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Play it as it Lays

Another weekend, another book. Read this great, short story in a few sittings yesterday morning. Aside from increasing my usual premonitions of guilt and lingering doom, not bad for a weekend. We found this book on the sidewalk Saturday afternoon. Another reason to love Capitol Hill: we have erudite, generous neighbors that just leave old books on the sidewalk for us to read.

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The job your product is being hired for

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The Christian Century

This book was more personal than I expected. My grandfather, great uncle, and others of that generation in my mother's family were religious leaders. Life Magazine profiled my great uncle, Rev. Dr. Robert Emery Baggs, in his pastorate in Illinois. He and three others led a large mainline Baptist church. My grandfather led efforts around Boston for the Salvation Army. Both contributed to the grand social visions of the postwar church.

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Scientific Advertising

This book is well worth your time: online advertising isn't fundamentally different from offline. Internet marketers, I'm talking to you: take a lesson from 1927.

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Macaulay

Learning history through biographies is a lost discipline. I hope to regain it during this 50 in 2014 effort.

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The Circle

While you have to endure several characters whose role is to preach Eggers' views on the Internet, this is an inspiring book.

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Nathanael's Reading

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