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READING – AUGUST 2014

Posted by on August 31, 2014 No comments

21994. (Mau­rice LeBlanc) [Arsène Lupin] L’Aiguille creuse
21995. (Oliv­er Gold­smith) An Essay on the The­atre [arti­cle]
21996. (Oliv­er Gold­smith) Reg­is­ter of Scotch Mar­riages [arti­cle]
21997. (Lester B. Pear­son) The Cri­sis of Development
21998. (Jane J. Lee) First Nation Tribe Dis­cov­ers Griz­zly Bear “High­way” in Its Backyard
. . . . . [arti­cle]
21999. (Amy Ger­man) Oujé-Bougoumou Final­ly Attains For­mal Recog­ni­tion [arti­cle]
22000. (Kei­th Knapp) Review of Death in Ancient Chi­na by Con­stance A. Cook [review]
22001. (Fer­nan­do Almarza Risquez) Del Miot como anti-caos al Mito como caos mismo
. . . . . [arti­cle]
22002. (Mark J. Kaswan) Demo­c­ra­t­ic Dif­fer­ences: How Type of Own­er­ship Affects Workplace
. . . . . Democ­ra­cy and its Broad­er Affects [arti­cle]
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READING – JULY 2014

Posted by on July 31, 2014 No comments

21960. [7] (Edgar Pang­born) A Mir­ror for Observers
21961. (Mikhail Vasi­lye­vich Lomonosov) An Evening Reflec­tion Upon God’s Grandeur
. . . . . Prompt­ed by the Great North­ern Lights [Вечернее размышление о божием
. . . . . величестве при случае великаго северного сияния] (poem)
21962. (Mikhail Zoshchenko) Hon­est Cit­i­zen [sto­ry]
21963. (Bri­an M. Sta­ble­ford) Jour­ney to the Center
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We have seen thee, queen of cheese

Posted by on July 18, 2014 No comments

The orig­i­nal 7,300 lb Mam­moth Cheese of 1866, depart­ing its birth­place in Inger­soll, Ontario.

I’m doing a lit­tle research on Cana­di­an lit­er­a­ture of the 19th cen­tu­ry. This is not a field that over­whelms the researcher with an abun­dance of mas­ter­pieces. Cana­da, at this time, was an emp­ty, rugged, pio­neer­ing place, vague­ly British in the soci­ety of its small urban elite, but for most peo­ple cul­tur­al­ly clos­er the the west­ern parts of the Unit­ed States. Mon­tre­al had a mod­est lit­er­ary life in French, draw­ing on sev­er­al cen­turies of folk­lore and even pro­duc­ing a few operas. These works were unknown in the rest of the French-speak­ing world. Eng­lish-speak­ing Mon­treal­ers were more inter­est­ed in com­merce than cul­ture. Out­side of Mon­tre­al, the only real city, there was not much oth­er than small towns, farms and wilder­ness.  Read more »

READING – JUNE 2014

Posted by on June 30, 2014 No comments

21899. (Thomas Piket­ty) Le Cap­i­tal au XXIe siècle
21900. (John Dry­den) An Essay of Dra­mat­ic Poesy
21901. (Jan Michal Bur­dukiewicz) Microlith Tech­nol­o­gy in the Stone Age [arti­cle]
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READING – MAY 2014

Posted by on May 31, 2014 No comments

21862. (Th. Her­sart de La Ville­mar­qué) Barzaz-Breiz: chants pop­u­laires de la Bretagne
21863. (Hervé Lossec) Les Bretonnismes
21864. (Khashchu­lu­un Chu­lu­un­dorj) Cur­rent Sta­tus of Mongolia’s Eco­nom­ic and Social 
. . . . . Devel­op­ment and Future Trends [arti­cle]
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READING – APRIL 2014

Posted by on April 30, 2014 No comments

21774. (J. J. Mar­ric) Gideon’s Badge
21775. (Juan Cole) [in blog Informed Com­ment] Oba­macare Enrolls 7.1 Mil­lion: But Will the
. . . . . Haters Ever Stop Hat­ing? [arti­cle]
(Gard­ner Dozois ‑ed.) The Year’s Best Sci­ence Fic­tion, Six­teenth Annu­al Collection:
. . . . 21776. (Gard­ner Dozois) Sum­ma­tion 1998 [pref­ace]
. . . . 21777. (Greg Egan) Ocean­ic [sto­ry]
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READING – MARCH 2014

Posted by on March 31, 2014 No comments

21660. (Wil­fed The­siger) Among the Moun­tains — Trav­els Through Asia
21661. (Philip Mat­tera) Sub­si­diz­ing the Cor­po­rate One Per­cent: Sub­sidy Track­er 2.0 Reveals 
. . . . . Big-Busi­ness Dom­i­nance of State and Local Devel­op­ment Incen­tives [report]
(Kather­ine Mans­field) In a Ger­man Pension:
. . . . 21662. (John Mid­dle­ton Mur­ry) Intro­duc­to­ry Note [pref­ace]
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READING – FEBRUARY 2014

Posted by on February 28, 2014 No comments

21595. (Kate Wil­helm) Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
21596. (Paul Fontaine) Rab­bits To Be “Removed” From Ice­land [arti­cle]
21597. (Misha Fried­man) Offi­cial Homo­pho­bia in Rus­sia [arti­cle]
21598. (M. W. Ray, et al) Obser­va­tion of Dirac Monopoles in a Syn­thet­ic Mag­net­ic Field
. . . . . [arti­cle]
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READING – JANUARY 2014

Posted by on January 31, 2014 No comments

21513. (Poul Ander­son) A Mid­sum­mer Tempest
21514. (David Lord­kipanidze, et al) A Com­plete Skull from Dman­isi, Geor­gia, and the 
. . . . . Evo­lu­tion­ary Biol­o­gy of Ear­ly Homo [arti­cle]
21515. (Ha-Joon Chang) Kick­ing Away the Lad­der: Devel­op­ment Strat­e­gy in Historical 
. . . . . Perspective
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The Romance of Antar

Posted by on January 25, 2014 No comments
14-01-25 - READING Antar

A medieval rep­re­sen­ta­tion of Antarah Ibn Shaddād

Ear­ly Ara­bic lit­er­a­ture is not well-known in the Eng­lish-speak­ing world, and some ele­ments of it might sur­prise some­one who is only famil­iar with the stuff from lat­er peri­ods. Among the ear­li­est works in Clas­si­cal Ara­bic are a num­ber of tales that can only be called “chival­ric romances”, which strong­ly resem­ble the sort of thing you would expect in Mal­o­ry or Chré­tien de Troyes. What would most sur­prise a mod­ern read­er is the treat­ment of female char­ac­ters. Read more »