Category Archives: B - READING

READINGFEBRUARY 2026

25536. (Amnesty International)Torture and Enforced Dis­ap­pear­ances in the Sun­shine State ― 
. . . . . Human Rights Vio­la­tions at “Alli­ga­tor Alca­traz” and Krome in Flori­da [report]
25537. (R. F. Fos­ter) Foster’s Ency­clo­pe­dia of Games, Includ­ing All the Indoor Games Played 
. . . . . at the Present Day [1897]
25538. [3] (Jerome Bix­by) It’s a Good Life [sto­ry]
25539. (David Wen­grow) The Ori­gins of Civic Life ― A Glob­al Per­spec­tive [arti­cle]
25540. (Michael Moor­cock) The Jew­el in the Skull
25541. (Ian Hod­der) Things and the Slow Neolith­ic: the Mid­dle East­ern Trans­for­ma­tion [arti­cle]
25542. (Jerome Bix­by) The Whip [sto­ry]
25543. (Arthur B. Evans) Anoth­er Verne Man­u­script Trans­lat­ed [arti­cle]
25544. (Madi­son Charl­ton) The Chil­dren of Martha March into Neg­a­tive Space [man­u­script]
25545. (Bede) The Sto­ry of Cæd­mon [excerpt from An Eccle­si­as­ti­cal His­to­ry of the English 
. . . . . Peo­ple]
25546. [2] (William Brei­d­ing) The Sen­su­al World [arti­cle]
25547. (Jacques God­bout) Hail Galarneau!

READINGJANUARY 2026

(William Brei­d­ing) Leavings:
. . . . 25501. (Phil Paine) Intro­duc­tion [pref­ace]
. . . . 25502. (William Brei­d­ing) The Sen­su­al World [arti­cle]
. . . . 25503. (William Brei­d­ing) Out Into the Woods [arti­cle]
. . . . 25504. (William Brei­d­ing) Coups d’etats of Child­hood [arti­cle]
. . . . 25505. (William Brei­d­ing) Beyond the Mask [arti­cle]
. . . . 25506. (William Brei­d­ing) Ron­nie Daw­son “Rockin’ Bones” [arti­cle]
. . . . 25507. (William Brei­d­ing) Patron Saint of the Honky Tonks [arti­cle]
. . . . 25508. (William Brei­d­ing) Dead Pop Stars [arti­cle]
. . . . 25509. (William Brei­d­ing) Pop Mat­ters [arti­cle]
. . . . 25510. (William Brei­d­ing) Craw­dad Train [arti­cle]
. . . . 25511. (William Brei­d­ing) Crate Dig­ger [arti­cle]
. . . . 25512. (William Brei­d­ing) Julia Elliott [arti­cle]
. . . . 25513. (William Brei­d­ing) Armis­tead Maupin [arti­cle]
. . . . 25514. (William Brei­d­ing) Leav­ings: 2015 [arti­cle]
. . . . 25515. (William Brei­d­ing) You’ll Be Dead [sto­ry]
. . . . 25516. (William Brei­d­ing) A Tale of Romance [arti­cle]
. . . . 25517. (William Brei­d­ing) What’s Up With Led Zep? [arti­cle]
. . . . 25518. (William Brei­d­ing) Mis­fits in Milan [arti­cle]
. . . . 25519. (William Brei­d­ing) Nasty Boy What Went Wrong? [arti­cle]
. . . . 25520. (William Brei­d­ing) San Fran­cis­co and the Big Beat [arti­cle]
. . . . 25521. (William Brei­d­ing) How To Go Deeply Into Debt [arti­cle]
. . . . 25522. (William Brei­d­ing) The Lar­ry Chron­i­cles [arti­cle]
. . . . 25523. (William Brei­d­ing) Down Among the Lau­rels [arti­cle]
. . . . 25524. (William Brei­d­ing) The Skele­tons of Win­ter [arti­cle]
. . . . 25525. (William Brei­d­ing) My Sister’s Fake Hus­band [poem]
. . . . 25526. (William Brei­d­ing) Page From a Fucked Up Diary [poem]
. . . . 25527. (William Brei­d­ing) About To Begin [poem]
25528. (Andrew Ross Sorkin) 1929 ― Inside the Great­est Crash in Wall Street History 
. . . . . and How It Shat­tered a Nation
25529. (Lau­ra Diet­rich, et al) LBK Out­posts of Eil­sleben: Hunter-farmer Encounters 
. . . . . in the Bor­der­lands of Ear­ly Neolith­ic Cen­tral Europe [arti­cle]
25530. (Eber­hard Zang­ger) Pre­his­toric Earth­quakes and their Con­se­quences, as 
. . . . . Pre­served in Holocene Sed­i­ments from Volos and Argos, Greece [arti­cle]
25531. (Michael Free­man & Claude Jacques) Ancient Angkor
25532. (Moham­madamin Ema­mi) Achaemenid Bronze! Quid Est? Archaeometallurgical 
. . . . . Inves­ti­ga­tions on Some Bronze Arte­facts from Perse­po­lis [arti­cle]
25533. [2] (John Hen­ry Cut­ler) Tom Stet­son on the Trail of the Lost Tribe 
25535. (Mau­rice Leblanc) [Arsène Lupin] L’île aux trente cercueils

READINGDECEMBER 2025

25481. (Sum­it Kumar) Decolonis­ing Jus­tice in India: A Sol­i­dar­i­ty-Based Approach to 
. . . . . Post-Colo­nial Jus­tice [arti­cle]
25482. (Vladimir F. Nicules­cu) Non-genet­ic Mech­a­nisms in Can­cer Evo­lu­tion: Senescence, 
. . . . . Uni­cel­lu­ar­iza­tion, and Cycles of Stem­ness Recov­ery [arti­cle]
25483. (Dominick Gra­ham) The Price of Com­mand ― A Biog­ra­phy of Gen­er­al Guy Simonds
25484. (Vera Zam­ag­ni) An Eco­nom­ic His­to­ry of Europe Since 1700
25485. (Har­ry Boyte) The Black Cit­i­zen Teach­ers Who Changed the South [arti­cle]
25486. (Hédi Bouraoui) Ain­si par­le la Tour CN 
(August Strind­berg) Six Plays of Strind­berg [tr. Eliz­a­beth Sprigge]:
. . . . 25487. (Eric Bent­ley) On Strind­berg [pref­ace]
. . . . 25488. (August Strind­berg) The Father [play]
. . . . 25489. (August Strind­berg) Miss Julie [play]
. . . . 25490. (August Strind­berg) The Stronger [play]
. . . . 25491. (August Strind­berg) East­er [play]
. . . . 25492. (August Strind­berg) A Dream Play [play]
. . . . 25493. (August Strind­berg) The Ghost Sonata [play]
25494. (John T. Koch) Con­ver­gence in situ: the For­ma­tion of the Indo-Euro­pean Branches 
. . . . . and the Bronze-Iron Tran­si­tion [arti­cle]
25495. (Philippe Aubert de Gaspé) Les anciens Canadiens
25496. (Zhizhou Zhang, et al) The Evo­lu­tion of Cog­ni­tive Abil­i­ties in Marine Ani­mals: A
. . . . . Hypoth­e­sis Based on Insights about Cog­ni­tion Gene Poly­mor­phisms in 
. . . . . Coe­lo­canths and Lung­fish [arti­cle]
25497. (Mat­ti Charl­ton) Intro­duc­ing Malavak
25498. (Vera Zam­ag­ni) The Ital­ian Economy 
25499. [3] (John Hen­ry Cut­ler) Tom Stet­son and the Giant Jun­gle Ants
25500. [3] (Lee Sut­ton) Venus Boy

READINGNOVEMBER 2025

25464. (Sebas­t­ian Sali­cru) Emo­tion­al Free­dom Tech­niques in Men­tal Health Care [arti­cle]
25465. (Patrizia Nanz) What Kind of Inno­va­tion for Europe’s Future? Uni­ver­si­ties as 
. . . . . Anchors for a Rad­i­cal Change [arti­cle]
25466. (Mark Lil­la) The Reck­less Mind ― Intel­lec­tu­als in Politics
25467. (Philip Men­sah) Strength­en­ing Mar­itime Secu­ri­ty for Ocean Sus­tain­abil­i­ty within 
. . . . . Namibia’s Green Econ­o­my Tran­si­tion [arti­cle]
25468. (Her­shey H. Fried­man) The Edu­ca­tion Irony: When Col­lege Degrees Lead to 
. . . . . Unem­ploy­ment, Mind­less Think­ing, Debt, and Despair [arti­cle]
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READINGOCTOBER 2025

25458. (Richard J. Evans) Hitler’s Peo­ple ― The Faces of the Third Reich
25459. (Erik Ring­mar) Order in a Bor­der­less World: Nomads Con­front Glob­al­iza­tion [arti­cle]
25460. (Dim­itrij Mlekuž Vrhovnik) Neolith­ic and Cop­per Age Set­tle­ment Dynam­ics in 
. . . . . the West­ern Carpathi­an Basin and the Alps [arti­cle]
25461. (Mon­i­ca Ittusard­ju­at) The Scarf and the But­ter­fly ― A Graph­ic Mem­oir of Hope 
. . . . . and Heal­ing [ill. Coco Apun­nguaq & Scott Plumbe]
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READINGSEPTEMBER 2025

25443. (Quinn Slo­bo­di­an) Crack-Up Cap­i­tal­ism ― Mar­ket Rad­i­cals and the Dream of 
. . . . . a World With­out Democracy
25444. (David Alt­man) Mea­sur­ing the Poten­tial of Direct Democ­ra­cy Around the 
. . . . . World 1900–2014 [arti­cle]
25445. (Eleni Asouti) Human Pale­oe­col­o­gy in South­west Asia Dur­ing the Ear­ly Pre-
. . . . . Pot­tery Neolith­ic {c.9700–8500 cal BC}: the Plant Sto­ry [arti­cle]
25446. (Markoosie Pat­sauq) Uuma­jur­siu­tik unaa­tu­in­na­mut [Hunter with Harpoon; 
. . . . . Chas­seur au har­pon] [tr. from Inuk­ti­tut into Eng­lish and French by Valerie 
. . . . . Hen­i­tiuk & Marc-Antoine Mahieu; with ana­lyt­ic arti­cles and appendices]
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READINGAUGUST 2025

25429. (Tim­o­thy Gar­ton Ash) Home­lands ― A Per­son­al His­to­ry of Europe
25430. (Mar­grét Elíz­a­bet Ólafs­dót­tir) Visions and Divides in Ice­landic Contemporary 
. . . . . Art [arti­cle]
25431. (Philip J. Cur­rie) Out of Africa: Meat-Eat­ing Dinosaurs that Challenged 
. . . . . Tyran­nosaurus rex [arti­cle]
25432. (Tom Nichols) The Death of Exper­tise ― The Cam­paign Against Established 
. . . . . Knowl­edge and Why It Matters
25433. (Aaron James) Ass­holes ― A The­o­ry of Don­ald Trump
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READINGJULY 2025

25417. (Peter J. Hotez) The Dead­ly Rise of Anti-Science
25418. (Nora Milotay & Gian­lu­ca Sgueo) Col­lec­tive Intel­li­gence at EU Lev­el Social and 
. . . . . Demo­c­ra­t­ic Dimen­sions [arti­cle]
25419. (Melin­da A. Zed­er) The Neolith­ic Macro-{R}evolution: Macroevo­lu­tion­ary Theory 
. . . . . and the Study of Cul­ture Change [arti­cle]
25420. (John H. Leonard) How Inven­tion Begins ― Echoes of Old Voic­es in the Rise of 
. . . . . New Machines
25421. (Daniel Olman) Optimal
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READINGJUNE 2025

25406. (Thom Hart­mann) The Hid­den His­to­ry of Neoliberalism
25407. (Alexan­der Wasse) A Joy of Wild Ass­es, A Pas­ture of Flocks: Hunt­ing and 
. . . . . Herd­ing in the Greater Syr­i­an Desert dur­ing the PPNB and Late Neolithic 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
25408. (Eber­hard Zang­ger & Serdal Mut­lu) Arti­fi­cial Ports and Water Engineering 
. . . . . at Troy: A Geoar­chae­o­log­i­cal Work­ing Hypoth­e­sis [arti­cle]
25409. (Erik Ring­mar) Re-Imag­in­ing Swe­den: The Rhetor­i­cal Bat­tle Over EU Membership 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
25410. (Matthew Kel­ly) The Women Who Saved the Eng­lish Countryside
25411. (Jean-Paul Gagnon & Samuel Moyn) Glob­al­iz­ing the Intel­lec­tu­al His­to­ry of 
. . . . . Democ­ra­cy [arti­cle]
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READINGMAY 2025

25393. (Ker­ry Ward) Mar­itime Bondage: Com­par­ing Past and Present [arti­cle]
25394. (Nathaniel Pop­per) Dig­i­tal Gold ― Bit­coin and the Inside Sto­ry of the 
. . . . . Mis­fits and Mil­lion­aires Try­ing to Rein­vent Money
25395. (Anna Mae Duane) “All Boys are Bound to Some­one”: Reimag­in­ing Freedom 
. . . . . in the His­to­ry of Child Slav­ery [arti­cle]
25396. (Mon­ti Narayan Dat­ta & James Brew­er Stew­art) The Pow­er of the Past in 
. . . . . the Present: The Cap­i­tal of the Con­fed­er­a­cy as an Anti­slav­ery City [arti­cle]
25397. (Prim­i­ti­va Bueno Ramirez, et al) Les Grottes arti­fi­cielles et le Campaniforme 
. . . . . à l’intérieur de la pénin­sule Ibérique: La Nécro­p­ole de Valle de Las Higueras 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
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