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The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
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Composition teachers throughout the English-speaking world have been pushing this book on their students since it was first published in 1957. Co-author White later revised it, and it remains the most compact and lucid handbook we have for matters of basic principles of composition, grammar, word usage and misusage, and writing style.... »
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The New Way Things Work
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"Is it a fact--or have I dreamt it--that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?" If you, like Nathaniel Hawthorne, are kept up at night wondering about how things work--from electricity to can openers--then you and your favorite kids shouldn't be a moment longe... »
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
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I agree with some of the other reviewers... get an editor. If the author had one, he should get a new one. Very thought-provoking ideas are buried in highly repetitive paragraphs and chapters. I can only assume that most of the readers of this book don't need to read things twenty times before they take hold. I feel like the singularity is approaching,... »
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The Anarchist Cookbook
When I was 16, back in the 1980's, my friend and I bought copies of this book to try and see what kind of explosives we could make. These recipes are dang... »
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