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05/08
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Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse (Paperback) by Steve Bogira bookshelves: currently-reading |
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05/08
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The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook, Fourth Edition (Paperback) by Edmund J. Bourne bookshelves: currently-reading |
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08/30
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Teach Yourself Go (Paperback) by Charles Matthews bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse (Paperback) by Steve Bogira bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook, Fourth Edition (Paperback) by Edmund J. Bourne bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback) by Kenneth T. Jackson |
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recommended for: Anyone who's ever lived in or wants to live in a suburb (and anti-suburb sympathizers)
read in April, 2008 
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"Another book in the series of seminal urbanist books I want to read instead of actually going to grad school, this book explains the economic, social, historical, racial, philosophical, etc. reasons for the propensity over its short history for Ameri...more
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A Better Way to Zone: Ten Principles to Create More Livable Cities (Paperback) by Donald L. Elliott bookshelves: to-read |
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The Book of Illusions: A Novel (Hardcover) by Paul Auster |
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recommended for: Readers of contemporary post-modern fiction
read in April, 2008
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"Oh the beauty of jury duty...lots of uninterrupted reading time! This is only the second book of Paul Auster's I've read (after The New York Trilogy, which I absolutely loved). It's written in a more straightforward style than The New York Trilogy,...more
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Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (Russell Sage Foundation Co-Pub) by Larry M. Bartels bookshelves: to-read |
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Grace After Midnight: A Memoir (Hardcover) by Felicia Pearson |
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recommended for: Fans of The Wire read in April, 2008
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"A very quick read, this autobiography follows the life of a young girl living a life in the drug-addled sections of Baltimore. I heard about the book because she eventually came to portray a similar-to-life character on the show The Wire, and I imag...more
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Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback) by Robert D. Putnam bookshelves: favorites |
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recommended for: Anyone interested in sociology, politics, urbanism and social relationships
read in April, 2008
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"I'm not sure I could give full justice to this book in a hastily written review, so I'm not going to try. Robert Putnam's seminal treatise on social capital is jam-packed with statistics and information to back up his claims that social capital has ...more
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Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape (Paperback) by Owen D. Gutfreund bookshelves: to-read |
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