Tuesday, December 19, 2017

The Political Theory of the American Founding: Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom Paperback – May 25, 2017 by Thomas G. West (Cambridge University Press)

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Why should we go to the trouble of trying to understand correctly the political theory of the American Founding? I can think of three reason...
Monday, December 18, 2017

Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins By Eric A. Kimmel , illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (Scholastic)(IBRChildrensBooks)

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‘Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins’ Is the True Story of Hanukkah  So what if the festival of lights has some magic? Part of the way through ...

In God's Hands: The Spiritual Diaries of Pope John Paul II Hardcover – March 28, 2017 by Pope Saint John Paul II (Harper One)

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For more than thirty years, Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, kept a series of private diaries that were reflections on his daily...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

Millard Salter's Last Day By Jacob M. Appel ( Simon and Schuster )

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The Best Novel of 2017 That You Never Heard Of  Jacob M. Appel’s life-affirming elderly suicide novel ‘Millard Salter’s Last Day’ is a highw...

Dinner with Dickens: Recipes inspired by the life and work of Charles Dickens Hardcover – October 10, 2017 by Pen Vogler (CICO Books)(IBRCookBooks)

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Gruel, gin and mystery meat: Dickens’s Victorian meals in the age of ‘clean eating’ Many of Charles Dickens’s characters struggle to put foo...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

The German-Jewish Cookbook: Recipes and History of a Cuisine (HBI Series on Jewish Women) Hardcover – September 5, 2017 by Gabrielle Rossmer Gropman (Author),‎ Sonya Gropman (Author),‎ Nach Waxman (Contributor) (Brandeis University Press) (IBRCookBooks)

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Mother-daughter duo  Gabrielle Rossmer Gropman and Sonya Gropman are spearheading a disappearing culinary tradition's modern revival. ...

THE FOUNDATION OF THE CIA: HARRY TRUMAN, THE MISSOURI GANG, AND THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR By Richard E. Schroeder University of Missouri Press, $24.95, 175 pages

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Although Harry S. Truman ranks high on my list of admired presidents, one of his earliest decisions was an outright blunder — but fort...