Reviews of business, biography, current events, self-help, memoir, and lifestyle books.
Nonfiction Reviews: 2/1/2010 02/01/2010
Starred reviews for: Paradise Beneath Her Feet by Isobel Coleman; Claiming Ground by Laura Bell; The Crusades by Thomas Asbridge; The e Emperors by Miranda Carter; A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel. More
Nonfiction Reviews: 1/18/2010 01/18/2010
Stars this week for Nick Bunker's Making Haste from Babylon, David Blockeley's Bridges, Alexander Neubauer's Poetry in Person, and Seena Iyengar's The Art of Choosing. Plus: a forensic expert on blood spatter, the latest in ET-hunting, the history of baseball cards, Lenin, Iraq, gardening, and more.
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Nonfiction Book Reviews: 12/21/2009 12/21/2009
This week: stars for Noam Chomsky, John D'Agata, Claire Harman, and more. Plus: Eaarth (sic), a Diet for a Hot Planet, an Illustrated Insectopedia, Bomb Power and the security state, the SoNo Baking Company, and more.
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Nonfiction Reviews: 12/14/2009 12/14/2009
Starred reviews for: The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum, Letters from the Land of Cancer by Walter Wagerin Jr., The Best Spiritual Writing 2010, edited by Philip Zaleski,
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Nonfiction Reviews: 11/30/2009 11/30/2009
Stars this week for Richard Wilkinson and Kate Picket's sociological analysis The Spirit Level, Panthea Reid's biography Tille Olsen, and memoirs from cartoonist Jules Feiffer and surgeon Kathy Magliato
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Nonfiction Book Reviews: 11/16/2009 11/16/2009
This week: stars for Lynne Olson's Citizens of London, Daring Young Men by Richard Reeves, Susan Krauss's The Search for Fulfillment, and David Kynaston's Family Britain: 1951-1957. Plus: Daniel Menaker, Kathleen Rooney, Larry McMurty, Mikhail Chekhov, Ellen Sandbeck, and more.
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Nonfiction Reviews 11/09/2009
Starred reviews for: Still Life by Melissa Milgrom; Paper Fortunes by Roy C. Smith; Our Times by A.N. Wilson; The Harvard Psychedelic Club by Don Lattio; Love & War by John and Stasi Eldredge;
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Nonfiction Book Reviews: 11/2/2009 11/02/2009
Stars for Elif Batuman's The Possessed, Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, Sean Carroll's From Eternity to Here, Raj Patel's The Value of Nothing, Lee Smith's The Strong Horse, and Andrew Friedman's Knives at Dawn.
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