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Travelin’ man
Hello again, dear readers! I’ve been on a mini-vacation this past weekend, staying with my sister’s in-laws in Atlanta and watching the Atlanta Braves take on the Chicago Cubs. The game itself was a sleepy affair, with little hitting and only … Continue reading
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Tagged food, Hail to the Chief, history, US Constitution
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An Edible History of Humanity
An Edible History of Humanity© 2010 Tom Standage288 pages Tom Standage offers a course in human history set at the dinner table, beginning with agriculture and moving swiftly to the green revolution. His A History of the World in Six … Continue reading
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Tagged food, food and drink, goods/services, history
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The World Until Yesterday
The World Until Yesterday© 2012 Jared Diamond481 pages Earth has been the province of mankind for hundreds of thousands of years, and for most of the time he has transversed it in small tribal groups, … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, education, food, food and drink, Jared Diamond, palo-primal-primitive, social criticism, society, Society and Culture
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Human Scale
Human Scale© 1980 Kirkpatrick Sale500 pages Human Scale is an ambitious assault on big business, big government — the very concept of Bigness. Opening with biology, Kirkpatrick Sale first establishes his basic operating principle: for … Continue reading
The Simple Living Guide
The Simple Living Guide: A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living© 1997 Janet Luhrs444 pages Life distracts easily and passes by without being noticed. The Simple Living Guide is written as an antidote, one which both prompts people to … Continue reading
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Tagged family, food, food and drink, marriage and family, mindfulness, parenting, sacramental living, simple living
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This week at the library: desire, war, and traditions
Dear readers: It’s been a slow start for February despite the miserable weather that keeps everyone indoors, possibly because I’ve spent the last week nursing a cold and it’s easier to watch movies than to coordinate book-holding, page-turning, and nose-tending … Continue reading
Taft 2012
Taft 2012© 2012 Jason Heller246 pages In another world, William Howard Taft vanished from history after his presidential term. Rather than going on to become a Supreme Court Justice, he simply — disappeared. He became the world’s most famous missing … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, food, food and drink, Hail to the Chief, humor, politics, Politics-CivicInterest
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