by michaeld | Jun 25, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Nature, Outdoors & Animals
By Climate Central Pantheon, $22.95, 214 pages Much of what we read or see on TV seems geared to make us feel fearful or guilty. Before reading Global Weirdness, both negative emotions sat alongside the idea of humankind destroying the world at...
by michaeld | Jun 19, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Home & Garden
The Epitome of Skullduggery With a Generous Measure of Humor By Rolf Margenau Frogworks Publishing, $23.95, 302 pages The setting is a laboratory funded by a university division and an herbicide corporation and a cast of discrete characters. The...
by michaeld | Jun 14, 2013 | Travel
All for the Love of Bicycling By Pete Jordan Harper Perennia, $15.99, 438 pages Discounting the job factor, was it the people, the climate, the tempo that lured you to start over in a particular spot? For Pete Jordan it was quite simply bicycles. His...
by Site Owner | May 22, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
By David Coles & Peter Sherrard Pen & Sword Military, $39.95, 172 pages The 20th century introduced a new dimension to warfare as aircraft increasingly supplemented soldiers on the battlefield. In The Four Geniuses of the Battle of...
by Site Owner | May 7, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
Homestead Act, families were obliged to rely wholly on the earth itself By Nancy Plain University of Nebraska Press, $16.95, 113 pages, Making the most of what you have is a broad platitude, but rarely allows fewer options than 19th century pioneer...
