by Sarah Hutchins | Aug 29, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, Philosophy
Light glimmers in the shadows. The New Testament, Augustine, Boethius, Beowulf, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The Song of Roland, epic adventures of knights written by Chrétien de Troyes, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Dante’s Divine Comedy,...
by Sarah Hutchins | Aug 7, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Home & Garden
“I’m too tall. I’m too short. I’m too fat. I’m too thin. I’m left-handed.” All too often we utter these and similar phrases to excuse ourselves when our heads bump against light fixtures, our inability to reach tall shelves, our struggle to find...
by Sarah Hutchins | Jun 27, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, True Crime
Murder captivates the imagination. What makes someone kill? Is it genetic? Are homicidal tendencies a result of a dysfunctional childhood or a manifestation of our narcissistic culture? Questions outnumber the answers, and there are many different methods of gaining...
by Norman West | Apr 17, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, War & Military
Most of us don’t remember the Spanish-American war. More of us remember Korea, more yet Vietnam, and who could forget Iraq? All different, yet similar in one respect. They were all unnecessary. None of them advanced America’s critical interests, none of them made...
by Megan McIntyre | Mar 29, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Mathematics, Science & Technology
Joel N. Shurkin has created a thorough narrative of the life and impact of Richard Garwin, a pivotal physicist of modern life. This biography captures great detail in terms of world events, thinking, competing ideas, and changing cultures during most of the 20th...
