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Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently»rank: 273par: Gregory Berns
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The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America»rank: 3796par: Jim Marrs
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream»rank: 697par: Hunter S. Thompson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Heralded as the 'best book on the dope decade' by the New York Times Book Review, Hunter S. Thompson's documented drug orgy through Las Vegas would no doubt leave Nancy Reagan blushing and D.A.R.E. founders rethinking their motto. Under the pseudonym of Raoul Duke, Thompson travels with his Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in a souped-up convertible dubbed the 'Great Red Shark.' ln its trunk, they stow 'two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole ... |
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The Gift Of Thanks»rank: 1172par: Margaret Visser
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Heralded as the 'best book on the dope decade' by the New York Times Book Review, Hunter S. Thompson's documented drug orgy through Las Vegas would no doubt leave Nancy Reagan blushing and D.A.R.E. founders rethinking their motto. Under the pseudonym of Raoul Duke, Thompson travels with his Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in a souped-up convertible dubbed the 'Great Red Shark.' ln its trunk, they stow 'two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole ... |
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Story Guide To Screenwriting»rank: 13788par: Robert McKee
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Writing for the screen is quirky business. A writer must labor meticulously over his or her prose, yet very little of that prose is ever heard by filmgoers. The few words that do reach the audience, in the form of the characters' dialogue, are, according to Robert McKee, best left to last in the writing process. ('As Alfred Hitchcock once remarked, 'When the screenplay has been written and the dialogue has been added, we're ready to shoot.' ') ln Story, McKee puts into book form what he has been ... |
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When My Worries Get Too Big: A Relaxation Book for Children Who Live with Anxiety»rank: 2267par: Kari D. Buron
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Writing for the screen is quirky business. A writer must labor meticulously over his or her prose, yet very little of that prose is ever heard by filmgoers. The few words that do reach the audience, in the form of the characters' dialogue, are, according to Robert McKee, best left to last in the writing process. ('As Alfred Hitchcock once remarked, 'When the screenplay has been written and the dialogue has been added, we're ready to shoot.' ') ln Story, McKee puts into book form what he has been ... |
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)»rank: 591par: Tom Vanderbilt
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008: How could no one have written this book before? These days we spend almost as much time driving as we do eating (in fact, we do a lot of our eating while driving), but l can't remember the last time l saw a book on all the time we spend stuck in our cars. lt's a topic of nearly universal interest, though: everybody has a strategy for beating the traffic. Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What lt ... |
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I Think, I Am!: Teaching Kids the Power of Affirmations»rank: 675par: Louise L. Hay
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008: How could no one have written this book before? These days we spend almost as much time driving as we do eating (in fact, we do a lot of our eating while driving), but l can't remember the last time l saw a book on all the time we spend stuck in our cars. lt's a topic of nearly universal interest, though: everybody has a strategy for beating the traffic. Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What lt ... |
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Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love»rank: 17895par: Sue Johnson, Sue Johnson Dr.
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008: How could no one have written this book before? These days we spend almost as much time driving as we do eating (in fact, we do a lot of our eating while driving), but l can't remember the last time l saw a book on all the time we spend stuck in our cars. lt's a topic of nearly universal interest, though: everybody has a strategy for beating the traffic. Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What lt ... |
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Crime and Punishment»rank: 296par: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. 0f his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. |