What I like about this book is, first, it has layers of resources to help you do more homework and sleuthing.

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Mr. ALEXANDER: I'd like this book to really give black women something to celebrate themselves in which they should walk away with lot of pride about the diversity of their beauty and the diversity of their hair as something that--I think when a black woman comes into the world, hair is something that is discussed in her life very early on.

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As I explained in a book I co-authored some time ago, in an environment like this bankers have grown up as abacus bankers, record keepers of money flows who derive income from seigniorage, from the passive creation of money through interest bearing-loans and government-backed securities rather than from true banking, and from active risk management.

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Maybe, I thought, if I ordered this wireless Kindle 2 I would be pulled into a world of compulsive, demonic book consumption, like Pippin staring at the stone of Orthanc.

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But I think there is going to be a kind of change in this representation in the future, like I did in my own book here.

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Also, I think this book could be an extremely valuable teaching tool and would like to look into using it as such once the book is published.

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But that part of being the iPod, being that soundtrack, I know Felicia Pride, in a way, that's how this book started - you were like listening to the tunes on your iPod.

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One is that if somebody's reviewing, if a critic's reviewing an adult book, a good popular biography or work of science I'd like them to be able to say this is so interesting and so well written that children would enjoy this book as well.

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