books about: lands     books:       Stranger in a Strange Land540 reviews Robert A. Heinlein Ace Trade, 1991 Excelent Read... This book is absolutely amazing. Draws you in from the very first page, and after reading it, it leaves you with no questions, but a very insightful look into human nature. Once you pick it up you will find it hard to put it down to do things like sleep or go to work.             Manchild in the Promised Land56 reviews Claude Brown Touchstone, 1999 Manchild in the Promised Land This is an awesome book that I highly recommend to all young men trying to find their "way". It can be a little harsh, but it is about life in the inner city and a young man becoming a man.             Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North Thomas Sugrue Random House, 2008 The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest for justice in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South. ...             This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation23 reviews Barbara Ehrenreich Metropolitan Books, 2008 Ms Ehrenreich is the voice of our conscience, or should be. This collection of brief observations is pithy and to the point, and each one takes just a few minutes to read. But you should read slowly because otherwise the sudden rise in blood pressure they elicit may be harmful to your health. As I'm writing this, the economic collapses of late September are only emphasizing the points she makes regarding the mismanagement of America's economy and social ...             Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America Jay Parini Doubleday, 2008 ?These thirteen books must be seen as representative, not definitive, works. They are nodal points, places where vast areas of thought and feeling gathered and dispersed, creating a nation as various and vibrant as the United States, which must be considered one of the most successful nation-states in modern history, and a republic built firmly on ideas, which are contained in its major texts. Where we have been must, of course, determine where ...             The Distant Land of My Father36 reviews Bo Caldwell Harvest Books, 2002 A fabulous read. Hard to believe it's not autobiographical. Eloquent in its ability to make you feel her experiences as if they were absolutely real. Heartbreaking yet ever hopeful. Couldn't put it down.             In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom20 reviews Qanta A. Ahmed Sourcebooks, Inc., 2008 A sad and honest eye opener Dr. Qanta Ahmed is a Muslin British citizen of Pakistani descent. She grew up in London and then attended medical school in New York City-obtaining certifications in internal medicine, pulmonary disease, critical care medicine and sleep disorder medicine. Then in 2000 her visa renewal was denied. While rectifying this problem, she needed to live and work outside the U.S., so she took a two-year ...             The Holy Land: An Oxford Archaeological Guide (Oxford Archaeological Guides)8 reviews Jerome Murphy-O'Connor Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 Easity the best This book is filled with the knowledge of vast experience and travel. If you want a book that doesn't just give the religiously naive and superstitious what they want to hear (like so many do), then this is your book. Excellent in several ways.             The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change (Change Series)55 reviews S.M. Stirling Roc, 2008 Fantastic: The book I was hoping "Dies The Fire" would be *WARNING - Minor Spoilers* The Sunrise lands is a fantastic read, far better then the first three "Change" novels. When I first bought "Dies the Fire", I was hoping for something along the lines of Stephen King's "The Stand", where you get to read the adventures of the last few survivors of a dying world. What I (and you, probably) got was a goofy world where Dungeons & Dragons fans were ...             A Land Remembered78 reviews Patrick Smith Pineapple Pr, 1996 A terrific Book This is one of the best books that I have read for a long time. You can actually visualize what is happening as you read this book. It is filled with such real warm, happy, and sad happenings all the way through the book. I couldn't hardly put it down.             Stargazer (Land of Elyon)5 reviews Patrick Carman Scholastic Press, 2008 One if by land, two if by sea "Suspended under a twilight canopy We'll search the clouds for a star to guide us" (The Fifth Dimension - Up, Up and Away") NOW we're talking! The fifth book in the Land of Elyon series is by far the best with regards to plot, adventure and characterization. It's also steeped in religious imagery, as the young heroine receives inspiration and guidance from Elyon (Good) while being ...             The New Christian Traveler's Guide to the Holy Land3 reviews Charles Dyer, Gregory Hatteberg Moody Publishers, 2006 Awsome Spiritual Preperation For Israel This guide is an excelent source for Christians that would like to read in the bible what took place in the Old and New Testiment in Israel and Jordan. It was exciting to recount stories in the bible and connect them to where I would be visiting. There is also a great 4 week bible study and daily prayer guide to prepare you for your journey. There are a few tips to prepare you for the culture ...             No Man's Land: What to Do When Your Company Is Too Big to Be Small but Too Small to Be Big5 reviews Doug Tatum Portfolio Hardcover, 2007 Now what? Curious to know the origin of the word adolescent, I checked the Online Etymology Dictionary and this is what I found: "1482, from M.Fr. adolescent, from L. adolescentem (nom. adolescens), pp. of adolescere "grow up," from ad- "to" + alescere "be nourished," hence, "increase, grow up," inchoative of alere "to nourish" (see old). The adj. is first attested in 1785." According to Doug Tatum, most ...             Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England21 reviews William Cronon Hill and Wang, 2003 A seminal work William Cronon's book was a seminal effort in 1983 that established a new way of thinking about history. It has stood the test of time. The book describes the modes and manner of the ecological impacts that English settlers had on the New England landscape in the colonial era. Some impacts were intentional, others not so much. For example, by the time first permanent settlements were established ...             Sackett's Land: The Sacketts29 reviews Louis L'Amour Bantam, 1984 Western best I have read many books of different genres, yet all were fantasy. My husband is a Louis L'Amour admirer and owner of the whole collection, so when he wanted to listen to Sackett's Land, I knew we would enjoy it immensely. A half cowboy himself it is only natural that he would have picked this author for our camping trip. We listened to the whole story and truly enjoyed it. It was different from ...             Jesus Land: A Memoir101 reviews Julia Scheeres Counterpoint, 2006 Engrossing and Deeply Troubling "Jesus Land" by Julia Scheeres is one of those rare books that one can read in a day, given enough free time. It is lucidly written, engaging, and very troubling. Fans of memoirs/biographies will likely enjoy "Jesus Land," though it reads like a novel, so fiction lovers will enjoy it as well. "Jesus Land" is about Julia growing up in her Christian fundamentalist household in Indiana in the 70s ...             Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (New York Review Books Classics)7 reviews George R. Stewart NYRB Classics, 2008 Names on the Land: A Wallace Stegner Must Read Wallace Stegner was not only a great writer ("Angle of Repose") and teacher (Stanford English Dept. who mentored people like Harriet Doerr), he was also a great lover of writing. His UC Berkeley colleague and friend George Stewart appeared on Stegner's list of "must read" Western American writers for "Names on the Land" as classic non-fiction and for fiction ("Earth Abides" that he recommends as ...             Promised Land (A Spenser Novel)20 reviews Robert Parker Dell Books, 1987 Strong prose, well written The prose is well-written, the characterizations are vivid and the whole story fits together like a hand in a glove. That said, much of the book is filled with rhetorical politicalization - which, admittedly, was much the topic of the day - that became a bit thick at times. I don't know many people who actually hold conversations like those held in the book. Again, although I lived through ...             A Land We Can Share: Teaching Literacy to Students With Autism13 reviews Paula Kluth, Kelly Chandler-Olcott Paul H Brookes Pub Co, 2007 Parent's perspective A Land we can Share is directed primarily at educators and para professionals working with children with ASD to welcome then into the world of literacy. My perspective is somewhat different. I am a parent of a 7 year old girl with ASD. We are currently in the throes of teaching our daughter to read (in collaboration with her teachers and therapists at school, of course). Whereas with my older ...             Peacock in the Land of Penguins5 reviews B. J. Gallagher Hateley, Warren H. Schmidt, ... Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2001 Great Resource for Diversity Training I am an attorney practicing labor and employment law and have used this book in diversity training. It is the best I have read, and believe it conveys the benefits of diversity in a simple and easy to understand way. 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