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Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination (Saunders Comprehensive Review for Nclex-Rn)

Linda Anne Silvestri

Saunders, 2007

Highly recommended
This book helped me to pass my NCLEX exam. The practices questions of each chapter and the CD-ROM are the good materials to prepare the exam.

Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism

Kevin Phillips

Viking Adult, 2008

The other shoe
This book details the possibly fatal indebtedness of the US to lenders throughout the rest of the world. The only major omission is a discussion of the instruments that may be the final nail in our coffin, Credit Default Swaps.

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Edition 001)

Timothy Egan

Mariner Books, 2006

The American dust bowl and the grit and gumption of those who will never forget
Subtitled "The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl", this 2006 non-fiction account of this American tragedy is historical writing at its best. The author is a Pulitizer Prize winning reporter for the New York Times. I loved his simple but ...

Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006

Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, ...

Scribner, 2006

The best cookbook ever
My old copy of Joy of Cooking is almost 40 years old...I thought it would be nice to update it by purchasing the newest edition. It is wonderful. I always give Joy to new brides or those starting out housekeeping for the first time. If one could have only one cookbook, ...

Spain...A Culinary Road Trip

Mario Batali, Gwyneth Paltrow

Ecco, 2008

Celebrity Adventuring in Spain Reveals the Simple Dishes Are the Best
I have to admit my purchase of this book had less to so with the presence of Mario Batali and Gwyneth Paltrow on the cover than the appetizing recipe for slow-roasted chicken on page 245. A quarter-pound of diced pancetta, a quarter-pound of diced pork sausage, two ...

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

Jane Mayer

Doubleday, 2008

Fear and loathing in D.C. or when you lose the past the future makes no sense.
Those of you who are considering a truly scary read for Halloween "The Dark Side" by Jane Mayer is just the book for you. The horror of the Bush Administrations' CIA Terror Project has been given the Disney treatment in main stream media but Mayer sets the record ...

The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril

Eugene Jarecki

Free Press, 2008

Booking the Empire: Eugene Jarecki's AMERICAN WAY OF WAR
Booking the Empire: "Why We Fight" Filmmaker Makes His Case In Print by Rob Williams; editor, Vermont Commons newspaper What happens when an award-winning documentary film producer turns to a print monograph to make his case? If you are Eugene Jarecki, the ...

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage)

Barack Obama

Vintage, 2008

A good way to get and understanding of Barak Obama
I found myself very impressed by both Obama's understanding of both sides of many issues as well as his ability to write. At the same time I can see how such writing could be considered aloof next to a more Hemmingway-like prose. While I did not personally agree with ...

The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot

Naomi Wolf

Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007

Concise and compelling
I thought I'd heard all I could of the political, military and social commentary of our time, but I gave this book a chance. What an excellent book, compelling, well-voiced and the most concise presentation of the socio-pilitical ills brought about by our current ...

The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America

James Bamford

Doubleday, 2008

Interesting and Revealing!
Bamford opens by telling us that by 2008 NSA had become the most intrusive spy organization, secretly filtering millions of phone calls and e-mails/hour, programmed to listen for thousands of names and phone numbers. The watch list once contained 20 names - now its ...

National Electrical Code 2008 (National Fire Protection Association National Electrical Code)

NFPA

Delmar Cengage Learning, 2007

N.E.C. code 2008
This is a must have for anyone in the electrical field. My continuing complaint with the N.E.C. is that is seems like it is written by lawyers, instead of electricians. You need to take a course to understand how to retreive the information you are looking for. ...

Choke

Chuck Palahniuk

Anchor, 2002

Funny, strange, disturbing, good
This is the first Palahniuk book I've read, and I look forward to reading more of his books. Based upon the description of the book, this isn't one that I'd likely pick up to read...the redemption/recovery/whatever you call it of a sex addict just didn't seem that ...

FairTax: The Truth: Answering the Critics

Neal Boortz, John Linder

Harper Paperbacks, 2008

The new tax paradigm?
Finally, an easy-to-understand tax policy that can be managed without the onerous, confiscatory arm of the IRS looming. Transparent and free of corporate loop holes how refreshing.

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism

Ron Suskind

Harper, 2008

Truth and Hope Survive
My favorite book of this year, a dramatized - you were there- epic, that is part expose', and part a series of romantic narratives that weave in and out and kept me thumbing back to where the newly reappearing character was last seen. They say there is a novelist ...

Boom!: Talking About the Sixties: What Happened, How It Shaped Today, Lessons for Tomorrow

Tom Brokaw

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008

Surprised
First, let me just say that I am surprised. I figured a left wing media guy with a left wing reputation would have written a left wing book, but this wasn't the case. Having been in college in the late Sixties myself, I lived through much of what this book talks about. ...