 | The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
Buy used from: $0.44 Excellent analysis of the modern global economy. Latter chapter on why 9/11 occured was great. A must read.
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 | Teacher Man: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
Buy new: $32.97 / Used from: $1.56 Interesting when talking about high school students, but Frank himself is pretty gloomy.
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 | Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $0.37 Our values as manifested by federal government policy. Very disturbing if you're not a Bush fan.
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 | The Savage Truth On Money by Terry Savage
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $0.39 A very solid primer on personal finance. The accusations of Microsoft bias by some reviewers are nonsense.
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 | Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 A fairly superficial view of modern France by an american. What you'd expect of a series of New Yorker articles
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 | The Number : A Completely Different Way to Think About the Rest of Your Life by Lee Eisenberg
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $0.01 A breezy review of retirement planning. First chapter about the number for the rich was off-putting. Later chapters addressed people of more middle-class means.
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 | A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
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 | What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question by Po Bronson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.25 |
 | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $0.92 Fascinating. As good as "The Tipping Point".
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 | The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal by Vicki Croke
Buy new: $18.94 / Used from: $0.85 Not the compelling page-turner I had hoped. The end was depressing.
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 | The Future for Investors: Why the Tried and the True Triumph Over the Bold and the New by Jeremy J. Siegel
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $2.45 Well written, but omits tax considerations in many cases
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 | Raising the Peaceable Kingdom: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Social Origins of Tolerance and Friendship by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Buy used from: $0.01 Amusing, but not serious science.
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 | The Google Story by David Vise
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $3.92 An uncritical, but entertaining, history of Google.
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 | Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember by John McCain
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $2.10 An excellent collection of short bios of admirable people. The section on Da Vinci was great.
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 | My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere by Susan Orlean
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.75 Odd, off-beat vignettes mostly in the US. An article on a Portland, OR trailer park does not qualifiy as travel writing. Emphasizes borderline-tacky entertainment rather than edification.
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 | Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives by George Lakoff
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $1.50 A clearly written how-to manual telling progressives how to take back control of the current political debate.
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 | The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio by William J. Bernstein
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $13.99 The best book on investing I've read.
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 | Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $0.70 An excellent, convincing review of evidence for global warming
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 | 1776 by David McCullough
Buy new: $21.12 / Used from: $1.00 Full of quotes from original sources, but lacking in analysis or excitement. It bored me.
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 | A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes and Frauds by Michael Farquhar
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.89 Mildly entertaining
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 | The New Strong-Willed Child by James Dobson
Buy new: $12.90 / Used from: $2.42 In favor of spanking but with carefully thought out caveats; A very opinionated work - for those who believe in old-fashioned child rearing methods
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 | Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
Buy new: $7.00 / Used from: $0.01 Hindu mysticism; Heavy promotion of the Self Realization Fellowship
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 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Maya's first memoir as literature - her early years through the birth of her first child.
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 | A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $0.01 Maya's memoir from the 60's. Lots of name dropping but not a lot of action.
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