an overview of his oracle-like predictions in the past several years. To sum up his investment advice, he recommends foreign stocks, gold and silver, and stocks of mining companies, all to protect ...

The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

1280 reviews

Picador, 2007

Eye-Opening and Informative
No one can deny the rapid changes that are occuring in our flat world. In the blink of an eye (which is what a mere decade feels like in comparison to all of the progress made within the last few centuries), the world has become more interconnected than ever. We are closer than ever to giving everyone the resources needed to succeed in our global society. Why? Friedman opens his book with 10 ...

Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome

112 reviews

Smart Publications, 2002

A must have!
Fantastic book covers all of the area's with a basic understanding approach, some parts covered in detail. I certainly found my feet in the road to success in recovering and I recommend this book to everyone as a natural way of curing your precious adrenal glands.

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

183 reviews

Anchor, 2009

Loved it - he had me with the Overature
I admit I'm a big fan of scifi...but I loved this book. I just finished reading it and I'm starting it over again. Fascinating!

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and ...

197 reviews
Andrew Ross Sorkin

Viking Adult, 2009

Entertaining read and also a frightening expose
I could not put this book down. It grabs you from the first page. There are countless characters: all egomaniacal, including those who want to do what's "right". Sorkin provides frightening insight into the slap dash manner in which world altering decisions are made by a group of overpaid, overtired, unaccountable, and not necessarily logical, people. I finished the book feeling nauseated by the ...

Hopes and Prospects

7 reviews
Noam Chomsky

Haymarket Books, 2010

Thought-provoking, measured, and grounded in rationality
For forty years, Noam Chomsky's erudite insights into politics and language have proved to be an invaluable contribution to ongoing social reflection. Hopes and Prospects is Chomsky's latest work, warning readers about the latest risks and challenges facing America and humankind during the early twenty-first century. Chapters address the growing divide between America's North and South, American ...

My Fair Lazy

67 reviews

NAL, 2010

Best book of her series!
I love this book- this is my favorite of all her books so far. I find that I can really relate to her, around the same age, married, have animals, addicted to reality tv... but I cant rock the pearls the way that she can. I enjoyed taking this journey with her, I felt as if I was there tasting new food, listening to new music and putting my self out there. I have decided to follow in her foot ...

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

80 reviews
Barbara Demick

Spiegel & Grau, 2009

I had no idea
I had never given North Korea any thought at all, other than it being some strange little country under the sway of a madman. But I picked up this book because I'm always interested in people's stories of their ordinary lives. Reading this book was a real eye-opener. It reads like a novel, and yet the truth of the situation made my hair stand on end. Since reading this book I have read 4 other ...

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal

86 reviews

Anchor, 2009

The Chief Rabbit Reviews: The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
Good Evening, Social Rabbit here with your guide to the world of social media. Today is mental Monday, when this Rabbit reviews a book, today's is The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich. The story starts in October 2003 and ends in May 2008 with a where are they now in 2009. It follows Mark Zuckerberg's progress of ...

The Promise: President Obama, Year One

51 reviews
Jonathan Alter

Simon & Schuster, 2010

A Broken Promise
Overall, this book is a very favorable portrayal of Mr. Obama, but is also an indictment of American political parties and many of the "political elites" who run the process. After reading the book, I felt somewhat discouraged by the political process. Some of the more revealing statements therein: -REF Bailout - McCain "hadn't read a three page plan to spend $700 billion dollars" (p. 11). ...

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