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Review-Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness, Jim Keith, 2003, ISBN 1931882215
For ages, the world's elite have been engaged in a war against the people of Earth. Driven by extreme greed, one aspect of this war was the transformation of... ( added 45 days 7 hours ago.)
Review-Who Hates Whom? Who Hates Whom?, Bob Harris, 2007, ISBN 0307394360
Subtitled "Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing Up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide," this book gives short essays on the various "little wars" going on around... ( added 46 days 8 hours ago.)
Review-A People's History of American Empire A People's History of American Empire, Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki and Paul Buhle, 2008, ISBN 0805087443
This is a graphic novel adaptation of Zinn's famous history book, "A People's History of the United States."
It doesn't cover... ( added 46 days 13 hours ago.)
Review-Operation: Save the Innocent Operation Save the Innocent, Tony Ruggiero, 2008, ISBN 1896944604
Part two of a series, this book is about the use of vampires as present-day US Government assassins.
In part one, John Reese ran a very high-level military program... ( added 54 days 5 hours ago.)
Review-The Nexus Colony The Nexus Colony, G.F. Schreader, 2007, ISBN 143270088x
This story is set in present-day Antarctica, where The Ice is almost a living thing that pervades all aspects of daily life. On a scientific mission, unknown items are found embedded... ( added 54 days 9 hours ago.)
Review-The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, 2007, ISBN 0374531501
This book takes a much-needed look at the "special relationship" that exists between America and Israel.
First of all, the authors do... ( added 69 days 14 hours ago.)
Review-Get Out of Our House: Revolution! Get Out of Our House: Revolution!, Tim Cox, 2008, ISBN 9781934454039 To say that the American people do not think that Congress is doing a good job is a huge understatement. This book provides an interesting proposal to change that. The first step... ( added 71 days 4 hours ago.)
Review-On a Hill They Call Capital On a Hill They Call Capital, Matt Carson, 2007, ISBN 1604028548
This novel is about a bunch of regular guys from Virginia, with nicknames like Smiley, Cat, Spank, DT and Boomer, who don't just complain about taxes and government tyranny, they... ( added 74 days 6 hours ago.)
Review-Who Really Runs the World? Who Really Runs the World? The War Between Globalization and Democracy, Thom Burnett and Alex Gaines, 2007, ISBN 1932857583
This book examines the conspiracies in present-day life, both hidden and public. It looks at the social networks... ( added 75 days 3 hours ago.)
Review-America Unraveling America Unraveling, L. Scott Smith, 2008, ISBN 9780977940783
This book defends the expression of public faith in America, and has many unpleasant things to say about the present state of American culture.
The Founding Fathers... ( added 75 days 7 hours ago.)
Review-Daydream Believers Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power, Fred Kaplan, 2008, ISBN 0470121181
How American foreign policy got so off-track in the 21st Century has been well covered in other books. Why it got so off-track is the... ( added 76 days 13 hours ago.)
Review-Your Government Failed You Your Government Failed You, Richard A. Clarke, 2008, ISBN 9780061474620
This book takes an uncompromising look at the inability of the government to prevent security and intelligence failures, like those that occurred before 9/11.
... ( added 77 days 8 hours ago.)
Review-Barack Obama for Beginners Barack Obama for Beginners: An Essential Guide, Bob Neer, 2008, ISBN 9781934389386
Here is a short (and neutral) biography of one of 2008's Men Who Would be President.
Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii to a Kenyan father who was... ( added 77 days 15 hours ago.)
Review-The Hunters of Pangaea The Hunters of Pangaea, Stephen Baxter, 2004, ISBN 1886778493
Here is a group of previously published stories and essays from Baxter, who is best known as a Hard SF writer (science fiction that emphasizes the science).
There is a story... ( added 100 days 10 hours ago.)
Review-Petrified World Petrified World, Piotr Brynczka, 2008, ISBN 9781894063111
Do you remember those "Choose Your Own Adventure" books from the 1980s? Well, they're back.
You, the reader, are in a present-day airplane, traveling over Tibet after a trip to... ( added 101 days 10 hours ago.)
Review-Looking Glass Portal Looking Glass Portal, Larriane Wills, 2007, ISBN 9781934041185 Garrett is your quintessential modern-day cowboy loner. He has spent the last 12 years cutting ties with everyone in his life, including his ex-wife and daughter. He is in constant... ( added 118 days 8 hours ago.)
Review-Firestorm of Dragons Firestorm of Dragons, Michelle Acker and Kirk Dougal (ed.), 2008, ISBN 1896944807
Here is a group of stories all about that mainstay of fantasy literature, the dragon.
Welcome to the new extreme sport of dragonscaling. The object is to... ( added 124 days 7 hours ago.)
Review-As Fate Decrees As Fate Decrees, Denyse Bridger, 2007, ISBN 1894063414
In Ancient Greece, a woman named Amarantha finds herself as the next
item up for sale in the Athens slave market. She is bought by a mysterious
stranger who refuses to identify himself.... ( added 127 days 4 hours ago.)
Review-Deadworld Deadworld, Dennis Dufour, 2007, ISBN 9781425132491
Gabe Boudreau, a New York investigator, is called in to a crime scene
with plenty of blood, but no bodies. He realizes that this will be an unusual
case, but he has no idea how unusual it... ( added 129 days 4 hours ago.)
Review-Keeper's Child Keeper's Child, Leslie Davis, 2007, ISBN 9781894063012
Set in the near future, this takes place on a continent whose population and climate have been ravaged by disease and genetic mutation.
It all began innocently enough. Many years... ( added 138 days 9 hours ago.)
Review-Tesseracts Eleven Tesseracts Eleven, Cory Doctorow and Holly Phillips (ed.), 2007, ISBN 1894063031 Here is another compendium of new fantasy and science fiction stories from north of the border (in Canada). A mother, her teenage son, and two younger daughters seem... ( added 139 days 16 hours ago.)
Review-Iran: Everything You Need to Know Iran: Everything You Need to Know, John Farndon, 2007, ISBN 1932857567 Iran, so much in the news these days, is a country of contradictions. On one hand, it is a very puritanical country controlled by Islamic clerics, where dissent is severely... ( added 151 days 9 hours ago.)
Review-Portraits in the Dark Portraits in the Dark, Nancy O. Greene, 2006, ISBN 0595392806 Here are some rather macabre stories that look at the darkness and uncertainty that are part of the world and human nature. In Thailand, a lonely traveling salesman meets a mysterious... ( added 155 days 11 hours ago.)
Review-Thrive: Standing on Your Own Two Feet in a Borderless World Thrive: Standing on Your Own Two Feet in a Borderless World, Mike Cook, 2006, ISBN 097676315x
The business world has drastically changed in the last few years. This book shows how to develop the inner strength and abilities to survive in the... ( added 159 days 8 hours ago.)
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