Ebooks Review

Great British Bake Off: Learn to Bake /by Linda Collister. Love eating cake? Well, this weekend, get into the kitchen and make one yourself. Baking is fun when you know how to do it, and you don’t need lots of equipment or expensive ingredients.
Learn to Bake explains baking terms (how do you bea ... Read more »

Stephen Colbert: A Biography /by Catherine M. Andronik. Stephen Colbert may be "just a comedian"—one not all audiences find funny, especially among those who have been mercilessly lampooned by him—but there is no arguing that the condescending, bombastic, and largely ignorant pundit he plays on Comed ... Read more »

Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America /by Richard Zoglin. What Peter Biskind did for filmmaking, Time magazine critic Richard Zoglin does for comedy in this meticulously researched and hilariously readable account of stand-up comedy in the 1970s.
In the rock-and-roll 1970s, ... Read more »

Beyond Pressure Cooker /by Silverback Books. Learn how to save time and effort with these healthy, low-fat, family-favorites. Pressure cooker meals are fast to make and fantastic to eat, and you’ll enjoy coming home to the wonderful aroma of stews, roasts, and hot soups that are ready to be ser ... Read more »

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA /by Tim Weiner.
For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change th ... Read more »

Dunkirk - The Men They Left Behind / by Sean Longden. At 2am on the morning of the 3rd of June 1940, General Harold Alexander searched along the quayside, holding onto his megaphone and called _Is anyone there? Is anyone there?_ before turning his boat back towards England.Tradition tells u ... Read more »

Occult America: White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation /by Mitch Horowitz. From its earliest days, America served as an arena for the revolutions in alternative spirituality that eventually swept the globe.
Esoteric philosophies and personas from F ... Read more »

Your Prosperity Paradigm /by Leslie Fieger. The proven step-by-step process to creating and living a super successful life that everyone can apply immediately to create success in all areas of life, physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and material.
The author of this book does not dispense ... Read more »

The Queen Mother: The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who Became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother /by Lady Colin Campbell. Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of The Queen Mother from the New York Times bestselling author who first revealed the truth about Princess Diana.
Queen Elizabeth The Que ... Read more »

The Politics of Ethnic Separatism in Russia and Georgia /by Julie A. George. In the summer of 2008, open war broke out once again in Georgia, a small, multiethnic country along Russia’s Caucasian border.
It was not a new conflict. In 1990, as the Soviet Union collapsed, the region of ... Read more »

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror /by Bernard Lewis. In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism.
He looks at the theological or ... Read more »

The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction /by David Carrasco. This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosop ... Read more »

The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities /by Matthew White. A compulsively readable and utterly original account of world history—from an atrocitologist’s point of view.
Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew Wh ... Read more »

Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East /by Roger S. Bagnall. Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world--that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution--has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading.
papyrol ... Read more »

Evolution That Anyone Can Understand/by Bernard A. Marcus. The function of scientific research is promoting the understanding of the world around us. In theory, anyway, the more we learn, the more potential we have of making our lives better. Thus, we have seen research in electronics provide us with computers ... Read more »