April 2012 | Quotes From Hitch

How to be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A lot of people misuse the term "hero." Lots of people think it's an athlete, an actor, or a singer. I regard Audrey Hepburn as my hero and a great role model. She was a rare and unusually timeless beauty with her gamine looks and a gorgeous accent, often mistaken as British, that also belied part of...

Smilla's Sense of Snow Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I read a review of Smilla in the New York Times Book Review the year it was published and was completely intrigued by it. I found it on a clearance rack for around 2 dollars a few years later, and have been reading it ever since. It is one of the few books that I take wherever I travel. Smilla is not...

Attitude 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know (101 Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a great book. The basic premise is unless you have your attitude right you'll never reach your full potential. Mr. Maxwell gives his insights into attitude and provides a framework for improving your own attitude as well as those around you. It's short and not long winded at all. I guess you...

Reaching for the Invisible God Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"How do I relate to a God who is invisible when I'm never quite sure he's there," Philip Yancey asks.One of my favorite things about this man is that he shows no fear in asking the tough questions that many in Christian circles would prefer to pretend were non-existant. The enigma of how physical beings...

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Geography of Nowhere is a wonderful, life-changing book. I wish I could make every developer, every SUV owner and every town council read this book. Its main topic is the physical environments that Americans live in, in contrast to our historical environments and to overseas. Kunstler shows how the advent...

unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)At least I think it's a great book, but now I'm not so sure. The authors, Brooks Jackson, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson have done such an outstanding job of showing me why I bought the electric scissors I didn't need and how I was focusing so much on watching the healthy people on the television doing Tai...

The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Angeles Arrien is a Basque born in the United States who trained as a medical anthropologist. However, it is her Basque roots that have given her entry into the shaman's world. The Basque tradition is very mystical in that they draw power from their appreciation of the ordinary world to accomplish extraordinary...

Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"Lord of the Flies" is singularly the most important novel for required reading, whether assigned in school or self-imposed. It regularly appears as number one on my own list of best books.Let's play "What if." What if a plane carrying a full load of school boys crashes on a deserted island with no adult...

The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Each chapter of this book begins with a biographical narrative, followed by excerpts from myriad interviews with Campbell, organized in such a way that the interview topics follow the biographical line of the book. Jean Erdman, Stuart Brown, Phil Cousineau, Robert Bly, John Densmore and many more appear...

Innovate the Pixar Way: Business Lessons from the World's Most Creative Corporate Playground Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Since 1995 with the release of Toy Story, Pixar has created blockbuster animated films that the whole family loves. How do they KEEP doing it? To be creative and innovative once, twice, even three times is a major feat, but 10 in a row! Pixar replaced Disney as the family animation movie specialist and...

What Are You Waiting For?: The One Thing No One Ever Tells You About Sex Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Dannah hits the nail on the head with her latest book. Being a college student, I hear the words and ideas of sex thrown around in everyday conversation. But, it's rarely talked about in a Biblical and edifying way. It was both refreshing and informative to hear what the Bible REALLY says about this...

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace (Plume) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The book follows the first twenty years of Hayslip's life, beginning in the Vietnamese village of Ky La. The United States/Vietnam war begins early in her life, and she discovers that her centrally located village is stuck in the middle. By day the villagers are technically controlled by the U.S./Republican...

Tonight We Die As Men: The untold story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment from Toccoa to D-Day (General Military) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Nearly everyone knows the exploits of the "Band of Brothers" of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. This book covers the much less exposed Third Battalion of the 506th PIR.Combining personal, first-person recollections of surviving veterans with details unearthed in several years of research, authors...

Notes From The Midnight Driver Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Jordan Sonnenblick keeps getting better. NOTES is the story of an angry adolescent - even angrier than most! Alex's parents have gotten divorced and after drinking an excessive amount of vodka, he's going to just drive over and tell his dad how angry he is. Luckily, he doesn't hurt anyone when he crashes...

Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, Updated and Revised Edition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Ronald Takaki did an excellent job in writing the Asian Americans experience from the first generation of immigrants to current issues that are affecting Asian Americans today. One of Takaki's aims in this book is to tell his readers the role of Asian-Americans in shaping the history of America. Many,...

Ted Turner Speaks: Insights from the World's Greatest Maverick (Speak Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Janet Lowe has fashioned a fine overview of Ted Turner's life and thoughts. Lowe's style offers effortless reading as the material flows eloquently throughout the book. Ted Turner Speaks is not your typical biography with details of every aspect on its subject; Lowe instead chooses to maintain brevity...

Quotations From Chairman Jesus Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Like the other two reviews, I remember reading this in those days. You have to understand the country was TOTALLY torn apart by the vietnam war in that era. To put the vietnam war in perspective, I was a little kid in fifth and sixth grade and every night I'd watch the "war news" at ten o'clock. I went...