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I do not really read many books now ... I have Alexa read to me on my Fire 8 Tablets the hourly history free book friday email sometimes

For all your reading go to the internet archive website ...

But seriously I recommend for instance reading Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy .... Youtube has not only the book read but an adaptation as well

A Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine ...: Including an Account ...


https://archive.org/details/ahandbookfortra00portgoog/page/n6/mode/2up

by John Murray (Firm), Josias Leslie Porter Publication date 1858
Google Book Photo Pages in PDF Format

Also on Youtube Alec Guiness Tinker Taylor (1979) BBC Gold Globe 6 hour Series with following 1981 Gold Globe Smileys People (Search for Karla (Patrick Stewart as a Stalinite Figure))
I no longer work on my former website http://ancientneareast.tripod.com

I do read this screen and Google news on anthropology archaeology evolution pc pcgamer genetics artnetnews pchardware scitechdaily (on the mobile phone)
2/19/2025 12:24 PM (edited)
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Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100 Year War Between Democracy and Monopoly." EXTREMELY relevant book for our situation today.

Just finished Alex Gourevitch, "From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth" - about how American workers in the Knights of Labor took republican theory (the theory of republics, not the party) and reshaped it to enable them to come up with a way to reform a modern industrial economy and restore democracy. They were eventually defeated, but anyone interested in the revival of republican theory in our time (authors like JA Pocock, Quentin Skinner and Philip Pettitt), should read this

Anyone unfamiliar with the theory of republics and what they are about - which is a CRUCIAL question right now, MUST read the VERY READABLE "The End of Kings: A History of Republics and Republicans" by William Everdell. A spoiler: Our second President, John Adams, wrote "A republic is a form of government in which POWER IS NOT VESTED IN ONE MAN."
2/22/2025 5:34 PM
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Rina by Kang Young-sook

post-apocalyptic? no. nowsville. cormac mccarthy without the deism

halfway through i am hoping something good happens at some time to the heroine

no reason why. i am for the underdog

2/23/2025 9:58 AM
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The Last Days Of John Lennon…
2/24/2025 7:50 AM
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I just finished Richard Hull's 1930s novels The Murder of My Aunt and Excellent Intentions. I discovered Hull while reading up on his contemporary PG Wodehouse, and his writing feels like a blend of Wodehouse and Patricia Highsmith -- crime stories with a witty, lighthearted sense of humor. Highly recommended.
3/11/2025 12:18 PM
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Never before has a James Bond novel been written by a woman. Enter Kim Sherwood., that is until she wrote "Double or Nothing." She is slated for a trilogy, and I will be in line waiting for the next two. Great reading, even if you aren't a fanatic of the genre, and if you are, you won't want to miss these three books. (Still on pins and needles as to who will portray the next bond...hmmm).
3/16/2025 10:24 PM
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Just finished Bertrand Russell's "Freedom and Organization," written in the 1930s, a brilliant book on how we understood freedom in the 18th and 19th centuries and then how we gradually and difficultly came to recognize the need for economic life to be organized - and that raised the question, "By whom, in whose interest?"

An important book, because sometime in the 1980s we decided to forget what we learned. So now we are back to learning it but for the moment, under the worst of circumstances...

Just started Jill Lepore's beautiful history of the United States, "These Truths" and up next is her recent history of the US Constitution.
11/14/2025 11:08 AM
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Who's #1?: The Science of Rating and Ranking



of particular interest to me right now is chapter 12 (vis-a-vis Notre Dame!)

"Here’s a scenario: Team A lost two early-season games, then went undefeated for the remainder of the season, while team B was undefeated save for two late-season games. In your opinion, which team should be ranked higher? Most people say team A, since 'preseason doesn’t matter.' ”

2012, Princeton University Press
12/15/2025 12:20 PM
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Hard on my brain that's for sure
12/15/2025 12:53 PM
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I'm reading John J. Lennon's The Tragedy of True Crime (2025), a prison memoir that covers the author's life and reckoning after a murder conviction, interwoven with profiles of three other incarcerated killers. Well-written, and recommended.

I’m still working my way through P. G. Wodehouse. I’ve finished the Jeeves and Wooster books, which were all first-rate except perhaps the last couple, written when he was over ninety. I’ve started the Blandings Castle stories, which I’m enjoying just as much. Nothing better before bed than a chapter or short story by Wodehouse!
12/15/2025 2:48 PM
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