DAILY STUDENTS CORNER

Knowledge is Power
Dr. Robert Renatus Sanabam

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Top 10 Best Books for 2008:

1.The Forever War- Dexter Filkins $ 16.50
Starred Review. Filkins, a New York Times prizewinning reporter, is widely regarded as among the finest war correspondents of this generation. His richly textured book is based on his work in Afghanistan and Iraq since 1998. It begins with a Taliban-staged execution in Kabul. It ends with Filkins musing ... Read more

2. Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency Barton Gellman $ 17.54
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"a forceful new study ... connecting the dots to give the reader a visceral understanding of just how Mr. Cheney maneuvered...."... Read more

3.The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals Jane Mayer $ 18.15
This hard-hitting expose examines both the controversial excesses of the war on terror and the home-front struggle to circumvent legal obstacles to its prosecution. New Yorker correspondent Mayer (Strange Justice) details the battle within the Bush Adminis... Read more

4. The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power Jonathan Mahler $ 17.16 There have by now been many insider accounts of the Bush Administration and its War on Terror. Jonathan Mahler's The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power, on the other hand, is very much an outsider's account: the story ... Read more

5. McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld Misha Glenny $ 18.45In McMafia, Misha Glenny draws the dark map that lies on the other side of Tom Friedman's bright flat world. That connected globe not only brings software coders and supply-chain outsourcers closer together; it's also opened the gates to a criminal network of unsettling ... Read more

6. The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq Bing West $ 18.48
We interpret reality through the clouded prism of our own experience, so it is unsurprising that Bing West sees Iraq through the lens of Vietnam. He served as a Marine officer there, and he thinks politicians and the media caused the ... Read more

7. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) Tom Vanderbilt $14.97
How could no one have written this book before? These days we spend almost as much time driving as we do eating (in fact, we do a lot of our eating while driving), but I can't remember the ... Read more

8. The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century Steve Coll $ 7.00
The bin Ladens are famous for spawning the world's foremost terrorist and building one of the Middle East's foremost corporate dynasties. Pulitzer Prize... Read more

9. Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America Paul Tough $9.66
Book DescriptionWhat would it take? That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children--not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? ... Read more

10. Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11 Lynn Spencer Price: $17.16


Top 10 Greatest Books of All Time:

1. A Spurt of Quake Activity raises Fears in Yellowstone

2. Facebook’s War on Nipples

3. Defiance: Beyond Holo- Kitosch

4. Is the Euro the New Dollar?

5. Can iStandford take on Facebook Mobile?

6. Wait a Second: Why 2008 was a long year

7. Why we take Risks- It’s the Dopamine

8. The Force is with Obama’s Yoda

9. The Bush Presidency, Eight Years Later

10. Madoff’s Victims: Finding Meaning in the Devastation


Top 10 Classic Books:

1. Anna Karenin by Leo Tolstoy $ 1.96

2. The Odyssey (Penguin Classic) by Homer $ 4.25

3. Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics) by Emily Bronte $ 1. 77

4. The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne $0.80

5. Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) by Daniel Dafoe $ 3.49

6. The Merry Adventures of Robinhood (Signet Classics) by Howard Pyle $ 0.50

7. Phantastes by George MacDonald $ 3.70

8. The Pilgrim’s Progress (Dover Thrift Edition) by John Bunyan $ 1.49

9. Christy by Catherin Marshall $ 0.01

10. The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) by


Top 10 Books by- Pingu

1. Discworld Series by Terry

2. Good Omes by Terry and Neil Gaimann

3. One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

4. Hamlet

5. The Belgariad and the Mallorean by David Eddings

6. The Harry Potter Series

7. The Complete Sherlock Holmes

8. The Musical Mind- The Cognitive Psychology of Music by John Sloboda

9. Faust Teile 1 and 2 by Goethe

10. The Little Prince


World Top 10 Movies:

1. Marley and Me

2. Bedtime Stories

3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons

4. Valkyrie

5. Yes Man

6. Seven Pounds

7. The Tale of Despereaux

8. The Day the Earth stood still

9. The Spirit

10. Doubt


World Top 10 Music:

1. Uxia: Eterno Navegar
2. Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze: Sira
3. Lila Downs: Shake Away
4. Kokoura: Anitie
5. Tomer Yosef: Laughing Underground
6. Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat: I Am Eve
7. MC Yogi: Elephant Power
8. Franco & Le T.P.O.K. Jazz: Francophonic
9. Tara Linda & Luna Nueva: New Moon
10. Tchavolo Schmitt: Miri Familia