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Handbook Of Riding Essentials
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Lemaire De Ruffieu
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, February 18, 2021
The summary appears to be for a different book.
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Fashion of the 70s
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Jim Heimann
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, September 19, 2011
Just look at the cover. It's horrifying, yet you can't look away. The whole book is like that. A delightful romp through the flared polyester years we love to hate. And love.
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Is There No Place On Earth For Me
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Susan Sheehan
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, June 02, 2011
Fascinating reportage about the difficult day-to-day life of a schizophrenic woman. Pseudonymous "Sylvia Frumkin" is a pathetic figure yet a sympathetic one. Sheehan describes her rocky family life, her many hospitalizations, and the few brief periods when she was a hospital outpatient. A thought-provoking addition to the narrative is an after-the-fact critique of how Sylvia was medicated--mis-medicated would be the better word--by virtually every psychatrist who treated her. Highly recommended for readers with an interest in psychology, psychiatry, and pharmacology.
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Fashion of the 70s
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Jim Heimann
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, December 15, 2010
The front cover image: I can't look away, yet I can't stand to look. It's horrifying, yet oddly compelling, as is every image in this book. Ads for jumpsuits, pants suits, wigs, and "the first cologne exclusively for gay men." Johnny Carson hawking a plaid sport coat. Not-terribly-attractive women modeling "hip" T-shirts. A freshly scrubbed, beaming girl with her elbows stuck into lemons for reasons that remain unclear. Trust me, this is the perfect book to decorate that lucite coffee table. You can't afford not to buy it.
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Shop Class as Soulcraft An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
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Matthew B Crawford
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, December 15, 2010
A thought-provoking defense of the work of the hands versus the life of the mind--or is "versus" the right word? Read it and find out. If there's someone in your life whose hands will never be clean, this is the perfect holiday gift.
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Corrections
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Jonathan Franzen
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, October 06, 2010
Franzen's first foray into family saga resembles Freedom but is (believe it!) less bourgeois.
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Financial Lives of the Poets
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Jess Walter
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, August 12, 2010
A cautionary tale of sorts about a man whose life is about to fall to pieces, thanks in part to our crumbling economy, the decline of print media, and the ability of Facebook and text messaging to greatly streamline the process of adultery. Plus, there's marijuana. Highly recommended for fans of David Gates, Richard Russo, and Richard Ford. Jess Walter's previous novels were very good, but this is his clear best to date.
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What Jane Austen Ate & Charles Dickens Knew From Fox Hunting to Whist The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth Century England
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Daniel Pool
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, December 17, 2008
Totally absorbing and enormously edifying...if you enjoy Victorian fiction or even Victoriana this highly readable and entertaining book deserves a place on your nightstand.
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