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  Mythology

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  • An Excellent Overview
  • Edith Hamilton offers a great overview of Greek mythology. It is written in simple language and is easy to comprehend. The stories are presented with continuity and the connections between heroes...
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  • I couldn't stand it at all!!
  • This book made me want to fall asleep! Just like some other reviewers, I don't suggest reading it unless it is required reading, which unfortunately it was for me. :( I had a lot of trouble...
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  • MYTHOLOGY by Edith Hamilton
  • Mythology is classicist Edith Hamilton's book on Greek, Roman and Norse mythology, illustrated by Steele Savage (no kidding). The bulk of the work is devoted to the Greek, and the Norse is...
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Stephen E. Ambrose draws from more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German... more

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  D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II

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  • ANY HISTORIAN BUFFS DREAM
  • Wow. That is not an understatment! Is 5 out of 5 all I can give? I am on page 39 currently, which chapter one starts on page 27, and I have learned about how Hitler destroyed the country in his...
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  • Patronising and condescending - US centric account
  • I finished Mr Ambrose's book after starting it a year ago. I felt compelled to put it down eight times during those 12 months because of the patronising and condescending manner in which he...
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  • Disappointing, and big time.
  • The positive: The first hand accounts of soldiers fighting there.
    The bad: Almost anything else, both the editing and him interjecting his own unfounded opinion, often based on nothing more...
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A delightful excursion through the Yiddish language, the culture it defines and serves, and the fine art of complaint... more

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  Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (P.S.)

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  • "Kvetch" is a winner
  • The title suggests a joke book (and it is quite funny) but it is quite scholarly
    scholarly in providing an enormous amount of information about the yiddish language.
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  • a strange melange
  • i was disappointed by this book. it wasn't particularly smart, funny, interesting, or even coherent: it was like bits of things patched together; kind of like an over-expanded idea. if you read...
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  • Read this book with caution
  • I reluctantly give this book one star only because it provides some interesting information. Please be aware, though, that the author veers between sense and nonsense. Some of his explanations are...
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A true story of catastrophe and survival at sea, Fatal Forecast is a spellbinding moment-by-moment account of... more

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  Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea

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  • Highly Derivative
  • Reading this book brought back memories... of reading The Perfect Storm.
    
    Obviously differing in the details, it's the same story, told in much the same way.
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  • Death and Survival on the Georges Bank
  • The Georges Bank lies about 120 miles east of Cape Cod. It is no place to be in a small boat; especially when the weather turns bad. Wind-driven waves building from the fetch of the Atlantic...
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  • Gripping story, but not quite The Perfect Storm
  • Well written, gripping account of tragedy at sea. Worth reading if you like the "disaster book" genre, but not quite as good as The Perfect Storm.
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In 1980, a twenty-three-year-old student named Aaron Lansky set out to rescue the world?s abandoned Yiddish books... more

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  Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books

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  • highly recommended
  • I enjoyed the book very much. It was like reading a mystery with all the twists and turns. In fact I bought 2 copes so I could lend it friends and relatives in Winnipeg where we spend our summers...
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  • Important story, self-important author
  • This desire to hang on to history and heritage is noble and necessary. Bravo to the author and his colleagues. There are things that can be expressed in Yiddish, that when translated, need twice...
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  • Posted:Jan-31-2006

  • Lots about Lansky; little about literature
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How much do you know about Judaism?How did the Ten Lost Tribes become lost ? Are circumcisions performed on the... more

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  Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its...

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  • Very good book to gain a general yet complete overview of Judaism and the Jewish people
  • This book is helping me a lot in my conversion process I have started recently.
    It is written in an easy language (I'm not mothertongue but I don't have problems) for laypersons. I would...
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  • Good synopsis
  • Excellent read of the earlier section of the Old Testament, this book seeks to record and explain the breath of Jewish history form Adam to the present day. The earlier chapters on the Old...
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  • One of the worst books I have ever read.
  • Before I express the criticism from my title I should begin by saying that this book is well written and very informative. It contains a lot of really interesting information about Judaism and...
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Examines the history of the United States, from the early 1800s through the events leading to the Civil War, focusing... more

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  Sounding Forth the Trumpet for Children

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  • Posted:Nov-10-2007

  • A good book for Christian home-schoolers.
  • This is a good book for Christian homeschooling. I bought it for my daughter (at her request)who is homeschooling all her children.
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In his first major book on the state of black America since the New York Times bestseller Losing the Race, John... more

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  Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America

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  • The title says it best.
  • There was almost too much in this book for me to soak up. Part of me wonders whether I should have read the author's "Losing the Race" first. Regardless, this was a very informative and well...
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  • Good book but long read
  • This book is well researched and has a lot of information but is a long read. I feel it could be more readable (less academic) to appeal to a larger audience
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  • Peace
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  Non Campus Mentis

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  • HILARIOUS!!!
  • This book is super Hilarious. it is a work of art from minds probably too tired to think straight or working overtime 10 minutes before the paper was due or probably under the influence of alcohol....
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  • Funny, but not THAT funny
  • Other reviews here overrate the reactions you'll have. It only takes a few pages to get the idea. Beyond that, it serves well as bathroom reading for a few days. But the fun doesn't last long.
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  • Oh PUH-LEEZE. If this is real, I'm Marilyn Monroe.
  • Yeah, right -- these are REAL student comments. Uh huh. Oh, I just bet.

    Just a little TOO cutesy, a little TOO pat, and waay too adorable.

    AND...worst of all, not very funny.

    Thumbs down.

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A wise and witty compendium of the greatest thoughts, greatest minds, and greatest books of all time -- listed in... more

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  The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time

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  • Accurate Title, Wonderful Book
  • Some will obviously quibble over Will Durant's selections, but I will not. I got hooked on Durant after reading his 1916 doctoral disseration (a full thirty years after I acquired the multi-volume...
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  • Insight into Will Durant and his passions
  • This collection of articles and writing from Durant is his opinion of the greatest thinkers, poets and books of all of humanity. Clearly an almost impossible task and one filled with biases. I...
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  • Moderate. Not the high mark of Will Durant
  • The book is a collection of interviews and articles in interaction with the great writer, but the subject depth is lacking and there is little cohesion.
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Personal and Passionate Reflections on the Land and Its People "The Mediterranean landscape, the exuberance of... more

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  What Israel Means to Me: By 80 Prominent Writers, Performers, Scholars, Politicians, and Journalists

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  • Kind of like eating a whole bowl of schmaltz in one go
  • Casting my eye down the list of contributors to this book, I noticed that the distinguished playwright and screenwriter David Mamet was one of them. I have been an admirer of his work (well, his...
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  • "Israel has become a symbol of the world's wilingness to let the Jewish people live"
  • What does Israel mean to me?
    Israel is a tiny country, numbering six million souls, and only a tiny fraction of the Middle East.
    It attracts more attention than any other country in the...
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With his first book, Hitler?s Willing Executioners, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen dramatically revised our understanding of... more

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  A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair

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  • A Challenging Reflection
  • Entering the world of the Holocuast is walking into a dark realm. I'd imagine many other students of the Shoah are like me - you dive into the study but after a while must leave it because of its...
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  • Flawed
  • A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair, by Daniel Goldhagen, was written to get people, specifically Catholics, to think about what...
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  • Confusing Today's Strength With Yesterday's Weakness
  • My title is precisely the point.

    Goldhagen assumes that the supposed power the Catholic Church possesses today over much of the world's culture, politics, and media is as it was in the early...

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From Hitler to Hussein, Napoleon to Pol Pot, Alexander the Great to Idi Amin, this is a trenchant look into the... more

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  Thugs: How History's Most Notorious Despots Transformed the World through Terror, Tyranny, and...

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  • A Book Worth Reading -- Especially Now!!
  • In this day of Ahmadinejad masquerading as a liberal intellectual I am grateful for a book that unmasks the real evil hidden in many of history's leaders. THUGS is a book worth reading, with a...
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  • A terrible book
  • This book has so many historical inaccuracies there is not room to list them all. The chapters on Mao and Stalin are especially egregious. My recommendation? Don't buy this book.
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  The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (Nazi Germany and the Jews)

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  • Eyewitness Accounts of the Horror That Was the Holocaust
  • Freidlander has strung together a narrative of the horrors of the Holocaust as seen in the eyewitness accounts of Victims, Perpetrators, Bystanders, and survivors. Each chapter is the culmination...
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  • Very Dry, Scholarly Work
  • This is the kind of work whose rating depends exclusively on what kind of reading experience you're looking for. If you are a scholar of the Holocaust and German policies during World War II as it...
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  • Doesn't live up to some reviews
  • This massive work is a disappointment in style. The writer's prose seems calculated to make the reader's work difficult, and there is no excuses for one who knows the pitfalls of academic writing...
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From the sixth through the sixteenth centuries, the faiths of Islam and Christianity contended for primacy in the... more

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  Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World

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  • Highly Recommended
  • Enlightened, very well researched, excellently written, highly enjoyable read. I even enjoyed reading the chapter notes! Should be required reading in this age of darkness.
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  • Affirmative Action for Islam
  • The one star is for wonderful prose style and excellent exposition of the complicated cast of characters and events.
    
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China is the most exciting rising power in the world today. The fact that China may be the next superpower attracts... more

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  The Dragon and the Foreign Devils: China and the World, 1100 B.C. to the Present

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  • 'Histories never conclude, they just pause'
  • This book provides a highly readable outline of China's history within a framework of external events that have impacted on China. It provides a good starting point for anyone who is seeking to...
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The essays collected here explore the popular press since 1896--from Harmsworth's Daily Mail to Maxwell's Mirror. The... more

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  Hunting Pirate Heaven: In Search of Lost Pirate Utopias

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  • A Death-Defying Search for the Pirate Edens in East Africa
  • Unless you are a lot more adventurous than I am, the closest you will ever get to most of the places and people described in this book is reading the book. Mr. Kevin Rushby deserves great credit...
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The Greatest Generation gets credit for winning World War II and braving the Depression. But the Baby Boomers? All... more

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  The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy

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  • Speaking as a Millenial
  • I have not read this book in its entirety. However, speaking as a member of Generation X, or Millenials as we now are more commonly called, I see both positive and negative points in what I have...
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  • boomer generation's true legacy will be...
  • Although the boomers didn't have a president in office until Clinton, they had the right to vote well before that. Ever since Reagan was in office, our national debt has skyrocketed to levels that...
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  • Wish I'd thought of that!
  • While this book claims to debunk a myth that boomers are being misunderstood in the media as spoiled and self-centered the reality is that it follows the exact same format as hundreds of newspaper...
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From the Amish to Zoolatry, this hilarious tour of world history and culture will answer the question on everyone?s... more

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  Yes, But Is It Good for the Jews?: A Beginner's Guide, Volume 1

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  • Yes, but is this book good for anyone else?
  • A word of warning to the reader; this book is not a cohesive story that one reads from the front cover to the back. It consists of an encyclopedia-style collection of entries of those elements that...
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  • Jews (and non-Jews) everywhere should read this!
  • This book is utterly hilarious and definitly something you'll want to give to your friends and family. It's totally readable straight through but also the perfect book to come back to again and...
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  • A not bad idea not well done
  • This is one of those books I wanted to like a lot better than I did. I understood it to be the kind of book which might interest certain highly assimilated Jews a bit more in their own Jewishness....
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