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Against Us: The New Face of America's Enemies in the Muslim World 11 reviews
Jim Sciutto
Harmony, 2008
Inquisitive Minds
Jim Sciutto isn't one of those typical Network Television reporters who dashes around war zones pretending to get shot at constantly and know more than the rest of us.
He is a even-handed student of the Islamic world, attempting in his own humble way to understand the ire and distrust that exists therein. I expect the negative reviewers, of whom there are few here, have not spent time in ...
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Against Medical Advice: One Family's Struggle with an Agonizing Medical Mystery
James Patterson, Hal Friedman, ...
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck. From that day forward his life became a hell of irrepressible tics and involuntary utterances, and Cory embarked on an excruciating journey from specialist to specialist to discover the cause of his disease. Soon it became unclear what tics were symptoms of his disease and what were side effects of the countless combinations of drugs. ...
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Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, And Medical Hubris Undermine ... 15 reviews
Suzanne Gordon
ILR Press, 2006
Wish I would have known
I read the book and am going to graduate from a nursing program in June of '08. I was so disenchanted as to what went on in the book as I see it going on when I am in clinicals. I probably wouldn't have picked nursing as my number one profession after being in the hospital setting and it should be a read the first quarter of new nursing students. The book is very factual, as to what I have ...
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Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy 23 reviews
Eric G. Wilson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Beautiful, important book
As a society, we are in love with happiness. We lust for it, we search for it, we will do anything to have it. And it's almost never questioned. In fact, if you don't want happiness, your own or at least someone else's satisfaction, most people probably think you're crazy and you'll probably never be respected. Here, finally, is an intelligent, philosophical and beautifully written defense of the ...
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The Case Against the Fed 34 reviews
Murray N. Rothbard
Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 2007
The Case Against the Fed
The Case Against the FedThis book is a good primer on the Federal Reserve and banking in general. It is not a hard read and is interesting to those who want to learn about this very important part of our economy. Anyone who has even a remote interest in this book should also check out "The Creature from Jekyll Island". THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND - A Second Look at the Federal Reserve - ...
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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk155 reviews
Peter L. Bernstein
Wiley, 1998
Great Reward
My friends and colleagues have a hard time believing that one of the most entertaining books I have ever read is about risk management and probability. Yet, Peter Bernstein's masterpiece bestseller is just that. By tracing the development of risk through the ages, he sets the personalities of the key innovators against the background of the times, and shows the practicality of what they did and ...
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Crimes Against Logic: Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial ...104 reviews
Jamie Whyte
McGraw-Hill, 2004
Excellent Book
After reading this book and then noticing some of the negative reviews, I was perplexed as to why. So I clicked on the lower reviews and noticed a common theme; they're all upset about Whyte's attempt to diminish Christianity and religion as a whole. So for readers who are very sensitive about religion, I would not recommend this book. But if you can see past the religious aspect and into some of ...
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Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations73 reviews
Alex Harris, Brett Harris
Multnomah Books, 2008
dizzydax
I loved this book! These two incredible teen authors break the mold of the "typical teenager" and share their wonderful advice to other teens on how to prove the "lazy teenager" stereotype wrong.
A MUST READ FOR ALL TEENS (AND SOME ADULTS TOO!)
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The Plot Against America390 reviews
Philip Roth
Vintage, 2005
What If It Did Happen Here?
Philip Roth imagines a time in history if Charles Lindbergh had won the Presidency. Anti-Semitism grows in America, creating two separate cultures. Brilliantly evoked, Roth follows the journey of one American Jewish family as they see America changing before their eyes. Thought provoking. Frightening.
Donald Gallinger is the author of The Master Planets
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The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate238 reviews
David Freddoso
Regnery Publishing, 2008
A must read before November 4th
David Freddoso provides an detailed examination of Obama's life before the Democratic nomination. Each chapter is very well written and easy to see Obama's "change" agenda and how he is nothing but party line Democrat with radical allies who he fails to acknowledge who he sides with today. It is a great book for any voter unsure of Obama and provides a very accurate picture of what an Obama ...
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Against the Giants: A Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures Huge pack (D&D Miniatures Product)5 reviews
Wizards of the Coast, 2008
Is the bigger the better?
First of all, sorry for my poor english, I'm from Brazil
Second: I don't play Miniatures Game, I just use the miniatures for my RPG sessions... and the players love it...
This set of miniatures is very nice... but I was expecting more from the "huge" ones... I bought 4 boosters and got 2 carrion crawlers, 1 huge worg and 1 blackroot treant... and almost never I will use them in my games...
The ...
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Against Love: A Polemic60 reviews
Laura Kipnis
Vintage, 2004
Against Love: A Polemic... helpful and thought provoking.
Excellent and well-written book. This is a very thought provoking "polemic" and once you get your thinking around the author's perspective it is a relationship building book. I was looking for things to discuss with the significant people in my life and this provided lots of material. It shipped immediately without difficulty and I had the book in less than a week! Would recommend book and ...
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A 5 Is Against Law! Social Boundaries: Straight Up! An honest guide for teens and young adults3 reviews
Kari Dunn Buron
Autism Asperger Publishing Company, 2007
Very useful!
This book is so useful for people with autism spectrum disorders that I wonder why there were no books that are this useful until very recently. As someone with Asperger's Syndrome myself, I realize how much sooner I would have learned good social skills and appropriate behaviour if there had been books like this 30 years ago! For much too long, I was a very marginalized member of society, and ...
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Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries8 reviews
Noah Levine
HarperOne, 2007
To the Point
Well-written in succinct yet accurate terms without using the flowery and academic language that seems to pervade so many books and translations. A very good intro to the Buddhist system of "healing one's self" before attempting to "fix" what's not right in the rest of the world.
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Going Against the Grain: How Reducing and Avoiding Grains Can Revitalize Your Health42 reviews
Melissa Diane Smith
McGraw-Hill, 2002
A Wonderful Introduction to Grain Free Living
The virtue of whole grains is the latest conventional wisdom from the food industry. In reality whole grains are not as wonderful as they seem. All gains and seeds contain a certain amount of phytic acid and it is concentrated in the bran. The phytic acid binds with the minerals in your food and conveys them out of your system.
Brown rice, for example, contains vastly more minerals than white ...
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The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal13 reviews
Mark Krikorian
Sentinel HC, 2008
Krikorian: A man for our times
Mark Krikorian has taken a fresh look at the immigration conundrum and in a well-research and well-documented book has marshaled new arguments that suggest we are headed down the wrong road on both legal and illegal immigration. I have made similar but less well-reasoned arguments related to the mathematical concept of a limit: the limit of finite natural resources per capita as population ...
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Against Depression36 reviews
Peter D. Kramer
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
another great book from Dr. Kramer
I'm a big fan of Peter Kramer's books, especially Listening to Prozac, which is a psychopharmacological classic. Against Depression does not disappoint either, and in it he dispels the modern notion that depression should be held in esteem and even romanticized. He instead sees depression as simply an ugly, biological disease of the brain, that can also have negative effects on the rest of the ...
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Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror484 reviews
Richard Clarke
Free Press, 2004
An Integral Part Of Our History.
People can say what they want about Scott McClellan, but there is no comparison as to the character differences between these individuals. Whereas Scott had no courage to do what he is now doing, Dick Clarke, here, had all the gull to infight with some of these individuals and let his discontent be known right off. Of course his book did come out a little over a year later, but that is still much ...
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Against the Day64 reviews
Thomas Pynchon
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
What I learned from Thomas Pynchon
Five Things that I learned from Thomas Pynchon.
1) There is no holy grail or philosopher's stone or ur-text of any kind; in the place of these illusory dreams of wholeness what we have is the secular epiphany or the illumination. Scientists, corporate executives, politicians, artists, the insane, and cognitive pilgrims of every kind have them. In other times shaman and prophets were able to ...
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Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our ...82 reviews
Jr., Robert F. Kennedy
Harper Perennial, 2005
Which pill would you like to take the blue pill or the red pill(CAN)
One of the things I find most disturbing in this, book is that Mr. Kennedy describes a strange and creepy right wing character that at one time had been following him around the country while he lectured. This freaky individuals behavior amounted to stalking and harrasing Mr. Kennedy. Not until this right wing individual was arrested and confined to his state of residence, did he stop harrasing ...
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