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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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Beak of the Finch a Story of Evolution in Our Time
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Jonathan Weiner
rodamu
, January 01, 2013
A fascinating book that starts with the story of how scientists studying finches over several years on a Galapagos island show how the birds change to meet challenges to their survival and then broadens to show how other living organisms, from virus to fish also are changing. Their adaptations show evolution in action. Weiner is easy to read and held my interest while documenting science in action and the extreme importance of ecology and evolution to our civilization. Why didn't I realize that bacteria changing to resist antibiotics are "evolving;" as are the cotton destroying pests in the southern states where so many people reject evolution because it doesn't fit their interpretation of the Bible?
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Quest Energy Security & the Remaking of the Modern World
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Daniel Yergin
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, January 01, 2012
Yergin give a riveting history of the energy industry with emphasis on oil that explains many economic events and major political causes and effects over the past two centuries on a scale ranging from the collapse of the USSR to little Georgie Bush's 2001 war on Iraq. This is a big book but it is so well organized that it can be read in sections at time. This is the best and most practical history book of the this century. Yergin takes an objective approach that will educate even the most conservative or liberal mind that is open to new facts. Discover how in the 1980s the collapse of the real estate market in Southeast Asia led to high prices for oil in the US.
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State of Wonder
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Patchett, Ann
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, September 01, 2011
Patchett's latest book is a complex of character studies, adventure, culture clashes and ethics that holds the readers interest in a vice-like grip. Competing very closely for best book is "Turn of Mind" by LaPlante. An absorbing novel of loss of memory mixed with a murder mystery.
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Lonely Polygamist
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Brady Udall
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, January 01, 2011
A completely fascinating and seemingly realistic account of a man trying to manage four wives and their children whiling dealing with other personal and business problems. The efforts of the family to maintain their relationships internally and with the surrounding community are very revealing.
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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John Perkins
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, January 14, 2010
Perkins's description of the economic empire the United States has tried to build in the last half of the 20th Century goes a long way to explain the seeds of the current "Terrorism War" that we are engaged in. Without understanding our past and present empire building behavior and changing it, we are doomed to faced increased hostility and attacks from the underdeveloped nations that the US has been exploiting.
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Die Aethiopische Uebersetzung Des Physiologus (1877)
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Fritz Hommel
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, August 10, 2009
This book is a classic. Following the activities of Ken Kesey and his friends, it describes the start of the LSD and related drugs culture in the 1960s. Hells Angels, writer Kesey, Neal Cassedy (famous from ON THE ROAD) and other characters are unforgettable. Kesey and his Merry Pranksters were a major influence on the hippie phenomenon. This book also answers the question of how LSD became popular--thanks to the US military when it used college students as test subjects, one of whom was Kesey.
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Crow Road
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Iain Banks
rodamu
, November 28, 2008
A very difficult book to read with many characters involving many flashbacks. It may be difficult to care about the lead character enough to care what happens to him. I lost interest before reaching the end of the book.
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Blue Moo Deluxe Illustrated Songbook 17 Jukebox Hits from Way Back Never With CD
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Sandra Boynton
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, September 26, 2008
The book and music are not only for kids: The songs are take offs on several different classic songs and music styles of the 20th Century that Baby Boomers may recall. And where else will you find B.B. King, Bobby Vee, Patti LuPone, Sha Na Na and other top talent on one CD? This is a great gift for anyone who appreciates music and humor.
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