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.The Selfish Gene
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by: Richard Dawkins

March 16, 2006
Dawkins writes that "the argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes" (p.xxi) and that "We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes" (p.xxi). Yet, according to him, this book "is not science fiction; it is science" (p.xxi)!

Dawkins contrives to overlook the twin discoveries that:
1. the observable traits of organisms are mostly conditioned by the interactions of many genes;
2. most genes have multiple effects on many of these traits.

Dawkins transfers characteristics with which he is familiar from human behaviour on the macro-level to the inanimate components, "genes", of which we are physically ... Read More:
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.The Pirate's Daughter
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by: Margaret Cezair-Thompson

June 12, 2008
I was really looking forward to Richard and Judys summer reads but this book really dissapointed me. It missed a good storyline and often I thought it included to much uneccessary detail. I found it quite boring and often thought of just giving up on it. Would not reccomend.
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.The Ashes of Worlds (Saga of Seven Suns 7)
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by: Kevin J. Anderson

August 04, 2008
This is not a true paperback but a large print edition (very large - same size as a hardback but without a hard cover). If you have reading difficulties or poor eyesight then this is the book for you. If you want a paperback then forget it.

I enjoyed the previous 6 books in the series but this one was returned unread - as it is just impractical to carry around (e.g. commuting, etc.).

I really is a big print book - why oh why do they waste their time with such impractical formts - they are the same price as the normal sized books !!
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.Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson)
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by: Louise Rennison

June 23, 2006
I love the Louise Rennison seiries!!! they are really funny, yhoo have to read numba's 1-5 first but they are all gr8!the book is awsome i heartily reccomend it to all the teenagers out there who enjoy a good laugh and books where gurls go guy hunting with hilarious results! yhoo must buy this book! i think that this book is the best of the seiries so far but the other books are well worth reading, i cant wait for the next book to come out after 'Luurve is a many trousered thing'! i hope this reveiw has been useful 2 ya. ,,x
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.Notes from an Exhibition
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by: Patrick Gale

January 07, 2008
Notes From An Exhibition synopsis from Amazon:

Renowned Canadian artist Rachel Kelly -- now of Penzance -- has buried her past and married a gentle and loving Cornish man. Her life has been a sacrifice to both her extraordinary art and her debilitating manic depression. When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies painting obsessively in her attic studio in Penzance, her saintly husband and adult children have more than the usual mess to clear up. She leaves behind an extraordinary and acclaimed body of work -- but she also leaves a legacy of secrets and emotional damage it will take months to unravel. A wondrous, monstrous creature, she exerts a power that outlives her. To her children she is both curse and blessing, though they all in one way or another reap ... Read More:
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.How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk (How to Help Your Child) (How to Help Your Child)
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by: Adele Faber; Elaine Mazlish

May 03, 2001
This book is excellent. Parents, who want lasting discipline, in the true sense of the word [teaching], look no further. As other reviewers have said, there is no quick fix. If that's what you are after, God help your kids!

As an author, I also found the techniques and suggestions easy to pick up and assimilate.

It is relevant for school, home and life in general.

We can't get enough of this kind of material.

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.Shantaram
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by: Gregory David Roberts

March 24, 2005
An amazing epic journey that had me wanting to read on. But what a horrible, vile man, a bit too up himself and trying a bit too hard to impress with his descriptions - think he's after an award. If I read one more time about someone's eyes being the colour of sand held in your hand as the sun sets over the desert or some such, I think I'd scream. And what is 'sorrowing' and 'hungering'? Get over yourself, man! Maybe children in school should have to read this as part of an anti-drugs programme - don't do heroin or you'll turn into an eejit like this.
The people and the places and the adventures are amazing and worth reading for that but I don't think it'll do much for the Indian tourist industry. All in all, read it but borrow someone else's copy.
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.The Game
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by: Neil Strauss

December 06, 2007
What a discovery!!! I bought this book as part of some research for my own book and I was very pleasantly surprised.

I never made the connection that Mr Strauss was the co-author of the much lauded Motley Crue's "The Dirt".

Ok, the stories in this book may seem a bit stretched or hard to believe, but hey, it's Americans we are talking about. What I have to say is that reading this book made me look back on my failures and successes at picking women, and it was almost uncanny to read word by word where I went right and wrong.

The Game is a bit of a cross between Queer Eye For The Straight Guy cum Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus cum any rock and roll tale of debauchery you care to think of.

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.Engleby
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by: Sebastian Faulks

March 27, 2008
I love the chatty first person style of this book which keeps wandering around and going off at huge tangents, although always eventually coming back to make the original point. The narrator is very precise in his writing and, at the same time, has the ability to gloss over areas and be as vague as possible.
Hearing only one side of a story like this gives a very sinister impression of the action as information is skipped and sometimes missed completely, leaving the reader to guess whether or not this has been done on purpose or the narrator just isn't aware.
Mike is an unlikeable man with sociological problems which are clear from the beginning of the book - although the reasons behind them only develop gradually.
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.Instant Confidence (Book and CD)
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by: Paul McKenna

January 16, 2006
I was deeply cynical of this book at first because it sounds a bit dipsy and the actions involved make you feel more than a bit silly, esspecially sitting down to be hypnotised. But the CD is quite interesting because it does change the way you think - even though it may not make you truly confident in the conventional sense. I think what the CD does is give you access to a different persona which you can fit into...you imagine someone you know who is very confident (choose carefully because this works, bizarely) until ones true authentic self (ego) emerges and develops. After a month or so I found myself somewhat more confident esspecially in job interviews for example. And these days I feel about 100 times more confident than I was two years ago - and I do feel happy to express who I am. Can my ... Read More:
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