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    <updated_at>Sat, 10 May 2008 21:49:31 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I am not sure whether or not this book can help anyone to make a voting decision. Well, I can't vote in this country anyway. I am only a permanent resident, not a citizen. But I really wanted to know who are all these people on TV. For someone who spent only two years in USA and wants two know what'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20946431">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:36:10 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Honestly, I bought this book in a grocery since I had absolutely nothing to read. And it is exactly that kind of book that you expect to buy in a grocery. Long, sometimes exciting, sometimes dull, with some love story (of course!). The author tried to avoid happy end, but only spoiled the novel even...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19069192">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[If you want to know why IBM finally left the market of personal computers, what happened to Netscape Navigator browser, or how so many software companies managed to went bankrupt, this book is an excellent source of knowledge. Sometimes you can disagree with the author – it was not all about stupi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19070723">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:40:42 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The book is written by a scientist, Ian Wilmut, who led a group that created that famous sheep, Dolly. Roger Highfield is a journalist and a science editor of the Daily Telegraph, so he helped the scientist to make the book readable. The book tells how the Dolly was cloned and discusses the technica...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19070691">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:39:30 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The author is a famous English theoretical physicist working on such issues as black holes and the origin of the Universe that are among the topics covered in this book. It’s wonderful how one can discuss modern ideas of the theoretical physicist using just a single formula: E=mc2. However, for th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19070662">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:38:45 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[As well as “The selfish gene”, this book is about evolution and genes. But this time the main theme of the book is a denial of the popular creationism theory. Dawkins shows that the nature and life on our planet could come to existence only in accordance with Darwin’s theory.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:36:19 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best examples of popular science writing addressed to the general audience. The book is about genes and evolution but at the same time it answers some fundamental questions of our today life, like “Why the world is so cruel?” or “Why there are such things as wars between gen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19070542">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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