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Into Thin Air
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster291 pages© 1997 Jon Krakauer When Outside magazine dispatched Jon Krakauer to join an expedition to climb Mount Everest in 1996 to investigate its commercialization, the opportunity allowed him to … Continue reading
This week at the library: NaNoWriMo, rebels against the rebellion, death on Everest, and maaaaybe Richard Sharpe
Dear readers: For the first time in the five or so years I’ve been aware of NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, I am attempting to participate. For those who have not heard of this, it’s a challenge in which … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, evolution, Port William, science, Wendell Berry
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A Consumers’ Republic
A Consumers’ Republic© 2002 Lizbeth Cohen576 pages What is the meaning of citizenship? To the Romans, and to the early Americans, citizenship was an exclusive state of being that depended on owning land, and so a stake in society. In … Continue reading
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Tagged civic activism, consumerism, history, marketing, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, social history
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Sharpe’s Siege
Sharpe’s Siege© 1987 Bernard Cornwell352 pages Napoleon may not realize it, but his wars are lost. The English have achieved total naval supremacy, and are free to raid the coasts of the imperial hexagon at their leisure. Richard Sharpe, … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, Reviews
Tagged Bernard Cornwell, historical fiction, military, Sharpe's Series, The Napoleonic Wars
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Hitler’s Peace
Hitler’s Peace© 2006 Phillip Kerr464 pages Willard Mayer has the strangest luck. How many people get to dine with FDR, talk about the worries of life with Winston Churchill, annoy Joseph Stalin, and shake hands with Adolf Hitler? And this … Continue reading
This week at the library: airborne hell, David Sedaris, and coffee with evil
Last week I broke off from The City in History to do some light reading, beginning with Phillip Kerr’s Hitler’s Peace, a bit of speculative historical fiction which will be getting full comments tonight. The novel features an Office of … Continue reading
Zealot
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth© 2013 Raza Aslan337 pages Reza Aslan’s Zealot searches for the historical Jesus and finds him as a religious revolutionary, one who anticipated the imminent demise of the Roman Empire. No gentle … Continue reading
This week at the library: Jesus, bikes, and Greeks
In recent weeks I’ve finished up an unplanned series of readings on first-century Judeo-Christianity. Shortly after checking out The Origin of Satan for some historical research, two seperate people happened to reccommend Misquoting Jesus and Zealot at the same time, … Continue reading
The Origin of Satan
The Origin of Satan: How Christianity Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics© 1996 Elaine Pagels240 pages Although Christianity sprang from Judaism, the two religions have sharply different conceptions of Satan. Christians view him as the prince of evil, the enemy of … Continue reading
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