Biographies & Memoirs

A Field Guide to Curiosity - and Tomfoolery
A Field Guide to Curiosity - and Tomfoolery

Review:My kids watch GMM all the time, so this was on both their lists for Christmas. I gave it to the 15 year old instead of the 9 year old after reading some of the reviews and content. So glad I did. Even the 15 year old suggested it was probably a bit mature for the younger one. Read more

The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino
The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino

Review:Interesting to me as I grew up in the fifties in the fifties. I knew some of the people mentioned in the book and it was eye opening to me.
There was not all that much about Buffalino as a person. It seems to me to be more about facts gleaned from news or reports than a personal story of he Quiet Don. Read more

The Distance Between Us: A Memoir
The Distance Between Us: A Memoir

Review:I learned a lot about life in Mexico, family values and immigration from this book. The writing is faily simple and straight forward. I met the author in person two days ago. The book really came alive when I witnessed what she has become as a result of the sometimes brutal life she led as a child and how family values triumph in the end. Read more

Nikola Tesla: A Life From Beginning to End
Nikola Tesla: A Life From Beginning to End

Review:Tesla led a difficult life to make ours less difficult. Tesla brought us alternating current, neon lights, hydroelectric energy, radar, remote control, wireless communication and the modern electric motor. Another great hourly history. Read more

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

Review:It is a very well researched book. The language Carlson used is very easy to understand. He had used many Tesla's letters as the backbone of his chapters. The technical issues may be difficult for most to understand. But, what can one expect? Tesla was an inventor.

Carlson did not shy away from the shortcomings of Tesla. He painted an accurate account of Tesla. Good or bad. Tesla is a person. Unlike authorised biography, it is frank. Read more

My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla

Review:His ideas truly changed our world.We would never have our modern electrical distributuion with Edison's short sighted DC distribution ideas.However he spent too much of his book on on his brain and its flashes. Read more

Tesla: Man Out of Time
Tesla: Man Out of Time

Review:a good and informative read. well written and very interesting without recourse to technological bamboozlement. there are other books available with a more technical bent if that's what you're interested in, however if you want a portrait of the man himself then this is as good a place as any to look. the kind of book that will encourage further study. Read more

My Inventions
My Inventions

Review:His ideas truly changed our world.We would never have our modern electrical distributuion with Edison's short sighted DC distribution ideas.However he spent too much of his book on on his brain and its flashes. Read more

There Was a Country: A Memoir
There Was a Country: A Memoir

Review:This book is full of knowledge and little emotion. I'd hope to gain more insight to the people's plight, but all I recall are dates and politics. Perhaps I'm too far removed and unaware of Africa's troubled past and turbulent future to appreciate this novel. Read more

and Drugs with the Grateful Dead - My Three Decades of Drumming
and Drugs with the Grateful Dead - My Three Decades of Drumming

Review:This is the Grateful Dead Bill Kreutzmann's long awaited book and it doesn't disappoint. Kreutzmann is a founding member of the Grateful Dead and was a friend of Jerry Garcia from the time he was twelve years old. Few people have known Jerry Garcia better than Bill Kreutzmann. This book is more than a history of the Grateful Dead. It is an expression of the whole Grateful Dead concept. You learn about the relationship of band members to each other and to others. You learn about the three (at lea... Read more

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