NPR had a review and interview with Benjamin Skinner and author who decided to go out and get first hand experience on what had been rumored….
Day to Day, March 11, 2008 · With $50 and a plane ticket to Haiti, one can buy a slave. This was just one of the difficult lessons writer Benjamin [...]
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I got a package Wednesday in my drop box, and since I hadn’t ordered anything I was sorta surprised. Upon opening I found I had gotten a book and a 2 sheet write up about the book from Soap Net, The Soap Opera network. Now I love to read, and I’m not to [...]
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I’ve been trying to keep up to date what books I’ve read and so forth, but I realized I hadn’t been writing reviews. So I quickly went through and wrote some short reviews on the books. Feel free to let me know if you read one and wanted me to expand upon my thoughts. Since [...]
Guy Kawsaki seems to have the ability to find interesting books and subjects. Here is a great example. Michael Raynor wrote a book about why committing to success leads to failure, and though he expressed hesitancy about buying the book, he loved it and pointed out 10 interesting questions.
Michael Raynor has a doctorate [...]
The one gift that I’ve found the most post worthy was a book. It’s a book that I had seen but figured was “a bit” out of my price range. Also I wasn’t sure how I’d like it. This book was U2 by U2.
The quotes are awesome. Put together by a interviewer [...]
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The Lie: Lemmings commit suicide en masse.
The Truth: Lemmings are stupid, not depressed. The myth of lemming suicide goes back a long way - at least to Freud, who in Civilization and Its Discontents (1929) examined the human death instinct in the context of the purported mass suicide of lemmings. But suicidal lemmings didn’t fully [...]
Showman P.T. Barnum never said “There’s a sucker born every minute” although he wished he had. And Civil War Admiral David Farragut probably never said “Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead” — words that have inspired generations of fighting men.
To make things even more complicated, it is doubtful that Paul Revere warned that “The British [...]
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Computer E Book (ebook) Listing
This page has links to over 9838 e books, or about 78GB of data, please enjoy.
I have to say that this listing is huge. If there is a computer related question you wanted reading material on… this site has it listed. There are educational books on every language I’ve heard of… [...]
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[21:08] {Admiral_Justin} dammit
[21:08] {Admiral_Justin} I need to get kickbacks from peachpit press
[21:08] {MellerTime} or at least peachpits from the press
[21:08] {Admiral_Justin} it’s like the 10th person I’ve recommended an intro to php book to
[21:10] {LORD|Guder[SDP}-LR} you suggest an intro to php book from peachpit?
[21:10] * LORD|Guder[SDP}-LR runs out and buys the book
[21:10] {LORD|Guder[SDP}-LR}
[21:12] [...]
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Dog Days by Ana Marie Cox
Edition: Hardcover
Price: $16.29
Availability: In Stock
112 used & new from $0.69
5 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
An interesting reversal, January 20, 2006
I have not actually read this book but I think Ms. Cox has hit on a very interesting idea. Most people nowadays write non-fiction books with bits [...]
