by Megan McIntyre | Dec 7, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Science & Technology, Travel, Tweens
Readers should know that this book is thorough and well written and while categorized as young adult audience, would be enjoyed by readers of many ages. The author posits that life = locomotion, starting with walking and how we then leveraged our bipedalism to make...
by Philip Rafferty | Nov 14, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History
The Road to Jonestown, the new book by bestselling author, Jeff Guinn, opens in November of 1978 in Port Kaituma, Guyana. On that fateful day, 900 people collectively took their lives in one of the most infamous, mass ritualistic suicides in modern history. They did...
by Don Messerschmidt | Nov 8, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Nautical, Science & Technology, Travel
I read this well-written, fast-paced historical documentary in (almost) one sitting, with (near the end) Tchaikovsky’s great Fifth Symphony surging along in the background (on Oregon Public Radio) towards its dramatic conclusion. Both the Russian expedition and...
by Sarah Hutchins | Aug 21, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History, NW Setting, Reference
Who was the first Chinese-American woman to fly for the American military? Where did the Portland street names Terwilliger and Lovejoy originate? When did Oregon women gain the right to vote? These answers and more were uncovered by Portland State University Professor...
by Don Messerschmidt | Jul 27, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
What a fascinating read! – the history of a small town in Silesia, once German, now Polish, which began simply back in the 14th century, slowly grew, prospered, then faded, collapsed and disappeared off the map. Even when it was flourishing, it wasn’t on many...
by Michael Barton | Jun 16, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, History, Philosophy, Science & Technology, Social Science
Having previously written a book about literature and the Civil War, wherein he briefly mentions Charles Darwin in a section about abolitionism, Randall Fuller provides in his new book a fuller account of the influence of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and its...
