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The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence by Paul C.W. Davies

The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence

Paul C.W. Davies

241 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction science challenging slow-paced
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy by Bruce Watson

Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

Bruce Watson

369 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game by Paul Midler

Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game

Paul Midler

241 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction business economics informative fast-paced
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick

The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

David Remnick

656 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction biography history politics informative reflective fast-paced
The Kennedy Assassination--24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President by Steven M. Gillon

The Kennedy Assassination--24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President

Steven M. Gillon

294 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced
Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America by Rich Benjamin

Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America

Rich Benjamin

354 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction politics race sociology challenging reflective slow-paced
Furious Improvisation: How the Wpa and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times by Susan Quinn

Furious Improvisation: How the Wpa and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times

Susan Quinn

325 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction art history informative fast-paced
The Making of Buddhist Modernism by David L. McMahan

The Making of Buddhist Modernism

David L. McMahan

299 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction history religion informative reflective medium-paced
Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln by John Stauffer

Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

John Stauffer

384 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction biography history informative reflective medium-paced
Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology by Paul Broks

Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology

Paul Broks

246 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced