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by Walt Ballenberger - 2007-01-19
When I first started seeing an ENT specialist years ago for my sinus problems, I purchased a couple of books on the subject of sinusitis. When I mentioned this to my doctor and asked a couple of ques...
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by Anthony Chatfield - 2007-01-19
There is a time and a place for nearly every style of literature out there. I find myself reading a little bit of everything, and often owning up to things that I would never otherwise read. I'll go i...
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by Anthony Chatfield - 2007-01-19
I'm a bit of a hypocrite when it comes to my reading. I will deride and verbally mutilate anything on which the writer's name is written larger than the title. I hate the supermarket slush machine tha...
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by Anthony Chatfield - 2007-01-19
But none quite like Christopher Moore. The newest slice of twisted humor from the perennial literary all-star is once again a confectioners gift to the rabid masses, always waiting for one more Moore ...
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by Jeffrey Caminsky - 2007-01-18
Among the most illuminating, and hence the most damning recent volume about the war in Iraq is Fiasco, by Thomas E. Ricks. Like other recent books, the author describes in detail the dysfunctional d...
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by Jeffrey Caminsky - 2007-01-18
The most recent addition to our understanding of our difficulties in Iraq, State of Denial by Watergate reporter Bob Woodward deals less with military insights and operations than with the conflicts a...
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by Josh Riverside - 2007-01-16
Comic books have been popular for decades now. Every one of us has grown with them, though it must be said that with the advent of other forms of entertainment, the comic book reading habit is on the ...
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by Lisa Koosis - 2007-01-16
A few years ago, for research purposes for something I was writing, I was searching for a comprehensive book on crystals, their properties and applications. After poring through the New Age sections ...
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by Josh Riverside - 2007-01-16
Many college bookstores allow students to sell their books back to the stores. These used bookstores pay around 50% of the original price to the student for these used books. The price could vary thou...
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by Joy Cagil - 2007-01-14
When I first started reading "How to Make Big Money in Your Own Small Business," I had a difficult time figuring out if this book was motivational or informative. After a few chapters, however, I deci...
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by Morgan Hamilton - 2007-01-11
Kids often emit a frustrated groan whenever they hear the words 'book report'. Generations upon generations have dreaded writing book reports, and there is no sign hat this will change any time soon. ...
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by Wallace Dorian - 2007-01-10
In Wallace Dorian’s intriguing first novella, “Desert Rain,” he takes his heroine Cynthia Ryan into a heart of darkness. But unlike Joseph Conrad’s famous classic, Cynthia&rsqu...
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by Lisa Koosis - 2007-01-09
Have you ever heard two people talking, both technophiles perhaps, or people who work in the financial field, and they bandied about so many unfamiliar terms that you wondered if they were speaking an...
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by Gary Simpson - 2007-01-08
Hannibal Lecter. Hardly anybody on the planet would not have heard of this name. Even the mention of it sends chills down your spine. Hannibal, of course, is the creation of author extraordinaire, Th...
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by Robin Henry - 2007-01-08
While I have had an iPod for a year or two and have spent many hours travelling to work and doing household tasks while listening to an FM radio or iPod, I had never listened to an audio book until la...
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by Mahshid Mayar - 2007-01-07
Peter Kolchin, the professor at the University of Delaware, US in his book American Slavery 1619-1877 reviews the antebellum age of slavery in such a detailed account that astonishes the reader. He tr...
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by Mahshid Mayar - 2007-01-07
Part III of the book "An Empire of Wealth", the emerging colossus, is being reviewed in this analysis. This part encompasses ideas on how the post-Civil War America, not only became a nation, but also...
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by Mahshid Mayar - 2007-01-07
Before starting to take a look at its content, it is necessary to get familiar with the book's author. Howard Zinn is an American leftist whose ideas approach socialism more than anything else. Howeve...
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by Kathy Steinemann - 2007-01-06
This review is based on the paperback edition of Anne Rice's novel, 'Christ the Lord Out of Egypt'.I must admit that as a past reader of Anne Rice vampire novels, I was prepared for a different experi...
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by Justin Jenkins - 2007-01-05
Visionary Landscapes fuses the insights, critiques, and reviews from various artists, critics, and scholars from all over the world with the intimate perspectives of each work by the artist himself. W...