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Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts

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For most of the last 20 years, I have attended the weekly discussions of the Evolution Roundtable at Franklin and Marshall College a few blo...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Freedom by Sebastian Junger

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  Freedom  by Sebastian Junger is first and foremost a Quest or Journey Away, an adventure leaving home.  Junger and his friends walk the ra...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

New Friend, New List of Favorite Books

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Joseph Brodsky around 1970.  A new friend here in Panama, a cyclist, Yogi, and round-the-world-sailor named Roger, asked me for a list of bo...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

"War" by Sebastian Junger--Reading the Book 15 Years After I Saw the Movie

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  In August of 2010, eight months after I returned from Iraq, I went to see the documentary  Restrepo with Jim Dao of the New York Times .*...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

A Review of An Immense World by Ed Yong

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In the fall of 2024 I read An Immense World   with the Evolution Round Table at Franklin and Marshall College, a group I have been part of f...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Bilingual Books and the Challenge of Lifelong Learning

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More than a decade ago in a Paris bookstore I picked up French-Greek edition of The Gospel of John, Jean Evangile: traduit du grec, preface ...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

Israel Alone by Bernard-Henri Levy--The World Changed The Month It Was Published

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  On September 10 of the year just passed Bernard-Henri Levy published his new book Israel Alone .  I have read several of Levy's books ...
Saturday, January 4, 2025

Tribe by Sebastian Junger -- The Ancient Roots of Many Problems of the Modern World

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In October, I went a conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism .  The first and featured speaker was Sebastian Junger , author of seven bo...
Friday, December 27, 2024

For the Sweep of History, Read New Books First

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Asked about the five books someone should read to get a broad view of the history of the world, the historian Walter Russell Mead said we sh...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter

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In the hopeful world of self-help books the reader is drawn into the possibility of changing her life for the better.  We  could all be thin...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

"Blindness" by Jose Saramago--terrifying look at society falling apart

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  Blindness  reached out and grabbed me from the first page.  A very ordinary scene of cars waiting for a traffic introduces the horror to c...
Saturday, December 7, 2024

The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

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After the election in America last month, I decided to read The Peloponnesian War  by Donald Kagan.  During that 30-year-long war from 431-...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger: The story of a terrible storm and tragedy at sea.

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  The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger is a real page-turner story about a Gloucester-based fishing b...
Friday, October 18, 2024

A Very Complex Story: The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People by Walter Russell Mead

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This book is a history of the relationship between Israel and the United States.  Like so many relationships, the partners look back and rew...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: Beauty and Deep Irony Unlocked by Hannah Arendt

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Irony can be lovely in literature. The current living master of irony in my reading is Kazuo Ishiguro especially in his book The Remains of ...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Amerika by Franz Kafka

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  More than 40 years ago, I entered the strange world of Franz Kafka in the usual way: reading "The Metamorphosis."  This strange ...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

The Concept of History, Chapter 2 of "Between Past and Future" by Hannah Arendt

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When we say history is written by the victors, we are assuming or accusing the historians of writing propaganda.  But as Hannah Arendt makes...
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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

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  I just finished  Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby .  The title is a promise fulfilled.  I ...