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Book of January 27, 2010
One hundred years of Kiowa history, in stories about ordinary lives, based on personal memories.
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Book of January 26, 2010
In 1776 Southerners said slavery was a regrettable and probably temporary necessity; by 1859 they said it was the foundation of their society and their liberty.
Posted in Reviews Tagged african americans, american history, civil war, history, race, racism, slavery, southern US Leave a comment
Book of January 25, 2010
Graves never had any scruples about making things up, but he didn’t need to do all that much, here: the last years of the Roman Republic and first of the Empire were some of the least boring in history.
Book of January 24, 2010
Child sacrifice is a theme running through the Jewish and Christian Bibles, from Abraham's near-sacrifice of Isaac to the Christian idea that G*d the Father Himself sacrificed his Son.
Posted in Reviews Tagged bible, christianity, freud, human sacrifice, judaism, psychology, religion 2 Comments
January 22, 2010
Painstaking reconstruction of De Soto's journey through what is now the southeastern US, and the many vanished cultures and peoples he encountered.
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Book of January 20, 2010
Indispensable insights into the life of New York -- and America as a whole -- in the first half of the 20th century.
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Book of January 19, 2010
A children’s classic makes a very good hat.
Book of January 9, 2010
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One of the best-built alien ecosystems in the history of science fiction, and one of my favorite kick-ass heroines, too.
Book of January 6, 2010
Renaissance artists depicted and even directed attention to Jesus' penis.
Book of January 28, 2010
Owl Moon, by Jane Yolen