by Paul Vicary | Sep 22, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Oxford University Press Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon [/alert] The Rising reviews one of the seminal events (if only symbolically so) in Irish history. The Easter Rising of...
by Sarah Hutchins | Sep 8, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Philosophy, Religion
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Oxford University Press Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Amazon | iBooks[/alert] Don’t judge this book by its cover or title. Based on the depiction of the winged creatures shepherding naked humans toward...
by Paul Vicary | Aug 24, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, History, Philosophy
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Oxford University Press Formats: Hardcover, eBook Purchase: Amazon | iBooks[/alert] Ancient Greece first coined the concept of “democracy,” yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and...
by Katie Richards | Jul 18, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Social Science
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Oxford University Press Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | iBooks[/alert] As the title of this book indicates, the project that McNeill and Riello have undertaken with this book is...
by Katie Richards | Jul 8, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, History
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Oxford University Press Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] Harmful and Undesirable: Book Censorship in Nazi Germany is a small text, with the body of...