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.Women on Top
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by: Nancy Friday

August 07, 2003
A wonderful insight in what modern women may be thinking in the bedroom and demistifies their needs somewhat for the average male, looking to be a better lover for his love. a good place to start talking openly and frankly about fantasies and an oppertunity to spark things up again. Unfortunately you have to see past the sad author's view of men and her peudo-intellectual ramblings about weak men and strong women and how men are unable to fantasise about characters like madonna becuase she is 'too strong' in terms of image for men and how men want to put her and others in 'her place'. Sad that she's unable to present a book without subjecting the reader to her own insecurities, and over inflated ego that shields them.
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.Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton - Sandra Gregory's Story
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by: Sandra Gregory, Michael Tierney

June 12, 2003
This book should be handed out to all teens prior to setting off around the world on their travels ; The message is clear , NEVER NEVER smuggle drugs for anyone or for any reason whatsoever. Sandra's book was enthralling and very touching in places. Her desire to get home to her family was the one thing that got her through this terrible ordeal.
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.The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
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by: Ilan Pappe

September 07, 2007
A real eye opener.

This book may be a little difficult for some to come to terms with and for others even more difficult to accept. It is something that has been placed in the psyche of us in Europe after the horrors of the holocaust that any criticism of the state of Israel or Zionism is equal to anti semitism. That the state of Israel was created out of the ashes of the second world war in order to provide a safe and free land for Jews the world over and a place of return for the Jews to their historical homeland.

This book dispels the myth. Pappe rather presents the establishment of the state of Israel as being not only created by men whose ideology was every equal of the extreme nationalism that European Jews had suffered ... Read More:
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.Social Work Practice: Assessment, Planning, Intervention and Review (Transforming Social Work Practice): Assessment, Planning, Intervention and Review (Transforming Social Work Practice)
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by: Jonathan Parker, Greta Bradley

July 11, 2007
A good general basic book. Especially useful to me in the second year of my social work degree but also useful in the third year. Gives all the basic information in an easy to read and easy to understand format, easy to dip in and out of for assignments too. When you couple this with its reasonable price I would say that it is the one to buy for this topic.
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.The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
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by: Philip Carlo

March 06, 2008
in one word brilliant. amazing insight into what makes a killer, a must read for any true crime fan!
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.The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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by: Edward R. Tufte

January 31, 2001
I think I made Tufte very rich. If I didn't it was not my fault. I was a Displays Manager with IBM and used his book to illustrate how colour & pixels could enhance information. I developed a presentation that used his work to exploit data and its visualisation. As a result I sold one hell of a lot of screens (IBM 3279 colour screens - the first ever colour screens - and at £3,000 a crack I sold 6,000 in the first year alone). I also sold a lot of Tufte's books. The quite brilliant example of Minard's graph of Napoleon's campaign in Russia (contained within the book) would keep an audience occupied for 2 hours - and not a yawn - so if ever the Good Professor decides to make a Will, he should remember me and I hope he predececeases me by a goodly ... Read More:
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.Essex Boys: A Terrifying Expose of the British Drugs Scene
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by: Bernard O'Mahoney

April 03, 2000
Poor book , well researched but thats all it is , research.
Not as in-depth as what the other "real" key members of the Essex boys have written. Not the best book on the subject imo. Best taken with a pinch of salt.


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.Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry
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by: Akiane Kramarik

2007-11
Poor book , well researched but thats all it is , research.
Not as in-depth as what the other "real" key members of the Essex boys have written. Not the best book on the subject imo. Best taken with a pinch of salt.


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.Down and Out in Paris and London (Essential Penguin)
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by: George Orwell

February 25, 1999
This seems to me to be one of the more personal of Orwell's books. Supposedly written from life experiences Orwell plunges us into the lives of those who have no homes and whose daily fight for existence on the streets is made more complex by a stifling social order, unsympathetic policemen and a charitable system which demands so much of those that it claims to help that it leaves them with less dignity than they started off with.

Orwell seems to have an affinity with the world of dirt and grime. He writes with gut wrenching realism about the simple details that most authors with a social axe to grind might forget. It is these details which allow you as the reader to become immersed in the horrors of the world he paints.

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.Child Care and Education
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by: Carolyn Meggitt, Tina Bruce

May 26, 2006
i got this book for my early years class. i dont think its good for studys but it will be really usefull if i ever went into working in this area. it gets you to think about putting the consepts of early years into practise with the children you work with so it would also be good for people doing primary school studdys for when they are on placement. i would not recomend this book to students doing academic studys but for people directly working with young children this book will be great.
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