books about: gun     books:       Johnny Got His Gun287 reviews Dalton Trumbo Citadel, 2007 A brilliant novel that hasn't dated at all, sadly.....minor spoilers... I read this book in high school (on my own, it wasn't assigned reading. The assigned reading bored me to death). It has never left me. It's one of the most searing indictments of war ever written. It's brutal, depressing, creepy, terrifying, surreal, and absolutely fascinating. A book like this never really dates, as it is not about one specific war but about war itself. I'm generally a ...             Young Guns73 reviews Lions Gate Home Entertainment, 2008 Great Movie One of the great old west movies. Love history about the old west or Billy the kid this movie says it all...great quality             Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and unknowns in the dazzling world of derivatives19 reviews Satyajit Das FT Press, 2006 Fantastic! After reading this you wont trust a banker/broker ever again (not that you should have before). The book is written like a set of short stories. They just flow smoothly and along the way you get to learn about how the world of modern finance has become the creature that it is today. Want to know more about how the sub-prime crisis came about? Read the last section. Wonder how Goldman Sachs got ...             Gun Digest 2009: The World's Greatest Gun Book (Gun Digest)1 review Ken Ramage Gun Digest Books, 2008 Gun Digest 2009 A brilliant way to keep up with what is happening in shooting in America. I have most editions from the early 50's and find it compulsive reading.             Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses4 reviews Stephen Davis Gotham, 2008 Highly readable, but it's no The Dirt First of all, I'm not a die-hard Guns n Roses fan. For those who, like the gentleman below, already know a ton about the band, I suspect this volume will add little to their understanding of the Guns for the simple reason that the book seems written mostly from library research, footage and interviews that were already out there along with original interviews with ancillary characters. There is ...             Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies1069 reviews Jared Diamond W. W. Norton, 2005 Exactly the answers I wanted in twice the length I needed I'd wondered for a long time why certain aspects of history that you learn as facts in school turned out the way they did, e.g. why European diseases basically wiped out Native Americans but not vice-versa. I bought the book because I heard that Jared Diamond answered these types of questions. He does, to an extent. At the very least, he gives convincing arguments for why history turned out the ...             The Guns of August159 reviews Barbara W. Tuchman Presidio Press, 2004 Classic for a Reason There is absolutely a reason for this book to be regarded as a classic. Actually, there are lots of reasons. Tuchman's writing is informative, yet intimate. She tells you what you need to know to understand the topic at hand then goes on to supply more information that you didn't need but adds to your appreciation. All this without the book ever bogging down, unlike the war. Possibly, a big part ...             Top Gun (Wings of Gold, No 4)334 reviews T. E. Cruise Warner Books, 1990 All action, as was the original, but more so... I liked the original version of Top Gun, but in Blu-ray it's stunning. The sound track is just great - just make sure the neighbors are out before you play it, because the temptation to turn up the volume when those jet take off is overwhelming. Typical Tom Cruise movie - but great fun, and excellent in High Def format. A great addition to your Blu-Ray collection if you liked the original.             Blue Book of Gun Values: 29th Edition (Blue Book of Gun Values)20 reviews S. P. Fjestad Blue Book Publications, 2008 Blue Book of Gun Values: 29th Edition The book seems to have most every kind of gun available, but I found it a little difficult to determine the % condition of my firearms by simply looking at the sample pictures they provide. Also, the prices shown seem to be a little on the high side for the guns I looked at.             The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of his Life--His Own60 reviews David Carr Simon & Schuster, 2008 Speak, Memory "Sometimes the choice between sanity & chaos is a riddle" (p5) In a time when so many "memoirs" are unmasked as fiction at best, the premise of Carr's searing memoir, takes any such accusation head on. Do we remember only the stories we can live with? Paying heed to Dostoyevsky's deft observation, "man is bound to lie about himself" (Notes from the Underground), Carr goes on a journey ...             Reckless Road: Guns N' Roses and the Making of Appetite for Destruction20 reviews Canter, Marc Shoot Hip Press, 2007 Witness the Rise of Rock's Greatest Band! This is a terrific book for anyone that's a fan of Guns N' Roses and likes to see how a band forms, gels and then shoots for the stars! It's an eyewitness account showing the band going from their baby-step days of hanging out and playing tiny flea boxes, to becoming mega-superstars and all the trappings that go with it. The pictures are AMAZING and capture the raw power and excitement that ...             Stolen Without A Gun: Confessions from inside history's biggest accounting fraud the collapse of MCI Worldcom14 reviews Walter Pavlo Jr., Neil Weinberg Etika Books, 2007 Fast-Paced and Fact-Based Corporate Intrigue Walter Pavlo, Jr.'s story is an interesting tale, one that was later obscured by the larger fraud that occurred after he left MCI and after MCI merged with WorldCom. It's an important story nonetheless because it provides the reader with insider insight into how public corporations push their employees to "make numbers" and what happens when those employees not only take it too far, but learn how ...             Boston's Gun Bible92 reviews Bost T. Party, Kenneth W. Royce Javelin Press, 2002 Lots of Good Info I was surprised at the wealth of information this book contains, not only about different types of guns, but laws and other information.             The Matchlock Gun34 reviews Walter D. Edmonds Putnam Juvenile, 1998 History I havent researched as to whether or not The Matchlock Gun is a challenged book because it might not be PC, but putting that aside for a moment, this is was one of my all time favorite books as a kid. I still remember our teacher reading a little bit of it each day....and not being able to wait for the next day to hear more. Its part of historical fact that Native American tribes were allied ...             The Gun Seller106 reviews Hugh Laurie Washington Square Press, 1998 Humorously brilliant It's confirmed. Hugh Laurie is both a brilliant actor and a brilliant writer. Fans of spy thrillers and Brit-humor alike will love "The Gun Seller." The book works as both a straight spy/political intrigue story and as a send-up of the genre. Laurie's anti-hero Tom Lang reminds me of the self-deprecating but ultimately "I'll do it if I must" protagonists of Dick Francis' novels. More than a ...             Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America14 reviews Geoffrey Canada Beacon Press, 1996 Rivetting exploration of the roots of violence Canada grew up poor in the South Bronx in the '50s. Violence, then, as now, was a way of life. All boys fought - life was worse for those who refused. Violence and the rituals surrounding it established the social pecking order. In the preface to his memoir Canada says, "The difference is that we never had so many guns in our inner cities." Canada's first memory of street violence came at age 4, ...             The Thirteen-Gun Salute15 reviews Patrick O'Brian W. W. Norton & Company, 1992 Reading Patrick O'Brian makes you smarter. I'm a true Patrick O'Brian fan. I buy his books three or four at a time. I have not been so captivated by a series of books ever since I read "Dune". Surly sadness will come to my day when there is no more for me to read. Patrick O'Brian can make two ships in a chase at no more than 11Mph at the most keep you on the edge of your seat, then in this book take you to the crater of an instinct ...             Guns, Germs and Steel6 reviews Jared Diamond W W Norton & Co Inc (Np), 2005 Must read This is an excellent book and is a must read for anyone who cares about the history (and reasons why it unfolded the way it did) of the growth of civilization.             The Man With The Golden Gun (James Bond Novels)17 reviews Ian Fleming Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004 The last of the Bond novels They say that all good things must come to an end. In the case of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, that end is with The Man with the Golden Gun. After this, there would only be a short story collection (Octopussy & The Living Daylights) to wrap up the set. Posthumously released (and supposedly concluded by a ghost writer), this book is generally considered one of the weaker of the Bond books, ...             More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws166 reviews John R. Lott Jr. University Of Chicago Press, 2000 Compelling ideas John Lott puts up a persuasive argument for the notion that the best way to combat gun crime is to increase the general availability of arms. This may seem like a crazy notion to many but, when looking through his economic graphs and socio-political analyses, an alternative yet persuasive perspective comes across. While I disagree with his call for the relaxation of the law preventing juveniles ...              search for books accounting, america, appetite, biggest, collapse, confessions, control, darkest, dazzling, derivatives, destruction, edition, greatest, gun-control, history, investigates, making, matchlock, personal, reckless, reporter, societies, thirteen, thirteen-gun, traders, understanding, unknowns, violence, without, worldcom books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Radiohead- In Rainbows (Guitar Tablature) (Authentic Guitar Tab Edition) leave a comment home  impressum - about us