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At first glance this book appears to be intended only for writers. However, its message transcends writing and applies to almost any endeavor.

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“For two years, Mom, Dad, and millions like them loved their country enough to change it.”

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Jossey-Bass has produced a wide variety of fine educational publications, and Teach Like a Champion is another quality resource for educators.

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Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the 12 Steps finds author Marya Hornbacher recounting her own recovery trials trying to get and stay sober.

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 Those who follow the world of religion are aware of the Episcopalian “Protestant yet Catholic” dichotomy and the growing rift between its liberal and conservative parishioners.

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Here's the situation: Small groups of poor Muslims from a fractured and ill-governed country sail into international waters to attack ships flying under many flags, staffed by dozens of nationaliti

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Reading a book about the art of writing by horror master Stephen King is like sitting down with your favorite uncle to talk about how to fix cars.

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Emmanuel Carrère occasionally reaches Dostoyevskian heights of anguish in this memoir.

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“I am only human, although I regret it.”
—Mark Twain

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Waugh’s Lincoln and McClellan promised to be a study of their relationship that broke new ground.

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Keep Your Wives Away from Them is a must-have addition to any feminist scholar of religion’s bookshelf.

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Wilbert Rideau, a black man unjustly sentenced to death when he was nineteen for having killed a white woman in a botched bank robbery in 1961, spent 44 years in Louisiana prisons, the most notorio

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Forest Gate is a novel revealing the true cost of stereotypes and cultural propaganda and how everyone is guilty of this new type of blaxploitation being used by politicians, media—especia

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 Richard Clarke served in the White House for four presidents and was appointed National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counterterrorism under Bill Clinton, and the first

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Despite our economic malaise, one industry has emerged and continues to thrive: the publication of books about our economic malaise.

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Even in the 21st century, relatively little is known about schizophrenia.

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The title says it all, and the book delivers what is on the label. According to the blurb on the back cover, Leslie Goldman, MPH, is a health writer for the American Medical Association.

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 Author John Caird is an impressively credentialed theater man.

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As words for this review materialize upon the screen, Mötley Crüe’s Greatest Hits’ crunches and screams in the background, raucous and direct in the commutation from auditory to written form.

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This year’s Slap-In-The-Face-Get-A-Grip-Bub Award for business books goes to Jeffrey Pfeffer, business professor at Stanford and author of nine volumes on organization dynamics.

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