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| A satisfying and comprehensive biography of Andrew Jackson. Extremely well-researched and clearly written by a historian with a sympathy for the man, it gave me a good idea of the president, both as a man with a strong sense of honor and duty, and as...more | |
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| By now, I've read enough of Murakami to list off the tropes pretty readily: there's a man who doesn't fit into the society around him, a mysterious underage girl, an ominous cult or organization of right-wing holdovers, and a passage into an alternat...more | |
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| This is a introduction to the Roman Empire, which I would describe as "friendly" in the best sense of the word. In less than 300 pages, it touches on aspects of economics, religion, culture, and government spanning over a thousand years of history. W...more | |
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
by Tom Vanderbilt
read in July, 2012
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A fun book, in the vein of Malcolm Gladwell hits like "The Tipping Point" and "Outliers." In trying to paint a portrait of traffic throughout our society, Tom Vanderbilt goes for breadth rather than depth, which has its pluses and minuses. Instead of...more |
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| I'm surprised it took so long for this book to reach my attention, but I'm glad that it did. One of the things that really impressed me is Annie Proulx's dynamism as a writer: humor, darkness, strong physical descriptions, and character's emotional l...more | |
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
by Guy Deutscher
read in September, 2010
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| Another brilliant work of popular science from linguist Guy Deutscher. "Through the Language Glass" aims to bring the reader up to date on an easy-to-formulate but nearly impossible-to-answer question in linguistics: to what degree does one's languag...more | |
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| This book is akin to a pleasant walk, and Geoff Nicholson is a fine companion. Though I didn't find anything revelatory between these pages, I met a kindred spirit who could appreciate the particular rigors of walking in Los Angeles (who'd have thoug...more | |
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