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.Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
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by: Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen

March 08, 2000
Fish! is a great book that teaches you how to have fun at work and make your job into something you enjoy coming to each day. It tells the story of a woman who goes through a transformation to learn this very thing from an unlikely source: the fish mongers at a Seattle fish market. A cute story and helpful book that has been used effectively in my company.

Another business fable I just came across that I'm really excited about is Squawk!: How to Stop Making Noise and Start Getting Results
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.Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
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by: John J. Ratey

January 10, 2008
The content is interest and important, but he simply repeats himself too much. This is a 250 page book with 75 pages of substance.
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.The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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by: Timothy Egan

September 01, 2006
Hurricanes come and go along America's Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. Property and lives are destroyed, but often rebuilt. There's some comfort in knowing that indefatigable Mother Nature caused the damage.

But in the plains and panhandles of Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, an unprecented and unyielding natural disaster, rooted in the uprooting of native grasses in the name of progress, blew dirt into peoples' lives for almost the full decade of the '30s, killing thousands, ruining countless businesses, and emptying towns. It came to be known as the Dust Bowl, and Timothy Egan's book "The Worst Hard Times" tells the story via the recollections of a few octa- and nonagenarians who were there and lived through it.

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.This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
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by: Daniel J. Levitin

August 28, 2007
This was a fascinating book more so because I am a deafened adult. I had my memories when I lost all hearing in 1977. Experiences I've had since seem weird to me because I remember. Now I understand why. This is a very informative book from both the music lover and indifferent listener points of view.


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.Atlas of Human Anatomy: With Netteranatomy.com (Netter Basic Science)
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by: Frank H. Netter

June 26, 2006
Such a GREAT supplement to the Anatomy Coloring book. It's better to color the coloring book using the same color scheme as this book. Everything is big, colorful, plenty of labels, and very helpful for learning anatomy. It's now my "bible" for school.
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.Icarus at the Edge of Time
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by: Brian Greene

September 02, 2008
How wonderful! A board book for adults and kids. What a treat! Impressive photos and a story whose ending is thrilling and unexpected. Leave it to Brian Greene to have the talent and ability to make difficult scientific concepts available to an even wider audience.
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.CliffsAP Biology (Cliffs Ap Biology)
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by: Phillip E., Ph.D. Pack

July 23, 2007
During my college biology class in High School, I would always do well in the labs but would do poorly in quizzes and tests. I received the book in the mail a day before my test. I read the chapter we were studying on the way to school and I easily passed the test.
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.The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy
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by: Vicki Iovine

January 09, 2007
My sister-in-law gave me this book to read when I was pregnant. It is very funny! Its the "everything you need to know about pregnancy that no one will tell you" book. Just what someone with fatigue, gas, swollen ankles and a squished bladder needs! Relax, put your feet up and enjoy this great, light-hearted book.
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.First Aid for the USMLE Step 1: 2008 (First Aid for the Usmle Step 1)
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by: Tao Le, Vikas Bhushan, Deepak A. Rao

December 18, 2007
This is the best intro review book for your first board exams. Le has a great, succinct review of the material that has great mnemonics. I highly recommend getting this early during your training, and using it in conjuction with your course notes. It is very helpful for review for exams, as professors are in touch with current board questions to set you up for success. Also, in the back is a great rating/ranking of other study resources based on system. It gives a fair (and very accurate!) description of other helpful titles to help you do well on the USMLE.

If you are a med student, allopathic or osteopathic, GET THIS BOOK! You won't be sorry.
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.The World Without Us
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by: Alan Weisman

August 05, 2008
One other person wrote that this book is fascinating but depressing and that is why he/she chose to give it less than 5 stars.

I beg to differ, one of the reasons why I gave it 5 stars is because it was depressing. It caused me a lot of anguish reading how much we have damaged this planet and how part of this damage will take 1000s of years to go away. I guess that would have been part of the message of this book, which it delivered on superbly.

Another user also chose to give it less than 5 stars because it had too much focus on NYC and not other places. Again I beg to differ; the book did devote a whole chapter to Houston. Also I do not think this a huge shortcoming for the book, after all, it was written by an "American" for a largely American ... Read More:
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