Reviews of Ben S. Bernanke’s The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis, Larry E. Morris’s The Perilous West, and Glenn Geher and Scott Barry Kaufman’s Mating Intelligence Unleashed, plus a full list of social sciences reviews in the Feb. 1 issue.
Reference: Short Takes | January 2013
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Reference short takes from the January issue
Reference Reviews | January 2013
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Reviews of Gary Y. Okihiro’s Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, Karen Juanita Carrillo’s African American History Day by Day, and The Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War, plus a full list of reference reviews in the Jan. issue.
Ancient Egypt Reviews | January 2013
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Reviews of Barry Kemp’s The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti and Garry Shaw’s The Pharaoh.
Winter’s Tale: Warm Up with These Reads | The Reader’s Shelf
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Winter reads depicting the beauty and relentless nature of ice, wind, and snow.
Social Sciences Reviews | January 2013
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Reviews of Jeanne Theoharis’s The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Antifragile, and Matthew Goodman’s Eighty Days, plus a full list of social sciences titles reviewed in the Jan. issue.
Xpress Reviews: Nonfiction | First Look at New Books, December 21, 2012
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A Creole woman photographer’s story, the cure for writer’s block, advice for young professionals, Native American artworks, what is wrong with capitalism, Richard Russo’s life of his emotionally ill mother, “The Search for Immortality” in Han China, and the history of intelligence operations
Social Sciences Reviews | December 2012
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Reviews of Sonia Sotomayor’s My Beloved World, David L. Roll’s The Hopkins Touch, and Marco Polo’s The Travels of Marco Polo, plus a full list of social sciences reviews from the Dec. issue.
Barbara’s Picks, Jun. 2013, Pt. 2: al-Shaykh, Charleson, Ferguson, Griswold, Shriver, Solnit
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al-Shaykh, Hanan. One Thousand and One Nights: A Sparkling Retelling of the Beloved Classic. Pantheon. Jun. 2013. 320p. ISBN 9780307958860. $26; eISBN 9780307958877. LITERATURE A crucial and sometimes controversial figure in Middle Eastern literature, Lebanese author al-Shaykh here translates 19 of the stories young queen Shahrazad told her husband each night so that he would [...]
Social Sciences Reviews | November 15, 2012
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Reviews of Michael D. Coe’s Royal Cities of the Ancient Maya, Richard Lingeman’s The Noir Forties, and Amy Wilentz’s Farewell, Fred Voodoo, plus a full list of social sciences reviews from the Nov. 15 issue.
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