by Site Owner | Sep 17, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Princeton University Press, $19.95, 173 pages “For Evans-Wentz, the ur-text is Madam Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine…a work that she claimed to have received from the mahatmas in Tibet. …It seems, then, that Evans-Wentz knew what...
by Site Owner | Aug 3, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
by Charles Todd William Morrow,$24.99, 343 pages It’s 1920, July, and three men have been garroted, one every three days. Two were farmers, one the son of the local scion. All three served in the Great War and all three were found with wartime identity tags stuffed in...
by Site Owner | Aug 1, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics
by Peter Bergen Free Press, $28.00, 476 pages Al-Qaeda wouldn’t exist without America, and CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen’s The Longest War therefore focuses on the hows and whys from both perspectives. Asking hard questions like “Why were Americans...
by Site Owner | Jul 22, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics
By Frank Rose, W.W. Norton & Company, $26.95, 386 pages “The Internet is a chameleon. It is the first medium that can act like all media–it can be text, or audio, or video, or all of the above.” It used to be that a company made a product and we ate it...
by Site Owner | Jul 19, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
By David J. Smith, Kids Can Press, $18.95, 36 pages “Children are not equally spread out across the world. Some countries have a low percentage of children while others have a high percentage. Of the 30 countries with the lowest percentage of children, 27 are in...
