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Jane Mayer
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Author:
Victoria Secunda
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
 Every Child Should Have A Copy!, 2002-10-25
This book is quite simply life-changing. Forget weighty psycholgy tomes with their dry identification of signs and symptoms of labelled personality "disorders" of parents and children, read this and find out how these wretched behaviour patterns were set up in the first place. Incredibly illuminating, compassionate and sensible, this is a must for any daughter who feels misunderstood, embittered, angered, or simply saddened by their relationship with their mother. Or their father, for that matter. Very, very helpful stuff.
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Author:
Hooman Majd
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Doubleday Books
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Author:
Daniel Quinn
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Daniel Quinns book "mind expandingly good", 2008-05-20
his slant on the first book of the bible - genesis - was astounding but every page seemed to have another equally brilliant point to make - each of which fitted into a greater message. I would like to meet this rather brilliant man and have him clear up a few issues i still had at the end of the book. On re-reading it became clearer but still unfortunately some insights still elude me i am sure.
A HELPFUL ADDITION TO READING THIS BOOK WOULD BE TO WATCH THE 'TRIBE' EPISODES DONE BY BRUCE PARRY WHO EXPLORES THOSE LAST VESTIGES OF HUNTER-GATHERER COMMUNITY STILL EXTANT - HUNTER-GATHERERS ARE CONTINUALLY TALKED ABOUT IN THIS BOOK AND I FOUND THIS BOOK A MUCH BETTER READ AFTER ALREADY HAVING INSIGHT INTO THE HUNTER-GATHERER EXISTENCE.
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Author:
James Bamford
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Doubleday Books
Don't Read This Review, The NSA Might Be Snooping, 2008-11-01
If you think I'm being paranoid, I'm not. It is highly likely that this review & anyone who reads it online have been swept up into the data vacuum cleaner of the NSA for analysis. Though this book is largely about the US's National Security Agency, that eavesdrops on the world's electronic communications, it is as equally relevant to the UK with GCHQ (our NSA) being intimately involved with American eavesdropping.
Be aware, that in parts, this book can be quite technical, as the NSA use the world's most powerful supercomputers to sort through all the billions of e-mails & phone calls from around the world. You'll find out what a petaflop is! It also might make people who are supporters of George Bush hot under the collar as Bamford is clearly anti-Bush. However, it is a fascinating & frightening read about what they are already capable of doing & what they will soon be capable of- nothing less than the systematic profiling of the whole US population based on their web searches, telephone conversations, credit card purchases, etc. The NSA have developed an artificial intelligence that can basically tell how people think through these activities.
The NSA has too long been shrouded in secrecy; this is a timely drawing back of the curtain that updates into Bamford's back catalogue of books about the NSA. It is clear the NSA has a vital mission in fighting terrorism & espionage, but at what price to freedom & democracy?
I just wonder how long it is before there's a knock on the door....
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Author:
Jacqueline Wilson
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Doubleday
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Author:
David Simon
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Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Enlightening, tragic, human, 1999-04-28
Thank you so much for humanizing the drug culture in our inner-cities. I learned so much, like drugging is extremely hard work, and yet the book also confirmed what I'd always believed: getting a job at McDonald's is not the answer to ending a drugging life. As I was sucked into this story, I found myself praying, crying, frustrated and hopeful for these people - but never condemning. This should be required reading for every social sciences course in this country.
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Author:
Joe Dante,
Len Elliott
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
I've been searching for this book since I lost mine in 1969., 1997-03-02
I purchased this book at a used book store in 1969. After reading it I loaned it to a friend who never returned it. As a beginner at the time, it helped me more than any other golf book, before or since. I've been searching for another copy of the book in bookstores, new and used, ever since. As a lark, I decided to check the Amazon list and sure enough there it is, having been republished. I am currently a nine handicapper, but I feel I still need to have this book again. I especially recommend it to beginners, but I believe experienced golfers will also benefit. I am ordering me another copy today.
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Author:
Janey Louise Jones
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Doubleday
clg, 2008-10-18
This book is EXCELLENT value for money!....It would make a fantastic Christmas present! You do not have to know the princess poppy story's to love this book, it has great details,pictures to follow, just the right lengh for a bedtime story too! My 3 year old loves these stories!
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Author:
Kurt Vonnegut
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
It took Vonnegut more than 20 years to put his Dresden experiences into words. He explained, "there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again." Slaughterhouse Five is a powerful novel incorporating a number of genres. Only those who have fought in wars can say whether it represents the experience well. However, what the novel does do is invite the reader to look at the absurdity of war. Human versus human, hedonist politicians pressing buttons and ordering millions to their deaths all for ideologies many cannot even comprehend. Flicking between the US, 1940's Germany and Tralfamadore, Vonnegut's semi- autobiographical protagonist Billy Pilgrim finds himself very lost. One minute he is being viewed as a specimen in a Tralfamadorian Zoo, the next he is wandering a post-apocalyptic city looking for corpses. Slaughterhouse Five-Or The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance with Death is a remarkable blend of black humour, irony, the truth and the absurd. The author regards his work a "failure", millions of readers do not. Released the same time bombs were falling on South East Asia, this title caused controversy and awakening. Essential reading for all. So it goes. --Jon Smith
So it Goes., 2007-08-30
Kurt Vonnegut was a genius. If you were a publisher reading the synopsis (if he ever did such a thing!) on Slaughterhouse 5 you would probably need to have a lie down for a while, whilst you wondered if you ever dared print such a thing. But back in 1969 it was, and drew interest at a time of ant-war protests in the US.
Vonnegut follows Billy Pilgrim as he stumbles towards the curtain of the Allied bombing of Dresden at the end of World War 2.
In-between Billy slips in and out of time travel and is kidnapped by an alien race called the Tralfamadorians who put him in a zoo. The aliens perceive all points in time at once:
"When a Tralfamodorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that dead person is in a bad condition in that particular moment, but that person is just fine in plenty of other moments."
Billy also meets his favourite author Kilgore Trout.
"Are - you Kilgore Trout?"
"Yes." Trout supposed that Billy had some complaint about the way his newspapers were being delivered. He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.
"The - the writer?" said Billy.
"The what?"
Slaughterhouse works on a number of levels. (Let me be clear, the book should not work, the fact that it does is a testament to Vonnegut.) It is funny, moving and informative. It brings into perspective the level of suffering in a city which Vonnegut describes as having no military significance (it was untouched until the bombing at the end of the war). Vonnegut himself survived the bombing as a prisoner of war in Dresden.
1945
Air attack on Tokyo by American bombers kills 83,793 people.
Atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima kills 71,370 people.
Conventional bombs dropped by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force on Dresden, kills 135,000 people.
What I like about the book is the way you are drawn into the thought gymnastics that go on in Vonnegut's mind. He is clever, witty and provides a view on life that is refreshing and allows you to look at the human condition from a perspective outside the normal polite form of thought demonstrated by the mass of media that surrounds us.
It's like discovering a donut sprinkled in brightly covered hundreds and thousands in a packet of cornflakes. Totally unexpected and a real treat at the wrong time of day. Disjointed from the normal patterns.
In the book The Tralfamadorians teach Billy that a person only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past.
Tralfamadorians say about dead people, "So it goes."
Vonnegut died this April aged 84.
So it goes.
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