Tag: books
member name: Charlie D.
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June 05, 2007 07:03 PM EDT --
I tell my students often that they teach me while
I'm teaching them, and this is so often true. Last
fall, I taught an English 102 class, and one day
I gave the class the assignment to pick out a
poem, . . .
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June 06, 2007 02:51 PM EDT --
a new book by Robert Kennedy Junior. I suspect
that some will dismiss the book immediately
because it was written by a Kennedy, others
would because of the sub-title "How George
Bush and His Corporate . . .
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June 05, 2007 06:45 PM EDT --
Reading a little book by Zbigniew Brzezinski yesterday
called Second Chance, Three Presidents and the Crisis
of American Superpower and then having a conversation
today with a dear friend who is half Russian . . .
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June 06, 2007 11:24 PM EDT --
The book is called What Terrorists Want: Understanding
the Enemy, Containing the Threat by Louise Richardson of
Harvard (2006). The excerpt is from Chapter 8 of that book,
entitled "What is . . .
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June 10, 2007 06:53 PM EDT --
A fascinating little book is Children of
the Sun, A History of Humanity's
Unappeasable Appetite for Energy,
192 pages, . . .
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June 06, 2007 11:32 PM EDT --
I can no longer recall when I did not read, as
I recall being told I was three and a half or
four when I began to read. Really early on,
the printed word became a thirst for me
never quenched. At six, . . .
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June 07, 2007 11:34 PM EDT --
Born Anna Gorenko in 1889 in the Ukraine, she came from a
home where revolutionary activity was part of her early home
life - her parents and father's sisters were all part of the
organization . . .
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June 09, 2007 02:30 AM EDT --
These excerpts appeared in a book by Terry Glavin
called The Sixth Extinction, Journeys Among the Lost
and Left Behind (2007), a book about what Glavin
calls "the Holocene extinction" . . .
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June 09, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
Akhil Amar's America's Constitution, a Biography, (the best
book on the US Constitution I've ever seen) is really a detailed
examination of the US' most underpinning document, . . .
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June 14, 2007 12:18 AM EDT --
In response to a thread on CREWRT-L recently,
I thought I might offer "books that changed" me
over the formative years before I started keeping
book logs (which began in 1969), something I've . . .
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June 19, 2007 04:03 PM EDT --
I’m an obsessive-compulsive person, albeit I think more mildly
than a lot of OCD people. My compulsions revolve around two
behaviors primarily, although perhaps my collecting all manner
of things . . .
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June 07, 2007 10:57 PM EDT --
I'm a child of the nuclear age, born two years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki; nuclear weapons have always been around in my lifetime. My generation is the first to ever been able to say this about the . . .
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June 09, 2007 02:04 AM EDT --
The full title of the book by Joshua Wolf Shenk is
Lincoln's Melancholy, How Depression Challenged
a President and Fueled His Greatness. I know some
who read this don't think Lincoln was great . . .
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June 09, 2007 12:05 PM EDT --
Charlie Dell was an engineer, a gun maker, a
shooter, an inventor, a traveler, a dog lover, an
experimenter, a mentor, a writer and a father.
Most of those things he did superlatively, . . .
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June 12, 2007 01:37 AM EDT --
One of my list members asked me today what
I thought about the Alexander Litvinenko case.
After looking up both the articles still another
list member pointed out to me earlier today . . .
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June 11, 2007 11:12 PM EDT --
The full title of the book, brought to
my attention by a thread on Cafe Blue
started by David Graham, is ...
Understanding Iraq: The Whole Sweep
of Iraqi History, From Genghis Khan's
Mongols to The . . .
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June 11, 2007 11:53 PM EDT --
This was my eightieth completed book of
the year, (on 10 February, after five days
of fairly intensive reading) called The Great
War for Civilization, The Conquest . . .
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June 18, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
This book, recently published, is by Martin Sixsmith. It is
a sharply critical book about how Litvinenko's medical
situation was handled, in that he was originally diagnosed
with thallium poisoning, . . .
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September 19, 2007 03:09 PM EDT --
The World Without Us, written by Alan
Weisman, was published 1 September, and
I had acquired and read it by 7 September
after hearing Weisman interviewed that
day on NPR's "Talk of the Nation." . . .
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June 08, 2007 09:21 PM EDT --
Terry Cooper of Val-L asked me about this book, as
apparently it's has been serialized for TV in Russia.
This is my favorite Russian fiction book. I first read
a translation of it in 1969 on my . . .
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