by Norman West | Aug 22, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, Science & Technology
How to Fix the Future is an interesting book and worthwhile, though somewhat limited in scope. The focus is on the digital world and how it impacts our humanity: Brave new world a’ La Aldous Huxley or a new world for the brave (and educated). The challenges to our...
by Norman West | Jun 11, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
As the title hints, the chief of the Mossad turns rogue and has hatched a plan for an attack in the United States of sufficient gravity to surely provoke a war on the perpetrator. As the title further hints, Israel will not be blamed. The main characters are both...
by Norman West | Jun 5, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, History
In 2013, the latest year for firm statistics, over 33,000 deaths were related to firearms and indications are they increase after that. How did we get into this position, unrivalled in any other developed country? There are certainly over 200 million firearms in...
by Norman West | May 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
Ignorance gets off to a shaky start for two reasons. The first is that at the outset, the author says that he is a heavy user of metaphors. His reasoning is “Metaphors open up ideas, while descriptors limit them.” The second reason is that he spent some years as a...
by Norman West | Apr 5, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Nature, Outdoors & Animals
This is a very special book intended for like-minded readers. It features animal communication and alternative animal healing modalities. Unless you believe or would like to learn something about these things, this book is probably not for you. Devotion is about...
