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1. By Design: Science and the Search for God by Larry Witham [Spiritual/Religion] 2. Damn Senators: My Grandfather and the Story of Washington's Only World Series Championship by Mark Gauvreau Judge [Sports/Entertainment] 3. Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions about the World's Fastest-Growing Faith by Robert H. Spencer [Spiritual/Religion] 4. Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World by Wesley J. Smith [Technology/Science] 5. The Anti-Chomsky Reader by Peter Collier & David Horowitz [Politics/Government] 6. The Cost of Choice by Erika Bachiochi [General Nonfiction] 7. In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage by John Earl Haynes & Harvey Klehr [Politics/Government] 8. Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy by John Fund [Politics/Government] 9. Taking Sex Differences Seriously by Steven E. Rhoads [Family/Relationships] 10. The War over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission by Lawrence F. Kaplan [Politics/Government]

1. Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions about the World's Fastest-Growing Faith by Robert H. Spencer [Spiritual/Religion]

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1	The Anti-Chomsky Reader [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Peter Collier & David Horowitz		Beginning with his criticism of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, MIT professor Noam Chomsky has become better known for his radical politics than for his theories of language. These essays scrutinize both the theories and the politics: linguists Paul Postal and Robert Levine reevaluate Chomsky's linguistics to find parallels with his politics; scholar Paul Bogdanor explores Chomsky's hatred of Israel; Ronald Radosh and David Horowitz discuss Chomsky's gloating reaction to the September 11 attacks; ... more info>> Category: Politics/Government	1 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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2	Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Wesley J. Smith		Unraveling the mystery of stem cells, Wesley J. Smith illuminates what's on the line in the controversy over using them for research. He describes the emerging science of human cloning-the most radical technology in history-and shows how it moves forward inexorably against the moral consensus of the world. But at the core of this highly readable and carefully researched book is a report on the gargantuan "Big Biotech" industry and its supporters in the universities and the science and bioethics ... more info>> Category: Technology/Science	1 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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3	Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions about the World's Fastest-Growing Faith [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Robert H. Spencer		Taking on the hard questions about what the Islamic religion actually teaches, Robert Spencer sets forth the potentially ominous implications of those teachings for the future of both the Muslim world and the West. Islam Unveiled goes beyond the shallow distinction between a "true" peaceful Islam and the "hijacked" Islam of terrorist groups. Spencer probes the Koran and Muslim traditions, as well as the history and present-day situation of the Muslim world, to explain why the world's fastest-gro... more info>> Category: Spiritual/Religion	5 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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4	Damn Senators: My Grandfather and the Story of Washington's Only World Series Championship [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Mark Gauvreau Judge		Mark Judge has written a book that is at once a touching memoir of his grandfather, star first baseman for the old Washington Senators; a history of baseball in its golden age; and an exciting account of the Senators' 1924 World Series victory. For years, the Washington Senators were the doormat of the American League, but in 1924 everything came together. Mark Judge offers unforgettable portraits of legends such as Ty Cobb, Walter ("Big Train") Johnson, Babe Ruth, "Goose" Goslin, Al Schacht and... more info>> Category: Sports/Entertainment
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5	By Design: Science and the Search for God [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Larry Witham		At the heart of By Design are two interrelated movements. One is the "science and religion dialogue," stretching from the laboratories of Nobelists to the inner sancta of the Vatican, an effort to build bridges between two worlds formerly thought to be incompatible and implacably hostile. The other is the intelligent design movement, which by reviving a natural theology of design in nature has challenged the Darwinian strongholds in science and public education. After reading By Design, we under... more info>> Category: Spiritual/Religion
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6	The Secret Wars of Judi Bari: A Car Bomb, the Fight for the Redwoods and the End of Earth First! [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Kate Coleman		Kate Coleman traces Judi Bari's rise from college activist to would-be Mother Jones of the Redwoods. Drawing on extensive interviews with Bari's friends and comrades as well as critics, Coleman describes her struggle for selfhood against her husband, against those in her movement who felt that she was not radical enough, and ultimately against the FBI and the State of California. Judi Bari's wars continued until her death from cancer seven years after the explosion that changed her life permanen... more info>> Category: People
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7	America's Bishop: The Life and Times of Fulton J. Sheen [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Thomas C Reeves		The American Catholic Church's most charismatic presence over several decades, Sheen was also its chief evangelist. Among his thousands of converts were celebrities such as Clare Booth Luce and Henry Ford II, and former communists Louis Budenz and Elizabeth Bentley. Reeves discusses these conversions and Sheen's close friendship with J. Edgar Hoover, and details for the first time the struggle between Sheen and his chief rival, Francis Cardinal Spellman, a battle of ecclesiastical titans that le... more info>> Category: Spiritual/Religion	1 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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8	Diversity--The Invention of a Concept [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Peter Wood		In this entertaining book, Peter Wood has undertaken nothing less than the biography of a concept. He traces the birth and evolution of "diversity," illuminating how it came to sprawl across politics, law, education, business, entertainment, personal aspiration, religion and the arts as an encompassing claim about human identity. It asserts that people are, above all else, members of social groups and products of the historical experiences of those groups. Diversity in this sense, Wood says, is ... more info>> Category: History
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9	Heaven on Earth--The Rise and Fall of Socialism [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Joshua Muravchik		Joshua Muravchik traces the fiery trajectory of socialism with sketches of dreamers and doers who developed the theory, led it to power and presided over its collapse. There is the French revolutionary Gracchus Babeuf, whose "Conspiracy of Equals" aimed to outlaw private property; Robert Owen, who tried to plant a socialist utopia in the United States; Friedrich Engels, who created the cult of Karl Marx and "scientific" socialism; Benito Mussolini, self-proclaimed socialist heretic and inventor ... more info>> Category: History
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10	Mexifornia: A State of Becoming [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Victor Hanson		Noted for his military histories and his social commentary on post-9/11 American life, Victor Davis Hanson is a fifth-generation Californian who teaches college classics courses and runs a family farm. Mexifornia is part history, part political analysis and part memoir. It is an intensely personal book about what has changed in California over the last quarter-century, and how the real losers in the chaos caused by hemorrhaging borders are Mexican immigrants themselves. But Hanson believes that ... more info>> Category: Politics/Government	1 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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11	Vile France: Fear, Duplicity, Cowardice and Cheese [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Denis Boyles		In this bitingly funny and insightful polemic, Denis Boyles, who has lived and worked in France for several years, examines the internal crises--a falling birthrate, an expanding Muslim minority, economic stagnation, a lessening of international prestige--that have altered the personality of what was once "La Belle France," transforming it into a nation afflicted with status anxiety. He explains how a country that endlessly repeats its credentials as America's oldest ally has become one of our m... more info>> Category: Politics/Government
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12	The People v. Harvard Law: How America's Oldest Law School Turned Its Back on Free Speech [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Andrew Payton Thomas		In 2002, Kiwi Camara, a Filipino-American student studying at the Harvard Law School, joined most of his classmates in posting his class outlines for the previous year on the school website. But in his notes, Camara had used shorthand terms widely regarded as racial slurs. In the furor that followed, administrators proposed a speech code to prohibit members of the law school community from voicing racially insensitive remarks. In this fascinating insider's account, Andrew Peyton Thomas recounts ... more info>> Category: Education
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13	Red Star over Hollywood: The Film Colony's Long Romance with the Left [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Ronald Radosh & Allis Radosh		Using material from the papers of Dalton Trumbo, Dore Schary, Melvyn Douglas and other Hollywood insiders, Ronald and Allis Radosh trace the growth of the Communist Party from the 1920s, when stars like Charlie Chaplin and Groucho Marx toured the Soviet Union and came back converted, through the 1930s and the war years, when the Party achieved critical mass in Hollywood. The Radoshes' most controversial discovery is that during the investigations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities,... more info>> Category: Politics/Government	1 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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14	The End of Time [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by David Horowitz		Three days after terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, David Horowitz discovered that he had prostate cancer. As America was rebuilding, he emerged from months of treatment with a "reprieve" from his disease. He emerged as well with this remarkable book of hard-won insights about how we get to our end and what we learn along the way. A stunning departure from the polemics and social criticism that have made Horowitz one of our most controversial public intellectual... more info>> Category: People
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15	The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Fred Siegel		In this first post-9/11 account of the career of the man who established himself as "America's Mayor" in the dark days after America was attacked, Fred Siegel shows how Rudy Giuliani's successes in New York­restoring law and order, cutting taxes and radically reducing the welfare rolls­demonstrated that Gotham was indeed "governable" (a matter of doubt until his election) and that our major cities might again become vibrant and dynamic places to live after thirty years of middle-class flight. So... more info>> Category: People	1 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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16	Black Rednecks and White Liberals [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Thomas Sowell		In a series of long essays, Black Rednecks and White Liberals presents an in-depth look at many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the trendy intellectuals of our times but also such historic interpreters of American life as Alexis de Tocqueville and Frederick Law Olmsted. Blac... more info>> Category: Politics/Government	2 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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17	The Right to be Wrong: Ending the Culture War over Religion in America [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Kevin Seamus Hasson		We call it the "culture war." It's a running feud over religious diversity that's liable to erupt at any time, in the midst of everything from judicial confirmations to school board meetings. One side demands that only their true religion be allowed in public; the other insists that no religions ever belong there. As the two sides slug it out, the stakes are rising. An ever-growing assortment of faiths insist on an ever-wider variety of truths. How can we possibly all live together and keep both... more info>> Category: Spiritual/Religion
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18	Hands-On Environmentalism [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Brent M. Haglund & Thomas W. Still		The political environmentalism of the past 35 years was born of necessity: business as usual was not protecting the air, water and land. Brent Haglund and Thomas Still believe that the regulatory actions of the 1960s and 1970s were essential medicine for a careless society. But over time, the cure became something of a disease itself, a command-and-control system that widened the gulf between people and the natural world they live in. Writing for those who want to move past the environmental nan... more info>> Category: Technology/Science
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19	Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity--The Challenge for Bioethics [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Leon R. Kass		Trained as a medical doctor and biochemist, Dr. Kass has become one of our most provocative thinkers on bioethical issues. Here he offers a book that grapples with the moral meaning of the new biomedical technologies now threatening to take us back to the future envisioned by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. In a series of meditations on cloning, embryo research, the sale of organs, and the assault on mortality itself, Kass questions the wisdom of trying to break down our natural boundaries and... more info>> Category: General Nonfiction
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20	Dawn over Baghdad: How the U.S. Military Is Using Bullets and Ballots to Remake Iraq [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Karl Zinsmeister		Zinsmeister takes the reader into Iraq's urban neighborhoods, rural villages, and guerrilla snake pits, and shows exactly how young American soldiers are quietly but inexorably choking off a terrorist insurrection and planting the seeds of a dramatically different Iraq. He talks with the GIs and their commanders at an intimate gut-level. He also talks with the men and women on the Iraqi "street." What he discovered-in reporting that is dramatically reinforced in public opinion polls he analyzes-... more info>> Category: Politics/Government
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21	The War over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission [Secure Microsoft Reader] by Lawrence F. Kaplan		Laying out a detailed rationale for action against Iraq, Kaplan and Kristol make clear that the controversy over it is largely a war of competing ideas about America's role in the world. They provide the first comprehensive explanation of the strategy of "preemption" guiding the Bush administration in dealing with this crisis, and show that American foreign policy for the 21st century is being forged in the crucible of our response to Saddam Hussein. The Iraq War will presumably be the end of Sa... more info>> Category: Politics/Government
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22	Taking Sex Differences Seriously [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by Steven E. Rhoads		Dr. Steven E. Rhoads explores male/female disparities in aggression and dominance, in sexuality and nurturing. He shows how denial of these differences has affected phenomena such as the sexual revolution and fatherless families, and policies such as Title IX and the call for universal day care. But he also says that society is improved by discouraging some natural tendencies, like men's temptation toward predatory sex, and encouraging others, like women's greater interest and talent in caring f... more info>> Category: Family/Relationships	1 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor
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23	Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7] by John Fund		Hanging chads, butterfly ballots, voting felons, and Supreme Court intervention. How bad is the U.S. election system? Bad enough that at least eight of the 19 hijackers who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon had registered to vote while they made their deadly preparations for 9/11! John Fund explores the way "vote brokers" stole a mayoral election in Miami in 1998 by tampering with 4700 absent