Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2010
For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.”
As a result, more emphasis is placed on [...]
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Posted in author interviews, book news, book recommendations, book reviews, book sightings, books, hardcover, historical, memoir, news, non fiction, videos on Nov 23rd, 2009
Today I found out about this super rad book. Yes, I just used the words “super rad” as a superlative of sorts. This book sounds like something that many different people will love. This story began with Jake Adelstein asking the question: “How does a Yakuza crime boss get a liver transplant without doing something [...]
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Posted in book news, book recommendations, book reviews, book sightings, books, hardcover, historical, memoir, news, non fiction on Sep 21st, 2009
Boilerplate was a robot built by Professor Archibald Campion in 1893 as a prototype, for the self-proclaimed purpose of preventing the deaths of men in the conflicts of nations, Boilerplate charged into combat alongside such notables as Teddy Roosevelt and Lawrence of Arabia. Campion and his robot also circled the planet with the U.S. Navy, [...]
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Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church (The Leadership Network Innovation) by Mark Driscoll is a book that anyone interested in the Christian movement that is growing in the Northwest. Not limited to the random denomination foot holds, this book details the rise of Mars Hills Church in Seattle, [...]
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Posted in audio books, author interviews, book news, book recommendations, book reviews, book sightings, books, children's literature, flds, memoir, mormon, non fiction, polygamy, religious, videos on Jul 3rd, 2009
This week I finished reading this great book called Shattered Dreams by Irene Spencer. I really enjoyed reading through this awesome book about a woman and her religion and commitment to polygamy. I was completely enamored with the writer, and her story. I felt like I had met such an interesting person, and became an [...]
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Posted in author interviews, book news, book recommendations, book reviews, book sightings, books, hardcover, historical, news, non fiction, politics, videos, war on Jul 1st, 2009
Today I ran into a hilarious video of author and former CIA agent Michael Scheuer on Fox News putting his whole foot into his mouth. During the recourse of the video he basically said that what America needs is for Osama Bin Laden to attack us!
WHAT THE HECK?
Don’t believe me, here’s the video:
Yep. [...]
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I ran into this book and thought it would be an interesting read and sighting to discuss. I recently looked into a trash bucket of cheap skateboards at a Vans shoe store. The store had all these throwaway and discontinued, discounted skateboards and they each had a stamp of “made in the P.R.C). It struck [...]
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For fans of Latin American history, here is a good new book for you to appreciate. The book is titled Dirty Secrets, Dirty War by David Cox. The book has been getting some buzz from Latin American communities and it recently received a write up from the Associated press.
“Dirty Secrets, Dirty War — The [...]
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Today I looked into a book that was featured in a review via B&N, and it looks cool. Here is a synopsis of the book:
In the early years of the 1940s, as the nation’s young men ship off to war, the call goes out for builders of the machinery necessary to defeat the enemy. [...]
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