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“The Hunters Who Owned Themselves” Translated into Japanese

Posted by on June 30, 2013 No comments

13-06-30 BLOG The Hunters Who Owned Themselves Translated into JapaneseThere is now a Japan­ese edi­tion of The Secret His­to­ry of Democ­ra­cy. I am most curi­ous to know, but will prob­a­bly nev­er know, how my prose in “The Hunters Who Owned Them­selves” reads in Japan­ese trans­la­tion, or how the mix­ture of Eng­lish, French, Michif and Cree ter­mi­nol­o­gy was han­dled. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, I do not yet pos­sess the pub­li­ca­tion data… only that a Japan­ese edi­tion has exist­ed for sev­er­al months. Per­haps some Japan­ese read­er who is flu­ent in Eng­lish will report to me on this mat­ter. Read more »

READING – MAY 2013

Posted by on May 31, 2013 No comments

(Fritz Leiber) The Best of Fritz Leiber:
. . . . 20919. [2] (Poul Ander­son) The Wiz­ard of Nehwon [pref­ace]
. . . . 20920. [5] (Fritz Leiber) Gonna Roll the Bones [sto­ry]
. . . . 20921. [2] (Fritz Leiber) San­i­ty [sto­ry]
. . . . 20922. [2] (Fritz Leiber) Want­ed – An Ene­my [sto­ry]
. . . . 20923. [2] (Fritz Leiber) The Man Who Nev­er Grew Young [sto­ry]
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READING – APRIL 2013

Posted by on April 30, 2013 No comments

20889. (Jaiya & John Hanauer) Sex Posi­tions You Nev­er Thought Possible
20890. (Eric Chris­tiansen) The Norse­men in the Viking Age
20891. (D. Radice & L. Rez­zol­la) Uni­ver­sal­i­ty and Inter­mit­ten­cy in Rel­a­tivis­tic Turbulent 
. . . . . Flows of a Hot Plas­ma [arti­cle]
20892. (Ran­di Foxx) The Posi­tion Sex Bible
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READING – MARCH 2013

Posted by on March 31, 2013 No comments

(Stephen C. Cun­nane & Kath­lyn M. Stew­art ̶ed.) Human Brain Evo­lu­tion — The Influ­ence of 
. . Fresh­wa­ter and Marine Food Sources:
. . . . 20827. (Phillip V. Tobias) Fore­ward: Evo­lu­tion, Encephal­iza­tion, Envi­ron­ment [pref­ace]
. . . . 20828. (Kath­lyn M. Stew­art & Stephen C. Cun­nane) Intro­duc­tion [pref­ace]
. . . . 20829. (Ian Tat­ter­sall) Macroevo­lu­tion­ary Pat­terns, Exap­ta­tion, and Emer­gence in the 
. . . . . . . . . Evo­lu­tion of the Human Brain and Cog­ni­tion [arti­cle]
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READING – FEBRUARY 2013

Posted by on February 28, 2013 No comments
13-02-28 READING Spectre Is Haunting Texas

Cov­er art by Richard Clifton-Dey for a British edi­tion of
Fritz Leiber’s “A Spec­tre Is Haunt­ing Texas”

20802. (Robert Sheck­ley) The Eye of Real­i­ty [sto­ry]
20803. (Richard Stone­man) Alexan­der the Great
(Elec­tron­ic Text Cor­pus of Sumer­ian Lit­er­a­ture) Lugal­ban­da and Enmerkar [Sumer­ian texts and
. . Eng­lish translations]:
. . . . 20804. Lugalbanda
. . . . 20805. Lugal­ban­da and the Moun­tain Cave
. . . . 20806. Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta
. . . . 20807. Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana
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Lugalbanda, Beer and Babes

Posted by on February 16, 2013 No comments

From Lugal­ban­da:

“An will fetch Ningue­na­ka for me from her moun­tain home — the expert woman, who redounds to her moth­er’s cred­it, Ninkasi the expert, who redounds to her moth­er’s cred­it: her fer­ment­ing-vat is of green lapis lazuli, her beer cask is of refined sil­ver and of gold; if she stands by the beer, there is joy, if she sits by the beer, there is glad­ness; as cup­bear­er she mix­es the beer, nev­er weary­ing as she walks back and forth, Ninkasi, the keg at her side, on her hips; may she make my beer-serv­ing perfect.”

13-02-16 Lugalbanda 1 Beer recipe13-02-16 Lugalbanda 2 Beer receipt

left: A Sumer­ian beer recipe. right: Receipt for a ship­ment of “best” beer from a brew­er, c. 2050 BC from the Sumer­ian city of Umma. 

text from:

(Elec­tron­ic Text Cor­pus of Sumer­ian Lit­er­a­ture) Lugal­ban­da and Enmerkar [Sumer­ian texts and Eng­lish translations]:

23657. Lugal­ban­da
23658. Lugal­ban­da and the Moun­tain Cave
23659. Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta
23660. Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana

READING – JANUARY 2013

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20690. (William R. Short) Food, Diet, and Nutri­tion in the Norse Era [arti­cle]
20691. (Tim­o­thy Sny­der) Blood­lands ― Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
20692. (Hildur Gests­dót­tir) The Palaeopatho­log­i­cal Diag­no­sis of Nutri­tion­al Dis­ease: a Study
. . . . . of the Skele­tal Mate­r­i­al from Skel­jas­tadir, Ice­land [the­sis]
20693. (CBS/AP) Ancient Man­u­scripts Indi­cate Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty Once Thrived in
. . . . . Afghanistan [arti­cle]
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READING – DECEMBER 2012

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23511. (Kevin Stone) Overview of Canada’s Coal Sec­tor [arti­cle]
23512. (Bren­dan Gree­ley) Urg­ing Econ­o­mists to Step For­ward from the Black­board [arti­cle]
23513. (Steve Muhlberg­er) [in blog Muhlberber’s World His­to­ry] Bangladesh: Still Wait­ing for
. . . . . the Tide to Raise All Boats [arti­cle]
23514. (Keenan Lee) The Altai Flood [arti­cle]
23515. (Robert Jor­dan) Wheel of Time #1: The Eye of the World Read more »

READING – NOVEMBER 2012

Posted by on November 30, 2012 No comments

23575. [5] (Lewis Car­roll) Through the Looking-Glass
23576. (Jane Jacobs) Intro­duc­tion to A School­teacher in Old Alas­ka [pref­ace]
23577. (Han­na Breece) A School­teacher in Old Alas­ka [ ̶ed. Jane Jacobs]
23578. (Wei Wei, et al) A Cal­i­brat­ed Human Y‑chromosomal Phy­loge­ny Based on
. . . . . Rese­quensing [arti­cle] Read more »

READING – OCTOBER 2012

Posted by on October 31, 2012 No comments

23575. (Roald Dahl) James and the Giant Peach
23576. (Julian H. Stew­ard) The­o­ry of Cul­ture Change: The Method­ol­o­gy of Multilinear
. . . . . Evolution
23577. [2] (Samuel R. Delany) The Bal­lad of Beta‑2
23578. (Lewis Gropp) The Great Arab Trav­eller Ibn Bat­tuta — Con­tem­po­rary Wit­ness or
. . . . . Imposter? [arti­cle] Read more »