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Snipers, Shills, and Sharks: eBay and Human Behavior
Ken Steiglitz
Princeton University Press, 2007
Engaging, informative, and entertaining!
+ Good read
+ Enthralling. It gets better as it goes on.
Snipers, Shills, and Sharks is an instant classic that will appeal to anyone interested in understanding why ebay works the way it does and how it relates to a beautiful economic theory developed over the past few decades. How do English, Dutch, and Vickrey auctions work? Why do experienced ebayers ...
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The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry
Ilya Ehrenburg, Vasily Grossman
Transaction Publishers, 2003
The first great witness of the Shoah
+ A Comprehensive Treatise on the Fate of Eastern European Jewry
+ The Black Book
+ Question
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The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Neil Strauss
William Morrow, 2005
Very inspiring
+ Entertaining... Even For A Girl
+ Entertaining
+ The Sight Is Near
+ Amazing, fascinating, funny and an easy read.
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Tim Weiner
Doubleday, 2007
An amazing history of the CIA.
+ A Wealth of information
+ History of a newspaper that kills
+ Useful
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Francesco's Venice: The Dramatic History of the World's Most Beautiful City
Francesco da Mosto
BBC Books, 2007
Fantastic read for anyone interested in Venice
+ The best introduction to the history of Venice
+ Total look at Venice
+ Oh La La To Be in Venice....
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Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend
Bart D. Ehrman
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006
ALL ABOUT JESUS'S CLOSEST FOLLOWERS
+ PETER PAUL AND MARY
+ Peter I know, and Paul I have heard about, but who is this Mary?
+ A MUST READ FOR SEMINARY STUDENTS
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Gomorrah
Roberto Saviano
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
a must read
+ Interesting look into real-life crime
+ What happens in Naples happens everywhere...
I've read this book to find out more about the reality of Naples and surrounding areas. I found out instead what happens around all of us no matter where we are. The book helped me understand better what organized crime does (besides selling drungs and racketeering). I had NO IDEA.
This is not ...
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The Galosh
Mikhail Zoshchenko
Overlook Hardcover, 2006
The more things change.....
+ Interesting piece of history
This book of very, very short stories is delightful and does indeed bring to mind the old saying "the more things change, the more they stay the same". These stories written over eighty years ago are a window into life in the new "Soviet Union" of the 1920's and perhaps a window into life in ...
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999
Classic, devastating
+ Kundera's Lessons in Laughter and Forgetting.
+ "They never understood each other...yet they always agreed."
+ A good introduction to Kundera's work...
+ The book of silence and remembering
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Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 2006
Afterthoughts on Kafka on the Shore
+ Kafka on the Shore
The brilliance in Kafka on the Shore is the author Haruki Murakami's ability to fully expound by story's end his answer to the question he poses at the start of the book: is life pure coincidence, or is there a greater force that causes lives to, sometimes unknowingly, parallel each other? The ...
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Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz
Jan Gross
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
Disturbing book, a noble effort which failed
+ Courage to face the truth of almost universal antisemitism
I have read "Fear" with much pain. As a Pole, each time Gross wrote about how my compatriots killed and robbed their Jewish neighbours, my heart ached. The facts presented in this book have not been unknown to historians, but they were not publicly discussed in Poland for decades. Learning the ...
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Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
Arcade Publishing, 1993
Gripping Horrific Account of Life in the Auschwitz Death Camp
+ Bone-chilling account of Aushwitz-Birkenau
+ Great description of events!!
Dr. Miklos Nyiszli has written (1960) a graphic, gruesome, first-hand account of his time working as a doctor in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Due to his previous medical training in medicine and pathology, Dr. Nyiszli was spared by the hideously inhuman Dr. Josef Mengele, to be the medical ...
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Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Free Press, 2007
Brilliant...a 5-star-plus masterpiece!
+ Ayaan Hirsi Ali -- Brilliant, Beautiful and Brave
+ Inspiring story from a very brave woman
+ great book
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan
Penguin, 2007
Well Blended Research & 1st Person Narrative
+ Very good book!
+ a delight to be educated through wit and prose
+ Literally Can't Put this Book Down
+ Zeitgeist for Food!
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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
+ A Must Read for Anyone Living in Chicago
+ Educational AND fun
+ Devil in the White City
+ Excellent Book
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