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A Reader posted a review at 2009-03-30 07:17:00 for The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium.
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This book presents a scholarly portrait of life a thousand years ago. The facts are based on historic documentation but the style is light and almost conversational. Its brevity allows a quick peek into the past while the style helps bring it to life and relate it to the present.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-02-20 03:21:22 for Collapse How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed.
(Language: English)
"why is it so warm and what are we doing in this handbasket?" No, the world isn't doomed. Diamond presents a cogent summary of the risks the planet is facing AND a pragmatic perspective on how those can be addressed. He is cautiously optimistic. It's a thick book with Diamond's usual commitment to backing up every assertion with evidence and examples. If you don't want a history of ancient environmental disasters (and successes too), or if you don't need to convince yourself or anyone else that we are fully capable of causing man made global havoc, just read that last three chapters. They offer a pragmatic assessment of present disasters and future solutions. This would be a full five stars as a Very Important Book if the information it contained weren't at time so uncomfortable to read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-02-20 03:03:38 for Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times.
(Language: English)
A captivating summary the role of textiles and women's labor in ancient history. It gives a view of history that is more homestead based and less conquest based, but also touches on the effects of conquests on everyday life. It's more accessible to the non textile-nut than her 300+ page Prehistoric Textiles. I found that one riveting as well and couldn't put it down, but we all know I'm warped that way.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-02-14 01:59:24 for Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery).
(Language: English)
As the penultimate in Sayers' Wimsey books, it should be read in its proper order. In it Sayers reaches new heights in captures characters while weaving a tangled web of a mystery.
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