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Danza’s writing style is accessible to a wide audience, and while there might be a bit of the jocular boss left in him, he provides insights into a teacher’s daily life.

Publishers Weekly

100%
An annual bible of gaming goodness

MSN Games

100%
Despite its sometimes academic tone, Tea Partiers and Occupiers alike may be surprised and enlightened by this lucid analysis, all the more convincing for its sympathetic treatment of both sides of the argument.

Publishers Weekly

100%
For anyone seriously interested in the retirement industry — and that’s what it amounts to, an industry — this book should be required reading.

NY Times

100%
The book's no-nonsense approach to tax policy proves surprisingly engaging. Mr Bartlett walks readers through discussions on income and spending—basic concepts made baffling within the context of the tax code.

The Economist

100%
An ever-upbeat message from the well-connected yet modest veteran journalist.

Kirkus

100%
...the overwhelmed Arthur and larger portraits of the truly impressive Garfield and the thoroughly insane Guiteau make for compulsive reading.

Kirkus

98%
A well-reasoned argument on the structural problems now paralyzing American government, with a less-convincing proposed solution.

Kirkus

97%
If you choose to give this delightful book to your high school or college graduate, tell the recipient it’s not necessary to start at the beginning with the “Thirteen Rules” - just pick it up anywhere and enjoy.

Washington Times

97%
This book is a critical and detailed – sometimes too detailed – account of America’s involvement in Afghanistan,

Washington Times

96%
Mr Glaeser writes lucidly and spares his readers the equations of his trade. This is popular economics of the best sort.

The Economist

96%
...a visually entrancing collection of illustrations...

LA Times

96%
The pleasure of Mark Kurlansky's "Birdseye" is in getting caught up in his enthusiasm for this now-outmoded persona, and watching Birdseye thrive, even revel, in the world around him despite its changes.

WSJ online

94%
There's probably little else as fun as living vicariously through Lebovitz for 269 pages, especially when it involves chocolate spice bread, plum and raspberry clafoutis or lemon-glazed madeleines.

LA Times

94%
Aside from too many lurid terrorist scenarios, this is an intelligent account of the mess we are making of the planet; the unsettling conclusion: that humans may survive because we are resilient, not because we can fix matters.

Kirkus

94%
A well-balanced narrative of varied humanity, captured in their simultaneously glorious and worrisome diversity.

Kirkus

94%
Even an occasional lapse into preaching about the philosophical problems with space exploration can’t mar this poignant story, which admirably stretches the limits of human imagination.

Publishers Weekly

94%
“The Price of Inequality,” is the single most comprehensive counterargument to both Democratic neoliberalism and Republican laissez-faire theories

NY Times

93%
Rich in detail, enthralling, and moving: a classic Presidential biography.

Kirkus

93%
Mr. Silver illustrates his dos and don’ts through a series of interesting essays that examine how predictions are made in fields including chess, baseball, weather forecasting, earthquake analysis and politics.

NY Times

92%

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