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READING – DECEMBER 2011

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23057. (J. L. Araus, et al.) Changes in Car­bon Iso­topic Dis­crim­i­na­tion in Grain Cere­als from 
. . . . . Dif­fer­ent Regions of the Mediter­ranean Basin dur­ing the Past Sev­en Millenia: 
. . . . . Palaeoen­vi­ron­men­tal Evi­dence of a Dif­fer­en­tial Change in Arid­i­ty dur­ing the Late 
. . . . . Holocene [arti­cle]
23058. (Carl Knap­pett & Irene Niko­lakopoulou) Exchange and Affil­i­a­tion Net­works in the 
. . . . . MBA South­ern Aegean: Crete, Akrotiri and Mile­tus [arti­cle] Read more »

Monday, December 18, 2011 — We Need More Intelligent Protest, Part 3

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We will pause in mem­o­ry of some­one who knew the mean­ing of protest.

Václav Hav­el — Octo­ber 5, 1936 – 18 Decem­ber 18, 2011

“Truth and love must pre­vail over lies and hate.” — V.H.

Read this fine sum­ma­tion of Havel’s char­ac­ter and career by John Keane. Par­tic­u­lar­ly worth not­ing is this paragraph:

So, giv­en his mul­ti­ple per­son­al­i­ties and abun­dant achieve­ments, what is the best way to remem­ber Václav Hav­el? We should mourn his pass­ing, cer­tain­ly. But democ­ra­cies shouldn’t immor­tal­ize their lead­ers, past or present. They mustn’t allow any­body to sit on thrones. Yes, they need to pre­serve mem­o­ries of fig­ures like Hav­el, par­tic­u­lar­ly in our dark­en­ing times, when more than a few democ­ra­cies find them­selves in trou­ble. Yet democ­rats should try to live with­out polit­i­cal heroes and myths of great leaders.


READING – November 2011

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(Ray Brad­bury) The Octo­ber Coun­try [Bal­lan­tine edition]:
. . . . 22978. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) The Dwarf [sto­ry]
. . . . 22979. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) The Next in Line [sto­ry]
. . . . 22980. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) The Watch­ful Pok­er Chip of 
. . . . . . . . . . . . H. Matisse [sto­ry]
. . . . 22981. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) Skele­ton [sto­ry]
. . . . 22982. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) The Jar [sto­ry]
. . . . 22983. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) The Lake [sto­ry]
. . . . 22984. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) The Emis­sary [sto­ry]
. . . . 22985. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) Touched with Fire [= Shopping 
. . . . . . . . . . for Death] [sto­ry]
. . . . 22986. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) The Small Assas­sin [sto­ry]
. . . . 22987. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) The Crowd [sto­ry] 
. . . . 22988. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) Jack-in-the-Box [sto­ry]
. . . . 22989. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) The Scythe [sto­ry]
. . . . 22990. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) Uncle Einar [sto­ry] Read more »

READING – OCTOBER 2011

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22917. (Didi­er Viviers) Eco­nom­ic and Ter­ri­to­r­i­al Dynam­ics in Crete from
. . . . . . the Archa­ic to the Hel­lenis­tic Peri­od [arti­cle]
22918. (Sara Paton & Rolf M. Schnei­der) Impe­r­i­al Splen­dour in the
. . . . . . Province: Import­ed Mar­ble on Roman Crete [arti­cle]
22919. (Philip P. Betan­court) Pseira and Knos­sos: The Trans­for­ma­tion of
. . . . . . an East Cre­tan Sea­port [arti­cle]
22920. (Alfon­so Moreno) Feed­ing the Democ­ra­cy ― The Athen­ian Grain
. . . . . . Sup­ply in the Fifth and Fourth Cen­turies B.C.
22921. (Mar­garet S. Mook) From Foun­da­tion to Aban­don­ment: New
. . . . . . Ceram­ic Phas­ing for the Late Bronze Age and Ear­ly Iron Age on
. . . . . . the Kas­tro at Kavousi [arti­cle]
22922. (Maria C. Shaw) Reli­gion at Minoan Kom­mos [arti­cle]
22923. (Rod­ney Cas­tle­den) Mycenaeans
22924. (James D. Muh­ly) Chrysokamino and the Begin­nings of Metal
. . . . . . Tech­nol­o­gy on Crete and in the Aegean [arti­cle]
22925. (Paula J. Perl­man) Writ­ing on the Walls. The Archi­tec­tur­al Context
. . . . . . of Archa­ic Cre­tan Laws [arti­cle] Read more »

READING – SEPTEMBER 2011

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22884. [2] (Edith Hamil­ton) The Greek Way
(George O. Smith) Venus Equi­lat­er­al, Vol­ume One:
. . . . 22886. (John W. Camp­bell, Jr.) Intro­duc­tion [pref­ace]
. . . . 22887. (George O. Smith) QRM ― Inter­plan­e­tary [sto­ry] Read more »

READING – AUGUST 2011

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22815. (H.L. Sayler) The Air­ship Boys in the Bar­ren Lands
22816. (Mar­galit Finkel­berg) Greeks and Pre-Greeks — Aegean Pre­his­to­ry and Greek Heroic
. . . . Tradition
22817. (Fritz Leiber) The Green Millennium
22818. (Renée Levine-Melammed) His/Her Sto­ry: A Jew­ish War­rior Queen [arti­cle]
22819. (Lin Carter) Jour­ney to the Under­ground World
22820. (Sara Paton) Knos­sos: An Impe­r­i­al Renais­sance [arti­cle] Read more »

READING – JULY 2011

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22768. (Mounir H. Mega­l­ly) À la Recherche de la Sys­té­ma­ti­sa­tion des Con­nais­sances et du 
. . . . . Pas­sage du Con­cret à l’Abstrait dans l’Égypte [arti­cle]
22769. (Cather­ine Arau­jo-Bon­jean & Gérard Cham­bras) Tax­ing the Urban Unrecorded 
. . . . . Econ­o­my in Sub-Saha­ran Africa [arti­cle]
22770. (Wendy Wheel­er) The Whole Crea­ture: Com­plex­i­ty, Biosemi­otics and the Evo­lu­tion of 
. . . . . Cul­ture Read more »

READING – JUNE 2011

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22730. (Nas­sim Nicholas Taleb) The Black Swan: The Impact of the High­ly Improbable
22731. (Patrick Ness) The Knife of Nev­er Let­ting Go [Chaos Walk­ing, Book 1]
22732. (François de Sali­gnac de la Mothe-Fénelon) Les aven­tures de Télé­maque [1693–94] Read more »

READING – MAY 2011

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22717. (Eliz­a­beth Brown Pry­or) The Gen­er­al in His Study [arti­cle]
22687. (Susan Reynolds) There were States in Medieval Europe: A Response to Reese Davies
. . . . . [arti­cle]
(Kevin J. Vaugh­an, Jelmer W. Eerkens & John Kant­ner –ed.) The Evo­lu­tion of Leadership ―
. . Tran­si­tions in Deci­sion Mak­ing from Small-Scale to Mid­dle-Range Soci­eties: Read more »

READING – APRIL 2011

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22687. (Jacques Der­ri­da) Of Grammatology
22688. (Ralph Abra­ham) Math­e­mat­i­cal Coop­er­a­tion [arti­cle]
22689. (Ken­neth Bul­mer) The Hunters of Junda­gai Read more »