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  The Great Waves of Change: Navigating the Difficult Times Ahead

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  • Posted:Sep-22-2009

  • A New Message of Hope
  • While the Great Waves of Change portend a difficult road ahead for humanity, the book also indicates that these conditions will present the Human Family with real opportunities as well.
    
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  The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States

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  • Posted:Sep-12-2009

  • Perfect Companion
  • This is simply the best, concise U.S. National Policy book available!
    Oh...and it isn't printed in China! (like some of the competitor's "Little Red Books")
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In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding... more

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  1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

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  • Paradigm shift
  • This book covers what we should be teaching in our schools. Mann was horrified when his son was taught the same falsifications about Native America that he was as a child even though research had...
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  • Read Brading instead
  • I recommend The First America: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots and the Liberal State 1492-1867 by D.A. Brading.
    It appears quite a bit more scholarly than 1491.
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  • The Revisionist Debate
  • Mann, a journalist, presents here a summary of the views of the current crop of archaeologists, ethnographers, geographers, and epigraphers regarding the Americas before the arrival of Columbus....
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Almost everything you know about American history is wrong, because most textbooks and popular history books are... more

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  The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to American History (Politically Incorrect Guides)

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  • Posted:Aug-31-2009

  • Less than honest
  • While I appreciated the readability of the book, in the end I found it frequently annoying due to the author's:
    
    * Constant use of half-truths and unsubstantiated claims.
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  • Posted:Jul-07-2009

  • Fills in a lot of gaps...
  • I have always enjoyed digging under the surface of controversial issues... especially ones that were glossed over in the "history" books I used in school.
    This book fills in a lot of important...
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  • The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
  • Though the author of this book holds a PhD, the overall appearance of this book, and my impression of it, is that it is amateurishly (if there is such a word) assembled and presented. He does not...
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  The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage)

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  • Outstanding, a must read for every American and peace loving human
  • As cliche as this sounds, this book is a "must read" for anyone who values peace, freedom, love, and America. All the good points on this book have already been said, I just wanted to give it my 5...
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  • Great insight into Al-Qaeda and 9/11
  • This is a great book for anyone wondering where Al-Qaeda came from and the events that brought us to such a terrible attack on U.S. soil. Great narrative of the early days of radical Islam as well...
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  • Posted:Jun-07-2008

  • Lacking Key Information
  • I flipped through this book a while back, and simply went to the index to find some key figures in the 911 attacks... like General Mahmoud Ahmad or Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the funders of the 911...
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Based on the author's seminal article in Foreign Affairs, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the... more

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  The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

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  • The missing factor in Mr. Huntington's theory
  • Mr. Huntington attributes post-Cold War conflicts exclusively to cultural/civilization differences between warring factions.
    
    Two recent military events lend credence to the "economic"...
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  • Posted:Jul-29-2009

  • Excusing Huntington's own xenophobic, belligerent views
  • In Huntington's obituary in the Economist said that he fulfilled his role as a gadfly, and indeed he does--his vision managed to move us from the optimism of the 90's to the idea that a new cold...
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  • Dated and dull
  • I bought this book without checking what year it was written. It's all pre-911 and quite outdated I thought. The book was written before the Japanese economy imploded in the 1990s and when it was...
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While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside... more

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  The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition)

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  • Posted:Sep-08-2009

  • Excellent
  • I absolutely loved this book. He talks about his experience in the concentration camps and how one SS soldier was on his death bed asking him for his forgiveness for a horrible act he committed,...
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  • Posted:Apr-04-2009

  • A SO-SO OKAY BOOK
  • One of my professors extolled the virtues of this book, but I was not too thrilled with it. It was ok. Still have not read the whole thing and will likely give it away to someone who may appreciate...
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From Karen Armstrong, the bestselling author of A History of God and The Spiral Staircase, comes this extraordinary... more

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  The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

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  • awesome book
  • lotta insight into religion all over the world. if you are interested in finding a meaning for your life or just trying to understand how religion started and where it was originated then this book...
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  • The Great Bifurcation: Man vs the Mob
  • "The position men have given to Jesus is a position of authority. It characterizes themselves. It cannot alter the eternal facts. Great is the soul, and plain. It is no flatterer, it is no...
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  • Challenging and Insightful...
  • This type of book requires a sizeable committment of time and thought. Armstrong undertakes an ambitious goal of surveying the origins of religion in different parts of the world that coalesced...
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This enchanting Christmas Chronicles classic combines solid historical fact with glorious legend to deliver the... more

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  The Autobiography of Santa Claus

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  • Posted:Jan-28-2009

  • Fun and educational!
  • This is an enjoyable story with explanations given for all the legends that surround Santa Claus. Some of it is based on history and some is pure delightful fiction. This is an excellent book.
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  • Pretentiously un-Christmas-like
  • I was intrigued by the title when I saw this in Borders last yeear, and pondered for a while whether or not to purchase it. After some consideration, and the thought that this could be a really...
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  • Santa Gump
  • Each year, I try to choose a piece of literature appropriate to the Christmas season. I am not a big fan of the tales surrounding the Nativity (except the way Linus tells it in Merry Christmas,...
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This read-aloud series is designed for parents to share with elementary-school children. Enjoy it together and... more

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  The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 3: Early Modern Times

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  • Posted:Dec-22-2008

  • Good history stories
  • My 8-year son likes all the story of the world series book, he couldn't stop reading before finishing the whole book.
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  • Everyone liked this but me...
  • I think I kinda jumped the gun, I bought this for a first grader and I think it is for older kids.. it seems um, like a nice book. I'm used to KONOS and well, this didn't seem to make any history...
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This "fresh, blunt, and highly persuasive account of how the West was won--for Jesus" (Newsweek) is now available in... more

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  The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal, Jesus Movement Became the Dominant...

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  • Posted:Sep-24-2009

  • Socialogy applied to bad, unfounded assumptions...
  • I bought this book looking for a good read on the history of early Christianity. I assumed that I couldn't go wrong based on the good reviews, but boy was that assumption wrong. There are really...
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  • Life-changing book
  • Let me just say that this book literally changed my life. I was in divinity school preparing to apply for PhD programs in church history when one of my professors assigned this book for my Early...
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  • Social Analysis of Christianity's Growth
  • This of course is a sociological investigation into the spread of Christianity. Thus, its strengths are its weaknesses, that it has to contend with theology and history via sociological study...
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From beer to Coca-Cola, the six drinks that have helped shape human historyThroughout human history, certain drinks... more

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  A History of the World in 6 Glasses

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  • Posted:Sep-12-2009

  • Great idea. Needs a great writer.
  • This is a fun book with a nice premise. Sadly, the early chapters are heavy going. The writing is, well, dull. When my son saw this book had been included on his mandatory summer reading list,...
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  • Posted:Sep-03-2009

  • Engaging and Educational
  • An easy-to-read, engagng and fascinating book, and a fascinating approach to history, viewing empires and historical events through the key beverage of the time. Not only did I learn a great deal...
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  • Posted:Mar-30-2009

  • Ugh!
  • The author has no knowledge of verbs besides "to be;" consequently, the prose sits like flat beer. The topic had such potential--what a pity that the author doesn't.
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A brilliant, original history of the spice trade?and the appetites that fueled it. It was in search of the fabled... more

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  Spice: The History of a Temptation

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  • 75 pages of interesting material in a 334 page book
  • This would have made a truly incredible long article in the New Yorker. Fascinating material, well researched, poorly edited.
    
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  • Fascinating
  • A thorough account of the history of the spice trade, by which the age of exploration was fueled and through which many of today's established countries came to power.
    
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  • The not so tempting history of spices
  • Jack Turner's book has been showered with unusual advance praise ('a brilliant, original history of the spice trade'), but its content is of rather mixed quality. The Introduction alone contains...
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About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers... more

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  The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

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  • National Entropy
  • "Great book. Power comes and goes. Over extension of power drives how fast it goes. Financial mismanagement is one core piece of over extension. Is the American Century dead? Could be..."
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  • The right idea but...
  • A good book for anyone interested in an overview of nation-state history spanning the past 500 years. While definitely taking a macro approach to world history (which any attempt at a world...
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  • Boring
  • My title says it all - his information is good and covers a wide range of topics, but the book's style makes it very boring to read.
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  Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women

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  • How little I knew about the culture of the women of Islam.
  • Geraldine Brooks is one of my favorite authors. Her diligence in getting the latest information from her subjects, and sensitivity to those she interviews, as well as her story telling skills,...
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  • I suppose it's hard to be completely unbiased
  • This truly was a fascinating read and I could not help but appreciate Geraldine Brooks' devotion in her interviews and putting this work together. Written in the 90s (aka pre-9/11 world and view of...
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  • Disappointing rehash
  • I guess it is a good market now for anything about Islam. This is all old news, looks like reworked columns. Not insightful, not fresh, just tired old stuff mainly about middle to upper class...
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Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by... more

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  The Practice of Everyday Life

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  • an essential reading for contemporary urban studies
  • One of the most interesting writings on everyday life is Michel de Certeau's The Practice of Everyday Life (1984, first published in Paris in 1980). Written in a somehow fragmented and often...
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  • The Emporer Wears no Clothes
  • Written in such ambigous and meaningless language (in translation) that there is nothing original or even meaningful here that isn't provided by the reader.
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  • Still waiting
  • I have received two copies of this book, possibly by my own mistake, but am still waiting for the refund after I sent back the extra copy. If it weren't for this delay, the transaction went smoothly.
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  The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 4: The Modern Age: From...

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  • Wonderful history curriculum, works for busy families too!
  • SOTW is a great curriculum, written as a narrative, the kids really enjoy it. I can also have "school on the road" when we have doctor visits as I have the book on CD also.
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  • and now for something completely different...
  • To be honest we are only ten chapters in to this volume (having read the previous three volumes), but this volume seems very choppy and disconnected. She does put a disclaimer at the beginning of...
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  • Overrated
  • Story of the World is "History lite" -- less filling. Without maps, timelines, pictures, and with text high on choppy sentences and "!" it is tough to get much out of it.
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  No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam

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  • Great Introduction
  • I am on my second tour to the Middle East, which at the conclusion, will add up to 2.5 years of my life spent in the immediate vicinity of the Persian Gulf. In an attempt to gain a better...
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  • Ashamed of Islam
  • Good writer. Poor exposure of Islam. My overall impression was that the author is ashamed of Islam. He's trying hard (maybe subconsciently) to justify his religion and to make it suitable for an...
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  • Eye opening but half the story
  • Aslan meticulously develops the story of the birth of Muhammad and Islam in the 7th century, then the tempo speeds as he closes in our modern times. He romanticizes and brings a certain elegance...
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  Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

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  • The World of the Disposed
  • Kevin Bales takes the reader on an emotional and heartfelt journey to several places throughout the world including India, Tailand, and Brazil among others where we met people who are being used...
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  • Good, but some information is out of date
  • This is a great book, although some of the information is a bit dated, but it's still a good read if you want to know about modern day slavery. The website listed probably has updated statistics.
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