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Bartleby: Great Books Online

Bartleby is a searchable collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, quotation anthologies, poetry, and fiction and nonfiction works. Looking for help with a crossword puzzle? "Bronte heroine" will turn up Jane Eyre. Narrow your search to a specific reference work or author; choose from Gray's Anatomy, the King James Bible, Bulfinch's Mythology, and many more. Hunt down that elusive poem or quotation or browse the works of Shakespeare, Einstein's Relativity, or AEsop's fables. Jump right in, you're bound to learn something new here! (CK)

From This is True for 13 January 2008

Suggestions for further reading:

Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
by Michael Pollan
Amazon Price: $5.00
Customer Review: I have friends that read "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and really loved it, but realistically I just knew I would never finish that book. I'm busy and anything over 200 pages is just not going to happen. So when I heard that "Food Rules" was basically a...
 
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
Amazon Price: $9.67
Customer Review: The subject matter of the book was disappointing. The writing was excellent but I did not enjoy it because of the subject matter. I should have read it in high school but waited too long and I seriously wanted to give that kid in the book a kick in...
 
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
by Michael Pollan
Amazon Price: $9.00
Customer Review: I was looking forward to this book, but ended up being disappointed and reselling my copy. I've been reading a number of food science books lately, and I was surprised to see that In Defense of Food mostly just references works I had already read, w...
 
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
by Howard Zinn
Amazon Price: $11.10
Customer Review: As soon as I received my book I had to use it, and I must say it's been more than I expected, the reading is easy and understandable for a non native speaker like me. Professor Zinn shows history from the point of view of the "nobodies", the forgotte...
 
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen
Amazon Price: $10.40
Customer Review: Why You Should Read It: Time is the only real scarce resource. We are all battling for more of it. The only way to have more is to spend it wisely.


Review:

I just finished Getting Things Done. I know. I'm a little l...
 

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