Roger's Book Reviews

Books: Athletic

Going Long: Training for Ironman-Distance Triathlons

Joe Friel and Gordon Byrn
VeloPress; Bolder CO; 2003
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It's Not About the Bike

Lance Armstrong
G.P. Putnam's Sons, May 2000
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Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook

Nancy Clark
Human Kinetics, 2003
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Racing the Antelope: What Animals Can Teach Us About Running and Life

Bernd Heinrich
Ecco (HarperCollins); 1st edition (May 1, 2001)
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SERIOUS Training For Endurance Athletes

Rob Sleamaker and Ray Browning
Human Kinetics; Champaign, IL; (1996)
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Swimming to Antartica

Lynne Cox
Knopf 2004, New York
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The Complete Walker IV

Colin Fletcher and Chip Rawlins
Knopf; Rev edition (April 30, 2002)
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The Perfect Mile

Neal Bascomb

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Ultramarathon Man

Dean Karnazes
Penguin Group, 2005
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Books: Exploration and Adventure

Fearless on Everest

Julie Summers
The Mountaineers Books, Seattle WA 2000
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Into Thin Air

Jon Krakauer
Villard Books, 1997
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Maiden Voyage

Tania Aebi
Ballantine Books 1989
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Not all Ringers and Cowboys

Drew Radford
ABC Books 2005
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Books: Fiction

Big Trouble

Dave Barry
Berkly Books 1999
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Shogun

James Clavell
Hodder and Stoughton, 1975
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Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson
Bantam Books, 1992
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The Plague

Albert Camus
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc 1948 (first english translati
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Books: History

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Charles C. Mann
Vintage (October 10, 2006)
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In the Heart of the Sea

Nathaniel Philbrick
Penguin Putnam Inc, 2000
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John Adams

David McCullough

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Nothing Like It In the World : The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

Stephen E. Ambrose
2000,Touchtone, New York
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The Boxer Rebellion

Diana Preston
Berkely Books, 2000
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes
1986 Touchtone, New York
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To Rule the Waves

Arthur Herman
HarperCollins Inc, 2004
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Books: Other

The Informant: A True Story

Kurt Eichenwald
Broadway; 1 edition (July 3, 2001)
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Books: Science and Engineering

A Man on the Moon

Andrew Chalkin
Penguin Books, Inc 1994
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Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Second Edition

Bruce Schneier

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Electric Universe

David Bodanis
Crown (February 15, 2005)
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Feakonomics

Steven D Levitt and Stephan J Dubner
HarperCollins 2005
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Gossamer Odyssey

Morton Grosser
Houghton Mifflin Co. 1981
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Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond
W.W. Northon & Co, Inc 1997
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Noah's Flood

William Ryan and Walter Pitman
Touchstone
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Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum

William F. Ruddiman

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Sojouerner

Andrew Mishkin
Berkley Books, 2003
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The Ancestor's Tale

Richard Dawkins
Houghton Mifflin, October, 2004
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The Book Nobody Read

Owen Gingerich

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The Ice Finders

Edmund Blair Bolles
Counterpoint, 1999
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Tycho & Kepler

Kitty Ferguson
Walker & Co. 2002
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We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific"

David Lewis
University of Hawaii Press 1972
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival

Bernd Heinrich

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