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“In The Magic Room, Jeffrey Zaslow has created a symphony of synchronistic stories with great aplomb, engendering the gamut of emotions for the reader—from joy to sorrow and ultima

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“Beyond classrooms, general readers will likely find a few of the selections compelling and the rest boorish and preachy.

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“The author of such works as Liar’s Poker and Moneyball, Mr.

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“Before Nashville ‘done got all slicked up,’ country-style guitar, fiddles (which became ‘violins’ in the Nashville Sound), and banjos were the predominating instruments.

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“Throughout Rin Tin Tin: The Life of the Legend Susan Orlean presents a story that is as engrossing as it is illuminating, which is, of course, her special magic.

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“Keep On Pushing celebrates the musical and activist legacy of the 60s and laments the current era, in which ‘there exists no one effective organized mass movement of people, march

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“Accessible to both undergraduates and postgraduates, this is an excellent statistical study.

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“. . . one of the truly impressive things about this book is its scope. . . . Despite being dense with data and statistics, Clean Energy Nation never becomes overly technical.

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“Tawdry as this first love affair with literature may have been, how glad we are that Peter Selgin was tempted into it—and fell head over heels.

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“Combined with brief but practical exercises for meditation and actualization, Mr.

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“This is a book for all women. For those who are mothers and for those who are not.”

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“The Enlightened Brain is beneficial for anyone who feels stuck in a forest of imbalance and wants to ‘cut a path to a better place,’ as Dr. Hanson says.

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“Part memoir, part teaching manual, The Kitchen Counter Cooking School is as much a transformational book about Kathleen Flinn as it is about her students. . . .

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“From the lurid pink cover onward, Baking Style author Lisa Yockelson goes straight for over-the-top . . .

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“Life in a war zone inevitably changes a person. . . . Ms. di Giovanni deserves much credit for her ability to shift between the two worlds and still maintain her equilibrium.

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“Alice Temperley is ‘true British’ in the sense that she follows in the footsteps of many great original English designers who forged their own paths and made a lasting impact on the fashio

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“Reinventing Discovery is a survey, an analysis, a how-to, and a harbinger of greater things to come.

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“This is deep music and clear, as the poet carries us to those places in the heart that ground and guide us.

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“Take our inner demons and our gooeyness for loss-aversion, add to it an ideology like nationalism (which manifest like an epidemic), and give it military high-tech and you have a dangerous

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“Our future depends on the Blue Revolution that Cynthia Barnett advocates, for, as the ancients knew long before modern science did, ‘Water is life.’”

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“Cory Doctorow’s Context is a treat for those who live in the digital world—as well as for those who would like to know more about it.”

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“Lucking Out is a must-read for anyone interested in New York at its most lurid.

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“In snippets, we are offered hints of what could have been a fine book. . . . But alas, no go. . . . For all his booze-soaked pseudo attitude . . . Mr.

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