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Writer, book lover, curious soul. Retired. New life in NY after living about 30 years in Europe and Asia.
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How language shapes our biology and culture
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How language shapes our biology and culture
Review of How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention by Daniel Everett
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November 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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The great, little known gem of early Christianity
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The great, little known gem of early Christianity
Review of Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin
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November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Genghis Khan as enlightened and visionary
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Genghis Khan as enlightened and visionary
Review of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
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November 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Putting Africa at center stage
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Putting Africa at center stage
Review of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World by Howard W. French
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October 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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A history of prehistory
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A history of prehistory
Review of The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins by Stefanos Geroulanos
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October 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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From Neanderthals to Cro-Magnons
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From Neanderthals to Cro-Magnons
Review of Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans by Brian M. Fagan
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October 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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900 years in power
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900 years in power
Review of The Habsburgs: To Rule The World by Martyn Rady
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October 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Nationalism: what is it, where did it come from?
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Nationalism: what is it, where did it come from?
Review of Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson
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October 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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That neglected classical civilization
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That neglected classical civilization
Review of Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles
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October 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Eugene Smith's milieu
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Eugene Smith's milieu
Review of Gene Smith's Sink: A Wide-Angle View by Sam Stephenson
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October 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Gripping intro to the Crusades
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Gripping intro to the Crusades
Review of The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge
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October 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Biography of a unique mind
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Biography of a unique mind
Review of Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick
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October 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Emergence of the nation-state and democracy
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Emergence of the nation-state and democracy
Review of The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe, 1648-1815 by Timothy Blanning
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October 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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The Rube Goldberg march to catastrophe
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The Rube Goldberg march to catastrophe
Review of The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
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September 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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The romantic reaction to the hyper-rationalism of the Enlightenment philosophes
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The romantic reaction to the hyper-rationalism of the Enlightenment philosophes
Review of Against the Current by Isaiah Berlin
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September 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Kokoschka, Freud and cognitive neuroscience
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Kokoschka, Freud and cognitive neuroscience
Review of The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present by Eric Kandel
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September 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Explaining and fixing recessions
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Explaining and fixing recessions
Review of House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi
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September 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Visionary, revolutionary, courtier, and protean bureaucrat
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Visionary, revolutionary, courtier, and protean bureaucrat
Review of Review of Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
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September 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Initial step to modern international relations
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Initial step to modern international relations
Review of Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
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September 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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The Magna Carta failure
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The Magna Carta failure
Review of King John - Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: The Road to Magna Carta by John Morris
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September 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Grant on the Civil War
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Grant on the Civil War
Review of Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
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September 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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The social science revolution in philosophical and historical context
Review of Consciousness and Society by H. Stuart Hughes
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September 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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From ethnolinguistic patchwork to proto-nations
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From ethnolinguistic patchwork to proto-nations
Review of Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe by Peter Heather
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September 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Man, conqueror, God
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Man, conqueror, God
Review of Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C by Peter Green
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September 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Antecedents to the Wars of the Roses
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Antecedents to the Wars of the Roses
Review of The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV by Helen Castor
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August 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM