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The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons
Bill Simmons, AKA The Sports Guy, is obsessed with basketball. As Malcolm Gladwell points out in his forward to Simmons’ mammoth Book of Basketball, Simmons is one of the few people in America who can afford to follow sports so closely that he can spend three years researching and writing the history of the NBA. [...]
Posted on November 12, 2009 at 7:37 pm by admin · Permalink
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In: Books · Tagged with: basketball, Bill Simmons, Paul Pierce, The Book of Basketball, The Boston Celtics, The Sports Guy
In: Books · Tagged with: basketball, Bill Simmons, Paul Pierce, The Book of Basketball, The Boston Celtics, The Sports Guy
The Bin Ladens by Steve Coll
Around 5 years after 9/11, I started to become interested in the factors that led to that infamous day, easily the defining world event of my life and a turning point in the escalating clash between Eastern and Western Civilization. In the first few years after the attack, researchers focused on two key questions: how [...]
Posted on October 28, 2009 at 6:33 pm by admin · Permalink
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In: Books · Tagged with: Against All Enemies, Ghost Wars, Lawrence Wright, Losing My Virginity, Mahammed Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden, Richard Bransen, Richard Clarke, Robert Baur, Salem Bin Laden, See No Evil, Steve Coll, Syriana, The Bin Ladens, The Looming Tower
In: Books · Tagged with: Against All Enemies, Ghost Wars, Lawrence Wright, Losing My Virginity, Mahammed Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden, Richard Bransen, Richard Clarke, Robert Baur, Salem Bin Laden, See No Evil, Steve Coll, Syriana, The Bin Ladens, The Looming Tower
