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Coverimage of Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution This weeks choice is the book Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution by Robert C. Atkins found on shelf Health and body, Self-help books
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Weight loss, weight maintenance, good health and disease prevention through the Atkins nutritional approach.Dr. Atkins' original Diet Revolution helped millions lose weight and maintain their weight loss for life. His sensational follow-up, Dr Atkins' New Diet Revolution, concentrated on total wellness in addition to weight loss -- and spent more than four years on the New York Times bestseller list. Now the world's #1 diet and complementary medicine expert has updated his proven program for a new century-offering essential new information based on scientifically supported controlled carbohydrate principles that helps people re-energize their life by re-balancing their nutrition so that they look good, feel good, lose weight and keep it off... .
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Monday 28 January 2013

Reviewer Koos van den Hout wrote in a review for Atlas of the D-Day and Normandy Landings :
A good book showing the planning for the D-Day landings, how things worked out and how they progressed from that point on. Lots of good maps showing developments after D-Day. I visited the Normandy ar ...

Wednesday 02 May 2012

Reviewer Koos van den Hout wrote in a review for Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker :
The story of Kevin Mitnick according to .. Kevin Mitnick. It's really interesting reading his side of the story now, after reading "Takedown" by Tsutomu Shimomura and John Markoff, both not completel ...

Sunday 22 January 2012

Reviewer Koos van den Hout wrote in a review for Crypto : How the Code Rebels Beat the Government -- Saving Privacy in the Digital Age :
The full history of modern computer cryptography. Includes the complete story of breakthroughs like asymmetric encryption which enables a lot of modern security. And the story of the relaxation of the ...

Sunday 22 January 2012

Reviewer Koos van den Hout wrote in a review for Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine...And Fighting It :
Mark Klein was there when the network of telecommunication giant AT&T was 'enhanced' with fiber taps into major links, with the duplicated data going into a secret room under NSA (national security ag ...

Sunday 22 January 2012

Reviewer Koos van den Hout wrote in a review for The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey :
This book is not just 'the best of 2600', this book is also a history of technology, personal freedom, activism, communication systems that have grown and passed away and the people around all these s ...

Sunday 22 January 2012

Reviewer Koos van den Hout wrote in a review for The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us :
Francis Tapon is not a person to sit still at home. He decided to learn about all of "Eastern Europe" by taking his backpack and visiting those countries in person. He tries to take away the (American ...

Sunday 10 July 2011

Reviewer Koos van den Hout wrote in a review for Diagonal Lengths: Rethinking Our World :
What could be improved to life on this planet if we were able to leave a lot of our current ideas how that life should be behind us and redesign our society. This book is one big thought experiment: w ...

Sunday 27 February 2011

Reviewer Nathalie wrote in a review for Pet Sematary :
I really enjoyed it. If I sum up Stephen King in one word, it would be EERIE. He keeps you capivated with mystery, suspense and unpredictability. Although he is a touch long winded for my taste (examp ...

Wednesday 23 February 2011

Reviewer Koos van den Hout wrote in a review for Look for Our Mother and Our Father :
A book which tries to make the reader rethink lots of things by questioning everything. But the author misses any source of the questions, using only sources like "I think", "I read somewhere" and "I ...

Sunday 13 February 2011

Reviewer Marcella wrote in a review for Matilda :
Excellent book, my favorite part is when Matilda puts crazy glue in his father's hat. Roald Dahl is one of my favorite authors, I wish I could meet him in person to ask him how he writes such good boo ...
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