Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
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History of Madness by Michel Foucault
February 5, 2025By the 1700s the “correctional” metaphor prevails and most of them are placed in moral and...
Notes From Italy: Dawn in the Suburra
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Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
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Notes From Italy: Sunday With the CAI
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Friendship is the First Step to Peace: A Review of Picture Books that Highlight Our Getting Along
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The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson
February 3, 2025...essentially, the book remains a story of British upper classes and the author has seemingly trawled...
The Yorkists by Anne Crawford
February 3, 2025To be sure, the fifteenth century was one of the most politically unstable periods in English...
A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
February 3, 2025"That said, the thinking that lay behind the invasion of Iraq—the notion that we could transform...
Look Homeward America by Bill Kauffman
February 2, 2025He is not much impressed with modernity, rejecting with certitude McDonald’s transfatty fries, the inter-state highway...




