books about: revolution     books:       Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford History of the United States)32 reviews Gordon S. Wood Oxford University Press, USA, 2009 Magisterial Another outstanding installment of the Oxford History of the United States. Empire of Liberty is erudite, thoughtful, comprehensive, and the quality of writing is unusually good. Wood does an unusually good job of balancing the basic narrative with thematic discussions of the relevant social history, intellectual history, economic history, and religious history. There is also a very nice ...             The Revolution: A Manifesto845 reviews Ron Paul Grand Central Publishing, 2009 RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT RON PAUL IS ONE OF ONLY A FEW PEOPLE REALLY TRYING TO DO WHAT'S BEST FOR THIS COUNTRY.             A Place of Greater Safety: A Novel25 reviews Hilary Mantel Picador, 2006 No One Has Done The French Revolution More Justice Than This Book! As a life-time ardent student of the French Revolution I can firmly say that this book is the most "enlivened" account of the French Revolution that I have ever encountered. The brilliant story-telling narrative is as dramatic as a virtual movie. I love this book and the awesome writing skills of its author.             An Echo in the Bone: A Novel (Outlander)365 reviews Diana Gabaldon Delacorte Press, 2009 It was wonderful! I thought for a while that Diana had lost her way in the Firey Cross and then she began to come back in Breath of Snow & Ashes. But now...Wow, she has recaptured the old magic. Go back and read her first three books and you will see this how they all went...a roller coaster ride of thrills, quick turns, unexpected pop-ups of people, places and events. And then to leave us hanging with more ...             John Adams851 reviews David McCullough Simon & Schuster, 2008 McCullough a Literary Genious Perhaps the best writing of any biography I've read. The ease of moving from the 3rd person to the 1st is so smooth its hardly discernible. The storyline is so interesting and entertaining it reads like a master fiction novelist wrote it. Just spectacular. Even knowing what the facts are, its almost a page-turner wanting to continue reading. Truly a masterpiece of writing and prose. The review ...             Jamie's Food Revolution: Rediscover How to Cook Simple, Delicious, Affordable Meals4 reviews Jamie Oliver Hyperion, 2009 Jamie Blends the Traditional With the Conventional in His New Masterpiece Jamie Oliver's cookbook is beautiful. It is full color, complete with step-by-step pictures and easy to follow traditional recipes but with a definite twist. Jamie's cooking hook is that the recipes are fairly quick, good for you and easy. So easy in fact, that Jamie has rounded up a bunch of every day folks who would never consider themselves cooks and challenged them to cook the recipes in ...             The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution93 reviews Alice Waters Clarkson Potter, 2007 good easy to follow recipes I got this as a birthday gift over a year ago and have been delighted with the book ever since. While not as comprehensive as some cookbooks, the recipes that are in the book all make sense and are easy to follow. Ms Water's love of local ingredients and fresh food is clearly evident throughout. So far I've been pleased with every recipe I've tried. It's nice to know that a famous chef can ...             Green Smoothie Revolution: The Radical Leap Toward Natural Health23 reviews Victoria Boutenko North Atlantic Books, 2009 Tasty Recipes that Converted a Hard Core Carnivore I'm a carnivore and the idea of eating a salad and all that chewing is for the cows as far as I'm concerned. But this book changed my entire outlook on eating green. The recipes are simple and tasty, I've tried other books that have too much talk and not enough recipes. I'm still a carnivore but have easily augmented my diet with green smoothies. I'll drink one 8-12oz glass of tasty green ...             To Try Men's Souls: A Novel of George Washington and the Fight for American Freedom47 reviews Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, ... Thomas Dunne Books, 2009 Different View of History Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen are very good story tellers. They do a great job of creating characters that you can care about and be interested along with putting these characters within a great story. Truth be told, they get a big leg up on creating these characters and stories because they're using historical fact as the basis for their tales. But that just ends up making it all the more ...             Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America246 reviews Thomas L. Friedman Picador, 2009 It's Time to Stand Up and Look Around Thomas Friedman uses his extensive international experience to first, set the motivation for Americans everywhere to stand up and look around at our political, physical, chemical, and bioloigical environment from a global perspective; and, second, describe a way to unleash the historical American potential that has always risen to address threats to ourselves, our country, and our planet. In ...             The Second City Unscripted: Revolution and Revelation at the World-Famous Comedy Theater5 reviews Mike Thomas Villard, 2009 SOMETHING WONDERFUL, pt. 2 For years, people tried to get me to write a sequel to Something Wonderful Right Away. I didn't. UNSCRIPTED does it differently than I would have, but most of the important points and voices are here. I recommend it. A prior commentator asked where in UNSCRIPTED are Barbara Harris, Mina Kolb and Jack Burns. Barbara Harris and Mina Kolb are in Something Wonderful Right Away -- there's a ...             Inside the Revolution: How the Followers of Jihad, Jefferson & Jesus Are Battling to Dominate the Middle East ...76 reviews Joel C. Rosenberg Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2009 Inside the revolution is excellent I've read many of Joel Rosenberg's books: Hw is a Christian writer, an expert on Israel, and the entire Middle East, and all of his books are excellent: They're a must read             Life and Death in Shanghai134 reviews Nien Cheng Penguin, 1988 Nien Cheng, the person I cannot add much to the several excellent reviews of this book, so I will review the author. I contacted her after I read the book, and she invited me to meet her in DC, where she lives. We became friends, and she enjoyed my updates about what China is becoming. After writing her book, she was persona non grata in China; she could never go back. I, however, have been there dozens of times, and ...             La isla bajo el mar (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition)6 reviews Isabel Allende Vintage, 2009 A VERY GOOD SERVICE FROM AMAZON AND A GOOD BOOK I had a problem with the first shipping, because the book was in bad condition, and i bought it to give it as a present to my wife. I send a mail to Amazon and they sent me a new book in five days. I'm very glad with Amazon, and I'm saying it to all my friends and family. I will buy at Amazon.com and I recommend everybody that do the same. It's a very good book and I think that (for me) it could ...             A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander)335 reviews Diana Gabaldon Delta, 2006 Amazing book from an Amazing series! I love the Claire and Jaimie series. Each one is as good as the last. Amazing in-depth characters, I cherish each book in this series. A Breath of Snow and Ashes was as fantastic as all the previous ones! Each one leaves me wanting MORE MORE MORE!             The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical165 reviews Shane Claiborne Zondervan, 2006 Great Service The book was in the condition I had expected it to be; the book also arrived in orderly time!             The Structure of Scientific Revolutions131 reviews Thomas S. Kuhn University Of Chicago Press, 1996 Knowledge versus truth We see science as a body of knowledge growing bit by bit, giving us a better and better understanding of the universe. But is that in fact the case? In this work, Thomas Kuhn destroys this traditional view of the scientific enterprise. He replaces the image of a progressive march upwards with one of a series of revolutions where old views are disguarded and replaced by new concepts radically ...             1688: The First Modern Revolution (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C)2 reviews Dr. Steve Pincus Yale University Press, 2009 Glorious A superb history of one of the foundation events upon which the modern Western/liberal state was built. Professor Pincus brings broad and deep scholarship to this book, which, in turn, provides impressive value to the serious reader. If you want to learn more about why the English turned away from James II and his style of modernization (focused on the French model) and the effects of this ...             1776701 reviews David McCullough Simon & Schuster, 2006 Emotional and Inspiring I loved this book. I found it inspiring that after so many setbacks and defeats, George Washington kept going, and somehow managed to cross the Delaware win the crucial battle that gave birth to our nation. David McCullough's writing, as always, is vivid and easy to read. To me, this book was about more than history. The story uplifted my spirits and reminded me that no matter how bad ...             Trotsky: A Biography5 reviews Robert Service Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009 Fantastic Having read a number of the author's books, I looked forward to this one with great anticipation. I was not disappointed. I first read his biography of Lenin about a year ago, then followed it with the biography of Stalin. The Trotsky biography completes the trilogy of the early Soviet leadership and is fascinating. I've read a few Trotsky biographies, and many of them were quite bland and ...              search for books 1789-1815, affordable, american, battling, biography, delicious, dominate, eighteenth, eighteenth-c, followers, irresistible, jefferson, manifesto, ordinary, outlander, rediscover, republic, revelation, revolution, revolutions, scientific, shanghai, smoothie, spanish, structure, transform, unscripted, vintage, washington, world-famous 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: Cleversticks (Picture Lions) home  impressum - about us