Category Archives: B - READING - Page 20

READING – JUNE 2012

Posted by on June 30, 2012 No comments

23347. (Ellery Queen) The Roman Hat Mystery
23348. (Steve Muhlberg­er) [in blog Muhlberger’s World His­tory] How Impor­tant Was the War
. . . . . of 1812? [arti­cle]
23349. (Steve Muhlberg­er) [in blog Muhlberger’s World His­tory] Review of The Civ­il War of 
. . . . . 1812 by Alan Taylor
(Edmond Hamil­ton) The Best of Edmond Hamil­ton [ ̶ed. Leigh Brack­ett]: Read more »

READING – MAY 2012

Posted by on May 31, 2012 No comments

23309. (Mark J. McGar­ry) Sun Dogs
23310. (Reseau des Défenseurs des Droits Humains en Afrique Cen­trale) Douala, le 24 Février
. . . . . 2012 : arresta­tion du défenseur des droits de l’homme et médecin, Dr Wences­lao Alo
. . . . . Man­so­go, Secré­taire des droits de l’homme et des lib­ertés civiles de la Con­ver­gence pour . . . . . la démoc­ra­tie sociale en Guinée équa­to­ri­ale [press release]
23311. (blog Ancient Scripts) Mahara­ja [arti­cle]
23312. (Lotte Hedea­ger) Iron-Age Soci­eties ― From Tribe to State in North­ern Europe, 500 BC to . . . . . AD 700 Read more »

READING – APRIL 2012

Posted by on April 30, 2012 No comments

23282. (Jean-Paul Gagnon) Post-Colo­nial Pub­lic Law: Are Cur­rent Legal Establishments
. . . . . Demo­c­ra­t­i­cal­ly Ille­git­i­mate? [arti­cle]
23283. (Bib­hutib­hushan Bandy­opad­hyay) The Song of the Road [Pather Panchali]
23284. (Steve Muhlberg­er) [in blog Muhlberger’s World His­to­ry] Democ­ra­cy in the Middle
. . . . . East [arti­cle]
23283. (Irfan Ahmad) How the West De-dem­o­critized the Mid­dle East [arti­cle] Read more »

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 — Secret History In Paperback

Posted by on April 11, 2012 No comments

The Secret His­to­ry of Democ­ra­cy was re-issued in a paper­back edi­tion, yes­ter­day. Much more rea­son­ably priced than last year’s hard­cov­er edi­tion, the book will now be able to reach ordi­nary stu­dents and school libraries. The crit­i­cal recep­tion of the book has been very gratifying.
Chapters/Indigo Books (Cana­da) ; Ama­zon (USA) ; Barnes & Noble (USA) ; Abe­Books (USA) ; SBS Livraria Inter­na­tion­al (Brazil) ; Amazon.UK (UK) ; Bookstore.co (UK) ; Foyles (UK) ; W.H. Smith (UK) ; Van­Stock­um (NETHERLANDS) ; Thalia.de (GERMANY) ; Flip­kart (INDIA) [hard­cov­er only] ; Kinokun­ya (MALAYSIA) ; Ama­zon出品サービス (JAPAN) ; Seek­books (Aus­tralia)

READING – MARCH 2012

Posted by on March 30, 2012 No comments

23228. (Jim Har­ris) Harp­er Con­quers Cana­da, One Robo­call at a Time [arti­cle]
23229. (Igor D. Novikov) The Riv­er of Time
23230. (Steve Muhlberg­er) [in blog Muhlberger’s World His­to­ry] Beyond Non-Vio­lence [arti­cle]
23231. (Bon­nie Jo Mount) Rad­i­cal The­o­ry of First Amer­i­cans Places Stone Age Europeans
. . . . . in Del­mar­va 20,000 Years Ago [ari­cle] Read more »

READING – FEBRUARY 2012

Posted by on February 29, 2012 No comments

23198. (Charles Cald­well Dobie) The Elder Broth­er [sto­ry]
23199. (Maev Kennedy) Eng­lish Her­itage Buys Great Barn at Har­mondsworth [arti­cle]
23200. (David Reich, et al) Genet­ic His­to­ry of an Archa­ic Homonin Group from Deniso­va Cave
. . . . . in Siberia [arti­cle]
23201. (Yoav Peled & Horit Her­man Peled) The Way For­ward in the Mid­dle East [arti­cle]
23202. (Glenn M. Schwartz) From Urban Ori­gins to Impe­r­i­al Inte­gra­tion in West­ern Syria:
. . . . . Umm el-Mar­ra 2006, 2008 [arti­cle]
23203. (Nor­man Davies) Van­ished King­doms ― The His­to­ry of Half-For­got­ten Europe Read more »

READING – JANUARY 2012

Posted by on January 31, 2012 No comments

23126. (anon. 13th Cen­tu­ry) Sumer is icu­men in [poem]
23127. (Michael Ignati­eff) There’s No Way Out But a New Pol­i­tics of Fair­ness [arti­cle]
23128. (Kate Wong) Spec­tac­u­lar South African Skele­tons Reveal New Species from Murky 
. . . . . Peri­od of Human Evo­lu­tion [arti­cle]
23129. (John Alle­mang) Rev­o­lu­tions: Long in Com­ing, They Require Dis­ci­plined Preparation 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
23130. (Arne Wossink) Com­pe­ti­tion and Coop­er­a­tion Among Pas­toral­ists in Northern 
. . . . . Mesopotamia c.3000–1600 BC Read more »

READING – DECEMBER 2011

Posted by on December 31, 2011 No comments

23057. (J. L. Araus, et al.) Changes in Car­bon Iso­topic Dis­crim­i­na­tion in Grain Cere­als from 
. . . . . Dif­fer­ent Regions of the Mediter­ranean Basin dur­ing the Past Sev­en Millenia: 
. . . . . Palaeoen­vi­ron­men­tal Evi­dence of a Dif­fer­en­tial Change in Arid­i­ty dur­ing the Late 
. . . . . Holocene [arti­cle]
23058. (Carl Knap­pett & Irene Niko­lakopoulou) Exchange and Affil­i­a­tion Net­works in the 
. . . . . MBA South­ern Aegean: Crete, Akrotiri and Mile­tus [arti­cle] Read more »

Monday, December 18, 2011 — We Need More Intelligent Protest, Part 3

Posted by on December 18, 2011 No comments

We will pause in mem­o­ry of some­one who knew the mean­ing of protest.

Václav Hav­el — Octo­ber 5, 1936 – 18 Decem­ber 18, 2011

“Truth and love must pre­vail over lies and hate.” — V.H.

Read this fine sum­ma­tion of Havel’s char­ac­ter and career by John Keane. Par­tic­u­lar­ly worth not­ing is this paragraph:

So, giv­en his mul­ti­ple per­son­al­i­ties and abun­dant achieve­ments, what is the best way to remem­ber Václav Hav­el? We should mourn his pass­ing, cer­tain­ly. But democ­ra­cies shouldn’t immor­tal­ize their lead­ers, past or present. They mustn’t allow any­body to sit on thrones. Yes, they need to pre­serve mem­o­ries of fig­ures like Hav­el, par­tic­u­lar­ly in our dark­en­ing times, when more than a few democ­ra­cies find them­selves in trou­ble. Yet democ­rats should try to live with­out polit­i­cal heroes and myths of great leaders.


READING – November 2011

Posted by on November 30, 2011 No comments

(Ray Brad­bury) The Octo­ber Coun­try [Bal­lan­tine edition]:
. . . . 22978. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) The Dwarf [sto­ry]
. . . . 22979. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) The Next in Line [sto­ry]
. . . . 22980. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) The Watch­ful Pok­er Chip of 
. . . . . . . . . . . . H. Matisse [sto­ry]
. . . . 22981. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) Skele­ton [sto­ry]
. . . . 22982. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) The Jar [sto­ry]
. . . . 22983. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) The Lake [sto­ry]
. . . . 22984. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) The Emis­sary [sto­ry]
. . . . 22985. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) Touched with Fire [= Shopping 
. . . . . . . . . . for Death] [sto­ry]
. . . . 22986. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) The Small Assas­sin [sto­ry]
. . . . 22987. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) The Crowd [sto­ry] 
. . . . 22988. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) Jack-in-the-Box [sto­ry]
. . . . 22989. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) The Scythe [sto­ry]
. . . . 22990. [2] (Ray Brad­bury) Uncle Einar [sto­ry] Read more »