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Basic Bicycle Repair
Basic Bicycle Repair
Author: Bicycling Magazine
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 12/28/2009


This book was just what I needed to spruce up an older bike I had bought at a garage sale. It is an older publication (1970s), so it might be less pertinent to newer bikes, I don't know. But for a beginner with only basic mechanical skills this was great!


End of the Ancient World and the Beginnings of the Middle Ages
End of the Ancient World and the Beginnings of the Middle Ages
Author: Ferdinand Lot
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 1
Review Date: 1/9/2007


An important and classic work of medieval history -- required reading for anyone doing graduate work in the area. Tough going for the casual reader.


An essay concerning human understanding
An essay concerning human understanding
Author: John Locke
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 1/9/2007


Important for both psychology and philosophy, but a tough read.


The French Revolution
The French Revolution
Author: J.M. Thompson
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 1/9/2007


A very thorough and detailed overview of the political development of the French Revolution. Not easy reading, but very useful for students, especially the chronology at the back.


Heart of Darkness: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism
Review Date: 1/9/2007


A powerful book, more so with each reading.


Machiavelli and the Renaissance
Machiavelli and the Renaissance
Author: Federico Chabod
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 1/9/2007


Important and essential early scholarship on Machiavelli.


Memoirs of a Renaissance Pope
Memoirs of a Renaissance Pope
Author: Pius II ; translated by Florence A. Gragg.
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 1/9/2007


An interesting first-hand account of Renaissance life at the highest levels. For serious history readers only.


The odyssey of Homer
The odyssey of Homer
Author: trans. by Richmond Lattimore
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 2.8/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 1/9/2007


It's been a classic for over 2,500 years for good reason.


Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and with (Almost) No Money
Review Date: 6/14/2011
Helpful Score: 2


I got it, opened it, and read it in one sitting. It is in someways dated -- specifics all date from the late 1970s. It is extreme in its suggestions: raising/killing meat rabbits in your cellar, making your own moonshine. However, as inspiration it is superb. The main points remain true. The secret to living on almost no money is to reduce your needs to the bare minimum and own a place to live -- no matter how shabby or "undesirable" if you do not have to pay rent or mortgage and have even a small space to garden you can be largely self-sufficient. The new afterward by the author is also enlightening in that it reveals that this was for her only a stage of her life from which she went on to live much more conventionally.


Reflections on the Revolution in France
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Author: Edmund Burke
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 1/9/2007


The classic conservative English critique of the French Revolution.


Simple Steps: 10 Weeks to Getting Control of Your Life
Review Date: 12/31/2009


This is a great book. I am on my second copy of it! We all know what we should do: eat less, exercise more, control the clutter, organize our finances, our home, our life, on and on and on. But it just seems overwhelming. How do we start? By drinking 8 glasses of water a day, or so the authors of Simple Steps tell us.

This book breaks the "oughts" into very basic, simple steps, adding a few new ones each week until --- presto! your life really is better. Every time I read it I feel empowered to improve my life a little bit more.


Strasbourg in transition
Strasbourg in transition
Author: Franklin L. Ford
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 1
Review Date: 1/9/2007


A detailed and interesting case study of urban institutions 1648-1789.


Twelve who ruled
Twelve who ruled
Author: R. R. Palmer
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 1/9/2007


Although now an older work, this is THE book on France during the Reign of Terror. It is scholarship of the highest quality, detailed, and fascinating.


War Commentaries of Caesar
War Commentaries of Caesar
Author: Julius Caesar (trans. by Rex Warner)
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 1/9/2007


An enlightening introduction to the mind of Caesar -- and ancient Rome.


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