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The Rise and Fall of KHAAAAAAAN! Volume II
The Eugenics Wars: the Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume II© Greg Cox 2001434 pages Having seized power in India and cultivated a network of spies and yes-men who will do his bidding throughout Asia, genetically engineered and … Continue reading
Top Ten Authors Who Live in my Stacks
This week’s top ten topic is an interesting one; authors we own the most books of. For the most part there’s a gulf between the authors I’ve read the most of and the books I own. I’ve read all of … Continue reading
This week: war, war, war
This past week has been a quiet one, as I’ve been devotedly reading through Castles of Steel, an 800+ page history of the naval war between Britain and Germany during World War I. I’m just starting Jutland, and after that … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science
Tagged evolution, manners and morals, organic, philosophy, primates, science, week in review
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Fighting Traffic
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City© 2008 Peter Norton396 pages Stroll into the middle of any American city today, and provided you are not in Detroit, odds are better than not you will be … Continue reading
Posted in history, Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged automobiles, cities, economics, history, law, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, social change, social history, transportation
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This week: Huck Finn and a world at war
Without intending to, this past week I read two science fiction novels that both concerned human genetic engineering, neither featuring it in a positive light. I read The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh after watching “Space Seed”, The Wrath … Continue reading
Rise and Fall of KHAAAAAAAAAN! Volume I
Star Trek Eugenic Wars: the Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume I© 2001 Greg Cox520 pages Ah, how well I remember the 1990s — neon colored plastic pants, frizzy hair, and that gang of genetically engineered supermen starting … Continue reading
Allegiant
Allegiant© 2013 Veronica Roth544 pages “Sure as I know anything I know this, they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten, they’ll swing back to the belief that … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science fiction
Tagged children's literature, Children-YA, dystopia, science fiction, thriller
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The Small Mart Revolution
The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition© 2007 Michael Shuman285 pages Independence has long ceased to be the American credo, supplanted by another: efficiency. Throughout the 20th century, small businesses supporting towns and families were devoured … Continue reading
This week at the library; Huck Finn and the British crown
Try as I might, none of the French-related books I investigated this week struck my interest, so for the first time since starting the tradition, my Bastille Day reading is a nonstarter. C’est la vie. … Continue reading
Daily Life in Early America
Daily Life in Early America193 pages© 1988 David Freeman Hawke Daily Life in Early America examines up-close the new world European colonists were discovering and recreating for themselves. A social history, focused on daily life, the author begins first … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged Colonial America, history, home, manners and morals, social history
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