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Anyone who knows me for more than ten minutes knows of my deep and abiding fondness for dinosaurs. It’s a holdover from that phase most children go…
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One of the joys of being a Middle Earth enthusiast is that, over forty years after the death of J.R.R. Tolkien, new works from his papers continue to be…
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I've long been fascinated by the occupants of the White House, and with the history of slavery in the United States. Given that, a book like Robert…
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If you are familiar with science writer Mary Roach, you know she is never one to shy away from parts of science that verge on the absurd. I read two of…
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BookMark: “The Quartet: Orchestrating The Second American Revolution, 1783-1789” By Joseph J. Ellis.I've always been interested in history, but in high school I found American history to be incredibly boring. It was often presented as a black and white…
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I was intrigued to hear about a new book that seeks to reconcile the seemingly contradictory legacies of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Greg…
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There is a new essential read for anyone interested in human evolution. An important question in this debate has always been why did modern humans survive…
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When I came across “George Marshall: A Biography” by Debi and Irwin Unger, I knew I needed to read it. Marshall, General of the Army during the Second…