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Sunday, October 21, 2018

American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) 2nd Edition by L. Sandy Maisel (Oxford University Press)

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Few Americans and even fewer citizens of other nations understand the electoral process in the United States. Still fewer understand the ...
Friday, September 7, 2018

Fear: Trump in the White House Hardcover – September 11, 2018 by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster)

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Bob Woodward’s New Trump Book Sounds Both Damning and Frightening The veteran Watergate scribe allegedly has evidence that the Trump White H...
Monday, August 6, 2018

The Odyssey By Homer, Emily Wilson W. W. Norton & Company 592 Pages

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By my count, we have seen 27 translations of Homer into English since 2000, so no one can say we languished for want of a new Odyssey. It’s ...
Sunday, August 5, 2018

Modernism: Designing a New World Paperback – October 1, 2008 by Christopher Wilk (Victoria & Albert Museum)

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I thought Christopher Wilk, in his excellent introduction, mentions a very interesting point: 'It is difficult to see how Modernism co...
Saturday, August 4, 2018

Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum Doubleday, 461 pp., $35.00

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On December 14, 1932, Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov, the former as head of the Communist Party, the latter as premier of the ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Leta Hong-Fincher, Betraying Big Brother: the Feminist Awakening in China,(Verso Books, 2018), 288pp.

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Academic and journalist Leta Hong-Fincher made an impressive debut some years ago with her first work, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of ...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Vintage Reading: From Plato to Bradbury: a Personal Tour of Some of the World’s Best Books Paperback by Robert Kanigel (Bancroft Press)

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These brief essays on Kanigel's personal choice of best books provide a unique point of view to literature students in search of an o...
Friday, July 20, 2018

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right Paperback – February 20, 2018 by Arlie Russell Hochschild (The New Press)

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Arlie R Hochschild is a sociology professor at UC Berkley. In this book she has compiled an interesting story of how people think on the r...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 Mass Market Paperback by Marcus Luttrell (Author), Patrick Robinson (Contributor) (Little, Brown and Company) (IBRCookBooks)

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This book  starts with training and most of the “Can-Do” is mental. Coronado takes its toll, but builds in a resilience that leaves no one...

Golden: Sweet & Savory Baked Delights from the Ovens of London's Honey & Co. Hardcover – November 1, 2016 by Itamar Srulovich (Author), Sarit Packer (Author) (Little, Brown and Company) (IBRCookBooks)

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Golden is another beautiful cookbook from Honey & Co. In fact, it's the exact same cookbook as Honey & Co. The Baking Book, wh...
Sunday, May 20, 2018

Frankenstein Paperback – 2012 by Mary Shelley (Vintage Classics)

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The commentary tries to give depth and meaning to this poorly written story. Victor grew up reading the works of Paracelsus, Agrippa, an...
Saturday, May 5, 2018

Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots Paperback – August 16, 2016 by John Markoff (Ecco)

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Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots discusses evolution of robotic technology through observed...
Friday, May 4, 2018

National Trust Complete Pies, Stews & One-Pot Meals (National Trust Food) Hardcover – May 1, 2015 by Laura Mason (National Trust) (IBRCookBooks)

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Chicken and Red Wine Sauce "A simple red wine sauce with brown sugar, garlic, paprika, salt, and pepper makes this dish simply yummy! B...
Friday, April 13, 2018

England's Jewish Solution. Experiment and Expulsion, 1262-1290 Robin R. Mundill , Cambridge University Press

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This has been a long awaited book. The wait has not been in vain. Dr Mundill's is the last, well-considered word on Edward's final s...
Friday, April 6, 2018

New Times' by Rehana Rossouw (Jacana)

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'New Times' will take you on a journey filled with a fascinating cast of characters ' Acclaimed writer Rehana Rossouw...
Sunday, March 4, 2018

Of Mice and Men Mass Market Paperback – September 1, 1993 by John Steinbeck (Penguin Books) )

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Of Mice and Men is a novella written by author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the story of George Milton and Lennie Sm...