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Cliffs Notes: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
For every utopia, there's a corresponding dystopia. This tale of a bleak future depicts a time where women are valued only for their reproductive capacities. While the novel is horrifying, there are moments of poetic warmth and humor. It is a brilliant satire.
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Cliffs Notes: Dickens' Pickwick Papers
The travels and travails of the Pickwickians, a club of men traveling around England ill-equipped for most all of the situations they encounter.
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Useless Sexual Trivia
Did you know that in Middle-Eastern Islamic countries it is not only a sin but also a crime to eat a lamb that you've had sex with? Or that the word vanilla comes from a Latin word meaning "vagina" because of the vanilla pod's resemblance to the female genitalia?
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Who Cut the Cheese? A Cutting Edge Way of Surviving Change by Shifting the Blame
Who Cut the Cheese? uses a delightful little fable to encapsulate the fundamental rule of modern American management and the new economy: "Survive change by shifting blame".
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Mike NelsonA’s Mind Over Matters
Why do some people retain cute baby-talk names for their relatives (like "Num-Num" and "Pee-Paw") well into middle age? How should a reasonable person respond when Olivia Newton-John sings, "Have you never been mellow?
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The Napoleon of New York
A look behind the public image of New York City’s most colorful mayor who with his passion, humor, flair, and honesty, has given the city its most caring government in its history.
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