Sermon on the Mound, Finding God at the Heart of the Game by Michael O’Connor; 2001; 180 pages; Bethany House Publishers, Minneapolis, MN; 0-7642-2395-X; 8/23-8/25
I first read this back in 2001 and had decided that I wanted to reread it. Well when I picked it up this time I wasn’t quite as impressed. When I [...]
Imperial Grunts, The American Military on the Ground by Robert D. Kaplan; 2005; 421 pages; Random House, New York, NY; 1-4000-6132-6; 8/13-8/21
Robert Kaplan travels the globe meeting real soldiers and marines. He did not hang with a bunch of REMF but hung with the troops on the front lines in many different places from Colombia [...]
The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame, Muwahahahaha by Daniel H. Wilson and Anna C. Long; 2008; 207 pages; Citadel Press; 978-0-8065-2879-3; 8/10/09-8/13/09
Wilson and Long do a psychological forensic autopsy of several “mad scientist” both real and imagined. They chose some well known and lesser known scientist from many different discplines and use the DSM to [...]
Лаптоп Магазин лаптопThe Dirty Dozen, How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom by Robert A. Levy and William Mellor; 2008; 299 pages; Sentinel, New York, NY; 978-1-59523-050-8; 8/3/09-8/6/09
The authors describe themselves as “textualist”, they believe that the constitution means what it says. They don’t believe in a living constitution or [...]
Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian; 1981; 318 pages; Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, NY; 0-06-024079-2; Recommended by Emma of Dinged Corners; 8/1/09-8/3/09
During the Blitz of London many children were evacuated to rural England to live with families. This is the story of one such encounter. William Beech is the son of a [...]