Now I'm getting the chance to read books I didn't have time for before. Think of me whenever you see the slogan "So many books, so little time!" Now I've got the time.  Cheers, Fred.

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The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas

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Book Number: 
343
Date Fred Read: 
February 2010
Fred's Rating: 
4
Author: 
James Buchan
Total Pages: 
145
Publisher: 
Atlas
Year: 
2007

James Buchan is a novelist, critic, and contributor to the NYT Book Review and the NY Observer. He was formerly a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times. He won the Duff Cooper Prize for Frozen Desire, an examination of money. This was a gift book.  Read more

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James Herriot’s Yorkshire

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Book Number: 
335
Date Fred Read: 
December 2009
Fred's Rating: 
4
Author: 
James Herriot
Total Pages: 
221
Publisher: 
St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition
Year: 
1981

James Herriot is the pen name for James Alfred Wight, OBE (1916-1995), a British veterinary surgeon and writer best known for his semi-autobiographical stories, often referred to collectively as All Creatures Great and Small, a title used in some editions and in film and TV attractions.  Read more

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Where the Sky Began: Land of the Tallgrass Prairie

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Book Number: 
316
Date Fred Read: 
August 2009
Fred's Rating: 
3
Author: 
John Madson
Total Pages: 
294
Publisher: 
University of Iowa Press
Year: 
2004

Iowa native John Madsen (1923-1995) wrote about the natural history and resource conservation of rivers, plains, and deserts. He wrote 11 books and was published in periodicals such as Audubon, Smithsonian, and National Geographic.  Read more

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

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Book Number: 
307
Date Fred Read: 
May 2009
Fred's Rating: 
4
Author: 
James W. Loewen
Total Pages: 
312
Publisher: 
Touchstone
Year: 
2007

James W. Loewen, a sociologist, spent two years at the Smithsonian studying 12 textbooks widely used throughout the US, resulting in this, his best-known book. He concluded not one textbook does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. A new 2005 Preface updates the book but not his conclusion.  Read more

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Millennial Makeover: My Space, YouTube & the Future of American Politics

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Book Number: 
286
Date Fred Read: 
January 2009
Fred's Rating: 
4
Author: 
Morley Winograd
Author: 
Michael D. Hais
Total Pages: 
267
Publisher: 
Rutgers University Press
Year: 
2008

Morley Winograd is executive director of the Center for Telecom Management at USC’s Marshall School of Business and is president and CEO of Morwin, Inc. a government reform consulting company. Michael D. Hais is retired as vice president of entertainment research at the communications firm Frank N. Magid Associates.  Read more

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Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

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Book Number: 
285
Date Fred Read: 
January 2009
Fred's Rating: 
5
Author: 
Muhammad Yunis
Total Pages: 
248
Publisher: 
PublicAffairs; Reprint edition
Year: 
2009

Muhammad Yunis had a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt. He devotes his life to provide financial and social services to the most poor of Bangladesh. He founded the Grameen Bank. He and Grameen won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.  Read more

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The Mind of the Market: How Biology and Psychology Shape Our Economic Lives

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Book Number: 
266
Date Fred Read: 
September 2008
Fred's Rating: 
5
Author: 
Michael Shermer
Total Pages: 
261
Publisher: 
Holt Paperbacks; 1 edition
Year: 
2009

Michael Shermer, author of nine previous books is an adjunct professor of economics at Claremont Graduate Univ., a Scientific American columnist, the publisher of Skeptic magazine, and the founder and director of the International Skeptics Society. (For his books I've read, click on his name.)  Read more

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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden side of Everything

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Book Number: 
263
Date Fred Read: 
August 2008
Fred's Rating: 
5
Author: 
Steven Levitt
Author: 
Stephen Dubner
Total Pages: 
207
Publisher: 
William Morrow; 1 edition
Year: 
2005

Steven Levitt teaches economics at the Univ. of Chicago. He received the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every 2 years to the best American economist under 40. Stephen Dubner, a NYT and New Yorker writer, had bestselling books Turbulent Souls and Confessions of a Hero Worshipper. Freakonomics was a NYT bestseller.  Read more

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The Omnivore’s Dilema: A Natural History of Four Meals

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Book Number: 
243
Date Fred Read: 
March 2008
Fred's Rating: 
4
Author: 
Michael Pollan
Total Pages: 
411
Publisher: 
Penguin
Year: 
2007

Michael Pollan is a contributing writer for the NYT Magazine who also teaches writing in the Graduate School for Journalism at UC Berkeley. His writings received numerous awards. In 2002 his The Botany of Desire (book 164) was a national bestseller. (For his books I've read, click on his name.)  Read more

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The Genius of America: How the Constitution Saved Our Country - and Why It Can Again

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Book Number: 
240
Date Fred Read: 
February 2008
Fred's Rating: 
5
Author: 
Eric Lane
Author: 
Michael Oreskes
Total Pages: 
221
Publisher: 
Bloomsbury USA
Year: 
2007

Eric Lane is a law professor who has written several texts on government and served as director of the NY State Commission on Constitutional Revision. Michael Oreskes, executive editor of the International Herald Tribune, has held several jobs with the NY Times.  Read more

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