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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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Where's My Jetpack?
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Daniel H. Wilson
Miss Gretchen
, June 06, 2007
A great gift book! I picked this up as a birthday present after reading the author interview here at Powells. The recipient, an engineer, got a big kick out of it and all of us at the party read out loud from the book our favorite childhood predictions of the space age future (bemoaning the fact that none of us were wearing a unitard or silver flight suit.) Thought provoking, the science is solid, and the graphic design is faboo.
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Closing Of The American Mind
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Allan Bloom
Miss Gretchen
, June 06, 2007
Conservatives loved this book when it came out, but there is plenty inside for progressives to ponder. After all, aren't we the ones complaining these days about "a flock of parrots trained to squawk whatever brainless propaganda is fed into their empty vapid heads?" Bloom's arguments for education in the liberal arts are compelling, and a core curriculum need not exclude anyone other than a Dead White Male. An open mind can take certain of Bloom's concepts and rearrange them to fit one's own predilections -- if someone is not a reader of the Christian Bible, then whenever Bloom says "Bible," insert your own religious, spiritual, or secular humanist ideals (unless, of course, Bloom is referring to the Christian Bible as a literary or cultural reference.) As a companion book, one can read Michael Berube's What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and Bias in Higher Education.
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Cal07 Embedded In America
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Onion
Miss Gretchen
, November 29, 2006
Last year I waited until the year actually turned over before I thought to buy my Onion Day-By-Day Calendar. Quelle Horreur! It took me forever to find one and it became increasingly harder to face each bleak January morning without my accustomed stiff shot of Onion. I'm taking no chances this year and I highly recommend this daily dose (as it were) as an eye-opener to anyone whose first noise upon awakening is a groan.
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Gain
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Richard Powers
Miss Gretchen
, October 29, 2006
A moving companion to the daily news stories of corruption in corporations. Begin at the beginning, with three brothers, soapmakers, in Boston in the early 1800s. Powers's beautifully drawn characters are so rich and full of soul, that their inexorable transformation into a faceless and heartless corporation is devastating. All the while, through the story of just a housewife, Powers shows how modern people live more effortless lives thanks to that same faceless entity. End at the ending, where the housewife has entered our hearts so fully that we feel the loss of a friend. In no way an antibusiness screed, the novel is a thoughtful meditation on the past and the possibilites of the future.
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