Posted on November 25, 2008 by bookupdate
Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America
By Mike Huckabee
When Governor Mike Huckabee entered the Republican presidential race, he was the ultimate dark horse, with almost no money, no consultants, and no name recognition beyond Arkansas. The so-called experts were highly amused by this former small state governor [...]
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Posted on November 25, 2008 by bookupdate
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage)
By Lewis Hyde
By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even [...]
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Posted on November 24, 2008 by bookupdate
Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis
By Tom Daschle
The U.S. is the only industrialized nation that does not guarantee necessary health care to all of its citizens, and as former senator Daschle observes, Skeptics say we can’t afford to cover everyone; the truth is that we can’t afford not to because U.S. economic [...]
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Posted on November 24, 2008 by bookupdate
Annie Leibovitz at Work
By Annie Leibovitz
“The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I [...]
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Posted on November 24, 2008 by bookupdate
Trump University Commercial Real Estate 101: How Small Investors Can Get Started and Make It Big
By David Lindahl, Trump University, Donald J. Trump
Trump University books are practical, straightforward primers on the basics of doing business the Trump way–successfully. Each book is written by a leading expert in the field and includes an inspiring Foreword [...]
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Posted on November 21, 2008 by bookupdate
John Lennon: The Life
By Philip Norman
For more than a quarter century, Philip Norman’s internationally bestselling Shout! has been unchallenged as the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now, at last, Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom belonging to the world’s most beloved pop group was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped [...]
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Posted on November 21, 2008 by bookupdate
Ender in Exile (Ender)
By Orson Scott Card
After twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed best-selling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic Ender’s Game.
In Ender’s Game, the world’s most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to an elite training school. At Battle School, they learned combat, [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2008 by bookupdate
The Great Crash of 1929
By John Kenneth Galbraith
Of Galbraith’s classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said:”Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith’s prose has grace and wit, and he distills a good deal of sardonic fun from the whopping errors of the nation’s [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2008 by bookupdate
Tales from the Dad Side: Misadventures in Fatherhood
By Steve Doocy
Steve Doocy is an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and cohost of Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel. He has earned reporting and writing awards from the Associated Press, Sigma Delta Chi, and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and has worked at [...]
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Posted on November 19, 2008 by bookupdate
How to Win Friends & Influence People
By Dale Carnegie
This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. It was an overnight hit, eventually selling 15 million copies. How to Win Friends and Influence People is just as useful today as it was when it was first published, because Dale Carnegie had an [...]
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