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The Course of Human Events

The Course of Human Events

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLINGAUTHOR OF JOHN ADAMSOn May 15th, 2003 David McCullough presented The Course of... more

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    • Posted:Jun-16-2009
    • Know that this is only a speech.
    • This speech about David McCullough's love for history and some reasons for the importance of history. The speech is interesting, and contains a few interesting insights, but it lasts for just about...
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    • Pleasant but read reviews first
    • I didn't read the reviews of this product first which was entirely my fault. I thought it was going to be about the making of the Declaration of Independence based on the cover. It is, as mentioned...
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Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea

Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea

?HEAVEN HELP THE SAILOR ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS.??old folk prayerIn late December 1951, laden with passengers and nearly... more

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    • adventure plus incredible courage and strength of character
    • As other reviewers have noted, this book has elements of big adventure but goes beyond that to give us the background of the merchant shipping industry at the time as well as background of the...
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    • Posted:Aug-24-2006
    • Could have been 100 pages shorter
    • The story of the Flying Enterprise is great in itself. I found myself bored reading about the authors experiences & narration on how the story affected him. It was very redundant.

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A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich: He Extraordinary Life of Fritz Kolbe, America's Most Important Spy in World War II

A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich: He Extraordinary Life of Fritz...

A work of remarkable scholarship that moves with the swift pace of a John le Carre thriller, A Spy at the Heart of... more

The Western Canon: Library Edition

The Western Canon: Library Edition

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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How...

A thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London-and a brilliant exploration of how... more

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    • Interesting, Fascinating & a Great Read!!
    • Johnson's book is a fascinating approach to a relatively obscure historical event, yet it's so engaging & very readable. Johnson has the ability to take technical jargon & make it accessible to...
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    • The Ghost Map: History & Science in One Painless Lesson
    • Author Steven Johnson accomplishes a miracle by weaving history, science, sociology, and the history of big cities into a can't-put-it-down mystery. In another brilliant stroke, Johnson beautifully...
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    • Posted:Jun-29-2008
    • Where were the editors?
    • I just finished Steven Johnson's "Ghost Map". Not to be rude, but how does this stuff get published? For Pete's sake, the name of the book is ghost map, and there is not even a copy of the ghost...
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Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence

Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives...

IN THE WAR AGAINST DISEASES, THEY ARE THE SPECIAL FORCES.They always keep a bag packed. They seldom have more than... more

Coal: A Human History [MP3 CD]

Coal: A Human History [MP3 CD]

The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock has altered the course of history. Prized as "the... more

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    Coal: A Human History [MP3 CD]

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    • Posted:Jan-12-2009
    • Good, but skip the pages of environmentalist drivel
    • This was a well written, well researched book, except for the few pages that diverged into the global warming debate.

      The history presented was well done. I would recommend this to...
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    • Posted:Aug-16-2008
    • Lawyer Looks at Climate "Science"
    • In agreement with Donald B. Siano's review of 23 Feb 04, I felt that this book was written as a rant against the use of coal, much of it warranted, but not all. It was also in lawyer style in that...
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    • Posted:Mar-08-2008
    • Something to learn but a tedious read
    • I bought this book because of its small size (only 7 x 5" and 248 pages). I thought I would learn something and I did. Subtitled "A Human History", this is the story of coal -- how it was...
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Fight Back: Tackling Terrorism, Liddy Style

Fight Back: Tackling Terrorism, Liddy Style

Fight Back is a timely, comprehensive guide on corporate and institutional security as well as personal defense. It... more

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The Measure of All Things

The Measure of All Things

Midst the chaos of the French Revolution, two astronomers set out in opposite directions from Paris to measure the... more

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    • Terrific
    • I was wandering around aimlessly in a book store when I happened to come upon this fascinating book. Before this book I knew nothing at all about how the metric system came about, and so I was...
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    • The Measure of All Things
    • "The historian owes the dead nothing but the truth." Quoting Delambre in this instance, Ken Alder makes it known that he is conscious of the ethical responsibility that historians are required to...
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    • Measure, but no details
    • I have no hesitation in recommending this book to just about any interest or level of scientific knowledge or background. There is a wealth of information that is generally little known. How many...
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To Conquer the Air : The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight

To Conquer the Air : The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight

"For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in... more

In the Heart of the Sea

In the Heart of the Sea

Now available unabridged, the bestselling true story behind Melville's masterpiece; a riveting tale of history with... more

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    • Guess who's coming..............
    • Nathanial Philbrick tells a gripping story of men abandoning their wrecked ship in the middle of the vast pacific ocean. He sets the stage by informing the reader of the origins of the Nantucket...
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    • Posted:Mar-31-2008
    • Philbrick does great research
    • The detail of this book is wonderful. I started off reading this with little sympathy for the Quakers, by the end of the book my feelings had changed a little bit. Good information about all...
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    • Posted:Apr-13-2006
    • Boring
    • Personally I thought this book was dried out and boring. I had to read this book for my English class and I did not enjoy it. It seemed like it took 50 pages to tell about how the character was...
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The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America

The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America

Not since the heyday of Richard Nixon has there been a president more controversial and polarizing than George W.... more

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    • The left trying to lie about the best President in 5 decades...
    • This author should research the Clintons if he wants to find liars and numerous accounts of misleading the American public... All Bill ever did was lie, from day one to the very end, and he left...
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    • Posted:Nov-02-2006
    • Our Son In White House is an Honor Student
    • This book is written by two progressive authors with a report card on different subjects for President Bush who advocated NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND. The subjects affect all Americans in economics,...
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    • If you liked Howard Dean...
    • If you liked Howard Dean, do not buy this book. You already know that Bush is a "say one thing, do another thing" lier. As such, the book will simply repeat what you already know.

      What you may...

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Yiddish Radio Project (Original Radio Broadcast)

Yiddish Radio Project (Original Radio Broadcast)

The Yiddish Radio Project is based on a series of stories featured on NPR's All Things Considered in the spring of... more

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    • A loving glance at a vanished world
    • Yiddish, the Germanic language of Eastern European Jews that was imported to the US during waves of Jewish immigration, was once a thriving language that fueled vaudeville, newspapers such as the...
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    • disappointing
    • Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950's, my Father's radio was always tuned to WEVD (or WQXR). As such, I expected more of the lingua franca that the CD purports to contain. Enlish ditties sung by...
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Dragon Sea: A True Tale of Treasure, Archeology, and Greed Off the Coast of Vietnam

Dragon Sea: A True Tale of Treasure, Archeology, and Greed Off the Coast...

When Oxford archeologist Mensun Bounda "dubbed the "Indiana Jones of the Deep" by the Discovery Channela "teamed up... more

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    • Diving for Dragons
    • In the South China Sea off the coast of Vietnam, author Frank Pope joins archaeologist Mensun Bound, and a large crew of divers and specialists as they locate the shipwreck of a 14th century cargo...
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    • How to lose $12 million
    • I had a very hard time connecting with this book. It tells the story of a $14 million treasure hunt for ta15th century Vietnamese sunken ship full of porcelain located off the coast of Vietnam. The...
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When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake

When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster...

In the bestselling tradition of The Devil in the White City, award-winning author Brian Hicks tells the explosive... more

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    • Disappointing
    • There have been a few books written on this disaster at sea, and this book got good reviews.... But I found it disappointing. It seemed to me like a longggg magazine article. Maybe the problem...
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    • A good, if limited, offering.
    • This is, by my reckoning, the fourth book-length treatment of the Morro Castle disaster. It is also arguably the best of the lot, while not without its flaws.

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    • No new info
    • The book, When the Dancing Stopped, purports to put a new spin the story of the mysterious Morro Castle of 1934. The author reaches startlingly unoriginal conclusions about the fires origin-...
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The Cowboy Detective (National Cowboy Hall of Fame Classic Western Series)

The Cowboy Detective (National Cowboy Hall of Fame Classic Western Series)

After years of cowboying, Charles Siringo joined the Pinkerton National Detective Agency as an undercover operative... more

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was... more

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    • Guess who's coming..............
    • Nathanial Philbrick tells a gripping story of men abandoning their wrecked ship in the middle of the vast pacific ocean. He sets the stage by informing the reader of the origins of the Nantucket...
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    • Posted:Jun-22-2009
    • slow shipping, book in decent shape
    • The title of my review says it all. I've ordered a lot of books from Amazon sellers, so I know how long it takes for a book to arrive. The book was in good enough shape, but it took weeks - weeks -...
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    • Boring
    • Personally I thought this book was dried out and boring. I had to read this book for my English class and I did not enjoy it. It seemed like it took 50 pages to tell about how the character was...
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Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World

Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World

A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark... more

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    • It's a neglected subject, basic to Western Civilization
    • These days when Western Values are under attack it's a must read.The Renaissance would have been impossible without the Byzantine contribution before and after the fall of Constantinople.
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    • Too many unpronounceable names and not enough "why we should learn how to pronounce them"
    • Survey of how Byzantium influenced the Western, Arabic, and Slavic cultures and religions it touched temporally and geographically, does a good job of setting the historical foundations of each...
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Whatever It Takes

Whatever It Takes

What should we do to solve America's border crisis? Whatever it takes! That's the no-nonsense approach of Arizona... more

The Voyage of the Beagle (Unabridged Classics)

The Voyage of the Beagle (Unabridged Classics)

Charles Darwin was just 22 when he went on his first voyage around the world in 1831. Darwin's father at first... more

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    • Harvard Classics Version - Voyage of the Beagle
    • In regard to the negative review of this edition citing "limited
      illistrations and no intro etc...", I am sitting here with the
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    • awful edition of a great book
    • The Voyage of the Beagle is a classic book, written by a man with a deep knowledge of science and an insatiable curiosity about everything he saw. By all means read the book, but do yourself a...
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    • An incredible adventure and a most enjoyable read
    • One of the amazing things about the voyage of the Beagle is that Darwin survived it! On the voyage south along the eastern coast of South America and then later on the western coast he would...
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