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Brand Failures
Brand Failures: the Truth about the 100 Greatest Branding Mistakes of All Time © 2003 Matt Haig 310 pages What helps a brand succeed – or makes it fail? Brand Failures attempts to divine out the … Continue reading
This week at the library: politics, Star Trek, a Cold War fantasy for kids, and trains
Last week’s titles: The Price of Everything, Russell D. Roberts | What It Means to be a Libertarian, Charles Murray | Star Trek Silent Weapons, David Mack | Day of Reckoning, Pat Buchanan | Getting There, Charles Goddard Dear readers: … Continue reading
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Tagged children's literature, Children-YA, conservative, fantasy, libertarianism, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, week in review
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The Price of Everything
The Price of Everything© 2009 Russell D. Roberts 224 pages The Price of Everything is an economics novel about the virtues of prices and markets, explaining how they work to maximize efficiency and spread goods out among those who need … Continue reading
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Tagged classically liberal, economics, EconTalk, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, Russ Roberts
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Day of Reckoning
Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Greed, and Ideology are Tearing America Apart© 2009 Patrick Buchanan309 pages What’s wrong with America? Change, brown people, and wars, judging by Day of Reckoning. Published in 2009, presumably to capitalize on the election, Day … Continue reading
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Tagged conservative, free trade debate, politics, Politics-CivicInterest
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This week at the library: Independence Day, simple living, cities, and the digestive tract
Last week’s titles: American Creation, Joseph Ellis | Gulp, Mary Roach | Jayber Crow, Wendell Berry | His Excellency, Joseph Ellis | Edens Lost and Found, various authors Dear readers: This past week I finished up my Independence Day tribute with … Continue reading
Edens Lost and Found
Edens Lost and Found: How Ordinary Citizens are Restoring Our Great American Cities© 2006 Harry Wiland, Dale Bell, Joseph D’Agnes285 pages I can hear Atlanta crying loud as she looks for hope and change / but we can’t count on … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago, cities, civic activism, civic awareness, ecology, Los Angeles, participation, Philadelphia, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, resources, Seattle
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His Excellency
His Excellency: George Washington © 2005 Joseph Ellis 352 pages Most of the Founding Fathers are exalted, but not quite divine. They are icons not without blemish: John Adams had his temper, Benjamin Franklin his shameless lechery. But George … Continue reading
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Tagged American Revolution, biography, George Washington, Hail to the Chief, Joseph Ellis
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Jayber Crow
Jayber Crow: the Life Story of Jayber Crow, Barber of the Port William Membership, As Written by Himself© 2000363 pages “Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always … Continue reading
Gulp
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal© 2013 Mary Roach352 pages Mary Roach is no stranger to delving into topics which others find icky — like corpses. Even her more conventional works flirt with taboo, and in Gulp she embraces disgust whole-heartedly, by … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, human physiology, humor, Mary Roach, science
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