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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Steven S Gaines

Tags: hamptons real_estate

2006-02-21

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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Greg Critser

Tags: america culture food obesity

Description: Publisher's Note: "Critser engages every aspect of American life to determine howPublisher's Note: "Critser engages every aspect of American life to determine how Americans have made themselves the second fattest people on the planet (after South Sea Islanders). "Fat Land" grapples with the expanding American waistline by tracing surprising connections among class, politics, culture, and economics."...

2006-02-17

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Type: documentary

Status: to read

Author: Hillel Schwartz

Tags: culture food obesity

2006-02-17

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Type: documentary

Status: to read

Author: Bill Bryson

2006-02-17

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• Current

Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Steve Almond

Tags: obsession candy chocolate

Description: Yum!

2006-02-16

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Type: documentary

Status: to read

Author: Azar Nafisi

Description: "Reading Lolita in Tehran" is the astonishing true story of young women who met in"Reading Lolita in Tehran" is the astonishing true story of young women who met in secret each week to read and talk about forbidden Western classics--and their lives and loves--in the Islamic Republic of Iran....

2006-02-16

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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Mary Roach

2006-02-16

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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Erik Larson

Description: Not long after Jack the Ripper haunted the ill-lit streets of 1888 London, H.H. Holmes (bornNot long after Jack the Ripper haunted the ill-lit streets of 1888 London, H.H. Holmes (born Herman Webster Mudgett) dispatched somewhere between 27 and 200 people, mostly single young women, in the churning new metropolis of Chicago; many of the murders occurred during (and exploited) the city's finest moment, the World's Fair of 1893. Larson's breathtaking new history is a novelistic yet wholly factual account of the fair and the mass murderer who lurked within it. Bestselling author Larson (Isaac's Storm) strikes a fine balance between the planning and execution of the vast fair and Holmes's relentless, ghastly activities. The passages about Holmes are compelling and aptly claustrophobic; readers will be glad for the frequent escapes to the relative sanity of Holmes's co-star, architect and fair overseer Daniel Hudson Burnham, who managed the thousands of workers and engineers who pulled the sprawling fair together 0n an astonishingly tight two-year schedule. A natural charlatan, Holmes exploited the inability of authorities to coordinate, creating a small commercial empire entirely on unpaid debts and constructing a personal cadaver-disposal system. This is, in effect, the nonfiction Alienist, or a sort of companion, which might be called Homicide, to Emile Durkheim's Suicide. However, rather than anomie, Larson is most interested in industriousness and the new opportunities for mayhem afforded by the advent of widespread public anonymity. This book is everything popular history should be, meticulously recreating a rich, pre-automobile America on the cusp of modernity, in which the sale of "articulated" corpses was a semi-respectable trade and serial killers could go well-nigh unnoticed. ...

2006-02-16

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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Deborah Tannen

Description: The next time somebody tells you that there are two sides to every story, you tell them thatThe next time somebody tells you that there are two sides to every story, you tell them that there are an infinite number of sides to every story, then make them read this book!...

2006-02-16

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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich

2006-02-16