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• Do you ever feel like this?

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 673
  Fellow, sometime-and-in-some-fashion, academics or others dabbling in paper writing? Dixon looked out of the window at the fields wheeling past, bright green after a wet April. It wasn’t the double-exposure effect of the last half-minute’s talk that had dumbfounded him, for such incidents formed the staple ...
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• Book Notes - Lauren Grodstein ("A Friend of the Family")

  
  Largehearted Boy — Authority: 147
  In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. A Friend of the Family is Lauren Grodsteins second novel, a riveting story of suburban lifes secrets and tragedies. The skillfully drawn characters and their converging plotlines make ...
  2 days ago

• Liberal Fascism: Chapter 7

  
  RedState — Authority: 787
  Geez. I read this chapter last week and totally dropped the ball on writing about it, in part because it is so meaty. We probably should have divided this chapter in half there’s so much. Chapter 7 gives me one of my good laughs. I remember a speech Jonah gave in Atlanta last year in which he talked about Barack ...
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• December 2009 Civil War Book Notes

  
  TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog — Authority: 122
  Those that can’t write, Review! December 2009 James Durney *********************************************************** In need of a holiday gift? It might be a gift for someone else, an answer to “What do you want?” or something you buy yourself.  These books are available online and in some ...
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• The Trans-Mississippi Package: Books on the Civil War West of the Father of Waters

  
  TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog — Authority: 122
  The Trans-Mississippi Package By James Durney Have you ever looked west of the Mississippi River in 1861 & 8162?  Yes, we have all read about Wilson’s Creek and Lyons in St. Louis.  However, that is not the full story.  If you have a vague itch to explore the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi, read on. ...
  6 days ago

• Book Notes - Geeta Dayal ("Brian Enos Another Green World")

  
  Largehearted Boy — Authority: 147
  In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Geeta Dayals 33 1/3 book Brian Enos Another Green World explores the musician at the time of his metamorphosis from rocker to ambient artist. Bringing together musicians who played on ...
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• Leading with a Limp

  
  Doug Gamble — Authority: 116
  This book by Dan Allender is a revolutionary approach to leadership.  I know that the book has been out a few years but somehow I missed it.  Or perhaps I could say that I read it at exactly the time in my life when I needed to read it.  The premise of the book is simply that God favors leaders who make the most ...
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• Whats China reading? Canadian history

  
  Christopher Moore's Canadian History — Authority: 132
  This is not a Norman Bethune story. Gold Mountain Blues , a novel by Chinese-born Vancouver resident Zhang Ling, follows five generations of a Chinese Canadian family from railroad construction days to the present. Its a bestseller in China and a contender for something considered to be Chinas Booker Prize. Penguin ...
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• Drucker and Lewis on Theory and Experience

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 673
  One of the issues raised in my post Myths of the Knowledge Society , and in the discussion thereof, is the question of formal, theory-based knowledge versus tacit, experience-based knowledge . What is the appropriate scope of use of each of these modalities? Several years ago, I excerpted some thoughts from ...
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• Jumping the Shark

  
  Roscoe's Public Notes — Authority: 143
  Reading the Sixth Chapter of Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism then posting our thoughts about it is our 6th week’s assignment in Red State’s Book Notes project. My post pertaining to that assignment is up at my Red State Diary, and is cross-posted below.Chapter 6: From Kennedy’s Myth to Johnson’s Dream: ...
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• LF Chapter 6 and the Second Coming

  
  RedState — Authority: 787
  From the diaries by Erick. Glad you guys are participating so I don’t have to do all the writing every week. This was a great chapter. Read it on the way home from New York on Saturday. Next week, Chapter 7, promises to be relevant to what’s going on right now. I have thought for a while now that the ...
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• Book Notes - Blake Butler ("Scorch Atlas")

  
  Largehearted Boy — Authority: 147
  In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Blake Butler is the rare young writer who consistently and effectively challenges his readers. Scorch Atlas is a haunting collection of interconnected stories and vignettes, a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Book Notes - Ben Shaberman ("The Vegan Monologues")

  
  Largehearted Boy — Authority: 147
  In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Ben Shabermans essay collection The Vegan Monologues is more than a book about not eating animals. Shaberman touches on political, social, and environmental issues while recounting his ...
  2 weeks ago

• History rules at the Childrens Book Awards

  
  Christopher Moore's Canadian History — Authority: 132
  Book award season continues. Last night in Toronto it was the Canadian Childrens Book Centre award ceremony . This used to be the most modest and friendly of book events. Now it has some serious financial support from TD Bank, the (ahem) TD Bank Financial Group Childrens Book Awards have gone seriously elegant, but ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology

  
  Evangelical Textual Criticism — Authority: 512
  I will have to order this title: The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology by Roger S. Bagnall ISBN13: 9780195178388 ISBN10: 0195178386 Hardback, 712 pages Jun 2009, In Stock Price: $150.00 (06) Shipping Details Description Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, ...
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• “An Evening of Counterinsurgency at the Pritzker Military Library”

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 673
  Hearts and minds? Overrated. If you want to run a successful counterinsurgency, it all starts with the person at the top. On Thursday, December 3rd, Mark Moyar will appear at the Pritzker Military Library to discuss his new book, A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq . Small Wars ...
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• Book Notes - Lydia Millet ("Love in Infant Monkeys")

  
  Largehearted Boy — Authority: 147
  In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Lydia Millet is one of my favorite writers, and her first collection of short fiction, Love in Infant Monkeys marries celebrities with animals to great effect. These keenly written ...
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• Hatin’ on Palin

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 673
  In George MacDonald Fraser’s picaresque novel Flashman (which is set in 1839-1842), the hero (actually more of an antihero) marries the daughter of a very wealthy Scottish mill owner. This creates problems with Lord Cardigan, the commander of the fashionable regiment in which Flashman is serving–indeed, Cardigan ...
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• Review: Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era

  
  TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog — Authority: 122
  Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era by Nicole Etcheson Product Details Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: University Press of Kansas (January 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0700612874 ISBN-13: 978-0700612871 “Bleeding Kansas”, 150 years after the event this phrase ...
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• Book Notes - David Henry Sterry ("Hos, Hookers, Call Girls & Rent Boys")

  
  Largehearted Boy — Authority: 147
  In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Hos, Hookers, Call Girls & Rent Boys collects stories, poems, and essays by sex workers. Compiled by David Henry Sterry and RJ Martin, Jr., the book organizes this collection of ...
  2 weeks ago

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