I am in Azerbaijan on business - just got here last night. I am staying for the moment in Baku. This ancient city on the Caspian Sea was the centre of one of the first oil booms. In 1910 Baku produced half of the world's petroleum. The stuff apparently oozed from the ground, and people became rich from digging in their back yards.
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Azerbaijan
05 February 2006
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books, etc
Peter Ackroyd: Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
Christopher Hitchens: Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
John Heilemann: Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
Christopher Hitchens: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Seamus Heaney: Beowulf A New Verse Translation Bilingual Edition
Christopher Hitchens: Hitch-22: Some Confessions and Contradictions
Barack Obama: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Richard Dawkins: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Charles Corn: The Scents of Eden: A Narrative of the Spice Trade
Patrick M. Lencioni: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Ankley: Genomics in Regulatory Ecotoxicology: Applications and Challenges
Neil Shubin: Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Matt Ridley: Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Jeremy Wagstaff: Loose Wire: A Personal Guide to Making Technology Work for You
Richard Dawkins: The Extended Phenotype : The Long Reach of the Gene
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