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The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
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Oct 4 2005
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Joan Didion's basis for departure in her writing has always been her body and her nervous system, though readers could be forgiven for believing that she starts with her note-taking eyes, or her mind and wit, or her ears. All these she has put to mesmerisi...
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The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister
Peter C. Newman
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Sep 12 2005
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Former Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard was "erratic" and "extraordinarily vain." The Ottawa press gallery was packed with "myopic, incestuous bastards." Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell spent too much time "screwing around" with her boyfriend while her 19...
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven Levitt
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Mar 31 2005
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Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that e...
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The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Thomas L. Friedman
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Jan 1 2005
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Starred Review. Before 9/11, New York Times columnist Friedman was best known as the author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, one of the major popular accounts of globalization and its discontents. Having devoted most of the last four years of his column to the latter as embodied ...
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
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Aug 9 2005
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Starred Review. In a riveting and fast-paced history, massing archeological, anthropological, scientific and literary evidence, Mann debunks much of what we thought we knew about pre-Columbian America. Reviewing the latest, not widely reported research in ...
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The Greek for Love
James Chatto
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Mar 8 2005
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A kind of Under the Tuscan Sun for married people--with Corfu providing the panoramic backdrop instead of Italy--renowned food writer James Chatto's The Greek for Love similarly charts the often comic reclamation of a run-down house, throwing in an assortment of dynamic characters pulled from the neighbourhood. And as ...
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Mao: The Unknown Story
Jung Chang
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Oct 18 2005
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In the epilogue to her biography of Mao Tse-tung, Jung Chang and her husband and cowriter Jon Halliday lament that, "Today, Mao's portrait and his corpse still dominate Tiananmen Square in the heart of the Chinese capital." For Chang, author of ...
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Struck By Lightning
Jeffrey Rosenthal
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Sep 1 2005
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What are the odds of two people at a party having the same birthday? Or that you'll draw a fourth queen for your poker hand? Or that Earthlings are alone in the universe? Or that the cute girl in accounting will go out with you on a date? If you're the kin...
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
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Jan 11 2005
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Starred Review. Best-selling author Gladwell (The Tipping Point) has a dazzling ability to find commonality in disparate fields of study. As he displays again in this entertaining and illuminating look at how we make snap judgments—about people's intentions, the authenticity of a work of art, even military strategy—he can ...
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Collapse
Jared Diamond
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Jan 4 2005
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Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, ...
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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
John Vaillant
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May 3 2005
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On January 20, 1997, a former timber-cruiser, Grant Hadwin, cut into an ancient spruce tree growing on the Yacoun River on the Queen Charlotte Islands, a process that precipitated the tree's fall several days later. It was a rare mutant form of Sitka spru...
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Assassins Gate
George Packer
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Sep 21 2005
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As the death toll mounts in the Iraq War, Americans are agonizing over how the mess started and what to do now. George Packer, a staff writer at ...
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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
Guy Delisle
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Sep 7 2005
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The most striking thing about current publications on North Korea-travelogues and travel guides, journalistic accounts, photographic albums-is the similarity of all the scenes their authors describe. The few foreigners who visit the country are assured a ...
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Kingdom Of Ten Thousand Things
Gary Geddes
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Jan 27 2005
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Subtitled "An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas," this engaging travel memoir by one of Canada's best-known poets covers a lot of ground. Following in the faded (and perhaps fictional) footsteps of a 5th-century Buddhist monk, Huishen, the author tr...
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At Days Close
Roger Ekirch
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Jun 14 2005
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Engrossing, leisurely paced and richly researched, this history finds Ekirch reminding us of how preindustrial Westerners lived during the nocturnal hours, when most were plunged into almost total darkness. By describing how that darkness spelled heightene...
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
Temple Grandin
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Dec 28 2004
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Starred Review. Philosophers and scientists have long wondered what goes on in the minds of animals, and this fascinating study gives a wealth of illuminating insights into that mystery. Grandin, an animal behavior expert specializing in the design of humane slaughter systems, is autistic, and she contends that animals ...
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Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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Jan 25 2005
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"I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story." Amy Krouse Rosenthal, one-time Might magazine columnist and self-confessed hater of the segue, has written a snappy, random, remarkable memoir--the first of its ...
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The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine
New Yorker
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Sep 20 2005
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EVERY PAGE OF EVERY ISSUEON 8 DVD-ROMS, WITH A COMPANION BOOK OF HIGHLIGHTS. A cultural monument, a journalistic gold mine, an essential research tool, an amazing time machine.What has the New Yorker said about Prohibition, Duke Ellington, the Second World War, Bette Davis, boxing, Winston Churchill, Citizen Kane, ...
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Infrastructure
Brian Hayes
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Oct 18 2005
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We are surrounded by the hardware of the modern world, but how much of it do we even notice, much less understand? This unique and fascinating book covers the parts of the landscape that are often overlooked despite their ubiquity--objects such as utility ...
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Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Creating a Legacy of Physical and Emotional Health
Christiane Northrup M.D.
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Feb 22 2005
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Fortunes Formula
William Poundstone
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Sep 1 2005
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Fortune's Formula is a fascinating study of the connections between such seemingly unrelated topics as gambling, information theory, stock investing, and applied mathematics. The story involves the stunning brainpower of men such as MIT professor Claude Shannon, who single-handedly invented information theory, the science behind the Internet and all ...
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When I Knew
Robert Trachtenberg
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May 19 2005
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When I was six," writes Tammy Lynn Michaels, "I loved my first grade teacher so much I knew I would have to grow up to be a boy so I could come back and ask her to marry me." Documentarian Trachtenberg (...
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The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World
John Saul
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May 27 2005
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It seems like only yesterday that the champions of a globalizing world were heroically proclaiming the triumph of free markets and the death of the nation-state. History itself was said to be over, and ideology, obsolete. Flourishing trade would replace wa...
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Areas Of My Expertise
John Hodgman
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Oct 25 2005
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In this super-literate, ultimately exhausting exercise in literary parody, ...
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Don't Get Too Comfortable
David Rakoff
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Sep 20 2005
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David Rakoff's Don't Get Too Comfortable isn't quite the profoundly illuminating journey into the heart of American cultural and spiritual emptiness advertised on its dust cover. But the book's collected essays, which are brisk, bright, and rendered with a journalist's eye for detail, are funny and subversive. And Rakoff, ...
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