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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last
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David Edwards
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, August 07, 2021
What a sad little book. On the one hand the author admonishes us that the only way to make money in a creative endeavor is to do it for the love it. And then we have to endure pointless and cliche accounts of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and a cast of greedy capitalists who were mostly creative in the ways they feed their pathological avarice. It is another romantic techno fairy tale, another exploitative bit of success porn, intended to inspire but fails miserably, like an over priced cup of Starbucks coffee.
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Throw Them All Out How Politicians & Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips Land Deals & Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison
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Peter Schweizer
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, November 16, 2011
Another right wing polemic masquerading as "fair and balanced."
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My Abandonment
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Peter Rock
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, March 09, 2009
I wouldn't compare this to INTO THE WILD, although it's just as good. The bit I read was psycologically tough, but the language was beautiful. Can't wait for the book to hit the shelves.
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2012 The Return Of Quetzalcoatl
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Daniel Pinchbeck
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, February 25, 2008
Like HEART OF DARKNESS this book is a journey into the depths of one person's culture and fate. I enjoyed hacking through the lush lexi-jungle of the text. Pinchbeck melds dense descriptions of esoteric and scientific theories with experience (real, dreamed and drug-rendered) challenging sacrosanct perceptions of reality. He is self obsessed, at times genuinely pathetic, but his honesty, open-heartedness and intelligence save him and his story in the end, provoking the reader to recognize the mythical in his or her everyday walkabout.
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