Book Review
The Hills of Chianti
Late in the evening, Sangiovese teasing your palate, do you ever wonder how grape farming and winemaking emerged from a lineage of humble agriculture to become the modern, ultraprestigious craft of fine wine, an industry aligned with the...
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Beyond Conflict
What the world needs is a book to help nations transition out of the hateful, retributory habits of war / repression / conflict and embrace the options of forgiveness and peace. Whoop, here it is! Herein, we learn how six extraordinary...
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Crown of the Continent
The Email of the Wild … Nope, Jack had it right: wilderness only calls. Photographer Steven Gnam answered the call as a child of seven when his parents moved his citified family to the northwest corner of Montana and released him to...
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A Thousand Forests in One Acorn
That the Spanish language gave voice to the likes of Cervantes, Borges, García Márquez, and so many other greats of literary fiction is a fact not unlike poetry’s affinity for Russian. Lingua España is to daring tales of adventure...
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Emaho Tibet!
The holy books of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam take themselves very seriously. They are not funny. They do not use artwork or inviting design to attract readers. Scratch-and-sniff technology is definitely not the way to teach the...
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Lore of Running
What does it take to be a runner? Two legs and a pulse—no courts or lined ball fields, no rules, tools, skills, or opponents required. How cool is that? This bible, this running companion, explains how to nurture your inner athlete to...
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Beyond Trochenbrod
The sliver-thin silver lining of Holocaust denial is that deniers promote the subject of Nazi evil back to center stage where the Holocaust-ignorant might discover and never forget unspeakable things like how a whole village of five...
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The Architecture of Diplomacy
Washington DC’s Embassy Row, an avenue of unrivaled diplomatic importance, is anchored by the British ambassador’s residence, a massive neoclassical English country house—the haunt of kings and queens and countless other royalty...
