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Book Review: The Nearest Exit by Olen Steinhauer
In Steinhauer's latest spy thriller, Milo Weaver faces his toughest assignment yet: kill a 15-year-old Moldovian girl.
Read More »Book Review: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
Because language is the primary vessel of conscious thoughts, the technologies we use exert great influence over our intellectual lives.
Read More »Book Review: Windows 7: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Do you do Windows 7?
Read More »Book Review: Theodora: Actress. Empress. Whore. by Stella Duffy
This historical novel fails to quite come to terms with a great character of history.
Read More »Book Review: Neil Young: Long May You Run by Daniel Durchhortz and Gary Graff
No book can convey the sounds that made Neil Young an icon, but this one does an excellent job of documenting his career visually.
Read More »Book Review: Digital Restoration From Start To Finish, Second Edition by Ctien
Do you want to learn how to restore photographs?
Read More »Book Review: Flash CS5: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover
Do you want to learn Flash CS5?
Read More »Book Review: Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre
Thrilling story of one of the great intelligence coups of the Allied war effort during the Second World War.
Read More »Book Review: Book of Shadows by Alexandra Sokoloff
Book of Shadows combines the excitement of a supernatural thriller, the chills of a horror novel, and the mystery of a crime story.
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