READING — JULY 2020

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24324. (Juli­et Clut­ton Brock) Ani­mals as Domes­ti­cate ― A World View through History
24325. (Andrew Gar­rard, et al) Pre­his­toric Envi­ron­ment and Set­tle­ment in the Azraq Basin: 
. . . . . Inter­im Report on the 1987 and 1988 Exca­va­tion [report]
24326. (Adam Gry­de­høj, Ilan Kel­man & Ping Su) Island Geo­gra­phies of Sep­a­ra­tion and 
. . . . . Cohe­sion: The Coro­n­avirus Pan­dem­ic and the Geopol­i­tics of Kalaal­lit Nunaat [arti­cle]
24327. (Chris Fox & Paul Wiegert) Exo­moon Can­di­dates from Tran­sit Trim­ing Vari­a­tions ― Six
. . . . . Kepler Sys­tems with TTVs Explain­able by Pho­to­met­ri­cal­ly Unseen Exo­moons [arti­cle]
24328. (Alun M. Ander­son) After the Ice ― Life, Death, and Geopol­i­tics in the New Arctic
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Image of the Month

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FILMS — JUNE 2020

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(Juran 1957) 20 Mil­lion Miles to Earth
(Gates 2013) Bates Motel: Ep.1 ― First You Dream, Then You Die
(Grif­fith 1910) An Arca­di­an Maid
(Fish­er 1953) Four Sided Triangle
(Fukasaku 1978) Mes­sage from Space [宇宙からのメッセージ; Uchū kara no Messēji]
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First-time listening for June 2020

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25987. (Bassek­ou Kouy­ate & Ngo­ni Ba) Segu Blue
25988. (Domeni­co Scar­lat­ti) Sonata in E minor, K.198 [tr. guitar]
25989. (Domeni­co Scar­lat­ti) Sonata in A, K.208 [tr. guitar]
25990. (Domeni­co Scar­lat­ti) Sonata in A, K.533 [tr. guitar]
25991. (Domeni­co Scar­lat­ti) Sonata in C, K.11 [tr. guitar]
25992. (Domeni­co Scar­lat­ti) Sonata in E “Cortège”, K.380 [tr. guitar]
25993. (Domeni­co Scar­lat­ti) Sonata in D, K.178 [tr. guitar]
25994. (Domeni­co Scar­lat­ti) Sonata in D minor, K.77 [tr. guitar]
25995. (Domeni­co Scar­lat­ti) Sonata in D minor, K.32 [tr. guitar]
25996. (Ter­ry Riley) Music for The Gift
25997. (Sam­sara Blues Exper­i­ment) Rev­e­la­tion & Mystery
25998. (Adolphe Charles Adam) Le Cor­saire, Bal­let in Three Acts
25999. (Imag­ine Drag­ons) Hell and Silence EP
26000. (Aztec Cam­era) BBC Rock Around the Clock, 1984

READING — JUNE 2020

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24306. (K. Lan­glois, et al) Vit­a­min D Sta­tus of Cana­di­ans as Mea­sured in the 2007 to 2009 
. . . . . Cana­di­an Health Mea­surs Sur­vey [arti­cle]
24307. (S. J. Whit­ing, et all) The Vit­a­min D Sta­tus of Cana­di­ans Rel­a­tive to the 2011 Dietary 
. . . . . Ref­er­ence Intakes: An Exam­i­na­tion in Chil­dren and Adults with and without 
. . . . . Sup­ple­ment Use [arti­cle]
24308. (Matthias Wack­er & Michael F. Holick) Sun­light and Vit­a­min D ― A Glob­al Perspective 
. . . . . for Health [report]
24309. (Sid­dharth Chan­dra & Eva Kassens-Noor) The Evo­lu­tion of Pan­dem­ic Influenza; 
. . . . . Evi­dence from India, 1918–19 [arti­cle]
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Image of the Month

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FILMS — MAY 2020

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(Stahl 1945) Leave Her to Heaven
(Ramis 1983) Nation­al Lam­poon’s Vacation
(Fuest 1971) The Abom­inable Dr. Phibes
(Mur­phy 2020) Hol­ly­wood: Ep.1 ― Hooray for Hollywood
(John­son 2019) Knives Out
(Fle­myng 1965) Daleks’ Inva­sion of Earth: 2150 A.D.
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First-time listening for May 2020

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25977. (Michael Moor­cock & The Deep Fix) The New World Fair
25978. (Leopold Mozart) Con­cer­to for Alpen­horn & Strings
25979. (Carl Rein­er & Mel Brooks) 2000 and Thirteen
25980. (Weyes Blood) Titan­ic Rising
25981. (Alan Ben­nett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller & Ducley Moore) Beyond the Fringe
. . . . . [record­ed at For­tune The­atre, Lon­don, 1961]
25982. (Henk Bad­ings) Sym­pho­ny #12
25983. (Mar­lon Williams) Make Way for Love
25984. (Ulla Kata­javuori) Grand Lady of Kantele
25985. (Rug­gero Leon­cav­al­lo) I Pagli­ac­ci [com­plete opera; d. Thiele­mann; Agres­ta, Kaufmann,
. . . . . Pla­ta­nia, Akzeybek]
25986. (Miles Davis) Blue Haze

READING — MAY 2020

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24295. (John Graunt) Nat­ur­al and Polit­i­cal Obser­va­tions Men­tioned in a Fol­low­ing Index, and 
. . . . . Made upon the Bills of Mor­tal­i­ty [1662]
24296. (Thomas Piket­ty) Cap­i­tal and Ideology
24297. (Noel B. Salazar) Anthro­pol­o­gy and Anthro­pol­o­gists in Time of Cri­sis [arti­cle]
24298. (Joyce Mar­cus) The Inca Con­quest of Cer­ro Azul [arti­cle]
24299. (Tobias Richter, et al) Inter­ac­tion before Agri­cul­ture: Exchang­ing Mate­r­i­al and Sharing 
. . . . . Knowl­edge in the Final Pleis­tocene Lev­ant [arti­cle]
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Image of the Month — Art of Hannes Bok

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Hannes Bok (1914–1964) was an Amer­i­can artist who pub­lished illus­tra­tions and cov­ers for fan­ta­sy and sci­ence fic­tion books and mag­a­zines. He also wrote two fan­ta­sy novels.