Europe: A History102 reviews Norman Davies Harper Perennial, 1998 Pleasure to read, pleasure to disagree! + Europe in One Book + THE ONLY BOOK YOU WILL EVER NEED ON EUROPE: REFRESHING TRUTH & OBJECTIVTY - SUPERBLY WRITTEN!!! + europe             The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature67 reviews Matt Ridley Harper Perennial, 2003 Superb Book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + The Red Queen + Picking up where The Selfish Gene left off.... + The content is good but the quality of the book not + A fascinating analysis!             Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies1075 reviews Jared M. Diamond W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 A profound and lasting classic + History; It's What's for Dinner + Fascinating! + Great subject and treatment - shakey science             The Magic Pudding (New York Review Children's Collection)15 reviews NYR Children's Collection, 2004 The Australian Lewis Carroll? + Australian SF Reader + Like Roald Dahl's books? 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When addressing controversy think of context. + Finn & Sawyer Part 2 + Exceptional edition + Huckleberry Finn + Huck Finn             Yeager: An Autobiography46 reviews Chuck Yeager Bantam, 1986 A great story that is easy reading. + The Mark of Chuckie + Well Wriiten and Interesting Book + The Write Stuff-Definetly             Moby-Dick (Bantam Classics)326 reviews Herman Melville Bantam Classics, 1981 Classic for a reason + Very Deep + a challenge to read and understand; requires some pondering... + Get back to the Pequad please!             The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power141 reviews Daniel Yergin Free Press, 1993 The Necessary Political and Economic Lubricant + A must-read for everybody + Oil and the World + Great book, still relevent even today + Definitive work on oil exploration and exploitation             Just So Stories43 reviews Rudyard Kipling Weathervane Books, 1978 Things Every Child Should Know + A classic, but beware some terms. + Kipling's Just So Stories + Excellent book             The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Unabridged Classics)7 reviews Mark J. Twain Sterling, 2004 The Greatest American of All? + Danielle's "Pick..." + The Adventures of Tom Sawyer It being the Fourth of July, or Small Explosives Day as I call it (training kids early to think bombs are fun can pay off with trillions of tax dollars, no questions asked), I am reminded of my favorite American, Mr. Sam Clemens. I remember it was a hot July day, I was five or six and happily ...             How to Master the Art of Selling74 reviews Tom Hopkins Business Plus, 2005 A Great Resource for any Field! + How to Master the Art of Selling - Tom Hopkins + Updated version worth the money + Great book even outside of sales             For Esme - With Love and Squalor3 reviews J. D. Salinger Penguin Books, 1998 'For Esme with Love and Squalor' + Same book as Nine Stories... + Same as "Nine Stories"? For 'Esme with Love and Squalor' is one of Salinger's best stories. It also appears in his first collection of stories called 'Nine Stories.' It tells the story of an American G.I. who for one part of the story is in Devon England where he is in training. On one lonely day off he goes into a ...             Fast and Louche Jeremy Scott Profile Books, 2003 PG Wodehouse wrote that "The 3 essentials for an autobiography are that its compiler shall have had an eccentric father, a miserable misunderstood childhood, and a hell of a time at his public school." Jeremy Scott had them all, and went on to working as a gigolo, tangling with Lord Lucan, and having Paul Newman's daughter fall in love with him. Born into the eccentric decaying upper classes, ...             The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Unabridged Classics)7 reviews Mark J. 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