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ASIN: 0767902890
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"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to."
A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried marks a subtle but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O'Brien's earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone and the fictional Going After Cacciato, and this sly, almost hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of short stories but rather an artful combination of all three. Vietnam is still O'Brien's theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the myriad different perspectives from which he depicts it. Whereas Going After Cacciato played with reality, The Things They Carried plays with truth. The narrator of most of these stories is "Tim"; yet O'Brien freely admits that many of the events he chronicles in this collection never really happened. He never killed a man as "Tim" does in "The Man I Killed," and unlike Tim in "Ambush," he has no daughter named Kathleen. But just because a thing never happened doesn't make it any less true. In "On the Rainy River," the character Tim O'Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an old man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war. The real Tim O'Brien never drove north, never found himself in a fishing boat 20 yards off the Canadian shore with a decision to make. The real Tim O'Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army. But the truth of "On the Rainy River" lies not in facts but in the genuineness of the experience it depicts: both Tims went to a war they didn't believe in; both considered themselves cowards for doing so. Every story in The Things They Carried speaks another truth that Tim O'Brien learned in Vietnam; it is this blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction, that makes his book unforgettable. --Alix Wilber
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One of the first questions people ask about
The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize this masterpiece. It is both: a collection of interrelated short pieces which ultimately reads with the dramatic force and tension of a novel. Yet each one of the twenty-two short pieces is written with such care, emotional content, and prosaic precision that it could stand on its own.
The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O'Brien who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers (the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she dances), and love for each other, because in Vietnam they are the only family they have. We hear the voices of the men and build images upon their dialogue. The way they tell stories about others, we hear them telling stories about themselves.
With the creative verve of the greatest fiction and the intimacy of a searing autobiography,
The Things They Carried is a testament to the men who risked their lives in America's most controversial war. It is also a mirror held up to the frailty of humanity. Ultimately
The Things They Carried and its myriad protagonists call to order the courage, determination, and luck we all need to survive.
Customer Reviews:
Great Book.......2007-09-25
I was forced to read this book for class but I am certainly glad I did. The book gave first person insight on the personal aspects of the Vietnam War, not just the obvious blood and guts. Stories of women snuck in to the base, lost loves, and interaction with the natives all highlighted the other side of war, not just the trenches, although those aspects are illustrated as well. Fascinating read.
review.......2007-09-25
i ordered this book a month ago and it still has not come. i need it for my college class!!!!!
Mary Anne in the heart of darkness; or: Just another Lemon Tree.......2007-09-24
A book, a novel, a collection of stories and reflections and corrections about war, post-war, pre-war; writing about war and about writing about war. Meta war literature.
This sounds formalistic, but it never is. It grips you.
The biggest surprise for me here is that I never heard about Tim O'Brien and his Vietnam books until now. Or maybe, I did hear about them but I ignored or forgot them. The title 'If I Die in a Combat Zone' somehow does ring a bell. How did I encounter it now? My daughter, a senior and good in lit, wrote a paper about it. She got an A- and let me read it. First the paper and then the book. Well done, daughter.
Footnote: contrary to O'Brien who invents a daughter called Kathleen and has dialogues with her, I really have a daughter, but her name is not Kathleen. Kathleen is possibly the weakest invention of the book, maybe not in concept, but the actual dialogues are wrong. Maybe TOB should have practiced?
A word re my headlines: the Mary Anne story is awesome. And the Lemon Tree is one of the weirdest lines in the books, though my choice of song title is an anachronism. The book certainly refers to the older Lemon Tree song: very pretty...
Personal and touching.......2007-09-21
This is a moving book. A beautiful metaphor for a title. "The things they carried" sums up what this is about - the hopes and fears these soldiers brought, and took away, from war.
Tim's style jumps - there are times when you feel like he is "writing like a novel writer", with the usual eloquence, well-thought out structure expected from a great work of fiction. The first part of the book is in this style and is great in it's own way.
However, there are times when you can feel like you are reading his private journal. You can sense that he is not writing for me or for you in that moment, but rather for himself - to remember, to just make sense of it all. In these parts, the writing is so raw and honest it is hard to imagine not being moved. His fears, the sense of hope, and finally the courage, become real. (Specifically the portion where he was contemplating escaping the draft.) Sometimes I felt like I was just reading my own journal because of his voice...those were the most powerful moments and for that alone, worth the whole book.
What soldiers carry on their backs and in their hearts.......2007-09-09
An amazing book that succeeds in portraying what it was like for the ones who were sent to Vietnam. The difficulty of the telling shows through as the story comes out in pieces that ultimately are woven together for an intense read. There are some gruesome scenes and brutal actions that you come to understand are just normal under the extreme circumstances of war. Fantastic storytelling that shares what these soldiers have to carry inside them.
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Consumers shop to satisfy emotional needs and desires-if a company is selling to emotion, then it's in the business of luxury.
What motivates consumers to buy? Is it pleasure? Education? Entertainment? Status? Or just an impulse? Knowing why consumers buy what they do is the secret to predicting how they will behave in the ever-changing marketplace. In most cases, much of what people buy are items they really don't need.
Focusing on the ""whys"" of spending, Danziger has meticulously profiled customers in more than 30 categories of discretionary spending through research based on surveys, interviews, and focus groups from a variety of people who make discretionary purchases. She provides readers with a vision of the future, giving them the foresight to anticipate the needs and desires of their customers.
This groundbreaking guide will help marketers of all products understand the underlying motivators consumers use to both make their purchases and become satisfied, loyal customers. In Why People Buy Things They Don't Need, Danziger examines:
* The 14 justifiers that give consumers ""permission"" to buy.
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* The future of discretionary spending.
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Not the kind of book I was looking for.......2006-10-10
I thought this was a book to help consumers realize why they buy things they don't need, and thereby stop doing it. But it's the opposite -- it's aimed at helping businesses tap into our buying impulses and sell us MORE stuff! If you're a business looking to raise your sales, you might like this, but it was not at all what I wanted.
Kind of goes on and on.......2006-09-07
The comments by others about how the book at time rehashes statistics are true. At times I found myself glossing over pages just because it was number after number. I lost interest.
I also got to the point with the author's repeated fixation on 9/11 that I had to put the book down. Enough is enough. That fixation only revealed to me the fact that the author's insight and point of view is very limited to the current and is United States centric. The author doesn't address a broader global view of wants and have a historical perspective of why people want to help other spot future trends.
Understand how marketers manipulate you!.......2006-01-24
This book is written for marketers.
If you're a consumer, don't fail to read it - especially if you shop too much and save too little!
Delves into the reasons consumers want things and can be manipulated into believing they need them.
- Eric Tyson
Author of Personal Finance for Dummies and Mind Over Money: Your Path to Wealth and Happiness
An interesting study of the modern consumer.......2005-10-04
Its an interesting study.
I found that much of the people is a rehash of statistical studies in words. You may as well just look at the mathematical figures rather then read the words.
The other issue is the book was written not long after 911 and its long terms effects were over estimated by the writer.
i wish I read this when it first came out!.......2005-08-06
Because I sell luxury home and gift items, I was drawn to the title of this book. Sometimes that is not always a good indicator of what is inside, but in this case it was dead-on. The book helped me understand what I've seen over the last few years, as well as gave me some insight into where things are heading (and why). I keep talking about the book, and the list of friends and associates who want to borrow the book keeps growing, although I may not want to give it up. Only a few more pages to go....
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This surprising book may appear to be about the simple things of life--forks, paper clips, zippers--but in fact it is a far-flung historical adventure on the evolution of common culture. To trace the fork's history, Duke University professor of civil engineering Henry Petroski travels from prehistoric times to Texas barbecue to Cardinal Richelieu to England's Industrial Revolution to the American Civil War--and beyond. Each item described offers a cultural history lesson, plus there's plenty of engineering detail for those so inclined.
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Petroski tells fascinating stories about the arduous processes that resulted in paper clips, Post-its, Phillips-head screwdrivers, Scotch tape, and fast-food "clamshell" containers. "Petroski . . . an examines the simplest . . . tools in our lives with an appraising eye."--Washington Post Book World. 45 illus.
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All about the context.......2006-08-07
I found this book to be very illuminating in light of what I do (interaction design) and the books I have read recently on the latest in computational neuroeconomics, maninstream pattern recognotion theory, interaction design, visual design, industrial design, computer engineering, new marketing theory, and information design around complex systems. In fact, this book is almost a stake in the ground on how the manufacturing process, invention, and branding created the artifacts in our environment. Better than the Industrial Desig books I read 10 years ago. I think we would call these "case studies" and "use cases" in modern terminology. I mention all the fields above because every single one of them have an exact doppelganger in the past.
This book is a brilliant look at process and can be used as a research tool when looking at why something like the iPod caught on and why almost everything that has been developed at MIT in recent history (except eInk) has never gained a foothold in popular American culture. In the face of the rise of "everyware" computing, it's adoption in places like Korea and Japan, and only limited use by the rich for personal security in the US, I would say this is a must read for contemporary designers, no matter what depth of complexity their task at hand. This book predates the web, making it very enlightening in light of user-centered design in recent years.
This book looks at the relationship of genius design, corporate R+D, pop culture, the feedback loop for product innovation, and the adoption of standards around SIMPLE things. This means these case studies can be used to analyse the failures (and how failure breeds innovation, not "form follows function") of our complex information economy and embedded systems. Society has gone through it all before. And as projects become increasingly team based and open sourced (like Stanford's new d.school), just about anyone can find value in this book based within this context.
Worth the read.......2006-06-05
while I agree with some of the previous reviews that Petroski may overstate and repeat a little bit, this book is an excellent in depth look at the invention process as practiced by many people in parallel and in concert.
If you have any interest in Industrial Design, Interaction Design or just trivia for how object evolve this is a great read and Petroski surely knows his stuff.
I don't agree with some who call it too academic, the text is in depth, but not dry. It is not breazy or flip either...Just right*
An eye opener! .......2006-01-10
Ideal for anyone who harbours a casual interest in forks, pins, paper clips and zippers. Not recommended for people who hate forks, pins, paper clips and zippers, or people who are obsessed with forks, pins, paper clips and zippers and already know how they came to be as they are.
Hidden Depth.......2005-12-12
On the face of it, the Evolution of Useful Things simply lists fun trivia about familiar objects. Why does a fork have four tines and not two or three? What's a perfect paperclip? Is there such a thing? Who invented the zipper? How many things can you see on your desk right now?
However the book gives us much more. Petroski uses a large number of concrete facts to present general laws of human thought and activity. The paper clip appeared because pins used to hold papers together made holes in them and could injure someone looking through files, but it took a while for it to reach the form we know today. We invent new things because we are dissatisfied when we find problems. Form follows not function, but failure.
While small objects play the center role here, large machines such as locomotives and large projects such as bridges also come up. Petroski argues that for his concepts to be valid, they must apply to the great as well as the small and he shows that engineers design new bridges or tunnels by solving problems observed found while building other bridges and tunnels.
The book's title is especially good. The evolution of man-made things differs fundamentally from the evolution of living things. Natural selection follows a mindless process of sifting through countless minute _random_ changes. Things, however, evolve through a different process of sifting through countless _intended_ changes (sometimes small, somtimes large) until something arises that works better than before.
Petroski's writing does annoy me a little; he's got some really bad puns. For example he follows two different quotations of how to manufacture a needle with the phrase "there's more than one way to make a point." Another problem is that he repeats himself. For instance, he twice mentions Karl Marx's astonishment at finding 500 different kinds of hammers in a Birmingham factory.
But the originality of his thesis far outweighs these minor flaws. Henry Petroski is a philosopher of engineering examining the question of why we invent things. He asks why we are always perfecting our inventions, why we are never satisfied with our tools as they are. His proposed answers in no small way explain much of the history of our rich living environment with its tens of thousands of useful things.
Vincent Poirier, Tokyo
Worthwhile Reading.......2005-10-23
I really enjoyed this book. It was fascinating to learn how so many things came about. I enjoyed the history and the anecdotes and in-depth analysis of each topic.
I found it inspirational in many places. The creative artisan not only perfects his skills but looks beyond the routine to develop improved tools and processes. I read many passages to my kids.
I was dismayed when the author started writing about forks again when I thought we were all done with forks until I noticed the way the book is broken out by ideas and concepts rather than the specific examples. I think this is probably the most well-organized book I have ever read.
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From the Internet and e-commerce to contract work and globalization, the way we work and communicate is changing constantly. Still, one essential fact remains: We must pay attention to the little things — the details that demonstrate that we know how to communicate and interact with others on a professional level, regardless of our position or occupation.
In this book, longtime business communications consultant and trainer Barbara Pachter offers 601 essential ways to approach every business situation and relationship with confidence and ease. With its empathetic tone and entertaining real-life anecdotes, When the Little Things Count . . . and They Always Count offers inspiration and advice to help get us to the next level of professionalism and success.
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Quick and Easy Guide for professionals.......2001-05-12
I enjoyed this book. It was an easy read book that gave good examples and good advice. Many times there were situations mentioned that I would have never thought would have mattered in a business environment. I learned many things on how to handle myself and appearance in a professional way. Many of the things mentioned in the book are easy to implement and take little time, others are larger. I would recommend this book to every student before entering the business work place.
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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.
In CliffsNotes on The Things They Carried, you discover Tim O'Brien's powerful and innovative novel about the experiences of foot soldiers during and after the Vietnam War. Drawing largely on his own experiences during the war, the author creates a fictional protagonist who shares the author's own name, and allows this fictional "Tim O'Brien" to relate disturbing war stories as he creates an indictment against the wastefulness of war.
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This Book Needed Help.......2005-08-26
"The Things They Carried." This book has many sides to it. In one moment there is love, happiness, and serenity then moments later the reality of war flips the story! The story line is so messed up on so many levels. There is a fine line between the truth of the matter and O'Briens imagination.
This book has so much pain and heartache. With a mix of passion for other men at war. Even through all the deaths and destruction, these soldiers seem to taunt life with life and death games. If you were at war wouldn't you think that you would be making sure you wouldn't die!
For war this book sure seems to let you know how it really was. The most important thing was that it had a historical value. At least he was there to be able to tell about it.
At the beginging this book did not start at all right. Then since he was so unhappy that he did not experience a life changing effect, he focused on the negative outlook. O'Brien should have been happy he survived the Vietnam War.
Great study aid.......2002-02-20
Cliff's notes once again delivers as a fantastic study aid. By no means should you use this as a replacement for the book. O'Brien has emerged as one of the greatest modern writers on the subject of war, and it would be a pity to overlook his writing. But if you are looking for help to write a paper on the topic, or just curious to discover more about the underlying meaning of the novel, don't hesitate to buy Cliff's Notes.
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"Opening up your own medical practice has many of the same challenges as opening up any small business. However, few professionals view themselves or their practice this way. Start Your Own Medical Practice takes the approach that being on your own makes you a small business owner first and a practicing doctor second.
Targeting the young doctor ready to start his or her own practice, this book identifies all the business components of starting a business geared toward the special needs of a doctor's office. Basic business decisions are covered, from structuring the organization to financing it to actually setting up the office and examination spaces. Specific legal concerns are covered including association memberships, practice specializations and patient development.
This guide to all the things they don't teach in medical school about starting a medical practice will take any doctor from health care provider to savvy businessperson."
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This fascinating book explains why the materials we can see and touch behave as they do. In a completely nontechnical style, using only basic arithmetic, the author explains how the properties of materials result from the way they are composed of atoms and why it is they have the properties they do: for example, why copper and rubies are colored, why metals conduct heat better than glass, why magnets attract an iron nail but not a brass pin, and how superconductors are able to conduct electricity without resistance. The book is intended for general readers, and uses mainly words, pictures and analogies, with only a minimum of very simple mathematics. The author explains how it is possible to understand the basic properties of matter, and translates the technical jargon of physics into a language that can be understood by anyone with an interest in science who wants to know why the world around us behaves in the way that it does.
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Really a no good book.......2007-03-20
This book is the worst book I ever purchased I want my money back
Very Clear.......2002-07-04
This book provides a clear and interesting description of how quantum mechanics explains the workings and properties of light and matter. Learn why copper is the color it is and why glass is transparent to light, among other things. These explanations are provided in a mostly non-mathematical way but at the same time are not fluff. Its nice to see a book explain how quantum theory effects everyday life instead of the usual round of mystical pronouncements. I was actually surprised at how engaging the book was, actually at times I could hardly put it down. Hard to believe getting all that interested into why things are the way they are but if you are interested in physics and engineering you will find this an enjoyable book. I would like to see the author write more books on other aspects of physics and quantum theory.
The Little Big Book.......2002-03-11
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very smooth explanations.......2001-08-10
This is very interesting book about somee selected concepts and physics of the materials. There are no formulas, everything is in narrative format. Author starts with crystal structures, particle wave concepts, atom, some quantum mechanical concepts and than application of quantum concepts to heat transfer, magnetism, conduction, electric current and super conductivity.Author provides very nice descriptive pictures and diagrams. Any one who wants to read more about similar subjects with more formulas, still easy reading could also profit from " Understanding Properties of Matter by De posta".
Quantum Mechanics made Understandable.......2001-06-24
I am a network engineer with little rememberance of my college physics. I'm in the process of reacquainting myself with physics and picked up this book. I found it exceptionally interesting, understandable, well explained, and well illustrated. The development is exceptionally smooth, starting from first principles and carefully building concepts. It was sophisticated enough so that there is real meat, not just fluff. I feel it has prepared me to dive into more rigorous QM textbooks because I have an understanding of some of the consequences of QM.
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Description: Things as They Are presents the story of photojournalism over the past five decades, from 1955 until today. Published in collaboration with World Press Photo on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the book takes us from the golden era of the illustrated press--the heyday of Life magazine and Picture Post, and the moment of The Museum of Modern Art's defining Family of Man exhibition--to the twenty-first century's explosion of digital media. This history is told through the presentation of 125 photojournalistic features shot and published around the world, shown in context on the pages of newspapers and magazines as the public originally experienced them. In this way, Things as They Are reveals how the events of the world, the art of photographers and the interests of publishers and the press converged on the printed page. It traces how photojournalism has developed over time alongside changing technology, media, fashions in photography, and a changing world. And it does so using landmark photo-essays from some of the greatest photographers in the world, including W. Eugene Smith, Sebastiao Salgado, Mary Ellen Mark, James Nachtwey, Annie Liebovitz, Nan Goldin and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Each project is accompanied by expert commentary. An international panel of 100 specialists--photographers, editors, art directors, historians and magazine collectors--made the final selections. They chose stories that exemplified the highest quality of work published internationally during each period, stories that demonstrated important innovations in photography and in publishing, and stories that played a key role in shaping the history of photojournalism itself.
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A very good overview.......2007-08-24
Although the book doesn't include World Press Photo's best work (which I was actually hoping for - thus a star less), it's a great overview of the history of photojournalism. And since I am a photojournalist myself, it's a very handy tool for reference and understanding of the development or my profession.
A survey of photojournalism which divides presentations by 10-year eras .......2006-08-06
Mary Panzer and Christian Coujolle provide the essays to compliment Things Are They Are: Photojournalism In Context Since 1955, a survey of photojournalism which divides presentations by 10-year eras and provides a strong documentary history through over a hundred features shot and published around the world. Each story appears in context of its newspaper or magazine appearance, as seen by its first readers: having them all under one cover provides a unique world presentation and focus unavailable elsewhere and allows for juxtaposition of landmark presentations which set the standard for photographic and journalistic excellence.
It reminds you of what we miss........2006-05-02
Like with everything else, the role of the photojournalist is changing. This book covers the years 1955 to 2005, with each ten year period broken down into a section. For instance, the years 1955 to 1964 is called 'When Magazines Were Big.' This was the time of Life and Look, now both long gone.
As you might expect, most of the pictures show war in one guise or another. The Viet Nam war gets it's own ten year section. But Viet Nam was just one war, this is an international publication so it covers the wars of many countries.
While warfare is a major part of the book, this was also the time of some really great things, like the moon landing and tragedy like Kennedy in Dallas or the tsunami in Southeast Asia.
Seeing photographs like these make me realize how much we miss with the absense of these magazines. Television shows the images, but only for a fleeting moment so that you cannot stay as long as you wish, before you get turned over to some drug company telling you to ask your doctor about their product. This is a great set of pictures.
Great!!!.......2006-03-14
Intended to mark the 50th anniversary of World Press Photo, Things As They Are tells the story of the photojournalism of the last half century - in its original context.
The book shows 120 picture essays - dating from the 1940s, but picking up steam with the heyday of Life magazine in the mid-1950s and continuing through a clearly marked trail of bodies and changing attitudes to beauty right up to the present day - in the same way as they were first seen, namely on the pages of newspapers and magazines. By doing so, it manages to present what are (mostly) familiar images in a new light.
Book Description
What would you do if you could ask any question you ever wanted to about a group of people but were afraid to ask? Would you ask it? What if the question was not politically correct? What if the question might be perceived as offensive? What if the question might sound stupid? Would you ask it? Like most people, you are not alone in the struggle between having questions and seeking answers. And, like most people, you probably won't ask. However, the struggle is over. With this book, you can silently enjoy (unless you read out loud) answers to some of the most widely "wondered" questions about black people in America. About the Author: Kevin D. Moore is the President of Knowledge Driven & Moore, LLC (a motivational speaking and consulting company), a Chief Information Officer (CIO), and a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science (1985). He is married with three children and lives in the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois.
Customer Reviews:
Great Read.......2007-08-02
My family enjoyed reading this book, it really answers questions you may have always wondered about black people but were not comfortable asking. It really is a book for everyone you will find yourself saying oh now I get it, along with getting good laughs. You will want to share this book with friends and family. I highly recommend this book!!!
Light-hearted Read!!.......2007-06-24
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book! It is a very quick read and has a very comic take on some of the questions that some of us have (& are ashamed to ask!). I whole-heartedly reccommed this book... you will laugh while realizing that all of our "differences" is what makes the world go 'round!
Why do black people have rhythm?.......2007-04-24
A fascinating little book filled with things that non-blacks might have wondered about "black people" but were afraid to ask, lest the question be perceived as offensive. Kevin Moore addresses some of the more common wonderings in a humorous and forthright fashion. Black people will no doubt chuckle to learn how practices they take for granted can seem so curious to others! A great way to begin tearing down the walls between the races.
Did You Ever Wonder????.......2007-04-12
I thought the book was very good! Funny and informative with a different perspective. Serious and yet humorous, the authors experiences have obviously prompted him to write this book- with the intention of sharing information with the "majority". I think you'll enjoy it!
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