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

180214: excellent resource. anthropological, sociological, definitions and actions and ways of thinking, of Hawai'ian people before and...

190619 from 170113: i was sure i reviewed this, as it is certainly my favorite history text. by memory, then, six years reading later, i...

200614: fascinating. beautiful. heartbreaking. sort of what the idea and contemporary actuality of Brazil means to me. chapter essay on...

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

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...

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

A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain 051214:there are a few notes about this high rating: this book is not a five for...

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 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...

191115: effect of european contact on technologically primitive peoples throughout the world from 1500 to 1750? short answer: not good....

Allan H. Barr (Translator) 200827: 1))best 2)book 3)read 4)on 5)puzzle 6)of 7)political 8)economical 9)Chinese 10)life...

Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

041016: thanks to kalliope i have read this: this is exactly the sort of history of the Iberian peninsula i wanted. not simply kings and...

101210: i am not american, i am not black, i am very impressed by this essay in the form of a letter to his adolescent son, speaking of...

The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 300316: this is a history of which i should know, a history all should know, particularly...

Philippe Jaworski (Translator) 211015: do not know how much i was translating while reading, and how much is memory, but it seems to...