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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future 43 reviews
Bill McKibben
Holt Paperbacks, 2008
More read this please
Great book with great ideas. I hope others read this and it effects some change. I wasn't expecting a state of the radio review but it fits and can affect communities. Highly recommended.
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The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure70 reviews
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Holt Paperbacks, 2000
Outstanding book for all ages
I purchased this book at a college book store. I think it was there because it was required reading for math education majors. It also might have been a book for elementary teachers that were taking a math methods course. Regardless of why it was there, I purchased it and read it. It was a fun and interesting look at lots of different math topics.
My son has enjoyed this book since he ...
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 1071 reviews
Barbara Ehrenreich
Holt Paperbacks, 2002
The Invisible Americans
I found Nickel and Dimed to be a good book. I read it for my ESL class and it helped me to improve my vocaburaly even though it was so hard at the beginning. It was amazing to realize how some Americans being Americans - as Barbara said in Nickel and Dimed - being white, English speakers, struggle in their own land with an unreasonable economic system. Barbara shows very well how poor workers ...
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Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman 78 reviews
Nuala O'Faolain
Holt Paperbacks, 1999
mid life in the mid west
I love the flow of Nuala's writing style. So beautifully written, almost poetic. I find myself reading some passages over many times to contemplate what is being said. She's so insightful to human character.
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition42 reviews
Robert M. Sapolsky
Holt Paperbacks, 2004
Excellent, well written book
I will admit that it can be a bit technical for a few folks. His book makes you feel that he is teaching you in a classroom. The citations and references are informative.
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Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your ... 61 reviews
Joan Bolker
Holt Paperbacks, 1998
Based on our students' reviews
I give this book as a gift to each of my new PhD students because my experience is that the students simply don't understand the process. I came upon it a couple years ago, and the feedback from the students has been overwhelmingly positive. I haven't personally read it, but the students (who, after all, are the ones it is aimed at), recommend it highly.
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Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships95 reviews
David Schnarch
Holt Paperbacks, 1998
Are you differentiated?
If you're not, you need to read this book! The passionate Marriage is an excellent book written in a personable manner with excellent anecdotes that demonstrate the concepts the writer is explaining. Reading this book helped me recognize where I wasn't differentiated and where I needed to do some serious internal work to help myself. It's also helped my marriage a lot, in terms of how my wife and ...
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (The Liberation ...144 reviews
Rick Atkinson
Holt Paperbacks, 2007
Incredible research, scholarship and writing
I remember World War II as a kid on the home front. This book is an absolute masterpiece. The Notes alone are worth reading in their entirety. The author cites personal interviews, correspondence, and even Box numbers from little known Army archives. His mastery of "the telling detail" is superb. I was brought to the book recently by watching an interview of Prof. Gordon Wood, whose work I ...
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This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women40 reviews
Holt Paperbacks, 2007
Excellent resource for English teachers
I reguarly listen to the radio series on NPR, and I teach English composition at a community college. Recently, I decided to have my students write their own "This I Believe" essays. Though I originally bought the book (and had my students buy copies) so that I could assign weekly readings from it, I have gotten a great deal of personal enjoyment from reading the essays myself, even the ones I ...
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Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Edition119 reviews
Holt Paperbacks, 2007
Repairing Your Relationship (and Your Childhood)
Before counselor Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. teaches you how to improve your relationship, he asks you to think about why you were attracted to your partner in the first place. The answer, he explains, is that you were looking for a mate who possesses the same basic qualities as your parents. Why? Because people subconsciously seek relationships with those who will exorcise their childhood pain. ...
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Organizing from the Inside Out, second edition: The Foolproof System For Organizing Your Home, Your Office ...166 reviews
Julie Morgenstern
Holt Paperbacks, 2004
Get your life back
Get your life back with these easy to follow tips. I love Julie Morgenstern. She is amazing.
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The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute95 reviews
Michael Ruhlman
Holt Paperbacks, 1999
Just Starting
I am almost 12 years old and am starting this book. I plan to become a chef when I'm an adult and I want to get a college education from the Culinary Instutute, being only 11, I want to see what the CIA will be like from a students perspective. I am almost at the chapter "Routine" and am enjoying this book so much. This book is for very serious chefs, who plan to be or are chefs. There are three ...
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The Copywriter's Handbook, Third Edition: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells53 reviews
Robert W. Bly
Holt Paperbacks, 2006
Thorough and Informative
Bly covers everything! Not only will you master a new style of writing, you learn the business of writing, how to pitch yourself, and how to move pass a rejected proposal. It's Brilliant
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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East114 reviews
David Fromkin
Holt Paperbacks, 2001
... and the foundation for Endless War.
Fromkin's seminal work is now almost 20 years old, and it is still the essential history book on the bungled making of the modern Middle East. Like another reviewer, I would gladly have given this a 6-star rating if it were possible. So much today remains the very same, save for the change from one imperial power to another. Consider from the Introduction: "The European powers at that time ...
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The Gluten-Free Gourmet Cooks Comfort Foods: Creating Old Favorites with the New Flours23 reviews
Bette Hagman
Holt Paperbacks, 2005
Comfort foods...YUM!
The salmon quiche is fantastic! As a new-found celiac, I thought I'd never be able to eat pasta again. I'm truly looking forward to cooking substantially more from this "life-saving" book.
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets 60 reviews
David Simon
Holt Paperbacks, 2006
Well written and very accessible, highly recommended
I read this book after watching - several times over - David Simon's most recent work, The Wire. I have always been interested in detectives and was drawn by this book because it is non-fiction. As well as being a highly enjoyable read, I would say there were three main takeaways. First, the detailed first-hand account of actual cases and methods of investigation (including related disciplines ...
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Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project)66 reviews
Chalmers Johnson
Holt Paperbacks, 2008
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
In Nemesis, Johnson argues that US military and resultant economic overextension may result in the nation's demise as a constitutional republic. As mentioned above, Nemesis is the last of the "Blowback Trilogy." More as an extension of The Sorrows of Empire, in Nemesis we begin to see our way of life being eroded an obsessive chase for empire through the auspices of a military industrial complex ...
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The Absorbent Mind11 reviews
Maria Montessori
Holt Paperbacks, 1995
this book will change the way you see children
This is Montessori's last book, and the most in-depth discussion of her theory based on decades of scientific observation of children. It discusses the special mind of the child, and how nurturing the special potentialities that only children have is the only way to change (and save) humanity. Montessori's theories are particularly interesting today in light of recent neurological discoveries, ...
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Emotions Revealed, Second Edition: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life1 review
Paul Ekman
Holt Paperbacks, 2007
Just enough to make you dangerous
This book is very well written. It's not a difficult read, and it's packed with content. At the end of each chapter, the author provides a brief description of how to detect emotions in others and be aware of them in yourself. I bought it for more of the former function, but can now see the utility of being more self-aware.
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