??? 2000s: beautiful, concise, empathic rendering of human potential too often not met...

Readers in the 'liaisons Dangereuses' ??? 000s?: no other book than liaisons dangereuse has made me so much want to read french. not...

(BFI Film Classics) ??? 2010s?: not simply a cunningly crafted thriller, which loses its impact after one viewing, or an ur-text of...

Connections in Medieval Romance, Modern Fantasy 201215: read this years ago but just came up in memory when talking books, so decided to...

140910: excellent primer. this is well organized, accessible, readable, and deals with many arguments, proofs, attributes, definitions,...

The SAS House and the Work of Arne Jacobsen 220911: is it reasonable to mourn the loss of a building? the outer shell of SAS House still...

Abstract Art Since Pollock 151211: there is only one problem, of the limitations of media, not the work itself. this is that to really...

great lost review

A Global History of Football 100710: everything you ever need to know about football... everything you do not need to know, as well. i...

Catharine A. Lee 110214: excellent resource, extends words more in elaborating life of precontact Hawai'ians, the way they lived, what...

The Straight Facts about the Most Used & Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy 210714: very useful book i wish had been around when young,...

290414: another favourite film. unlike anything you will ever see, this twenty-nine minute collection of black and white stills is...

Chasing The American Dream In The Postwar Consumer Culture 221113: this is a world i have never known, a world that even predates my...

Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West 61214: academic five. that is, if you are fascinated by theory about apparent...

French Film Guide 041114: now I want to see it again- as if for the first time. no time for a david lynch film? music videos make too...

Challenging Brahmanism and Caste 280819: just had reminder from efriend Abhijit that buddhism is not itself always free of violence,...

Utopiansim and the (Un)Built Environment 240115: this is a fascinating history of- mostly european- cultures, in conceiving the ideal...

290115: it has taken me a few days after reading this to be able to write this review. this is an excellent portrayal not only of the...

The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art 270615: well it is not necessarily five, this fits it on...

The Detektiv and the Russian Way of Crime 290515: now i have a whole sort of lit to look for... and maybe reevaluate those martin cruz...