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Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush

Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush

by Eric Boehlert

"Lapdogs is the first book to demonstrate that, for the entire George W. Bush presidency, the news media have utterly failed in their duty as watchdog for the public. In blistering prose, Eric Boehlert reveals how, time after time, the press chose a soft approach to covering the government, and as a result reported and analyzed crucial events incompletely and even inaccurately. From WMDs to Valerie Plame to the... (more)

Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

by James W. Loewen

In Lies Across America , James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me , of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. Lies Across America is a one-of-a-kind examination of sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships.... (more)

Momentum Is Your Friend: The Metal Cowboy and His Pint-Sized Posse Take on America

Momentum Is Your Friend: The Metal Cowboy and His Pint-Sized Posse Take on America

by Joe Kurmaskie

Most people bring their inner child on an epic adventure. Joe "Metal Cowboy" Kurmaskie actually took his two kids along. For a 4,000-mile bicycle ride across America, Joe’s seven-year-old son, Quinn, rides a tagalong bike attached to his dad’s; and behind that is five-year-old Enzo in a bike trailer. Our hero the Metal Cowboy answers the question "What are you, crazy?" with a resounding and cheerful "Yes."... (more)

2107 Curious Word Origins, Sayings and Expressions from White Elephants to Song Dance

2107 Curious Word Origins, Sayings and Expressions from White Elephants to Song Dance

by Charles Earle Funk

This fascinating reference includes four previously published best-selling titles-- A Hog on Ice, Thereby Hangs a Tale, Heavens to Betsy! and Horsefeathers and Other Curious Words.

Born on a Blue Day

by Daniel Tammet

One of the world's fifty living autistic savants is the first and only to tell his compelling and inspiring life story---and explain how his incredible mind works.

Writing Solid Code: Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs (Microsoft Programming Series)

Writing Solid Code: Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs (Microsoft Programming Series)

by Steve Maguire

"This book has useful things to say and an engaging way of saying them...a worthwhile addition to the shelves of any full-time programmer." - PC Week. Here, from a former Microsoft developer, are super secrets for developing bug-free C programs. Maguire provides examples of how bugs are caught at Microsoft (using actual case histories) and shows how readers can use these proven programming techniques to get... (more)

The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan (Origami Classroom)

The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan (Origami Classroom)

by Alan Booth

ALAN BOOTH'S CLASSIC OF MODERN TRAVEL WRITING Traveling only along small back roads, Alan Booth traversed Japan's entire length on foot, from Soya at the country's northernmost tip, to Cape Sata in the extreme south, across three islands and some 2,000 miles of rural Japan. The Roads to Sata is his wry, witty, inimitable account of that prodigious trek. Although he was a city person-he was brought up in... (more)

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't

by Robert I. Sutton, Sarah Ockler

The No Asshole Rule was awarded a Quill Award as the Best Business Book of 2007. When Robert Sutton's "No Asshole Rule" appeared in the Harvard Business Review, readers of this staid publication were amazed at the outpouring of support for this landmark essay. The idea was based on the notion, as adapted in hugely successful companies like Google and SAS, that employees with malicious intents or negative... (more)

Twins: And What They Tell Us About Who We Are

Twins: And What They Tell Us About Who We Are

by Lawrence Wright

A New York Times Notable Book for 1998 Critical acclaim for Lawrence Wright's A Rhone-Poulenc Science Prize Finalist "This is a book about far more than twins: it is about what twins can tell us about ourselves."—The New York Times "With plenty of amazing stories about the similarities and differences of twins, Wright respectfully shows, too, how their special circumstance in life... (more)

Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir

by Aline Kominsky Crumb

Aline Kominsky-Crumb, one of the earliest female cartoonists, presents a collection of her own highly inventive and daring artwork from over four decades, along with unusual photographs and memorabilia. The road to becoming an underground- comics legend begins with Komisky-Crumb as a nice jewish girl from Long Island, carries her to Greenwich Village in the 1960's, and to California, land of hippy cartoonists, and... (more)

Yeah, I Said It

by Wanda Sykes

Yeah, I Said It ...about President George W. Bush: "Sometimes I feel like we're trapped on a bad reality show. He's not really a president. He's a construction worker. If he gets reelected, he gets a million dollars and we get screwed." Michael Jackson: "He still hasn't molested as many boys as the Catholic Church." Abortion: "It's nobody's business to tell another woman what to do with her body. Let's leave... (more)

Metal Cowboy: Tales from the Road Less Pedaled

Metal Cowboy: Tales from the Road Less Pedaled

by Joe Kurmaskie

Joe Kurmaskie, dubbed the “Metal Cowboy” by a blind rancher he encountered one icy morning in Idaho, has been addicted to the intoxicating freedom and power of the bicycle ever since he “borrowed” his big sister’s banana-seat bike at the age of five. As he careened down the neighborhood hill, much to his parents’ dismay, Joe set in motion what has become a lifelong love affair with the road and the wheel. In ... (more)

Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing

Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing

by Jane Margolis

The information technology revolution is transforming almost every aspect of society, but girls and women are largely out of the loop. Although women surf the Web in equal numbers to men and make a majority of online purchases, few are involved in the design and creation of new technology. It is mostly men whose perspectives and priorities inform the development of computing innovations and who reap the lion's... (more)

The Assault on Reason

by Albert Gore

A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degradation of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason At the time George W. Bush ordered American forces to invade Iraq, 70 percent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. Voters in Ohio, when asked by pollsters to list what stuck in their minds about the... (more)

More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics

More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics

by Steven E. Landsburg

Steven Landsburg's writings are living proof that economics need not be "the dismal science." Readers of The Armchair Economist and his columns in Slate magazine know that he can make economics not only fun but fascinating, as he searches for the reasons behind the odd facts we face in our daily lives. In More Sex Is Safer Sex , he brings his witty and razor-sharp analysis to the many ways that our... (more)

Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style

Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style

by Tim Gunn, Kate Moloney

There seems to be no one more qualified or equipped to ponder or even, dare I say, dictate 'quality, taste, and style' than Tim." -Sarah Jessica Parker, actor/producer Television has introduced the world to a new fashion authority: Tim Gunn. As Bravo's style mentor and Chair of the Fashion Design Department at Parsons The New School for Design, Tim delivers advice in a frank, witty, and authoritative manner that... (more)

Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns

Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns

by Jack McCallum

Sports Illustrated 's chief NBA writer, Jack McCallum, only planned to spend the preseason with the Phoenix Suns as an "assistant coach" -- and then write a story about his experiences. Instead, he stayed on with the Suns throughout their exciting and controversial 2005-2006 season. Gaining access to everything from locker-room chats with superstar point guard Steve Nash, to coaches' meetings with maverick coach... (more)

Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure

Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure

by Juliet Schor

A publishing phenomenon--the subject of enormous media attention, lavish acclaim from reviewers, and extraordinary sales--this national bestseller explains why, contrary to all expectations, Americans are working harder than ever. Schor shows how labor supply, unemployment, and the addictive nature of consumption lead to longer and longer hours, and what we can do about it.

Japan (Silver Burdett Countries)

by Sheila Tames, Richard Tames

A Traveller's History of Japan not only offers the reader a chronological outline of the nation's development but also provides an invaluable introduction to its language, literature and arts, from kabuki to karaoke. This clearly written history explains how a country embedded in the traditions of Shinto, Shoguns and Samurai has achieved stupendous economic growth and dominance in the twentieth century.

Harry Potter: Book 7

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the seventh and final of the Harry Potter novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. It chronicles the events directly following Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

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by Eric Boehlert

by James W. Loewen

by Joe Kurmaskie

by Charles Earle Funk

by Daniel Tammet

by Steve Maguire

by Alan Booth

by Robert I. Sutton, Sarah Ockler

by Lawrence Wright

by Aline Kominsky Crumb

by Wanda Sykes

by Joe Kurmaskie

by Jane Margolis

by Albert Gore

by Steven E. Landsburg

by Tim Gunn, Kate Moloney

by Jack McCallum

by Juliet Schor

by Sheila Tames, Richard Tames

by J. K. Rowling