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Why Price Not A Constraint For A Bookworm?

People read for different reasons. Some read because they like to, some read out of habit and for some it is a compulsion. Those who fall in the first category are avid readers form whom reading may be a hobby or even a passion. Those in the second category are the people who need their daily dose of news and for which they religiously read newspapers and magazines. Finally, comes the third group of people who invariably tend to be students, who feel reading course books are boring and dry. Regardless of the group to which a person belongs, one has to buy books and read them. Books of any type or of any genre provide its readers knowledge. Of course, when one reads for recreation one tends to enjoy more than when it is under compulsion. However, even among ardent readers, the question of best books is highly varied. It is a very subjective matter that depends primarily on the interest of the reader. For example a book on soccer may not interest a reader who doesn't enjoy the gam...

How E-books on Popular Culture Collectibles?

One of the popular culture collectibles reference ebook is Star Trek The Collectibles ebook. The book enjoys immense popularity among young and old collectors alike. It has all the information regarding the epic American science-fiction television and movie series. This ebook provides a great collection of Star Trek treasures which will be liked by all, whether a devoted collector or an amateur one. Star Trek The Collectibles ebook contains around 1,500 colour pictures including mementoes from Paramount Studios storehouses. It also has chapters that cover 40 years of Star Trek posters, games, lunch boxes, pins, original scripts and numerous other objects. The book also provides all requisite information on the current market values of these items. Apart from Star Trek The Collectibles ebook, Harry Potter Collector's Handbook ebook is also quite famous among the young collectors. The book comprises of colourful beautiful photos and also gives the current values of the items whi...

Book Review of Baratunde Thurston's Book

I just finished reading Baratunde Thurston's new book, How To Be Black. Baratunde is a comedian, director of digital for The Onion, and as he says, has over thirty years of experience being black. The book takes a humorous, satirical approach to the topic of race, and the many roles that black people take on, and how best to perform those roles. For example, you'll find chapters on: How To Be The Black Friend, How To Speak For All Black People, and How To Be The Black Employee. Baratunde also comprised a panel of seven writers, comedians, and artists, called, The Black Panel,in an effort to hear from other voices on the subject of race, and being black in this supposed post-racial era. (While six of the panelists are black, one of the panelists is actually a white Canadian guy, and the author of the book, Stuff White People Like) Interwoven with the How-To Chapters is Baratunde's personal story of growing up in Washington D.C. with an inspiring, single Pan-African mo...

Book Review For Resisting the Green Dragon

I first encountered the Green Dragon on a blog post by Publius Redux where he introduced it with: "Now, here is a novel analysis of the undercurrent of urgency and irrationality characteristic of climate doomsayers' prophecy. This explains the haunting familiarity of the preaching and proselytizing we have endured from the climate change fearmongers." Curious, I tracked down an article about Resisting the Green Dragon by Dr. James Wanliss, Associate Professor of Physics at Presbyterian College. Finding no religious or scientific arguments that could possibly address the issues in the article, I wrote a play about what the future might hold for Dr. Wanliss, Publius and their followers.Sometime later I received a critique of my play from Dr. Wanliss and subsequently offered to write a proper review if Dr. Wanliss would send me a copy, which he did. Dr. Wanliss said he wrote the book in part because he had been bullied by environmentalists. That is certainly a very bad thin...