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Image of the month: Leonard Cohen…

Posted by on May 1, 2015 No comments

LEONARD COHEN . CHANTEUR CANADIEN . FOLK . TOURNAGE D UN CLIP . AVEC DOMINIQUE ISSERMANN . PHOTOGRAPHE . PLAGE DE TROUVILLE . 26 JANVIER 1988 .… look­ing so Cana­di­an, it makes your teeth ache.

READING – APRIL 2015

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22421. (Frank Jor­dans) Ancient Wheat Points to Stone Age Trad­ing Links [arti­cle]
22422. (Xue-Bing Wu, et al) An Ultra­lu­mi­nous Quasar with a Twelve-billion-solar-mass
. . . . . Black Hole at Red­shift 6.30 [arti­cle]
22423. (P. Skoglund, et al) Genom­ic Diver­si­ty and Admix­ture Dif­fers for Stone-Age
. . . . . Scan­di­na­vian For­agers and Farm­ers [arti­cle]
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READING – MARCH 2015

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22416. (Dwayne Brown) Curios­i­ty Rover Finds Active, Ancient Organ­ic Chem­istry on Mars
. . . . . [arti­cle]
22417. (Ben Krause-Kyo­ra, et al) Use of Domes­tic Pigs by Mesolith­ic Hunter-Gath­er­ers in
. . . . . North­west­ern Europe [arti­cle]
22418. (Patrick Cock­burn) The Destruc­tion of Idols: Syria’s Pat­ri­mo­ny at Risk from
. . . . . Extrem­ists [arti­cle]
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READING – FEBRUARY 2015

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22391. (Jacques Futrelle) The Prob­lem of Cell 13 [sto­ry]
22392. (Andrew Armitage) Com­par­ing the Pol­i­cy of Abo­rig­i­nal Assim­i­la­tion: Australia,
. . . . . Cana­da, and New Zealand
22393. (Jean-Paul Gagnon) Democ­ra­cy and The­o­ret­i­cal Physics [arti­cle]
22394. (Natalia Loukache­va) The Arc­tic Promise — Legal and Polit­i­cal Auton­o­my of
. . . . . Green­land and Nunavut
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(Ed Bryant) Cinnabar

Posted by on February 18, 2015 No comments

Ed Bryant (not to be con­fused with the Ten­nessee politi­cian of the same name), is a savoured taste, one of those “minor” sci­ence fic­tion writ­ers, like Chad Oliv­er or Lloyd Big­gle, Jr., who make explor­ing the genre such a plea­sure. A read­er trea­sures an old copy of Cinnabar, with its moody, ele­gantly writ­ten sto­ries, with much more affec­tion than they can usu­ally sum­mon for any­thing by the big shots of the field. In the same way, a music fan will trea­sure vinyls of Tom Wait’s Rain Dogs, George Thoro­good & the Destroy­ers, or John Hyatt’s Rid­ing With the King. Ed Bryant may have been some­what influ­enced by Har­lan Elli­son, of whom he was some­thing of a pro­tegé, and with whom he some­times col­lab­o­rated, but I think his real styl­is­tic affin­ity is with Cord­wainer Smith. Raised on a Wyoming cat­tle ranch, he does not share Ellison’s urban aes­thetic, and his prose is not “con­tem­po­rary” and slangy in the way Ellison’s always was. Any­way, if you can dig up a copy of Cinnabar (pub­lished in 1975), not nec­es­sar­i­ly an easy task, you will be reward­ed with a series of inter­con­nected sto­ries, none of which seems to have an obvi­ous point, but which togeth­er cre­ate an atmos­phere which will cling in your mem­ory for decades. Read more »

READING – JANUARY 2015

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22364. [3] (H. G. Wells) The Time Machine
22365. (H. G. Wells) The Chron­ic Arg­onauts [sto­ry]
22366. (Mark McCor­ma­ck) The Declin­ing Sig­nif­i­cance of Homo­pho­bia — How Teenage
. . . . . Boys are Redefin­ing Mas­culin­i­ty and Heterosexuality
22367. (W. W. Jacobs) The Well [sto­ry]
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READING – DECEMBER 2014

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22331. (Tim Flan­nery) The Final Fron­tier — An Eco­log­i­cal His­to­ry of North Amer­i­ca and Its
. . . . . Peoples
22332. (Vic­tor L. Whitechurch) The Affair of the Ger­man Dis­patch-Box [sto­ry]
22333. (Col­in New­bury) Tahi­ti Nui — Change and Sur­vival in French Poly­ne­sia 1767–1945
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READING – NOVEMBER 2014

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22228. (Tiant­ian Zheng) Recast­ing Gen­der and Pro­phy­lac­tic Use in Chi­na: A His­tor­i­cal and 
. . . . . Anthro­polig­i­cal Per­spec­tive [arti­cle]
22229. (Joël Plouffe & Har­ry Bor­lase) L’Arctique de Stephen Harper
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READING – OCTOBER 2014

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22131. (Hen­ry Reynolds) A His­to­ry of Tasmania
22132. (Mau­rice M. Durand & Nguyẽ̂n Trà̂n Huân) An Intro­duc­tion to Viet­namese Literature
22133. (Soth Polin) Com­mu­ni­cate, They Say [sto­ry]
22134. (Soth Polin) The Dia­bol­ic Sweet­ness of Pol Pot [arti­cle]
22135. (Sharon May) In the Shad­ow of Angkor: A Search for Cam­bo­di­an Lit­er­a­ture [arti­cle]
22136. (Kurt E. Don­goske) Ethics of Field Research for the Hopi Tribe [arti­cle]
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READING – SEPTEMBER 2014

Posted by on September 30, 2014 No comments

22036. (V. M. Whit­worth) The Traitor’s Pit
22037. (Judith Bey­er) Order­ing Ideals: Accom­plish­ing Well-Being in a Kyr­gyz Coop­er­a­tive of
. . . . . Elders [arti­cle]
22038. (Ken­neth J. Lavo­vara, et al) A Gigan­tic, Excep­tion­al­ly Com­plete Titanosaurian
. . . . . Sauro­pod Dinosaur from South­ern Patag­o­nia, Argenti­na [arti­cle]
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