by Site Owner | Nov 3, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, History
by Rosemarie Ostler Berkley NAL, $13.95, 228 pages Rosemarie Ostler’s Slinging Mud: Rude Nicknames, Scurrilous Slogans, and Insulting Slang from Two Centuries of American Politics is oddly comforting. As a citizen, I’ve been paying close attention to the most recent...
by Site Owner | Nov 3, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Comics & Graphic Novels, History
by Kazuki Ebine Penguin, $15.00, 210 pages Kazuki Ebine’s Gandhi: a Manga Biography is lovely. I am impressed with Ebine’s black and white art, his art is evocative and conveys a gravity to characterization in a manner similar Sir Richard Attenborough’s classic 1982...
by Site Owner | Nov 3, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
by Simon James Thames & Hudson, $29.95, 328 pages At the beginning of the Roman era in the Mediterranean, there’s very little to separate Rome from her rivals. There’s seemingly no particular reason why Rome became the seat of the most powerful and dynamic...
by Site Owner | Nov 3, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
by Adrian Goldsworthy Thames & Hudson, $26.95, 224 pages It’s impossible to separate Roman government from her military. Rome was her army, and her army was Rome. An observer from the Roman Empire, upon hearing President Eisenhower’s dire warning about the...
by Site Owner | Nov 3, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks
by Rick Rodgers Andrews McMeel Publishing, $19.99, 156 pages Meatballs are universally loved throughout the world, and the author had an easy time to choose 50 recipes from an international repertoire. Meatballs are so versatile that they may be used in any course of...
