books + bestof + history
- Bill Bryson: The secret life of your home
- Ever wondered why forks have four prongs? Or why we choose salt and pepper over other spices?
- 2010-06-21 to bestof, books, history, lifestyle, non fiction by soobrosa
- Adam Gopnik: What did Jesus do?
- Reading and unreading the Gospels.
- 2010-06-21 to bestof, books, history, religion by soobrosa
- Douglas Rushkoff: Economics is not natural science
- The first innovation was to centralize currency. What better way for the already rich to maintain their wealth than to make money scarce?
- 2009-11-01 to bestof, books, business, currency, economics, history, middle class, society by soobrosa
- John Homans: The Kids Are—Yawn—Alright
- Teenagers assumed their current form in 1945, says Teenage. No wonder their antics can seem a little stale.
- 2009-09-19 to bestof, books, history, review, society, teenage by soobrosa
- The borrowers
- Colin Burrow discovers what literature owes to the idea of debt
- 2008-12-12 to bestof, books, history, money by bagoly
- Edgardo Krebs: Into the Heart
- A sweeping portrait of the Amazon River and its strikingly different inhabitants.
- 2008-10-05 to amazon, bestof, biology, books, forest, history, river by soobrosa
- Gavin Menzies: mad as a snake - or a visionary?
- His first book claimed that the Chinese discovered America. Now, in a controversial sequel, Gavin Menzies says they also sparked the Renaissance
- 2008-08-21 to bestof, books, history by bagoly
- Mary Beard on the life of Roman emperor, Hadrian
- He pulled his troops out of Iraq, was an avid art collector and had an intriguing, and tragic, sex life - of all the Roman emperors, Hadrian seems the most recognisable.
- 2008-07-28 to bestof, books, history by bagoly
- PD Smith: A plague on all our houses
- Deadly Companions is Dorothy H Crawford's fascinating study of man's mortal combat with microbes.
- 2008-02-08 to bacteria, bestof, books, health, history, illness, microbe by soobrosa
- A Better Place
- What if the Muslim armies hadn’t been stopped at the French border?
- 2008-02-01 to bestof, books, history, religion by bagoly
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