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		<title>The Addiction Solution (Kipper, D &amp; Whitney, S)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Addiction treatment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcohol and drug treatment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has numerous faults. Working on the principle that a review should be shorter than the book, I will confine myself mainly to general issues. Kipper and Whitney walk with confidence where geneticists and neuroscientists would fear to tread! Their central notion is simply stated at the beginning of the book: Addiction originates in brain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merlinsbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2549399&amp;post=449&amp;subd=merlinsbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Half Made World (Felix Gilman)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a great idea, but its delivery is ultimately disappointing. In this somewhat dystopian world, the East is settled and orderly, the West is wild, chaotic and, at its extremes, only partly formed. The parallels with the American wild west are fairly obvious, even down to place names &#8211; a sort of alternate universe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merlinsbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2549399&amp;post=442&amp;subd=merlinsbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Body Line (Cynthia Harrod-Eagles)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Slider mystery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cynthia Harrod-Eagles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murder mystery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Someone has blown away Doctor David Rogers in the hallway of his very expensive Shepherd&#8217;s Bush (London, England) home. Detective Inspector Bill Slider and his colleague Atherton are called to investigate. Rogers&#8217; girlfriend has managed to narrowly escape the attentions of the killer by tumbling over the balcony, but can provide only the vaguest description [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merlinsbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2549399&amp;post=436&amp;subd=merlinsbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Psychopath Test (Jon Ronson)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Psychiatric abuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychopathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychopathy Check List]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The madness industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although this is called The Psychopath Test, it is not entirely about psychopathy. Rather, as the sub-title suggests, it is a journey through some of the bizarre corridors of the madness industry, which includes quite a bit about psychopathy. The beginning is a little strange &#8211; a number of people have received copies of an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merlinsbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2549399&amp;post=431&amp;subd=merlinsbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Religious Case Against Belief (James Carse)</title>
		<link>http://merlinsbooks.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/the-religious-case-against-belief-james-carse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Author James Carse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I couldn&#8217;t relate to this and eventually quit, having found too much to argue with. James C&#8217;s central idea is straight forward enough. Religion, true religion, acknowledges inexhaustible mystery &#8211; and to be truly religious is to have what he refers to as &#8220;higher ignorance.&#8221; Higher ignorance is knowing that we don&#8217;t know, revelling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merlinsbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2549399&amp;post=417&amp;subd=merlinsbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Johnny One-Eye (Jerome Charyn)</title>
		<link>http://merlinsbooks.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/johnny-one-eye-jerome-charyn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 08:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Charyn, Jerome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Revolutionary War]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is brilliant, one of the best books I&#8217;ve read in a long time. One of my favourite types of novel is historical fiction, crafted around real events and real people. Johnny one-eye, the story&#8217;s narrator, is a lad in his late teens, caught up in the dangerous times of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783.) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merlinsbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2549399&amp;post=411&amp;subd=merlinsbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Red Station (Adrian Magson)</title>
		<link>http://merlinsbooks.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/red-station-adrian-magson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mystery thriller]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is quite good, though a certain suspension of disbelief is required from time to time. Harry Tait, a MI-5 agent, is running a drugs interception operation which goes horribly wrong. There are deaths and the potential for a scandalous media feeding frenzy. Harry (pushing middle-age, a bit of a plodder, but tough and dogged) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merlinsbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2549399&amp;post=404&amp;subd=merlinsbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Girls Like You (Paul Sheehan)</title>
		<link>http://merlinsbooks.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/girls-like-you-paul-sheehan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 07:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sheehan, Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Moslem gangs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moslem sexual attitudes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rape and Australian court process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual violence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is quite horrific at several different levels. In the early 2000&#8242;s, in Sydney Australia, four young women were raped by several brothers. These young males, I would baulk at calling them men, were Moslems from an intensely tribal area of Pakistan and had appalling attitudes towards women (and towards their adoptive country.) In their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merlinsbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2549399&amp;post=394&amp;subd=merlinsbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Jesus Became Christian (Barrie Wilson)</title>
		<link>http://merlinsbooks.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/how-jesus-became-christian-barrie-wilson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 08:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wilson, Barrie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development of Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New testament anti-Semitism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is well worth reading for those of us who have a fascination for how Christianity became Christianity. Mind you, it will probably have many Christians turning purple in the face and shouting! Barrie W begins his narrative with a consideration of the Jewish world prior to the advent of Jesus. It was not a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merlinsbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2549399&amp;post=388&amp;subd=merlinsbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Happens When We Die (Sam Parnia, MD)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brain-mind separation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Parnia, a British doctor, developed in interest in Near Death Experiences (NDE) during his training and subsequent employment. In this book, he reviews published accounts of NDE and, as his interest became known, a number of people came forward to provide their accounts of what happened when they were near to death, or technically [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merlinsbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2549399&amp;post=381&amp;subd=merlinsbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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