Heather's bookshelf: reference-skimmed en-US Sat, 16 Nov 2024 15:00:59 -0800 60 Heather's bookshelf: reference-skimmed 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The Nag Hammadi Scriptures 387216 The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One Volume

The year is 1945. At the foot of a cliff along the Nile River, near the city of Nag Hammadi, an Egyptian peasant unearths a large storage jar containing ancient manuscripts.

The discovery turns out to be a treasury of fourth-century texts, including the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, the Gospel of Truth, and many other writings the scriptures of the mystical tradition commonly called Gnosticism, from the Greek gnosis, that is, esoteric or secret knowledge.

There had been malicious references to these works by early church fathers, but these were among the first copies seen in modern times. Since this discovery of the renowned Nag Hammadi library, our picture of the world of the historical Jesus, Judaism, Greco-Roman religions, and the early varieties of Christianity has begun to look remarkably different.

The Nag Hammadi Scriptures is the most complete and up-to-date English-language edition of these sacred texts from Egypt. Also included are the Gospel of Mary (from the Berlin Gnostic Codex), the controversial Gospel of Judas, and the previously unknown Book of the Stranger (both from the recently discovered Codex Tchacos). The documents have been newly translated with clarity and grace by a team of prominent international scholars. In addition, this volume features introductory essays and extensive notes to help readers understand the context and significance of texts that have revolutionized the study of early Christianity and ancient religious thought.

The Nag Hammadi Scriptures is essential to any reader who wishes to understand the history of Gnostic thought and mystical spirituality and the impact of such thought upon the Christian church from its formative period to the present day.

]]> 844 Unknown Nag Hammadi 0060523786 Heather 4 4.21 The Nag Hammadi Scriptures
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fundamentals of Drawing Anatomy: The Dynamics of the Human Form]]> 13014812
In this book, both budding and experienced artists will find clear, comprehensive instructions to help them improve their craft. The author describes in detail the type of materials to acquire before starting, and ideas to consider in composition, choice of medium, and more. The exercises range from basic to advanced, helping artists to progress from fundamental skills to emulating the work of masters.

 ]]> 208 Tom Flint 0785828907 Heather 3 3.67 2011 The Fundamentals of Drawing Anatomy: The Dynamics of the Human Form
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average rating: 3.67
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe[s] Report]]> 310330 Timothy Ferris provides a clear, elegantly written overview of current research and a forecast of where cosmological theory is likely to go in the twenty-first century. He explores the questions that have occurred to even casual readers -- who are curious about nature on the largest scales: What does it mean to say that the universe is "expanding," or that space is "curved"? -- and sheds light on the possibility that our universe is only one among many universes, each with its own physical laws and prospects for the emergence of life.]]> 393 Timothy Ferris 0684838613 Heather 4 4.06 1997 The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe[s] Report
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average rating: 4.06
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Age of Revolution (A History of the English Speaking Peoples, #3)]]> 945833 322 Winston S. Churchill 0304363928 Heather 3 4.24 1957 The Age of Revolution (A History of the English Speaking Peoples, #3)
author: Winston S. Churchill
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average rating: 4.24
book published: 1957
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up]]> 40858227

In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long way. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, we're real winners. But, frankly, it's not exactly been plain sailing, and sometimes - just occasionally - we've managed to really, truly, quite unbelievably f*ck things up.

From Chairman Mao's Four Pests Campaign, to the American Dustbowl; from the Austrian army attacking itself one drunken night, to the world's leading superpower electing a reality TV mogul as President... it's pretty safe to say that, as a species, we haven't exactly grown wiser with age.

So, next time you think you've really f*cked up, this book will remind you: it could be so much worse

]]> 238 Tom Phillips 1472259033 Heather 5 historical, reference-skimmed 4.05 2018 Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
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]]> <![CDATA[Mythology : The Illustrated Anthology of World Myth and Storytelling]]> 187873 688 C. Scott Littleton 1844830616 Heather 5 4.22 2002 Mythology : The Illustrated Anthology of World Myth and Storytelling
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average rating: 4.22
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]]> Culture and Imperialism 22135 Culture and Imperialism, by Edward Said, is a collection of thematically related essays that trace the connection between imperialism and culture throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.]]> 402 Edward W. Said 0679750541 Heather 5 4.19 1993 Culture and Imperialism
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]]> Plagues and Peoples 46725
Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening. "A brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement" (Kirkus Reviews), it is essential reading, offering a new perspective on human history.]]> 368 William H. McNeill 0385121229 Heather 4 3.87 1976 Plagues and Peoples
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average rating: 3.87
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]]> <![CDATA[Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies]]> 1842
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.

In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed writing, technology, government, and organized religion—as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war—and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in 카지노싸이트, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal]]> 498 Jared Diamond 0739467352 Heather 4 4.04 1997 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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]]> History of Art 2693801 1000 H.W. Janson 0500237514 Heather 4 3.79 1962 History of Art
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average rating: 3.79
book published: 1962
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tragic History of the Sea: Shipwrecks from the Bible to Titanic]]> 1153673
Brandt's selections range from Icelandic sagas to Mark Twain to Titanic and beyond. The Tragic History of the Sea draws from tales around the the doomed Medusa, whose survivors were abandoned to their fate, to live on only in a famous painting in the Louvre; the infamous Essex and her fatal cruise which inspired Melville's Moby Dick; or the harrowing wreck of the Wager, which left kinsman to poet Lord Byron, starving on Patagonia's bleak shores.

A riveting anthology of high adventure and astonishing survival against all odds, this storm-tossed voyage through history's gales and across unforgiving seas represents the best of a storytelling tradition that goes back centuries. Each extraordinary tale is linked to the next by Brandt's expert annotations and commentary, which sets them in context, provides a wealth of maritime and literary background and places this volume of shipwreck tales in a class by itself.]]> 352 Anthony Brandt 0792259084 Heather 4 3.21 2006 The Tragic History of the Sea: Shipwrecks from the Bible to Titanic
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average rating: 3.21
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed]]> 475 Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?

In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?

As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe. Environmental damage, climate change, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of these societies, but other societies found solutions and persisted. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society's apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power, ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana.

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?]]> 608 Jared Diamond 0143036556 Heather 4 3.93 2004 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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]]> <![CDATA[War Through the Ages (Revised and Enlarged )]]> 1253847 1063 Lynn Montross 0060130008 Heather 4 4.11 1944 War Through the Ages (Revised and Enlarged )
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average rating: 4.11
book published: 1944
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]]> <![CDATA[A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms]]> 28021 A History of Religious Ideas. Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffusion of Islam from approximately the sixth through the seventeenth centuries. Eliade's vast knowledge of past and present scholarship provides a synthesis that is unparalleled. In addition to reviewing recent interpretations of the individual traditions, he explores the interactions of the three religions and shows their continuing mutual influence to be subtle but unmistakable.

As in his previous work, Eliade pays particular attention to heresies, folk beliefs, and cults of secret wisdom, such as alchemy and sorcery, and continues the discussion, begun in earlier volumes, of pre-Christian shamanistic practices in northern Europe and the syncretistic tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. These subcultures, he maintains, are as important as the better-known orthodoxies to a full understanding of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
]]> 367 Mircea Eliade 0226204057 Heather 4 4.46 1983 A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms
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average rating: 4.46
book published: 1983
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism]]> 355644


To account for the complexities of the foundational event through which monotheism was established, Moses the Egyptian goes back to the short-lived monotheistic revolution of the Egyptian king Akhenaten (1360-1340 B.C.E.). Assmann traces the monotheism of Moses to this source, then shows how his followers denied the Egyptians any part in the origin of their beliefs and condemned them as polytheistic idolaters. Thus began the cycle in which every counter-religion, by establishing itself as truth, denounced all others as false. Assmann reconstructs this cycle as a pattern of historical abuse, and tracks its permutations from ancient sources, including the Bible, through Renaissance debates over the basis of religion to Sigmund Freud's Moses and Monotheism. One of the great Egyptologists of our time, and an exceptional scholar of history and literature, Assmann is uniquely equipped for this undertaking--an exemplary case study of the vicissitudes of historical memory that is also a compelling lesson in the fluidity of cultural identity and beliefs.]]> 288 Jan Assmann 0674587391 Heather 4 4.20 1997 Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism
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]]> <![CDATA[Coming of Age in the Milky Way]]> 239796 Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Timothy Ferris uses his unique blend of rigorous research and captivating narrative skill to draw us into the lives and minds of these extraordinary figures, creating a landmark work of scientific history.]]> 512 Timothy Ferris 0060535954 Heather 5 4.15 1988 Coming of Age in the Milky Way
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average rating: 4.15
book published: 1988
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World]]> 6251412 The story of the world's best-remembered celebrity couple, set against the political backdrop of their time.

On a stiflingly hot day in August 30 b.c., the thirty-nine-year-old queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, took her own life rather than be paraded in chains through Rome by her conqueror, Octavian--the future first emperor, Augustus. A few days earlier, her lover of eleven years, Mark Antony, had himself committed suicide and died in her arms. Oceans of mythology have grown up around them, all of which Diana Preston explores in her stirring history of the lives and times of a couple whose names--more than two millennia later--still invoke passion, curiosity, and intrigue.

Preston views the drama and romance of Cleopatra and Antony's personal lives as an integral part of the great military, political, and ideological struggle that culminated in the full-fledged rise of the Roman Empire, joined east and west. Perhaps not until Joanna in fourteenth-century Naples or Elizabeth I of England would another woman show such political shrewdness and staying power as did Cleopatra during her years atop the throne of Egypt. Her lengthy affair with Julius Caesar linked the might of Egypt with that of Rome; in the aftermath of the civil war that erupted following Caesar's murder, her alliance with Antony, and his subsequent split with Octavian, set the stage for the end of the Republic.

With the keen eye for detail, abundant insight, and storytelling skill that have won awards for her previous books, Diana Preston sheds new light on a vitally important period in Western history. Indeed, had Cleopatra and Antony managed to win the battle of Actium, the centuries that followed, which included the life of Jesus himself, could well have played out differently.]]> 352 Diana Preston 0802717381 Heather 4 4.06 2008 Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World
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]]> <![CDATA[The Borgias: The Hidden History]]> 15798316 A World Undone and The Tudors and timed to coincide with the upcoming new season of the celebrated Showtime series, The Borgias.

Meet Rodrigo Borgia-Pope Alexander VI; Cesare Borgia-the reputed model for Machiavelli's The Prince; Lucrezia; and Juan-the members of one of the most notorious families in European history. Epic in scope and set against the beautifully rendered backdrop of Renaissance Italy, The Borgias is a thrilling new depiction of these celebrated personalities and an era unsurpassed in beauty, terror, and intrigue.]]> 478 G.J. Meyer 0345526910 Heather 4 3.78 2013 The Borgias: The Hidden History
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]]> Egyptian Religion 3276211 First published in 1973.]]> 380 Siegfried Morenz 0801480299 Heather 5 4.00 1992 Egyptian Religion
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average rating: 4.00
book published: 1992
rating: 5
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This is more of a theoretical approach to the study of Ancient Egyptian religion than a historical one.
]]> <![CDATA[The Ancient Egyptian Tale of Two Brothers: A Mythological, Religious, Literary and Historico-Political Study]]> 4976697 239 Susan Tower Hollis 0977409422 Heather 4 4.50 2008 The Ancient Egyptian Tale of Two Brothers: A Mythological, Religious, Literary and Historico-Political Study
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]]> The Art of Ancient Egypt 74617 272 Gay Robins 0674003764 Heather 4 4.07 2008 The Art of Ancient Egypt
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]]> A History of Mathematics 326148 736 Carl B. Boyer 0471543977 Heather 4 4.07 1968 A History of Mathematics
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average rating: 4.07
book published: 1968
rating: 4
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]]> Eye-Witness to History 21896337 John Carey Heather 4 4.18 1987 Eye-Witness to History
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average rating: 4.18
book published: 1987
rating: 4
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]]> Kings and Queens of England 137551 256 Antonia Fraser 0304357235 Heather 3 4.05 1975 Kings and Queens of England
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average rating: 4.05
book published: 1975
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt]]> 3108125 TRADE PB 256 1851705376 Heather 5 3.76 Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt
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I'm so incredibly happy that I found this at a used book store in Edmonton. Petrie is a fine author and always had theories worth listening to.
]]> <![CDATA[The Silk Roads: A New History of the World]]> 25812847
Frankopan realigns our understanding of the world, pointing us eastward. It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures and religions. From the rise and fall of empires to the spread of Buddhism and the advent of Christianity and Islam, right up to the great wars of the twentieth century—this book shows how the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East.]]> 636 Peter Frankopan 1408839970 Heather 4 4.15 2015 The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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average rating: 4.15
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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]]> Great Goddesses of Egypt 1167218 336 Barbara S. Lesko 0806132027 Heather 4 3.69 1999 Great Goddesses of Egypt
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]]> <![CDATA[Developmentally Appropriate Physical Education for Children and Youth]]> 28241142 Graham J. Fishburne Heather 4 4.00 Developmentally Appropriate Physical Education for Children and Youth
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]]> Women in Ancient Egypt 263888
The art and written records of the time present a fascinating puzzle. But how often has the evidence been interpreted, consciously or otherwise, from a male viewpoint? Robins conducts us through these sources with an archaeologist's relish, stripping away layer after interpretive layer to expose the reality beneath. Here we see the everyday lives of women in the economic, legal, or domestic sphere, from the Early Dynastic Period almost 5,000 years ago to the conquest of Alexander in 332 B.C. Within this kingdom ruled and run by men, women could still wield influence indirectly--and in some cases directly, when a woman took the position of king. The exceptional few who assumed real power appear here in colorful detail, alongside their more traditional counterparts. Robins examines the queens' reputed divinity and takes a frank look at the practice of incest within Egypt's dynasties. She shows us the special role of women in religious rites and offices, and assesses their depiction in Egyptian art as it portrays their position in society.

By drawing women back into the picture we have of ancient Egypt, this book opens a whole new perspective on one of world history's most exotic and familiar cultures.]]> 207 Gay Robins 0674954696 Heather 4 4.16 1993 Women in Ancient Egypt
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> <![CDATA[Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh]]> 86393 304 Joyce A. Tyldesley 0140244646 Heather 4 3.93 1996 Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh
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average rating: 3.93
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Colonial Empires and Armies 1815-1960 (Volume 4) (War and European Society Series)]]> 738895 288 Victor G. Kiernan 0773517677 Heather 4 3.57 1998 Colonial Empires and Armies 1815-1960 (Volume 4) (War and European Society Series)
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name: Heather
average rating: 3.57
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt]]> 797160 318 Joyce A. Tyldesley 0140175962 Heather 4 3.98 1991 Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt
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name: Heather
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1991
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt]]> 37706369
Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, women reigned supreme. Regularly, repeatedly, and with impunity, queens like Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, and Cleopatra controlled the totalitarian state as power-brokers and rulers. But throughout human history, women in positions of power were more often used as political pawns in a male-dominated society. What was so special about ancient Egypt that provided women this kind of access to the highest political office? What was it about these women that allowed them to transcend patriarchal obstacles? What did Egypt gain from its liberal reliance on female leadership, and could today's world learn from its example?

Celebrated Egyptologist Kara Cooney delivers a fascinating tale of female power, exploring the reasons why it has seldom been allowed through the ages, and why we should care.]]> 400 Kara Cooney 1426219776 Heather 5 3.68 2018 When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
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average rating: 3.68
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts]]> 536021 471 James P. Allen 1589831829 Heather 5 3.84 -2100 The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts
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average rating: 3.84
book published: -2100
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]]> <![CDATA[Libraries in the Ancient World]]> 570892
Casson recounts the development of ancient library buildings, systems, holdings, and patrons, addressing questions on a wide variety of topics, such as:

• What was the connection between the rise in education and literacy and the growth of libraries?

• Who contributed to the early development of public libraries, especially the great library at Alexandria?

• What did ancient libraries include in their holdings?

• How did ancient libraries acquire books?

• What was the nature of publishing in the Greek and Roman world?

• How did different types of users (royalty, scholars, religious figures) and different kinds of “books” (tablets, scrolls, codices) affect library arrangements?

• How did Christianity transform the nature of library holdings?

Just as a library yields unexpected treasures to a meandering browser, this entertaining book offers to its perusers the surprising history of the rise and development of ancient libraries—a fascinating story never told before.]]> 177 Lionel Casson 0300097212 Heather 4 3.79 2001 Libraries in the Ancient World
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name: Heather
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Ancient Times: A History of the Early World]]> 6655931 823 James Henry Breasted Heather 4 3.94 1916 Ancient Times: A History of the Early World
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name: Heather
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1916
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe]]> 719105 At a time when strictures against homosexuality are the subject of impassioned debate, this groundbreaking work of scholarship has generated extraordinary controversy. For in Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, Yale historian John Boswell, one of our most respected authorities on the Middle Ages, produces extensive evidence that at one time the Catholic and eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex but sanctified them—in ceremonies that bear striking resemblance to the heterosexual marriage ceremonies.

Drawing on sources in a wide range of languages—and on examples that range from the fourth-century legend of Saints Serge and Bacchus to the ceremonial union of the Byzantine emperors Basil I and Michael III—Boswell boldly reveals how the same tradition that looked askance at all sexuality could also encompass—and at times idealize—loving partnerships between two men or women. Most impressively, he produces actual examples of ceremonies in which such love was formally consecrated until modern times. The result is one of those rare works of scholarship that has the power to transform the way we live now—even as it revises our understanding of the past.

]]> 412 John Boswell 0679751645 Heather 5 4.00 1994 Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
author: John Boswell
name: Heather
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1994
rating: 5
read at: 2018/10/20
date added: 2018/10/20
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]]> <![CDATA[The Origin of the Universe (Masters of 카지노싸이트)]]> 1404555 150 John D. Barrow 0465053548 Heather 3 3.80 1994 The Origin of the Universe (Masters of 카지노싸이트)
author: John D. Barrow
name: Heather
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1994
rating: 3
read at: 2018/10/14
date added: 2018/10/14
shelves: own-it, reference-skimmed, science
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Navajo Weapon: The Navajo Code Talkers]]> 816141 320 Sally McClain 1887896325 Heather 5 4.01 1994 Navajo Weapon: The Navajo Code Talkers
author: Sally McClain
name: Heather
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1994
rating: 5
read at: 2018/10/13
date added: 2018/10/13
shelves: own-it, historical, reference-skimmed
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide]]> 1548326 144 James Luceno 0756635004 Heather 5 4.36 2008 Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide
author: James Luceno
name: Heather
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 2018/07/24
date added: 2018/07/24
shelves: own-it, non-fiction, reference-skimmed
review:
I didn't realize this contained info from more than just the movies, but also the tie in novels. Cool!
]]> <![CDATA[How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It]]> 159210
Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since.

Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution; and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong.

How the Scots Invented the Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William “Braveheart” Wallace to James Bond.

And no one who takes this incredible historical trek will ever view the Scots—or the modern West—in the same way again.]]> 480 Arthur Herman 0609809997 Heather 3 3.91 2001 How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
author: Arthur Herman
name: Heather
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2001
rating: 3
read at: 2018/07/24
date added: 2018/07/24
shelves: own-it, historical, reference-skimmed
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]]> Classical Mythology 846429 894 Mark P.O. Morford 0195308042 Heather 4 4.15 1977 Classical Mythology
author: Mark P.O. Morford
name: Heather
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1977
rating: 4
read at: 2018/07/23
date added: 2018/07/23
shelves: own-it, mythology, reference-skimmed
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts]]> 169479
In this iconoclastic and provocative work, leading scholars Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman draw on recent archaeological research to present a dramatically revised portrait of ancient Israel and its neighbors. They argue that crucial evidence (or a telling lack of evidence) at digs in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon suggests that many of the most famous stories in the Bible—the wanderings of the patriarchs, the Exodus from Egypt, Joshua’s conquest of Canaan, and David and Solomon’s vast empire—reflect the world of the later authors rather than actual historical facts.

Challenging the fundamentalist readings of the scriptures and marshaling the latest archaeological evidence to support its new vision of ancient Israel, The Bible Unearthed offers a fascinating and controversial perspective on when and why the Bible was written and why it possesses such great spiritual and emotional power today.]]> 385 Israel Finkelstein 0684869136 Heather 4 4.10 2001 The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
author: Israel Finkelstein
name: Heather
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at: 2016/07/05
date added: 2018/04/15
shelves: historical, non-fiction, reference-skimmed, own-it
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hero With a Thousand Faces]]> 588138
Myth, according to Campbell, is the projection of a culture's dreams onto a large screen; Campbell's book, like Star Wars, the film it helped inspire, is an exploration of the big-picture moments from the stage that is our world. It is a must-have resource for both experienced students of mythology and the explorer just beginning to approach myth as a source of knowledge.]]> 416 Joseph Campbell 0691017840 Heather 3 4.15 1949 The Hero With a Thousand Faces
author: Joseph Campbell
name: Heather
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1949
rating: 3
read at: 2018/03/03
date added: 2018/03/03
shelves: mythology, fairy-tales, own-it, reference-skimmed
review:
This is a hard book to rate. On the one hand, it's a wonderfully in depth analysis that has had a great impact on the study of folklore and mythology. On the other hand, it's largely based on extremely eurocentric assumptions and on Freud's work on the Oedipal complex, which has been discredited.
]]> <![CDATA[The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness]]> 744748 232 Maureen Murdock 0877734852 Heather 4 3.91 1990 The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness
author: Maureen Murdock
name: Heather
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1990
rating: 4
read at: 2018/03/03
date added: 2018/03/03
shelves: own-it, reference-skimmed, fairy-tales
review:
This book definitely has a lot in common with Women who Run with Wolves, but it feels more balanced to me. It definitely resonates more than Campbell's work!
]]> <![CDATA[A History of the Sikhs: Volume 2: 1839-2004 (Oxford India Collection)]]> 109253 non-scholarly audience, the book is based on scholarly archival research.]]> 547 Khushwant Singh 0195673093 Heather 4 4.28 1984 A History of the Sikhs: Volume 2: 1839-2004 (Oxford India Collection)
author: Khushwant Singh
name: Heather
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1984
rating: 4
read at: 2018/02/28
date added: 2018/02/28
shelves: historical, own-it, non-fiction, reference-skimmed
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Caught in the Act: Forty Comic Characters for Readers and Performers]]> 15548574 Reay, Corey 144 Corey Reay 0889241805 Heather 2 2.00 Caught in the Act: Forty Comic Characters for Readers and Performers
author: Corey Reay
name: Heather
average rating: 2.00
book published:
rating: 2
read at: 2018/01/30
date added: 2018/01/30
shelves: own-it, teaching, reference-skimmed
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Search for Nefertiti: The True Story of an Amazing Discovery]]> 586334 464 Joann Fletcher 0060585560 Heather 3 3.87 2004 The Search for Nefertiti: The True Story of an Amazing Discovery
author: Joann Fletcher
name: Heather
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at: 2017/12/17
date added: 2017/12/17
shelves: own-it, egyptology, reference-skimmed
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code]]> 1070189 335 Lesley Adkins 0060953497 Heather 3 4.01 2000 The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code
author: Lesley Adkins
name: Heather
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2000
rating: 3
read at: 2017/12/17
date added: 2017/12/17
shelves: egyptology, own-it, reference-skimmed
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]]> Valley of The Kings 1266438 373 John Romer 0785815880 Heather 3 3.96 1981 Valley of The Kings
author: John Romer
name: Heather
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1981
rating: 3
read at: 2017/12/17
date added: 2017/12/17
shelves: own-it, egyptology, reference-skimmed
review:

]]> <![CDATA[History of the Peloponnesian War]]> 261243 648 Thucydides 0140440399 Heather 3 3.90 -411 History of the Peloponnesian War
author: Thucydides
name: Heather
average rating: 3.90
book published: -411
rating: 3
read at: 2017/11/19
date added: 2017/11/19
shelves: historical, non-fiction, own-it, reference-skimmed
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Impressionism: The Painters and the Paintings]]> 1466246 0 Bernard Denvir 0792456378 Heather 4 4.38 1974 Impressionism: The Painters and the Paintings
author: Bernard Denvir
name: Heather
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1974
rating: 4
read at: 2017/11/19
date added: 2017/11/19
shelves: crafts, historical, non-fiction, own-it, reference-skimmed
review:

]]> Yoga for dummies 880633 390 Larry Payne 0764551175 Heather 4 3.73 Yoga for dummies
author: Larry Payne
name: Heather
average rating: 3.73
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2017/10/01
date added: 2017/10/01
shelves: non-fiction, own-it, reference-skimmed
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]]> Young Medieval Women 579045 1000 Katherine J. Lewis 0750915862 Heather 4 3.60 1999 Young Medieval Women
author: Katherine J. Lewis
name: Heather
average rating: 3.60
book published: 1999
rating: 4
read at: 2017/10/01
date added: 2017/10/01
shelves: historical, non-fiction, own-it, reference-skimmed
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]]> <![CDATA[A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity]]> 144900 ]]> 580 Mircea Eliade 0226204030 Heather 4 4.52 1978 A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity
author: Mircea Eliade
name: Heather
average rating: 4.52
book published: 1978
rating: 4
read at: 2017/08/23
date added: 2017/08/22
shelves: religious, own-it, reference-skimmed
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale]]> 290076 204 Jack D. Zipes 0813108349 Heather 4 3.87 1994 Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale
author: Jack D. Zipes
name: Heather
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1994
rating: 4
read at: 2017/08/22
date added: 2017/08/22
shelves: own-it, fairy-tales, non-fiction, reference-skimmed
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Feminist Companion to Mythology]]> 839646 480 Carolyne Larrington 0044408501 Heather 4 3.58 1992 The Feminist Companion to Mythology
author: Carolyne Larrington
name: Heather
average rating: 3.58
book published: 1992
rating: 4
read at: 2017/08/22
date added: 2017/08/22
shelves: mythology, own-it, non-fiction, reference-skimmed
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Epiphany: A Christian's Change of Heart & Mind over Same-Sex Marriage]]> 26025564 "This past February, a conservative Roman Catholic blog, Contra|Diction, gave me perhaps my best headline 'Michael Coren Complicit in Destruction of Souls Who Practice Homosexuality, Pt 1' (I'm still waiting for part two). It was one of countless posts, tweets, and articles that have condemned me for coming out in favour of same-sex marriage. I've also been fired from columns that I wrote for years, been banned from various Catholic TV and radio stations, had speeches cancelled, and been accused of cheating on my wife. My children have been called gay, and I have been compared to a child molester and a murderer. These are new experiences for me. Until last year, I was considered something of a champion of social conservatism in Canada and was well known among politically active Christians. I hosted a nightly show on Crossroads Television for twelve years, was a syndicated Sun columnist, and wrote briskly selling books with such titles as Why Catholics Are Right . Today, I am working away at a new book, Changing Heart and Mind on Same-Sex Marriage . How and why did it go so terribly wrong?" --Michael Coren

What went "terribly wrong" is that Michael Coren had a profound spiritual and personal change of heart. Epiphany is about how and why that happened; the reaction from both sides of the fence; and how the Christian doctrine, when studied closely and without bias, heartily supports Michael's findings. As a middle-aged, very white, very straight, very Christian man, he was obliged, first reluctantly and then eagerly, to explore the complex dynamic between faith and homosexuality and to work out a new narrative. The crux of that God is love.
     Honest, brave, and rigorous in its scholarship, Epiphany is a groundbreaking book on one of society's most pressing issues.]]> 240 Michael Coren 0771024118 Heather 5 3.49 2016 Epiphany: A Christian's Change of Heart & Mind over Same-Sex Marriage
author: Michael Coren
name: Heather
average rating: 3.49
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2017/06/27
date added: 2017/06/27
shelves: non-fiction, own-it, religious, reference-skimmed
review:
I had the honour of seeing Michael Cohen speak in person. He is as eloquent a writer as he is a speaker. He is kind, funny, compassionate, and deeply literate in Biblical scholarship. Whether you're wondering how to convince someone that LGBTQ rights and Christianity are indeed deeply compatible, or whether you're looking to find out why someone would change his or her mind, this is an excellent book.
]]> <![CDATA[The Structure of Evolutionary Theory]]> 33930
With characteristic attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould first describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of classical Darwinism: that natural selection works on organisms, not genes or species; that it is almost exclusively the mechanism of adaptive evolutionary change; and that these changes are incremental, not drastic. Next, he examines the three critiques that currently challenge this classic Darwinian edifice: that selection operates on multiple levels, from the gene to the group; that evolution proceeds by a variety of mechanisms, not just natural selection; and that causes operating at broader scales, including catastrophes, have figured prominently in the course of evolution.

Then, in a stunning tour de force that will likely stimulate discussion and debate for decades, Gould proposes his own system for integrating these classical commitments and contemporary critiques into a new structure of evolutionary thought.

In 2001 the Library of Congress named Stephen Jay Gould one of America's eighty-three Living Legends--people who embody the "quintessentially American ideal of individual creativity, conviction, dedication, and exuberance." Each of these qualities finds full expression in this peerless work, the likes of which the scientific world has not seen--and may not see again--for well over a century.]]> 1433 Stephen Jay Gould 0674006135 Heather 3 4.05 2002 The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
author: Stephen Jay Gould
name: Heather
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2002
rating: 3
read at: 2017/06/24
date added: 2017/06/24
shelves: own-it, science, non-fiction, reference-skimmed
review:
Very thorough, but not at all easy to read for a non specialist.
]]> <![CDATA[Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others]]> 1756909 358 Anonymous 0192817892 Heather 5 3.97 1989 Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
author: Anonymous
name: Heather
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1989
rating: 5
read at: 2017/06/06
date added: 2017/06/06
shelves: own-it, mythology, reference-skimmed
review:
Translations from original texts by an excellent scholar, using the best material available at the time. It's really good to see such a good translation in a widely available format.
]]> <![CDATA[Over Nine Waves: A Book of Irish Legends]]> 1054685 254 Marie Heaney 057117518X Heather 4 4.16 1994 Over Nine Waves: A Book of Irish Legends
author: Marie Heaney
name: Heather
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1994
rating: 4
read at: 2017/06/06
date added: 2017/06/06
shelves: mythology, own-it, reference-skimmed
review:
Highly readable, and collected from various translations and combined to create coherent versions for the lay reader.
]]> African Folktales 844524
Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library]]> 378 Roger D. Abrahams Heather 5 3.79 1983 African Folktales
author: Roger D. Abrahams
name: Heather
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1983
rating: 5
read at: 2017/06/04
date added: 2017/06/04
shelves: own-it, fairy-tales, reference-skimmed, short-stories
review:
The author is a renowned scholar who does use some colonial sources, but acknowledges their biases and tries to compensate for it. This is still a collection put together by a white American scholar, so it will still be somewhat Western centric. He does record which African culture each tale comes from and does not try to harmonize styles to make the tales sound more similar than they are.
]]> <![CDATA[From The Beast To The Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers]]> 955590 458 Marina Warner Heather 5 4.12 1994 From The Beast To The Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
author: Marina Warner
name: Heather
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1994
rating: 5
read at: 2017/06/04
date added: 2017/06/04
shelves: own-it, fairy-tales, non-fiction, reference-skimmed
review:
Maria Tatar's writing is detailed and highly readable. This book is also heavily illustrated, which only adds to the experience.
]]> <![CDATA[Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates]]> 434285
Pirates are so much a part of legend that it is easy to forget they actually existed. UNDER THE BLACK FLAG tells their story in a rollicking account of the golden age of piracy that is packed with history, anecdote, and above all adventure. Here are the true stories of such bloodthirsty legends as Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, Anne Bonny, and the fearsome Mary Read. And here are rousing descriptions of what ships pirates sailed, what punishments they exacted, what they really wore, and how they flourished--or perished. From the smoky havoc of shipboard battle to the loneliness of a fugitive's life at sea, this spellbinding narrative vividly brings the brutal world of pirates to life.]]> 320 David Cordingly 0156005492 Heather 5 3.70 1995 Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
author: David Cordingly
name: Heather
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1995
rating: 5
read at: 2017/05/27
date added: 2017/05/27
shelves: own-it, historical, non-fiction, reference-skimmed
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]]> <![CDATA[The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory]]> 8049273
Today, physicists and mathematicians throughout the world are feverishly working on one of the most ambitious theories ever proposed: superstring theory. String theory, as it is often called, is the key to the Unified Field Theory that eluded Einstein for more than thirty years. Finally, the century-old antagonism between the large and the small--General Relativity and Quantum Theory--is resolved. String theory proclaims that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe, from the frantic dancing of subatomic quarks to the majestic swirling of heavenly galaxies, are reflections of one grand physical principle and manifestations of one single entity: microscopically tiny vibrating loops of energy, a billionth of a billionth the size of an atom. In this brilliantly articulated and refreshingly clear book, Greene relates the scientific story and the human struggle behind twentieth-century physics' search for a theory of everything.

Through the masterful use of metaphor and analogy, The Elegant Universe makes some of the most sophisticated concepts ever contemplated viscerally accessible and thoroughly entertaining, bringing us closer than ever to understanding how the universe works.]]> 464 Brian Greene 039333810X Heather 5 4.11 1999 The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
author: Brian Greene
name: Heather
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1999
rating: 5
read at: 2017/05/27
date added: 2017/05/27
shelves: own-it, non-fiction, reference-skimmed, science
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh]]> 664060 256 Joyce A. Tyldesley 0140280979 Heather 4 4.03 2000 Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh
author: Joyce A. Tyldesley
name: Heather
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2000
rating: 4
read at: 2017/05/26
date added: 2017/05/26
shelves: own-it, egyptology, non-fiction, reference-skimmed
review:
Tyldesley walks a fine line between scholarly detail and the clarity and simplicity needed for popular consumption. It's not an easy thing to do.
]]> <![CDATA[The Pyramid Builder: Cheops, the Man behind the Great Pyramid]]> 1271473 337 Christine El Mahdy 075531008X Heather 5 3.65 2003 The Pyramid Builder: Cheops, the Man behind the Great Pyramid
author: Christine El Mahdy
name: Heather
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2003
rating: 5
read at: 2017/05/26
date added: 2017/05/26
shelves: egyptology, own-it, non-fiction, reference-skimmed
review:
Clear and well researched, this book takes a good look at the existing evidence on all those involved in building the pyramids.
]]> <![CDATA[Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan]]> 1485056 On June 4, 1942, Admiral Yamamoto launched his attack on Midway with the largest fleet yet assembled in the Pacific. His strike force included 350 ships and over 100,000 officers and men. His to smash the U.S. aircraft carriers based at Midway and break the Navy's power in World War II.
Now, for the first time, Japanese officers open the sealed archives to tell the authoritative, dramatic story of what really happened at Midway -- the battle that doomed Japan!]]> 256 Mitsuo Fuchida 0345346912 Heather 4 4.10 1955 Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan
author: Mitsuo Fuchida
name: Heather
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1955
rating: 4
read at: 2015/10/12
date added: 2017/01/30
shelves: own-it, non-fiction, historical, reference-skimmed
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence]]> 32276 271 Carl Sagan 0345346297 Heather 4 4.20 1977 The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
author: Carl Sagan
name: Heather
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1977
rating: 4
read at: 2016/03/24
date added: 2017/01/30
shelves: own-it, non-fiction, science, reference-skimmed
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]]> English Romantic Writers 1008485 1392 David Perkins 0155016881 Heather 5 4.33 1967 English Romantic Writers
author: David Perkins
name: Heather
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1967
rating: 5
read at: 2015/05/11
date added: 2017/01/30
shelves: own-it, victoriana, literary, religious, reference-skimmed
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]]> <![CDATA[Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of 카지노싸이트]]> 485812 398 Carl Sagan 0345336895 Heather 5 4.06 1979 Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of 카지노싸이트
author: Carl Sagan
name: Heather
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1979
rating: 5
read at: 2016/03/24
date added: 2017/01/30
shelves: own-it, non-fiction, science, reference-skimmed
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]]> <![CDATA[Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space]]> 61663 384 Carl Sagan 0345376595 Heather 5 4.33 1994 Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
author: Carl Sagan
name: Heather
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1994
rating: 5
read at: 2015/09/07
date added: 2017/01/30
shelves: own-it, non-fiction, science, reference-skimmed
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]]> The Golden Bough 1431936
Draws on myths, rituals, totems and taboos of ancient European and primitive cultures throughout the world. The third edition of this monumental study of folklore, magic, and religion was abridged by the authour into this single volume in 1922.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 944 James George Frazer 0140189319 Heather 4 3.90 1890 The Golden Bough
author: James George Frazer
name: Heather
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1890
rating: 4
read at: 2016/04/16
date added: 2016/11/24
shelves: own-it, fairy-tales, mythology, reference-skimmed
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]]> Ecofeminism and the Sacred 431731 352 Carol J. Adams 082640667X Heather 5 3.96 1993 Ecofeminism and the Sacred
author: Carol J. Adams
name: Heather
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1993
rating: 5
read at: 2016/10/14
date added: 2016/10/14
shelves: own-it, non-fiction, reference-skimmed, religious
review:
I was pleasantly surprised to see the number of women of colour included in this anthology, including an excellent scathing article about white women appropriating Native spirituality to avoid confronting their own whiteness.
]]> <![CDATA[Mystery of the Ancient Seafarers: Ancient Maritime Civilzation]]> 739765
A showcase of National Geographic's greatest strengths—exploration, discovery, and intricate maps— Mystery of the Ancient Seafarers is a fascinating journey through the depths of the Mediterranean and centuries of time.]]> 256 Robert D. Ballard 0792258452 Heather 4 3.66 2004 Mystery of the Ancient Seafarers: Ancient Maritime Civilzation
author: Robert D. Ballard
name: Heather
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 2016/10/14
date added: 2016/10/14
shelves: own-it, egyptology, reference-skimmed, non-fiction
review:
Although there wasn't as much focus on underwater archaeology as I hoped, it was a good overview and some cool underwater stuff.
]]> <![CDATA[Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better]]> 17707600  
In Smarter Than You Think Thompson shows that every technological innovation—from the written word to the printing press to the telegraph—has provoked the very same anxieties that plague us today. We panic that life will never be the same, that our attentions are eroding, that culture is being trivialized. But as in the past, we adapt—learning to use the new and retaining what’s good of the old.
 
Thompson introduces us to a cast of extraordinary characters who augment their minds in inventive ways. There's the seventy-six-year old millionaire who digitally records his every waking moment—giving him instant recall of the events and ideas of his life, even going back decades. There's a group of courageous Chinese students who mounted an online movement that shut down a $1.6 billion toxic copper plant. There are experts and there are amateurs, including a global set of gamers who took a puzzle that had baffled HIV scientists for a decade—and solved it collaboratively in only one month.
 
Smarter Than You Think isn't just about pioneers. It's about everyday users of technology and how our digital tools—from Google to Twitter to Facebook and smartphones—are giving us new ways to learn, talk, and share our ideas. Thompson harnesses the latest discoveries in social science to explore how digital technology taps into our long-standing habits of mind—pushing them in powerful new directions. Our thinking will continue to evolve as newer tools enter our lives. Smarter Than You Think embraces and extols this transformation, presenting an exciting vision of the present and the future.]]> 352 Clive Thompson 1594204454 Heather 4 3.95 2013 Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
author: Clive Thompson
name: Heather
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2016/09/21
date added: 2016/09/21
shelves: own-it, non-fiction, teaching, reference-skimmed
review:
The premise is more intriguing than some of the actual chapters, but it's clearly written.
]]> <![CDATA[Hitler's Scientists: 카지노싸이트, War, and the Devil's Pact]]> 183972
A shocking account of Nazi science, and a compelling look at the the dramatic rise of German science in the nineteenth century, its preeminence in the early twentieth, and the frightening developments that led to its collapse in 1945, this is the compelling story of German scientists under Hitler’s regime. Weaving the history of science and technology with the fortunes of war and the stories of men and women whose discoveries brought both benefits and destruction to the world, Hitler's Scientists raises questions that are still urgent today. As science becomes embroiled in new generations of weapons of mass destruction and the war against terrorism, as advances in biotechnology outstrip traditional ethics, this powerful account of Nazi science forms a crucial commentary on the ethical role of science.]]> 577 John Cornwell 0142004804 Heather 4 3.68 2001 Hitler's Scientists: 카지노싸이트, War, and the Devil's Pact
author: John Cornwell
name: Heather
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at: 2016/09/09
date added: 2016/09/09
shelves: own-it, historical, non-fiction, reference-skimmed
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]]> <![CDATA[Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles]]> 225585
Through interviewing disciples of Gandhi in five countries, Mehta reconstructs in precise detail Gandhi's daily routine, recounts the story of his life, and presents the beliefs and practices of his "apostles."

Mehta's book, widely praised when it was first published in 1977, is a biographical portrait of Gandhi unlike any other.]]> 288 Ved Mehta 0300055390 Heather 4 3.70 1977 Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles
author: Ved Mehta
name: Heather
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1977
rating: 4
read at: 2016/09/09
date added: 2016/09/09
shelves: own-it, historical, reference-skimmed, non-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Seascapes in Acrylic (The Artist's Painting Library)]]> 3728463 80 Wendon Blake 0823047288 Heather 3 3.50 1979 Seascapes in Acrylic (The Artist's Painting Library)
author: Wendon Blake
name: Heather
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1979
rating: 3
read at: 2016/07/11
date added: 2016/07/11
shelves: own-it, reference-skimmed, non-fiction, crafts
review:
This book is a little too advanced for me currently, but it has some great tips and techniques.
]]> <![CDATA[God's Wife, God's Servant: The God's Wife of Amun (ca.740–525 BC)]]> 7778671 232 Mariam F. Ayad 041541170X Heather 4 3.43 2009 God's Wife, God's Servant: The God's Wife of Amun (ca.740–525 BC)
author: Mariam F. Ayad
name: Heather
average rating: 3.43
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2014/10/06
date added: 2016/06/30
shelves: egyptology, kick-ass-women, non-fiction, own-it, reference-skimmed
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier]]> 20707975

With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tyson—one of our foremost thinkers on all things space—illuminates the past, present, and future of space exploration and brilliantly reminds us why NASA matters now as much as ever. As Tyson reveals, exploring the space frontier can profoundly enrich many aspects of our daily lives, from education systems and the economy to national security and morale. For America to maintain its status as a global leader and a technological innovator, he explains, we must regain our enthusiasm and curiosity about what lies beyond our world.


Provocative, humorous, and wonderfully readable, Space Chronicles represents the best of Tyson’s recent commentary, including a must-read prologue on NASA and partisan politics. Reflecting on topics that range from scientific literacy to space-travel missteps, Tyson gives us an urgent, clear-eyed, and ultimately inspiring vision for the future.]]> 384 Neil deGrasse Tyson 0393350371 Heather 3 4.03 2012 Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
author: Neil deGrasse Tyson
name: Heather
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2012
rating: 3
read at: 2016/04/26
date added: 2016/06/16
shelves: own-it, non-fiction, reference-skimmed, science
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales]]> 444388 328 Bruno Bettelheim 0679723935 Heather 5 3.83 1975 The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
author: Bruno Bettelheim
name: Heather
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1975
rating: 5
read at: 2016/05/22
date added: 2016/05/22
shelves: fairy-tales, non-fiction, own-it, reference-skimmed
review:

]]> The Valdemar Companion 176877
With eighteen novels published, and millions of copies in print, Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series has won the hearts of countless readers. In response to overwhelming demand on the part of her many fans, veteran editors John Helfers and Denise Little now present The Valdemar Companion. With the help and guidance of Mercedes Lackey, Helfers and Little have compiled a reader's guide to Mercedes Lackey's best-selling world of Valdemar. Included in this comprehensive work is an all-original Mercedes Lackey Valdemar novella, as well as an essay by Lackey about Valdemar, and extensive interviews with the author and her publisher. With an overview of the history of Valdemar, detailed essays on the various races and kingdoms, a substantial concordance containing entries on every major character, device and setting, and including articles on the magical races and creatures, a chapter on the diverse Valdemar fan clubs, and a section devoted to the songs of Valdemar, along with beautifully detailed maps, The Valdemar Companion is everything any Valdemar fan could wish for.]]> 432 John Helfers 0756400376 Heather 3 4.00 2001 The Valdemar Companion
author: John Helfers
name: Heather
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2001
rating: 3
read at: 2015/11/26
date added: 2016/04/26
shelves: non-fiction, fantasy, own-it, reference-skimmed
review:
Lovely and lovingly made, but over ten years out of date.
]]> A History of Ancient Egypt 163041 528 Nicolas Grimal 0631193960 Heather 4 3.96 1988 A History of Ancient Egypt
author: Nicolas Grimal
name: Heather
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1988
rating: 4
read at: 2016/04/26
date added: 2016/04/26
shelves: own-it, non-fiction, egyptology, reference-skimmed
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The European Witch Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries]]> 433364 144 Hugh Trevor-Roper 0061314161 Heather 4 3.49 1956 The European Witch Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries
author: Hugh Trevor-Roper
name: Heather
average rating: 3.49
book published: 1956
rating: 4
read at: 2016/04/23
date added: 2016/04/23
shelves: reference-skimmed, own-it, non-fiction, historical
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Anti-Racism Education: Theory and Practice (Basics from Fernwood Publishing)]]> 2593182 134 George J. Sefa Dei 1895686636 Heather 4 4.21 1996 Anti-Racism Education: Theory and Practice (Basics from Fernwood Publishing)
author: George J. Sefa Dei
name: Heather
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1996
rating: 4
read at: 2016/04/22
date added: 2016/04/22
shelves: own-it, reference-skimmed, teaching, non-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective]]> 792632 575 Caroline B. Brettell 0131849719 Heather 4 3.89 1993 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
author: Caroline B. Brettell
name: Heather
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1993
rating: 4
read at: 2016/04/22
date added: 2016/04/22
shelves: historical, own-it, non-fiction, reference-skimmed
review:

]]> Archaeologies of Sexuality 2265334 320 Robert A. Schmidt 0415223660 Heather 5 4.36 2000 Archaeologies of Sexuality
author: Robert A. Schmidt
name: Heather
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2000
rating: 5
read at: 2016/04/19
date added: 2016/04/19
shelves: non-fiction, own-it, reference-skimmed, historical
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice (Reconstrucing the Public Sphere in Curriculum Studies)]]> 480506 152 Kevin K. Kumashiro 0415948576 Heather 5 4.15 2004 Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice (Reconstrucing the Public Sphere in Curriculum Studies)
author: Kevin K. Kumashiro
name: Heather
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2004
rating: 5
read at: 2016/04/19
date added: 2016/04/19
shelves: own-it, reference-skimmed, non-fiction, teaching
review:

]]> Inessential Woman 2048785 240 Elizabeth V. Spelman 0807067458 Heather 3 3.82 1990 Inessential Woman
author: Elizabeth V. Spelman
name: Heather
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1990
rating: 3
read at: 2016/04/19
date added: 2016/04/19
shelves: own-it, reference-skimmed, non-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Coming to Terms: Feminism, Theory, Politics]]> 4009582 294 Elizabeth Weed 0415900670 Heather 3 3.00 1989 Coming to Terms: Feminism, Theory, Politics
author: Elizabeth Weed
name: Heather
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1989
rating: 3
read at: 2016/04/19
date added: 2016/04/19
shelves: own-it, reference-skimmed, non-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation]]> 328594
'Not for the timid, this brilliant book calls for nothing short of the overthrow of patriarchy itself.' --The Village Voice]]> 264 Mary Daly 0807015032 Heather 4 3.94 1973 Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation
author: Mary Daly
name: Heather
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1973
rating: 4
read at: 2016/04/10
date added: 2016/04/08
shelves: religious, non-fiction, own-it, reference-skimmed
review:
Really intriguing ideas, but also very much White Feminism.
]]> <![CDATA[The Unmentionable Vice: Homosexuality in the Later Medieval Period]]> 2748789 192 Michael Goodich 0880290129 Heather 4 3.00 1979 The Unmentionable Vice: Homosexuality in the Later Medieval Period
author: Michael Goodich
name: Heather
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1979
rating: 4
read at: 2016/04/09
date added: 2016/04/08
shelves: reference-skimmed, own-it, historical
review:

]]> Rules of Sociological Method 339423 272 Émile Durkheim 0029079403 Heather 3 3.82 1895 Rules of Sociological Method
author: Émile Durkheim
name: Heather
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1895
rating: 3
read at: 2016/04/06
date added: 2016/04/06
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]]> Discourse on Method 159418 58 René Descartes 0872204227 Heather 5 3.77 1637 Discourse on Method
author: René Descartes
name: Heather
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1637
rating: 5
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date added: 2016/04/06
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]]> <![CDATA[The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension]]> 47066
"Campbell has become one of the rarest of intellectuals in American life: a serious thinker who had been embraced by the popular culture."—Newsweek]]> 253 Joseph Campbell 1577312104 Heather 4 4.23 1969 The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension
author: Joseph Campbell
name: Heather
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1969
rating: 4
read at: 2015/10/18
date added: 2016/03/28
shelves: own-it, mythology, fairy-tales, reference-skimmed
review:

]]> <![CDATA[I Am the Grand Canyon: The Story of the Havasupai People]]> 1727372
In the spring of 1971, the federal government proposed incorporating still more Havasupai land into Grand Canyon National Park. At hearings that spring, Havasupai Tribal Chairman Lee Marshall rose to speak. “I heard all you people talking about the Grand Canyon,” he said. “Well, you’re looking at it. I am the Grand Canyon!” Marshall made it clear that Havasu Canyon and the surrounding plateau were critical to the survival of his people; his speech laid the foundation for the return of thousands of acres of Havasupai land in 1975.

I Am the Grand Canyon is the story of a heroic people who refused to back down when facing overwhelming odds. They won, and today the Havasupai way of life quietly continues in the Grand Canyon and on the surrounding plateaus.]]> 276 Stephen Hirst 0938216864 Heather 5 4.03 2007 I Am the Grand Canyon: The Story of the Havasupai People
author: Stephen Hirst
name: Heather
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 2016/03/25
date added: 2016/03/24
shelves: own-it, non-fiction, historical, reference-skimmed
review:

]]> Library Of World Poetry 6936222 780 William Cullen Bryant Heather 5 4.20 1970 Library Of World Poetry
author: William Cullen Bryant
name: Heather
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1970
rating: 5
read at: 2016/02/14
date added: 2016/02/14
shelves: poetry, reference-skimmed, own-it
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Selections from Plutarch's Lives]]> 8247049 444 Plutarch Heather 4 4.00 2009 Selections from Plutarch's Lives
author: Plutarch
name: Heather
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2016/01/22
date added: 2016/01/22
shelves: own-it, reference-skimmed, historical
review:

]]> Educational Psychology 3677615 647 Anita Woolfolk 0205155421 Heather 4 3.69 Educational Psychology
author: Anita Woolfolk
name: Heather
average rating: 3.69
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2015/09/10
date added: 2016/01/10
shelves: own-it, non-fiction, reference-skimmed, teaching
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