READINGDECEMBER 2006

14856. (Robert Smith Thomp­son) Empires On the Pacif­ic ― World War II and the Strug­gle for
. . . . . the Mas­tery of Asia
14857. (F. Kaid Ben­field, Matthew D. Rai­mi & Don­ald D. T. Chen) Once There Were Greenfields
. . . . . ― How Urban Sprawl Is Under­min­ing America’s Envi­ron­ment, Econ­o­my and Social Fabric

14858. (Andre Dubus III) House of Sand and Fog
14859. (Mary Frances Cusack) An Illus­trat­ed His­to­ry of Ire­land From AD 400 to !800
14860. (Nicholas Mey­er) The Sev­en-Per­cent Solution
14861. (Ian Fin­lay) Columba
14862. (Leman Can­turk) Europe’s Last Olive Tree: Trav­el­er Gyp­sies vs. Envi­ron­men­tal­ists [arti­cle]
14863. (Lemo­ny Snick­et [ = Daniel Han­dler] ) The Bad Beginning
14864. (Bill Wat­ter­son) The Inde­spens­able Calvin and Hobbes [comix]
14865. [2] (Sher­wood Ander­son) Wines­burg, Ohio
(Stephanie Dal­ley –tr.) Myths From Mesopotamia:
. . . . 14866. (Stephanie Dal­ley) Intro­duc­tion [pref­ace]
. . . . 14867. (attr. Nur-Aya) Atra­ha­sis [c. 1700 BC]
. . . . 14868. [4] The Epic of Gil­gamesh, Stan­dard Akka­di­an Ver­sion from Nineveh
. . . . 14869. [5] The Epic of Gil­gamesh, Old Baby­lon­ian Ver­sion [see oth­er trans­la­tions at 1792,
. . . . 1808 & 14000]

. . . . 14870. [2] The Descent of Ishtar to the Under­world [see Speis­er tr. in 1808]
. . . . 14871. [2] Ner­gal and Ereshki­gal, Stan­dard Version
. . . . 14872. [3] Ner­gal and Ereshki­gal, Amar­na Ver­sion [see Grayson tr. in 1809]
. . . . 14873. [2] Ada­pa [see Speis­er tr. 1808]
. . . . 14874. (attr. Lu-Nan­na) Etana
. . . . 14875. The Epic of Anzu, Stan­dard Version
. . . . 14876. The Epic of Anzu, Old Baby­lon­ian Version 
. . . . 14877. [2] Enu­ma Elish, the Epic of Cre­ation [see Speis­er tr. in 1808 and Addition,
. . . . . . . . Grayson tr., in 1809]

. . . . 14878. [2] Theoge­ny of Dun­nyu [see Grayson tr. in 1809]
. . . . 14879. (att. Kibti-ilani-Mar­duk of Dabibi) Erra and Ishum
14880. (Lemo­ny Snick­et [ = Daniel Han­dler] ) The Rep­tile Room
14881. (Thomas Cahill) Mys­ter­ies of the Mid­dle Ages ― The Rise of Fem­i­nism, Sci­ence, and Art
. . . . . from the Cults of Catholic Europe

14882. (H. Bruce Franklin) Net Loss­es: Declar­ing War on the Men­haden ― How a foot­ball tycoon
. . . . . took George H.W. Bush’s oil com­pa­ny and used it to go after the fish that built America
. . . . . [arti­cle]

14883. (Julia Whit­ty) The Fate of the Ocean [arti­cle]
14884. (Lawrence & Nan­cy Gold­stone) The Fri­ar and the Cipher ― Roger Bacon and the Unsolved
. . . . . Mys­tery of the Most Unusu­al Man­u­script in the World

14885. (Michael W. Rob­bins) The Catch [arti­cle]
14886. (U.S. Depart­ment of Com­merce, Nation­al Ocean and Atmos­pher­ic Admin­is­tra­tion; Office
. . . . . of Cli­mate Obser­va­tion) Annu­al Report on the State of the Ocean and the Ocean
. . . . . Observ­ing Sys­tem for Cli­mate, August 2006 [report]

14887. (Mark Schwartz) Ocean report calls for imme­di­ate cre­ation of marine reserves along
. . . . . coastal U.S. [arti­cle]
14888. (Gov­ern­ment of Cana­da; House of Com­mons; Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Fish­eries and Oceans)
. . . . . Report on the Oceans Act, Octo­ber 2001 [report]

14889. (Lau­ra King) Pak­istani City Serves as Refuge for the Tal­iban [arti­cle]
14890. (Ian Rankin) Mor­tal Causes
14891. (Robert Louis Steven­son) A Child’s Gar­den of Vers­es [verse]
14892. (Jonathan Water­man) Arc­tic Cross­ing ― A Jour­ney Through the North­west Pas­sage and
. . . . . Inu­it Culture

14893. (Jared Dia­mond) Col­lapse ― How Soci­eties Choose to Fail or Succeed
14894. (W. S. Gilbert) The “Bab” Bal­lads [verse]
14895. (Roy Hat­ter­s­ley) What Has Long Been a Cat­a­stroph­ic Tragedy Is Also Now a Horrific
. . . . . Farce [arti­cle]

14896. (Han­nah Allam) Reporter Returns to Bagh­dad to Find it Far Dif­fer­ent ― And Worse Off
. . . . . [arti­cle]

14897. (Paul Lewis) “Had my first expe­ri­ence of squalls… I’ve also had a chance to do some
. . . . . home­work” [arti­cle]

14898. (Rick MacInnes-Rae) The Bal­lot Box and the World Today [arti­cle]
14899. (Tim Kyger) Amer­i­ca Went to the Moon, and All I Got Was This Lousy T‑Shirt
. . . . . [work­ing man­u­script in progress]

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