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  Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time

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  • Posted:Oct-12-2009

  • Understanding other cultures
  • This book gave me a much needed "better" understanding of the Islamic world. With common misconceptions of this religion and region of the world by many of us in the west, this book is a must...
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  • Posted:Aug-10-2009

  • interesting topic but BORING book
  • Compelling read because you want to know what happens (sort of), but it reads like a sales pitch for the organization. Would've worked as a magazine article, but whew! this book is about 200 pages...
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  • Posted:Jan-16-2009

  • Amazing Story, Flawed Writing
  • I loved this book, and I could hardly put it down, but I would have loved it more if the authors were better writers, or had a better editor. The flow of the story keeps being interrupted with...
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The great wits and beauties of their age, the Mitford sisters were immoderate in their passions for ideas and people,... more

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  The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters

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  • Posted:Jan-19-2009

  • I am loving this book...
  • I have always loved Nancy Mitford's two novels, The pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate ( I also liked her biographies of the Sun king and Madame Pompadour, but don't waste your time on the...
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  • Posted:Apr-30-2008

  • The Mitfords:Letters Between Sisters
  • A fascinating collection but too long -- also I feel likely of limited interest unless one is British, and was alive and aware of this family at the time these letters were writtten, otherwise too...
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A renowned literary coterie in eighteenth-century Philadelphia?Elizabeth Fergusson, Hannah Griffitts, Deborah Logan,... more

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In an authorized biography-the story of Alice Waters, Chez Panisse, and the San Francisco 1970s counterculture food... more

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  Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant...

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  • Posted:Sep-07-2009

  • amazing true story -- great inspiration
  • amazing true story -- great inspiration
    
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  • Posted:Nov-25-2008

  • We owe Alice Waters' cooking respect, and gratitude - but, oh, what a horror this book makes her out to be!
  • CHEZ PANISSE is a joy. I've made the pilgrimage four or five times; it's a splurge and a luxury and an indulgence and a delight. One eats wonderfully well there. Alice Waters, the restaurant's...
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  • Posted:Aug-23-2008

  • Interesting but Tedious
  • The author explores an important chapter in American culinary history and examines a unique contributor to that history. Once I fought my way through the book, I learned a few things:
    1.)the...
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A richly illuminating biography of Robert Falcon Scott, and the first to transcend the myths that have taken root in... more

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  Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy

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  • Posted:Apr-12-2009

  • An excellent Bio
  • This is a great "counter" to the Roland Huntford's The Last Place on Earth (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0375754741) which is unbalanced in its criticism of Scott. This bio shows Scott as a product of...
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  • Posted:Mar-21-2007

  • Scoot of the Antartic, A life of courage
  • The book is dreadful. It continually refers to other expeditions that the average reader will not know about. The writing is random and its impossible to follow the thread. There are also many...
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Mrs. Stanton's Bible traces the impact of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's religious dissent on the suffrage movement at... more

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Famous for having found the great missionary and explorer Dr David Livingstone on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and... more

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The stunning biographical portraits in Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo, some adapted from essays that... more

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  Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo

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  • Posted:May-14-2003

  • Poignant story of timeless women
  • This was a suprisingly interesting book containing 5 biographies of "Modern" women in historical Japan. Phyllis Birnbaum researches the women with a professional biographers precision, with warts...
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?What was it about Ruth that drew me back, year after year, for almost three decades?? Sandy Boucher asks herself... more

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  Dancing in the Dharma: The Life and Teachings of Ruth Denison

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  • Posted:Jun-26-2007

  • Teaching Dharma in the Desert
  • I came upon "Dancing in the Dharma", a biography of the Buddhist teacher Ruth Denison, by chance. I read the book because I have been studying Buddhism and meditating for several years, butI had...
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With Mary Wollstonecraft and her A Vindication of the Rights of Women, published in 1792, a modern female... more

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  Mary Wollstonecraft

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  • Posted:Apr-27-2002

  • A fine telling of this incredible woman's story
  • I had the pleasure of reading this book while doing research for my biography, "Theodosia Burr Alston: Portrait of a Prodigy" (Corinthian Books, September 2002). Mary Wollstonecraft's "A...
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Nestled along the banks of the Hudson River directly across from the United States Military Academy at West Point... more

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  Little Chapel on the River: A Pub, a Town and the Search for What Matters Most

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  • Posted:May-30-2009

  • Little Chapel on the River
  • My book club here in N.J. read this book, and we are about one hour from Garrison, N.Y. We all loved the book, so at out meeting after reading the book we decided to go there. We met the owner,...
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  • Posted:Jun-13-2007

  • nice topic, but...a little boring
  • I like the "come find yourself in a small town" genre and I like the Guinan family the author writes about. I even love the Wall Street Journal, where she is a writer on staff. We lived in nearby...
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  • Posted:Jan-17-2006

  • A Book to Keep Close
  • There are just a few books that you just don't want to end, even fewer that you would just like slip in the pages and become part of the story. This was just such a book. Ms. Bounds has captured...
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In Holy Tears, Holy Blood, Richard D. E. Burton continues his investigation of Catholic France from Revolution to... more

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  Holy Tears, Holy Blood: Women, Catholicism, and the Culture of Suffering in France, 1840-1970

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  • Excellent research and interpretation
  • This intriguing study answered many a question of mine about the idea of 'vicarious suffering' in French spirituality. Burton develops the topic in an arresting writing style, showing the political...
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In her early 20s, Elizabeth Kadetsky found herself running for hours every day, eating like a bird, and suffering... more

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  First There Is a Mountain: A Yoga Romance

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  • Posted:Jul-19-2008

  • Understanding of others rooted in and interwoven with an understanding of self
  • Many 10 to 15 year practitioners of Iyengar Yoga categorize themselves as "rank beginners." What many Western students have to learn is that the practice of Yoga demands humility. There are...
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  • Posted:Jan-11-2007

  • enlightening
  • I will most likely never travel to India. But, as a student of yoga, I was able to catch a glimpse of what a western yoga practitioner might expect and ultimately experience in India. Having read...
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  • Posted:Jul-06-2004

  • Some real problems here
  • I am surprised that the author teaches journalism (as stated in the bio), because it is a lack of journalistic craft that chiefly makes this book such a mess. The memoir-style musings tend to...
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