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China Witness - Xinran
SUMMARY:China Witness is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history. Xinran, the ... -
Breaking Night - Liz Murray
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "*Breaking Night* reads more like an adventure story than an addiction-morality tale. It's a white-knuckle account of survival. . . . By age 6, Murray knew how to... -
Blow Him Away_ How to Give Him - Marcy Michaels; Marie Desalle
Amazon.com Review"Most people suck performing oral sex," writes Marcy Michaels, and "a simple want of skill and knowledge is to blame." Blow Him Away aims to supply that skill and.... -
Beyond Good and Evil_ Prelude t - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
SUMMARY: Nietzsche's mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of pers... -
Batman and philosophy_ the dark - Mark D. White; Robert Arp
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Why doesn't Batman just kill the Joker and end everyone's misery? Can we hold the Joker morally responsible for his actions? Is Batman better than Superman? If ev... -
Barcelona - Damien Simonis
Lonely Planet BarcelonaLeave your preconceptions about architecture behind at the curving, coral-like facade of Gaudí’s whimsical Casa BatllóSend your tastebuds to sea... -
Awakening the Buddha Within _ E - Lama Surya Das
Amazon.com ReviewIf you dropped the Buddha into a modern metropolis, would he come off sounding like a 16th-century morality play or more like a drive-time disc jockey? Lama Surya ... -
An Object of Beauty - Steve Martin
From Publishers WeeklyMartin compresses the wild and crazy end of the millennium and finds in this piercing novel a sardonic morality tale. Lacey Yeager is an ambitious young art d... -
A Week in December - Sebastian Faulks
SUMMARY: From the author of the bestselling "Birdsong" comes a powerful novel that melds the moral heft of Dickens and the scrupulous realism of Trollope with the satirical spirit ... -
A Guide to the Good Life - William B. Irvine
Review"Another valuable ally in your personal morale campaign can be found in William B. Irvine's A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy, which removes the gr...