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Recommended Books from Our E-mail Alerts
These books were part of our recommendations and contributions from
subscribers to our E-mail Alerts:
These books available for purchase in association with Amazon.com.
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the book.
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Confucius Lives Next Door:
What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West - by T.R. Reid; Softcover
For the uninitiated in Asian society, this makes an excellent read. Reid is the former Tokyo bureau chief for the
Washington Post. He makes a compelling argument that the basis for the economic miracles, safe streets, and highly productive
education systems for that part of the world comes from values, not rules and regulations. Although he relies most heavily
on Confucianism as the spiritual thread that binds the region together, I'd read this book carefully to note the reliance
on strong family structure. Thought-provoking.
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The Worst Case Scenario Handbook
- by Joshua Piven and David Borgenich; Softcover
Here's a book to broaden your view of what may be a threat to your well-being. The authors have
conceived the most severe danger you possibly could face and give practical advice on how to
extricate yourself. I believe this type of reading forces you to look at the possibility of threats
in other areas of your life and prompt you to begin developing contingency plans for the event you
probably deny could ever happen.
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Basin and Range
- John McPhee / Paperback
We believe that an understanding of the vastly unpopulated areas of America is essential scanning for the first
two decades of the 21st century. These are the regions of our country that will undergo the greatest growth.
McPhee, in my opinion, is the greatest writer of non-fiction alive today and his engrossing story of the most
fascinating region of the U.S. makes for entertaining reading. Highly recommended
- Recommended by our friend Cedric Reese of Quickstaff, Fresno, CA
The New New Thing : A Silicon Valley Story
- Michael Lewis / Hardcover / Published 1999
An engrossing and recommended view of the inside of Silicon Valley not from the perspective of a company, but
from an up-close portrait of one individual: Silicon Graphics and Netscape founder Jim Clark. Cedric called it
both "sweet and sour" reading.
- From our E-mail Alert on the Urban Exodus to the American West
Close Range : Wyoming Stories
- Annie Proulx / Paperback / Published 2000
A Pulitzer-prize winning novelist takes an incisive look at her home range in one of the last bastions of
western life. Wonderful images in few words. An excerpt:
"In the long unfurling of his life, from tight-wound kid hustler in a wool suit riding the train out of
Cheyenne to geriatric limper in this spooled-out year, Mero had kicked down thoughts of the place where he
began, a so-called ranch on strange ground at the south hinge of the Big Horns."
Stories of cattle ranching, divorce, life in a territory that knows the coming of satellite broadband will
bring a new breed of settler to the region.
- Recommended by our agent Kiela Hine of Convention Connection
Angle of Repose
- Wallace Stegner / Softcover / Published 1992
The Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece of this contemporary American author. Stegner tells a story set in today
and yesterday about the lives of those who inhabit the American West. First published in 1971, Stegner makes
points about generation gaps and heritage that make for perhaps even more compelling reading today. I read this
book after Kiela's recommendation and found it thought-provoking and engrossing.
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