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Wait before you hate...and wait before you rate! Here's Why...., September 27, 2006
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Dr. Emil Shuffhausen (Central Gulf Coast) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Culture Warrior (Hardcover)
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A Real Red Scare, October 28, 2001
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Timothy Haugh (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It (Hardcove... [more]
Did movies like Outbreak and books like The Hot Zone scare you to death?
This story makes those look like nursery tales. The old Soviet Union's bioweapons program was the largest, the most far-reaching, the sloppiest run, and the least safe bioweapons in the world. This tell-all -- by the man who ran the program -- gives specifics about the Russians' efforts and gives play-by-plays of no less than two blunders that infected Russians living close the facilities.
With the dissolution of the Soviet Union there's no doubt that the manufacturing technologies for these weapons is now in the hands of rogue terrorists around the world.
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Why other people give this book 1 star, September 11, 2001
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Royal Tenenbaum "antsarecute" (Cambridge, MA United States)
Hi, for the un-informed, I'd recommend a search of the phrase "Richard Dawkins" in google.com, which should answer all questions asking if he is a scientist or not.The book, is an excellent... [more]
Richard Dawkins' well-reviewed Blind Watchmaker is not an argument against the notion of God. It is, however, an accessible explanation of the details of evolution and a decisive hammering of the sloppily developed notion of "Intelligent Design."
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Who Stole My Cheese?, August 13, 2000
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A. Petrotchenkov (Moscow, Russia)
1. This book is wrong. It teaches that you must accept change without regard to whether it is appropriate it not. It teaches that you must not struggle, you must not fight. You must simply accept whatever change happen... [more]
Until I read this book I didn't think it was possible to run turds through printing presses. Who Moved My Cheese? is the most ridiculous book I've ever read. Because it's written by a moron, it took me about twenty minutes to read it. Ten to finish the book and ten to throw up.
Busines must consider efficiency a top priority and sometimes that requires downsizing. But this is little more than an excuse for poorly run companies that downsize as a knee-jerk reaction to poor performance caused not by their workers but by they backasswards policies of upper management.
This is my friend Thad's favorite book. Anne Frank's diary, hailed as one of the greatest books of the twentieth century, tells the story -- in Anne's own words -- of her family's period in hiding from Nazi oppression in Demark during World War II.
Thad will not shut up about this book. He says it touches his heart every time he reads it. And Thad's a really good judge of reading material. If Thad loves it, it's got to be good.
