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The Sociopath Next Door - Martha Stout
Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure Of Humanity In Rwanda Romeo Dallaire
Them: Adventures With Extremists - Jon Ronson
Vulgarians At The Gate - Steve Allen
Lucifer's Shadow - David Hewson ... Nations by P. J. O'Rourke
Slam by Nick Hornby
Persepolis I & II by Marjane Satrapi
plus I bought a copy of Jon Ronson's What I Do for him to sign after his appearance.
... by P. J. O'Rourke
Slam by Nick Hornby
Persepolis I & II by Marjane Satrapi
plus I bought a copy of Jon Ronson's What I Do for him to sign after his appearance.
... Nations' by PJ O'Rourke
Slam by Nick Hornby
Persepolis I & II by Marjane Satrapi
plus I bought a copy of Jon Ronson's What I Do for him to sign after his appearance.
... as yet, so getting a little nervous), I shall be going to see Sara Paretsky, Mark Billingham and John Harvey and Jon Ronson talk about their work. ... Tremaine
Fear and Trembling Amelie NOthomb
Jazz Toni Morrison
Indigo Marina Warner
Hideous Kinky Esther Freud
them Joyce Carol Oates
The library only had The Radiant Way. Not really my first choice, but it looks interesting and like it can fit in this theme pretty well. I loved both Vikram Seth's Two Lives and du Plessix Gray's Them too, both of which are favorites from the last few years. There's been some really outstanding biographys and memoirs so far this year though, espescially Claire Tomalin's wonderful biography of Thomas Hardy, Tim Jeal's ... ... Nobel Laureate," according to a blurb on the back cover)
658 General management: House of Lies
Also, I've read Them (322 in Zoe's list above), and it's definitely an entertaining read and more interesting than the average book in that category for anyone who isn't into political ... ... Us
306 Culture & institutions: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
322 Relation of state to organized groups: Them
330 Economics: Freakonomics
508 Natural history: Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science or Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
510 Mathematics: Gödel, Escher, Bach
... ... Ball
HM--Sociology: Social Darwinism in American Thought
HN--Social history and conditions, social problems: Them: Adventures with Extremists
HQ--The family, marriage, women, sexuality: The Political Life of Children
HS--Societies: Brownie Girl Scout Handbook
HT--Communit ... ... of governments and states: The Failure of Presidential Democracy
322--Relation of state to organized groups: Them: Adventures with Extremists
324--The political process: The Making of the President 1960
327--International Relations: American Diplomacy 1900-1950
329--Polit ... ... through their shelves, because there's a disproportionate amount of good books in their stash.
So yesterday I bought Them by Jon Ronson, Devout Sceptics by Bel Mooney, and Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse. Previously I bought Snake Oil and other Preoccupations by John ...
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