The Alteration
 music, love, and strange times: Amis gives us a very strange 20th century: Since the fundamentalist Martin Luther was elected pope and the Church was reformed, all Europe (including Great Britain) remained Catholic. Science and the laws, hemmed by [... more]
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The Glance of the Eye: Heidegger, Aristotle, and the ...
A great philosophical text that is both broad and deep.: As a philosophical figure, Heidegger is one who is sometimes, perhaps even often, largely avoided even by those whose interests reside in continental philosophy. This relative unfamiliarity is a [... more]
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1947-1955
Beautiful writing that I use as meditations: THE DIARY OF ANAIS NIN: VOLUME FIVE 1947-1955 contains beautiful writing. Anais (pronounced "anna - EESE" \o"EESE" as in "lease"\c) has a very unique writing style, a result of [... more]
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Does God Need Our Help
The Quiet Revolution--Biotechnology: The Quiet Revolution-Biotechnology A review of the book Does God Need Our Help?: Cloning, Assisted Suicide, & Other Challenges in Bioethics by John F. Kilner and C. Ben Mitchell, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., [... more]
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Before The Dawn
Redrawing the human image: Drawing on a wealth of resource material, Wade builds a comprehensive picture of who we are and where we come from. The "origins" question has been pretty well solved. Darwin's insight that Africa was humanity's home [... more]
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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our ...
Redrawing the human image: Drawing on a wealth of resource material, Wade builds a comprehensive picture of who we are and where we come from. The "origins" question has been pretty well solved. Darwin's insight that Africa was humanity's home [... more]
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Jesus in the Qur'an: His Reality Expounded in the Qur'an
ISLAM ACCORDING TO ALGAR: Algar's slim pamphlet is based on a preposterous premise : He claims that since the four gospels in the Bible are unreliable, the only true source on Jesus is the Muslim holy book the Koran! The reason? Algar claims that the [... more]
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Tanglewreck
Courtesy of Teens Read Too: Time is not behaving itself. Trains stall in time, then rush ahead as if to catch up, pyramids appear in London, a school bus gets sucked into a Time Tornado and vanishes, and there have been woolly mammoth sightings in the [... more]
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WWE: Mick Foley Greatest Hits and Misses
What is... and what could be.: World Wrestling Entertainment continues its trend of releasing strong retrospective titles with a new career encapsulation of Mick Foley. This title should have it all... the matches most fans would choose, insightful [... more]
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Dies The Fire
Dies the Fire, opposite view of "Island in the Sea of Time": This book starts at the same time Nantucket Island is launched into the far past(Island in the Sea of Time etc). In the Nantucket series, our current technology works for the [... more]
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Denmark Vesey: The Buried Story of America's Largest ...
Within a hair's breadth of changing US history: The parallels between Denmark Vesey's failed slave insurrection in Charleston in 1822 and the start of Toussaint's successful slave insurrection in Saint Domingue (now Haiti) in 1791 are striking. In both [... more]
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That Was the Year That Was
From Amazon.co.uk: Harvard-educated mathematician by trade and socio-political humorist and satirist by avocation, ivory tickler Tom Lehrer sang irreverent ditties that both outraged and delighted listeners during his on-again, off-again heyday of public [... more]
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