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READING — APRIL 2025

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25381. (David Corn) Amer­i­can Psy­chosis ― A His­tor­i­cal Inves­ti­ga­tion of How the 
. . . . . Repub­li­can Par­ty Went Crazy
25382. (Tris­tan Mostert) Scram­ble for Spices ― Makassar’s Role in Euro­pean and Asian 
. . . . . Com­pe­ti­tion in the East­ern Arch­i­pel­ago up to 1616 [arti­cle]
25383. (Daniel Yer­gin) The New Map ― Ener­gy, Cli­mate, and the Clash of Nation
25383. (Martha Chaik­lin) Ivory and Com­mer­cial Net­works in West­ern India [arti­cle]
25384. (Peter Good) The East India Com­pa­ny and the Foun­da­tion of Per­sian Naval Power 
. . . . . in the Gulf under Nadir Shah, 1734–47 [arti­cle]
25385. (Aaron James) Ass­holes ― A Theory
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Image of the Month — APRIL 2025

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FILMS — MARCH 2025

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(Mau­rice 1900) Cyra­no de Bergerac
(McGowan 1963) The Lit­tlest Hobo [orig­i­nal series]: Ep.1 ― Blue Water Sailor
(John­son 2022) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
(1900) A Very Bad Day
(Booth 1900) Undress­ing Extraordinary
(Kel­ly 1956) Invi­ta­tion to the Dance
(Hamil­ton 1969) Bat­tle of Britain
(Allen 1965) Lost in Space: [unaired pilot] No Place to Hide
(1901) Queen Victoria’s Funeral
(1901) Park­gate Iron and Steel Co., Rotherham
(Logan 1969) Paint Your Wagon

First-time listening for MARCH 2025

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26846. (Jef­fer­son Air­plane) Volunteers
26847. (Life With­out Build­ings) Any Oth­er City
26848. (Chordettes) All Time Great­est Hits
26849. (Hiro­ki Ogawa) Sym­pho­ny “The Cas­tle of Japan”
26850. (Carl Rei­necke) Piano Con­cer­to #3 in C, Op.144

READING — MARCH 2025

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25375. (Aljasil Chi­rakkal, et al) Bio­mark­er Evi­dence on Ear­ly Pale­olith­ic Human-
. . . . . envi­ron­ment Inter­ac­tions from Loess Records in Tajik­istan, Cen­tral Asia [arti­cle]
25376. (Peter MacLeod) The Cana­di­an Iro­quois and the Sev­en Years’ War
25377. (Kewin Pèche-Quili­chi­ni, et al) Influ­enceurs et jet-set­ters de l’Ẫge du Bronze en 
. . . . . Corse: pou­voir, puis­sance et viril­ité en ques­tion [arti­cle]
25378. (Jor­rit M. Kelder) Trade, Pira­cy and the Pro­tec­tion of the Sea-lanes in the 
. . . . . Myce­naean World and Egypt [arti­cle]
25379. (David Nei­w­ert) The Age of Insur­rec­tion ― The Rad­i­cal Right’s Assault on American 
. . . . . Democracy
5380. (Lois Lowry) The Giver

Image of the Month — MARCH 2025

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FILMS — FEBRUARY 2025

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(Wilder 1954) Sabrina
(Sato 2020) Alice in Bor­der­land: Ep.1
(Loane 2018) Agatha and the Truth of Murder-
(Ray 1949) Knock on Any Door
(L’Herbier 1930) Le mys­tère de la cham­bre jaune
(Bernard 1927) Le joueur d’échecs 
(Grou 2017) Car­di­nal: Ep.1 ― Forty Words for Sor­row: Cardinal
(Jame­son 1977) Air­port ‘77
(Gilman Jr 2022) The Bow­ery Boys: Leg­ends of Laughter
(Mår­lind & Stein 2016) Mid­night Sun [Mid­nattssol]: Ep.1 ― 1.1
(Mitchell 2018) Under the Sil­ver Lake
(Grou 2017) Car­di­nal: Ep.2 ― Forty Words for Sor­row: Delorme
(Grou 2017) Car­di­nal: Ep.3 ― Forty Words for Sor­row: Edie and Eric
(Bar­ry 1985) Tripods: Episode 24
(Bar­ry 1985) Tripods: Episode 25 — The For­est of Death

First-time listening for FEBRUARY 2025

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26839. (Jaco Pas­to­rius) The Essen­tial Jaco Pastorius
26840. (Huang An-Lun) Vio­lin Con­cer­to in B
26841. (Scor­pi­ons) Crazy World
26842. (Week­nd) Kiss Land
26843. (Gir­i­ja Devi) Sur Siddhi
26844. (Seek­ers) A World Of Our Own
26845. (Bri­an Fer­ry) Let’s Stick Together

READING — FEBRUARY 2025

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25368. (Char­lie Angus) Dan­ger­ous Mem­o­ry ― Com­ing of Age in the Decade of Greed
25369. (The Anh Han, Manh Hong Duong & Mar­jaz Perc) Evo­lu­tion­ary Mech­a­nisms that
. . . . . Pro­mote Coop­er­a­tion May Not Pro­mote Social Wel­fare [arti­cle] [d]
25370. (Blaine Hard­en) Escape from Camp 14 ― One Man’s Remark­able Odyssey from 
. . . . . North Korea to Free­dom in the West
25371. (Ben­jamin Isakhan & Eleanor Childs) Gen­der and Cul­tur­al Vio­lence: Feminist
. . . . . Per­spec­tives on Islam­ic State’s Her­itage Destruc­tion [arti­cle]
25372. (Jason Stan­ley) Eras­ing His­to­ry ― How Fas­cists Rewrite the Past to Control 
. . . . . the Future
25373. (Alice Jane Hamil­ton) Find­ing John Rae
25374. (Rus­sell Shorto) The Island at the Cen­ter of the World ― The Epic Sto­ry of 
. . . . . Dutch Man­hat­tan and the For­got­ten Colony That Shaped America

Image of the Month — FEBRUARY 2025

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