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1.		The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.50 Customer Review: There are some really good numbers behind some of what Ray Kirzweil predicts for the future of computing and computer intelligence and that is very exciting reading. I have used some of this material for my lectures to my university freshman business students. On the other hand some of the material... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		The Complete Joy of Homebrewing Third Edition (Harperresource Book) from Harper Paperbacks Price: $7.78 Customer Review: This is a pretty concise atlas for the price of it being used. My daughter and I look through the maps quite often, and I am able to show her many points on the globe that she sees on TV. We love the information in this book.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles from Brewers Publications Price: $15.64 Customer Review: It's great I've read it and refer to it, but the data sampling pool is so very small that it's almost a joke. Seriously, of a sampling pool of 7 winners 86% used Crystal.... wow that tells me alot... ah, but it's still fun to dig into each style when formulating your own recipes.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature from Harper Perennial Price: $8.22 Customer Review: I like this book. It calls one's attention to a simple fact - Nature does it better - but it also shows the way to scientists, engineers and the general public - mimmic Nature. Excellent reading for open minds!	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		The Adoration of Jenna Fox from Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) Price: $5.75 Customer Review: Don't take my title wrong - I liked the book a lot and it is pretty well put together in my opinion. In fact I thought the ideas were so creative that they the author could have expanded and made twice as big a book with the same story. I picked this book to read for a fun story to read, however,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		The Hundred-Year Lie: How Food and Medicine Are Destroying Your Health from Dutton Adult Price: $17.33 Customer Review: This information is both shocking and necessary. It is important to learn the different way one needs to learn and on what levels our food effects our diet. We are only getting enough to barely live in nutrients, and people need to learn how to get what they need, and what is being done to... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Brew Ware: How to Find, Adapt & Build Homebrewing Equipment from Storey Publishing, LLC Price: $11.17 Customer Review: I found this book really useful. This is a powerfull tool to build a process, which let you know what is happening; in that way you can have control of what is going on in your brew must.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $12.09 Customer Review: I do not want to doubt the intentions behind the book's advocacy for marrying organic farming and genetic manipulation. The effort to raise yields while maintaining ecological balance is supposed to be a noble cause. The biggest concern I have on genetically manipulated crops is their effects... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.	[no image]	Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills from Health Press Price: $27.00 Customer Review: While this book is quite technological & scientific in it's approach to the problem of how msg, aspartame, cysteine, hydrolized protein & aspartic acid literally rattle & stimulate the neurons in our brains to death, the lesson here is to read it anyway. While much of the scientific... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		Homebrewing for Dummies from For Dummies Price: $19.97 Customer Review: Great product. This book really breaks down all of the information you need to make quality beer but in a way that anyone can understand. Some of the topics are quite complicated but this book is definitely a helpful guide.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea from Penguin Press HC, The Price: $7.98 Customer Review: This is the first tea book I have found that teaches you how to taste and compare the tea. I have a couple of books that describe teas, their properties and where & how they are grown, but this book also offers a practical application of the knowledge gained. Well done.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Cool Waters: 50 Refreshing, Healthy Homemade Thirst-Quenchers from Harvard Common Press Price: $7.54 Customer Review: This is the only book I've found in this topic thats worth the money. It has very good recipes --especially the healthy one --One thing I really like about the author was that he kept health in mind-- Now in days that deserve 10 stars. Most recipes books are field with low nutritious recipes and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		The Naked Pint: An Unadulterated Guide to Craft Beer from Perigee Trade Price: $9.11 Customer Review: Beer is a glorious, glorious beverage. Enjoyed, it could be argued (although perhaps not accurately), by the majority of the world's population, it is nonetheless often misunderstood and misrepresented, even by those who seem to have the closest relationships with it. Currently, with the ironic (and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		The Brewmaster's Table: Discovering the Pleasures of Real Beer with Real Food from Ecco Price: $30.75 Customer Review: Garrett Oliver translates his love of beer into an almost-equal love of food. I learned a lot about beer styles, the history of breweries, beer and food pairing, and everything beer in general. An easy read that's informative and fun. I do appreciate the random pictures of his brewery tours... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (P.S.) from Harper Perennial Price: $5.75 Customer Review: The author of this book did a great job of bring to light the location of some of our genes and its effects. He narrates the genes and its effects on Chromosome 1 through chromosome 22. The book is written by a journalist but he deserves the credit of helping lay people to understand the human... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America's Emerging Battle Over Food Rights from Chelsea Green Publishing Price: $12.45 Customer Review: I recently met this Author at a Raw Milk event. He is very nice to talk to. This book is very informative about the struggle of the small milk farmer trying to sell a healthy product and the derision and persecution of the Government to put a stop to it. I do NOT need the Government to tell me what... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		Backyard Sugarin': A Complete How-To Guide, Third Edition from Countryman Price: $7.05 Customer Review: I bought this book just after the 2009 maple sugaring season. I am interested in running small batches of maple syrup this coming season. I am not looking for an expensive new hobby. This book seems to provide most of the information that I need to start on a small back yard sugaring project. Now I... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats from Hudson Street Press Price: $5.21 Customer Review: I like this book a lot. It helps to know a bit of chemistry when you're reading it, and if you want to remember much and take away a more lasting memory of what these ingredients are it probably needs a second reading. It's a fascinating look into things that are everyday parts of our lives.more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		The Cartoon Guide to Genetics (Updated Edition) from Collins Reference Price: $9.59 Customer Review: My boys, 8 and 9, just ate this book up. They read it, discussed it and read it again. They ask me questions I probably don't know just so they can explain it to me with what they've learned from this and the Physics book by the same author. If grade school age children can understand the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation from Global Research Price: $15.26 Customer Review: What goes around comes around! Henry Kissinger said in the 1970s: Who controls the oil is in the position to control whole nations; who controls food controls the people. According to the author the American Rockefeller foundation has taken over this business. It is not all about money, it is also... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.		From Research to Manuscript: A Guide to Scientific Writing from Springer Price: $17.54 Customer Review: If you are looking for a very solid, well-written, practical guide to writing research papers, this is a great choice. It begins with a strategy of turning an outline into a paper, then moves into basic statistic and approaches to developing good figures, graphs, and tables that lay out the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		To Cork or Not To Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle from Scribner Price: $4.64 Customer Review: I am a neophyte wine drinker, and I purchased this book to give me some detail on this subject. "To cork or not to cork" gave me that and much more. I feel much more informed and am now able to hold a meaningful discussion on the topic of the wine closure. I found this book's treatment of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		Biological Science: Cell/Genetics (Volume 1) from Prentice Hall Price: $15.00 Customer Review: shipping was alright I guess considering that it came way the heck away from the other side of the world. If you need it expedited there is no option for this. However, I found out that I didn't need the class and there are no returns	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails from Three Rivers Press Price: $7.45 Customer Review: While somewhat reminiscent of other retellings of history through the story of one commodity (Cod, Salt, The Big Oyster, etc) this book is fairly well written, has enough good anecdotes to keep it interesting, and is informative as well. I originally bought it as a gift for a friend that samples... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


25.		The Homebrewer's Companion from Harper Paperbacks Price: $9.12 Customer Review: Good book. But I think it could be more objective. It would save me some time.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


26.		An A-Z Guide to Food Additives: Never Eat What You Can't Pronounce from Conari Press Price: $4.99 Customer Review: Polyvinylpyrrolidone, does anything sound more delicious than that? "An A-Z Guide to Food Additives: Never Eat What You Can't Pronounce" is a guide for readers who want to better understand the long and commonly incomprehensible things that go into today's processed food. Designed to be carried in... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything from Dutton Adult Price: $3.55 Customer Review: Remember when everyone at concerts held up their lighters? Now it's cell phones -- taking pictures. This is the basic problem with "Total Recall": We are far better at capturing moments than we are at preserving them. Heck, we're better at preserving them than we are at organizing them so that later... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits (Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical & Computational Biology) from Chapman and Hall/CRC Price: $48.59 Customer Review: There are a number a books on systems biology out there and the majority seem hastily put together during the past couple of years just to ride the wave of the systems biology buzz of late (IMO: in reality biology has always been about systems, and using mathematical/computational models to study... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods from Chelsea Green Price: $18.00 Customer Review: This is an excellent companion to The Gmo Trilogy, for readers who wish to go into greater depth. The book explores possible medical risks associated with eating genetically modified foods, and comprises 1-2 page abstracts and essays by researchers. There are a lot more hypotheses than actual... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.		101 Margaritas from Wiley Price: $10.14 Customer Review: a useful book if you want to learn to do various mixtures of the drink	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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