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Book Reviews

I write a lot of book reviews as an Amazon Vine Voice. Some they select for me; some I choose on my own. Here’s a list that spans the gamut of writers books, military volumes, scientific studies, anthropology and miscellaneous. They come from my four blogs, Ask a Tech Teacher, Jacqui Murray’s WordDreams, USNA or Bust and Sizzling Science. They are also featured on Amazon, Goodreads and the Scribd writer’s community.

To see them organized by theme, click here:

Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya’Aqov, Israel: The Wood Assemblage

Act of Deceit by Steven Gore

Anything But Beige

Big Red

Bloodland by Alan Glynn

Blowout by Byron L. Dorgan and David Hagberg

Born on a Blue Day

Boy in the Moon

Breakout Novel by Donald Maass

Breakout Novelist by Donald Maass

Brief Points: Superficial but Worthy Resource for Parents of USNA Mids

Building a Midshipman –by Jacqui Murray (that’s me)

Bunyoro: An African Kingdom by John Beattie

Capitol Murder by Phillip Margolin

Cold Glory by B. Kent Anderson

Comedy Thesaurus by Judy Brown

Comic Toolbox by John Vorhaus

Coup d’etat by Ben Coes

Cruisers and Battle Cruisers: An Illustrated History of Their Impact

Darkness My Old Friend by Lisa Unger

Deep Zone by James Tabor

Death from a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe by Paul M. Bingham and Joanne Souza

Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools

Disrupting Class

Einstein: His Life and Universe

Elements of Style

Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think And What We Can Do About It

Ender’s Game

Evolution of Homo Erectus

The Evolution of Language

Eyes Wide Open

Facebook for Business in 10 Minutes by Bud Smith

Fifth Grade Technology–32 Lessons –by Structured Learning

First Grade Technology–32 Lessons–by Structured Learning

Forest People

Fortunate Son

Fourth Grade Technology–32 Lessons –by Structured Learning

Galloping Ghost

Geology Underfoot in Southern California

Greece vs. Persia: Gates of Fire

The Hard Way

Helsinki White by James Thompson

HMS Unseen

Horse Soldiers

House at Sea’s End by Elly Griffiths

How to Become a USNA Midshipman

How to Build a Midshipman

How to Self-Edit

How to Write a D*** Good Novel

How to Write the Blockbuster Novel

In the Shadow of Mankind

Innocent by Taylor Stevens

Inquisitor by Mark Allen Smith

Invasion

Killer Angels: The Human Side of Warriors

Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly

Kindergarten Technology–32 Lessons — by Structured Learning

LA Mental by Neil McMahon

Land’s Wild Music

Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailor

The Law of Primitive Man

The Lexicon by William F. Buckley Jr.

Lone Survivor

Love You More

Lucy

Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat

Marshall Plan for Novel Writing–Gets You Organized

Meeting Prehistoric Man

Military Quotation Book: Good Resource for Action Writers

The Naturalist

Naval Academy Candidate Book

Noble’s Book of Writing Blunders

Novel Writer’s Toolkit

One Hundred Days–the British Military Mind

Origin of Humankind by Richard Leakey

Our Inner Ape

Oxford Essential Dictionary of Difficult Words

The Path

Red Badge of Courage

Resuscitation by D.M. Annechino

Runaway Brain by Christopher Wills

SAS Guide to Tracking  by Bob Carss and Stewart Birch

Savvy Cyberkids at Home

Scorpion Betrayal by Andrew Kaplan

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Shadow Patrol by Alex Berenson

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Shut Your Eyes Tight by John Verdon

Silent Girl

Silent Joe

Spycraft–Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs

Technology for Fifth Grade–Projects, etc. –by Structured Learning

Third Grade Technology–32 Lessons –by Structured Learning

Through a Window

Toxic Feedback by Joni Cole

Tree Where Man Was Bornby Peter Matthiessen

Unfolding of Language

Vegas Knockout by Tom Schreck

A Virtual Tour of Africa

The Way We Never Were

We All Fall Down by Michael Harvey

We are Not Alone by Kristen Lamb

Worlds of a Maasai Warrior

Writers Guide to Character Traits

Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass

Writing Fiction

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