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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Erik Larson
Vintage, 2004
Creepy-cool slasher history
Creepy-cool history of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, intertwined with the history of the serial killer H. H. Holmes who was operating at and around the Fair and may have accounted for anywhere from 9 (confirmed) to 50 (suspected) to even 200 (conjectured) murders.
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Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
Edward Chancellor
Plume, 2000
It's been the same for hundreds of years
After reading this book, I believe all markets, investment schemes etc, are just reflection of crowd behavior and demonstrate group think syndrome. Valuation of assets is controlled not by scarcity of the assets but by how people think these assets are worth and by ...
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The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions
David Berlinski
Crown Forum, 2008
Brilliant counterblast to modern scientism
David Berlinski is a distinguished author, an academic mathematician and philosopher, who was also a post-doctoral fellow in molecular biology at Columbia University. A secular Jew, he is also a fellow of the Discovery Institute [which for some biased individuals might ...
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Devil Bones: A Novel (Temperance Brennan Novels)
Kathy Reichs
Scribner, 2008
She hit it out of the ball park again!
Kathy Reichs is a genius! I honestly don't know how she does it all but I love her descriptions and the way she can use language to paint a picture. These books are so packed with science I can use them in the classroom to emphasize topics on Forensics as well as other ...
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The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity ...
Thomas Kelley, Jonathan Littman
Doubleday Business, 2005
I couldn't put it down
I'm a big believer in collaboration. No one is an island and should stand or think alone. Tom Kelley explains in simple terms the personas necessary to operate in an IDEO way. I believe the IDEO way is very similar to my background working in the film business.
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Devil's Brood
Sharon Kay Penman
Putnam Adult, 2008
Spectacular
Devil's Brood is the third book in a trilogy that began with When Christ and His Saints Slept and continued with Time and Chance (Ballantine Reader's Circle). Devil's Brood tackles Henry and Eleanor's children, from Prince Hal down to John Lackland. The details of the ...
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Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
Robert Baer
Three Rivers Press, 2004
EXCELLENT REVIEW of US/Saudi Foreign "Policy" (In Ketab kheli khube...W'allah!)
Easy 1-2 day read...a book you CAN'T put down! Excellent and exciting writing style with occasional humorous comments by Baer...an informative, entertaining book!
The only negative aspect in reading many reviews here, is the failures of many reviewers to recognize ...
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The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower
Robert Baer
Crown, 2008
An Absolutely Alternative Look at the Realty of Us vs. Iran
Once again, Baer comes flying in with the sorry-but-it's-true reality of the Middle East. I've read all his books and couldn't wait to read this one. The first two dealt with exposing what Saudi Arabia is really up to and their involvement in terror and, most ...
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Devil's Pact
Samantha Cruise
Siren Publishing, Inc., 2008
this book is scorching hot!!!
this is the most erotic book i've ever read...from the first page to the last. the best part? it's got a story that makes sense, no nonsense about it and everything comes together beautifully.
devin spawn is megan's stepson yet sparks fly as soon as they met and ...
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In Bed With the Devil (Avon Romantic Treasure)
Lorraine Heath
Avon, 2008
Great Book!
I must agree with most of my fellow reviewers. This was a great book! You should get it!
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Devil May Care
Sebastian Faulks
Doubleday, 2008
Bond...Stirred Not Shaken
Devil May Care was a good read all things considered. It could never be confused with a "real" Ian Fleming book, but I enjoyed it. I say "stirred not shaken" because Faulks tries to stick to Fleming's style, but falls short (there's an absurd tennis match for example). ...
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Devil May Cry (Dark-Hunter, Book 11)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2008
I Loved it.
I loved Devil May Cry. It answered many questions I had and was a lot of fun to read. I really liked Sin and I love Kat. The book even humanizes Apollymi.
This one read like an 'end of the world' episode of Buffy. Since I love Buffy, that was fine with me. The ...
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Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles, No 5)
Anne Rice
Ballantine Books, 1997
Glorious Take on Dante
The Vampire Lestat is at it again and now, back from his romp in a human body, the Devil himself is after him. (****Spoilers****) Upon stalking and finally killing a drug baron in the shadow of St. Patrick's, Lestat is visited by his ghost, who tells him a tale of ...
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story
Luis Alberto Urrea
Back Bay Books, 2005
A MUST read for every American
Definitely worth reading. This is in my top-five of all time. Well written. Great research. Easy to read. Compelling story. Read it.
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The Devil in Winter (The Wallflowers, Book 3)
Lisa Kleypas
Avon, 2006
I'm hooked again!!!
I can't begin to tell how perfect this book or this book's hero is. After reading a lot of romance books, some of them quite good, I had given up that I could ever feel the way I did when I first discovered historical romance, about 6-7 years earlier. Books like ...
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