by Site Owner | May 26, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Nature, Outdoors & Animals
Magisterial By Charles H. Langmuir and Wally Broecker Princeton University Press, $39.95, 718 pages How do you build a planet capable of supporting life? In this revised and greatly expanded second edition of How to Build a Habitable Planet, the authors...
by Site Owner | Aug 20, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By Richard J. Smith Princeton University Press, $24.95, 288 pages The vast world of ancestral and other spirits in Bronze Age China is implicit in the divinations, sacrifices and prayers that suffice the basic text of the Changes. This work of learned and...
by Site Owner | Aug 5, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks
By James Simpson Princeton University Press, 344 pages. $39.50 The Economics of Wine James Simpson is a professor of economics in Madrid and his newest book, Creating Wine: The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840-1914 is part of The Princeton Economic History of the...
by Site Owner | May 17, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Science & Technology
By Michael Hoskin Princeton University Press, $29.95, 238 pages It was a lot for one man to accomplish but William Herschel, the eighteenth century German-born polymath, achieved distinction three times over. Author Michael Hoskin weaves his biography with admiration...
by Site Owner | Dec 28, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Poetry
by W. H. Auden Princeton University Press, $22.95, 200 pages As a social worker, I know a thing or two about anxiety but hadn’t a clue after reading The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue by W.H. Auden. This type of reading is best suited for poets or a literary class,...