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READING – MARCH 2014

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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

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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

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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 »

READING – DECEMBER 2013

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21427. (Kathy Reichs) Déjà Dead
21428. (James Mor­gan) Giant Pre­his­toric Toil­er Unearthed [arti­cle]
21429. (Ben Quinn) Iceland’s Armed Police Make First Ever Fatal Shoot­ing [arti­cle]
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READING – NOVEMBER 2013

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21350. [2] (Fred­erik Pohl) The Midas Plague
21351. [3] (Aris­to­tle) Nichomachean Ethics
21352. (Joan McCarter) What the 1 Per­cent Thinks About You [arti­cle]
21353. (Ian Reifowitz) How Are the Rich Get­ting Rich­er? The More They Make, the Low­er the
. . . . . Income Tax Rates They Pay. Face Palm [arti­cle]
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READING – OCTOBER 2013

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21284. (David W. Mau­ri­er) The Amer­i­can Con­fi­dence Man
21285. (Peter J. Boet­tke, Daniel J. Smith & Nicholas A. Snow) Been There Done That: 
. . . . . The Polit­i­cal Econ­o­my of Déja Vu [arti­cle]
21286. (Mau­r­izio Viroli) From Pol­i­tics to Rea­son of State — The Acqui­si­tion and 
. . . . . Trans­for­ma­tion of the Lan­guage of Pol­i­tics 1250–1600
21287. (David W. Mau­ri­er) Speech Pecu­liar­i­ties of the North Atlantic Fishermen 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
21288. (Steven G. Hor­witz & William J. Luther) The Great Reces­sion and Its Aftermath 
. . . . . from a Mon­e­tary Equi­lib­ri­um The­o­ry Per­spec­tive [arti­cle]
21289. (J. E. King) Four The­ses on the Glob­al Finan­cial Cri­sis [arti­cle]
21290. (Thomas E. Sheri­dan) Land­scapes of Fraud — Mis­sion Tumacá­cori, the Baca 
. . . . . Float, and the Betray­al of the O’odham
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READING – SEPTEMBER 2013

Posted by on September 30, 2013 No comments

21219. (Patri­cia High­smith) The Tal­ent­ed Mr. Ripley
21220. (Soraj Hongladarom) Explor­ing the Philo­soph­i­cal Ter­rain of the Dig­i­tal Divide [arti­cle]
21221. (J. Marugán-Lobón, L. M. Chi­appe & A. A. Farke) The Vari­abil­i­ty of Inner Ear 
. . . . . Ori­en­ta­tion in Saurischi­an Dinosaurs: Test­ing the Use of Semi­cir­cu­lar Canals as a 
. . . . . Ref­er­ence Sys­tem for Com­par­a­tive Anato­my [arti­cle]
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Thursday, September 5, 2013 — Frederik Pohl, 1919–2013

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Frederik Pohl (middle) in 1938

Fred­erik Pohl (mid­dle) in 1938

Frederik Pohl in 1968

Fred­erik Pohl in 1968

To remain cul­tur­al­ly rel­e­vant for sev­en­ty-six years is a rare accom­plish­ment for any writer. Fred­erik Pohl’s career as a pro­fes­sion­al writer began in 1937, and end­ed this last Mon­day with his death. His last pub­lished nov­el was in 2011, and he was work­ing on a sec­ond vol­ume of auto­bi­og­ra­phy when he died. His blog, The Way the Future Blogs, was one of my favourites on the web in recent years — and his sto­ries and nov­els were among my favourites when I was grow­ing up. He found new read­ers with each decade of his long career. His influ­ence as an edi­tor was equal­ly sig­nif­i­cant. The field of Sci­ence Fic­tion owes much to him, though he was nev­er a flashy atten­tion-get­ter, nev­er the sub­ject of a per­son­al­i­ty cult. At SF con­ven­tions, he remained just a fan, some­one to chat with ami­ably at a par­ty, who did not care whether you were a big shot or a pim­ply teenag­er. I can vouch for that from per­son­al expe­ri­ence. Ascer­bic wit co-exist­ed with gen­tle­ness and human­i­ty in his demeanor. He was, as they used to say on the stage, “a class act.”

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READING – AUGUST 2013

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21138. (Robert Graves) Count Belisarius
21139. (Adam Nicky) Trea­sure Hunters Ruin­ing Jordan’s Arti­facts [arti­cle]
21140. (Olav Eike­land) Why Should Main­stream Social Researchers Be Inter­est­ed in Action
. . . . . Research? [arti­cle]
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