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Friday, December 8, 2017

Book Review - The Dictator Pope by pseudonym Marcantonio Colonna

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“Might we see the Italian state denounce the Lateran treaty of 1929 that made the Vatican a foreign state, thus creating the lawles...

Book Review - ENDURANCE A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery By Scott Kelly with Margaret Lazarus

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What will the future of human space exploration look like in the 21st century? If Scott Kelly has any say on the matter, we shall g...

Book Review - The Landmark Thucydides by Robert B Strassler

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The goal of Robert B Strassler’s Landmark series has been twofold and fairly simple since it started a decade ago with The Landmark T...

Book Review - When Now Begins by Elisabeth Asbrink

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Elisabeth Åsbrink’s 1947 begins appropriately, in January. At the start of that year in the Palestinian village of Arab al-Zubayd, ...

Book Review - Dead Man's Blues by Ray Celestin

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This massive, mammoth, mesmerizing mystery takes place in Chicago in 1928 with its plethora of mobsters, murderers, millionaires, mus...

Book Review - Chronicles Of A Liquid Society by Umberto Eco

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Umberto Eco died in 2016, and this book was published in Italy under the title Papé Satàn Aleppe in the same year. The original ti...
Thursday, December 7, 2017

Book Review - Big and Small: A Cultural History of Extraordinary Bodies by Lynne Vallone

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A richly dressed woman glares regally out of her portrait. She is the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia. Her right hand pinches a m...