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READING — MAY 2016

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23169. (Thomas Paine) A Let­ter Addressed to the Abbé Ray­nal on the Affairs of North America
23170. (O. Sig­mars­son, et al) Dynam­ic Mag­ma Mix­ing Revealed by the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull 
. . . . . Erup­tion [arti­cle]
23171. (Witold Rybczyn­s­ki) City Life
23172. (Tor­ben Bjarke Ballin) Ris­ing Waters and the Process­es of Diver­si­fi­ca­tion and 
. . . . . Uni­fi­ca­tion in Mate­r­i­al Cul­ture — the Flood­ing of Dog­ger­land and Its Effect on NW 
. . . . . Euro­pean Pre­his­toric Pop­u­la­tions between c. 13,000 and 1,500 cal BC [arti­cle]
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READING — APRIL 2016

Posted by on April 30, 2016 No comments

23113. [3] (Jonathan Swift) Gulliver’s Trav­els [Trav­els Into Sev­er­al Remote Nations of the
. . . . . World, in Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver]
23114. (Michel de Mon­taigne) De l’amitié [arti­cle] [read in Eng­lish at 9575]
23115. (Torsten Gün­ther, et al) Ancient Genomes Link Ear­ly Farm­ers from Ata­puer­ca in Spain
. . . . . to Mod­ern-day Basques [arti­cle]
(Éti­enne de La Boétie) Oeu­vres com­plètes d’Estienne de la Boétie [ed. Paul Bonnefon]:
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READING — MARCH 2016

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23083. (Jules Verne) Paris au xxe siè­cle [read in Eng­lish trans­la­tion at 18241]
23084. (Thi­js Van Kolf­schoten, et al) Low­er Pale­olith­ic Bone Tools from the “Spear Horizon” 
. . . . . at Schönin­gen [arti­cle]
23085. (Marie-Anne Julien, et al) Char­ac­ter­iz­ing the Low­er Pale­olith­ic Bone Indus­try from 
. . . . . Schönin­gen 12 II: A Mul­ti-proxy Study [arti­cle]
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READING — FEBRUARY 2016

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23029. [3] The Book of Gen­e­sis [King James Bible]
23030. (Fran­cis X. Hezel) Mak­ing Sense of Microne­sia — The Log­ic of Pacif­ic Island Culture
23031. [4] The Book of Gen­e­sis [Oxford Anno­tat­ed Revised Stan­dard Bible]
23032. (Trish Laugh­ran) Dis­sem­i­nat­ing Com­mon Sense: Thomas Paine and the Prob­lem of the
. . . . . Ear­ly Nation­al Best­seller [arti­cle]
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READING — JANUARY 2016

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23000. (Frs. Lim­bourg & Jean Colombe) Les Très Rich­es Heures du Duc de Berry [1412–1489]
23001. (Jean-Paul Gagnon) Non-human Democ­ra­cy: Our Polit­i­cal Vocab­u­lary Has No Room
. . . . . for Ani­mals [arti­cle]
23002. (Mil­jana Radi­vo­je­vić, et al) On the Ori­gins of Extrac­tive Met­al­lur­gy: New Evidence
. . . . . from Europe [arti­cle]
23003. (Patrick Vin­ton Kirch) The Lapi­ta Peo­ples: Ances­tors of the Ocean­ic World
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Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

Posted by on January 24, 2016 No comments

©Photo. R.M.N. / R.-G. OjŽdaUsu­al­ly, I don’t list a book as “read” unless I read the whole thing, but this is a spe­cial case. The Très Rich­es Heures is a medieval bre­viary, famous for its artis­tic val­ue as an illu­mi­nat­ed man­u­script. I doubt that many peo­ple have ever read the entire text, which is mere­ly a col­lec­tion of prayers, mak­ing tedious read­ing. Such books were made for lay­men who wished to bring some ele­ments of monas­tic prac­tice into their dai­ly lives. They pro­vid­ed a cal­en­dric sched­ule for read­ing pas­sages from the Gospels, the Psalms, and lita­nies, and also helped one keep track of the many feast and saints’ days. Most were in Latin, but some were in local ver­nac­u­lars. Thou­sands of these man­u­scripts sur­vive, but a hand­ful that were pro­duced for wealthy nobles are spec­tac­u­lar­ly illu­mi­nat­ed. The one pro­duced for the Duc de Berry is con­sid­ered to be one of the prin­ci­pal mas­ter­pieces of medieval art. It is some­times said to be the most valu­able book in the world. Read more »

Some Thoughts on a Year of Reading

Posted by on January 3, 2016 No comments

16-01-02 READING picIt’s been an aver­age year of read­ing. 160 books and about 500 aca­d­e­m­ic papers, arti­cles, short sto­ries and oth­er short items. His­to­ry and anthro­pol­o­gy dom­i­nat­ed the book read­ing, as usu­al, with an empha­sis on Aus­tralia, the Pacif­ic, the Cana­di­an North and West, and the ideas of 19th cen­tu­ry Cana­di­an demo­c­ra­t­ic reform­ers. I became par­tic­u­lar­ly fas­ci­nat­ed by the 19th cen­tu­ry con­vict colonies of Aus­tralia and the French Pacif­ic pos­ses­sions, and I ampli­fied pre­vi­ous read­ings (such as Robert Hugh­es ven­er­a­ble The Fatal Shore, and the eye-open­ing but lit­tle known Australia’s Birth­stain, by Babette Smith). Thomas Keneal­ly, giv­ing Hugh­es a run for his mon­ey in A Com­mon­wealth of Thieves, cov­ers the gen­er­al sub­ject with extra­or­di­nar­i­ly vivid prose, and Siân Rees makes a clos­er case study in The Float­ing Broth­el — The Extra­or­di­nary True Sto­ry of an Eigh­teenth- cen­tu­ry Ship and Its Car­go of Female Con­victs. Read more »

READING – DECEMBER 2015

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22963. (Jonathan Safran Foer) Extreme­ly Loud & Incred­i­bly Close
22964. (Philipp W. Stock­ham­mer, et al) Rewrit­ing the Cen­tral Euro­pean Ear­ly Bronze Age 
. . . . . Chronol­o­gy: Evi­dence from Large-Scale Radio­car­bon Dat­ing [arti­cle]
22965. (Robert M. Kerr) Coït sacré ou deuil rit­uel? Quelques remar­ques prélim­i­naires sur 
. . . . . l’apthéose chez les Phéni­ciens [arti­cle]
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READING – NOVEMBER 2015

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22885. Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight, An Allit­er­a­tive Romance-Poem, 1360 AD [Mid­dle
. . . . . Eng­lish text] [ed. Richard Morris]
22886. (Arthur B. Reeve) The Invis­i­ble Ray [sto­ry]
22887. [2] (Alan Moore­head) The Fatal Impact: An Account of the Inva­sion of the South
. . . . . Pacif­ic 1767–1840
22888. (Poul Ander­son) World With­out Stars
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READING – OCTOBER 2015

Posted by on October 31, 2015 No comments

22769. (Bruce M. Knauft) South Coast New Guinea Cultures
(Ed Hall ̶ed.) Peo­ple & Cari­bou in the North­west Territories:
. . . . 22770. (Chuck Arnold) Tra­di­tion­al Use [arti­cle]
. . . . 22771. (Ed Hall & Elis­a­beth Had­lari) Present Use [arti­cle]
. . . . 22772. (Jill Oakes) Cloth­ing [arti­cle]
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