Monday, December 28, 2015

Shining and Other Paths, edited by Steve J Stern.

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The Shining Path, or Sendero Luminoso, was a Maoist revolutionary movement born of Peru’s university system. It was the creation of Profess...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

Islamophobia, the Red Scare and Donald Trump. Inspired by Reading Murray B. Levin.

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In April of 1919, US postal officials discovered thirty-six bombs had been mailed to prominent politicians and industrialists throughout th...
Sunday, December 6, 2015

The Guardian of Boston. William Monroe Trotter by Stephen R. Fox.

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William Monroe Trotter was an early Twentieth Century radical for the cause of racial equality. Of course, what was radical in 1910 is acce...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer by Bart D. Ehrman

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Bart D Ehrman provides a carefully considered, insightful, perspective on the Bible. It is a document which he has spent a long time examin...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

Woman of Valor. Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America by Ellen Chesler.

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“Margaret Sanger went to jail in 1917 for distributing contraceptives to immigrant women.” She worked from “a makeshift clinic, in a tene...
Friday, November 6, 2015

The Art of Forgery by Noah Charney

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Noah Charney has written a well planned and colorful book that will introduce the general public to the subject of art forgery. This is not...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

Symptoms of Modernity. Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna by Matti Bunzl.

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Symptoms of Modernity is an anthropological, cross-cultural study concerning the conditions and progress of the LGBT and Jewish communitie...