by George Erdosh | Jul 13, 2015 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks, Nature, Outdoors & Animals
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Basic Books Formats: Hardcover, eBook, eBook, Kindle, Audible Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | Barnes & Noble | iBooks[/alert] Author Mark Essig did a tremendous research to gather material in...
by Frank Gee | Mar 2, 2015 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Current Events & Politics, History
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Basic Books Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle, eBook Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | Barnes & Noble | iBooks[/alert] The return of the extremist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini from...
by Site Owner | Oct 22, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, Education, Parenting & Families, Pop Culture, Social Science
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Basic Books Formats: Hardcover, Kindle, eBook Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | Barnes & Noble | iBooks[/alert] Suzanne Mettler’s study is an attack on the current state of the American...
by Retired Reviewer | Jul 11, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Nature, Outdoors & Animals
A “great problem,” says Ian Stewart, is great not because we find the answer but because our efforts to solve it create new ideas and new mathematics along the way. In Visions of Infinity Stewart traces the attempts to solve some of the most challenging mathematical...
by Site Owner | Jun 18, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Education, Parenting & Families
Teaching the School System to Play By Peter Gray Basic Books, $27.99, 274 pages Psychologist Peter Gray believes that in the not too far off future, how children are educated in the United States will be vastly different than the current system. Rather than...