Posts tagged “reviews”
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Evolution reviewed on Brain Pickings
December 7, 2011
“A rare book that is both a complete work of art and a complete work of science, Evolution dismantles the natural history museum into its parts, revealing a stripped-down animal kingdom and the commonalities at its core.”
Tags: brain pickings, evolution, jean-baptiste de panafieu, reviews, skeletons
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Buzz Aldrin reviewed on Rain Taxi
December 1, 2011
“With Mattias as his springboard, Harstad writes about mental illness without invoking the normal slew of stigmas. Mattias’s straightforward narration about heartbreak, discontent, and unhappiness are emotional but Harstad’s writing is far from sentimental. Rather than hide his despondency from loved ones and readers, we see a fresh look at a troubled man trying to make sense of his life and his place in it.”
Tags: Buzz aldrin what happened to you in all the confusion?, johan harstad, norway, reviews
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Loretta Napoleoni reviewed in The China Daily
November 3, 2011
“China has handled the process of globalization much better than Western nations. It is wrong for the West to leave everything to the market in a globalized world.”
Tags: china, china daily, loretta napoleoni, maonomics, reviews
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Scorched Earth reviewed in the Washington Independent Review of Books
October 20, 2011
“In an age when thousands of untested chemicals enter the world marketplace each year causing unforeseen havoc to public health, we would do well to remember the victims of Agent Orange. As Wilcox so eloquently puts it: ‘We ignore their suffering at our own peril.’”
Tags: fred wilcox, reviews, scorched earth, washington independent review of books
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Buzz Aldrin reviewed in 3:AM Magazine
October 19, 2011
“Reading Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? is an exhausting and pleasantly draining experience. Not only because of the melancholia of an extremely intricate, compelling and delicately balanced portrait of a depressed individual, who doesn’t feel he fits in with the competitive values of his society. But also because the novel itself kind of unzips the appealing (but hopeless in our society) logic of being a ‘cog in a system’ rather than a ’star.’”
Tags: 3:AM magazine, Buzz aldrin what happened to you in all the confusion?, johan harstad, reviews
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Ina May Gaskin on Workingmums
October 6, 2011
“’I enjoyed the labour process,’ she adds. ‘It was only when I was tied down and it became like some sort of medieval torture chamber that it became a negative experience. Then the baby was kept from me for the first day and when I was given her I did not feel the instincts I should have felt.’”
Tags: birth matters, ina may gaskin, reviews
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Eva Gabrielsson reviewed in The Guardian
October 5, 2011
“She laughs, but her voice is weary. It is clearly painful for her to keep talking about Larsson’s death, and the ugliness and upheaval that has come since. I suspect she feels she has little choice though. The tussle between her and Larsson’s family continues, and she feels bound to highlight the legal morass unmarried people face when their partner dies intestate. “
Tags: eva gabrielsson, reviews, the guardian, there are things i want you to know about stieg larsson and me
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Review of A History of Marriage on Stereo Subversion
September 27, 2011
“A History of Marriage is much more than the title suggests; it becomes a work of politics, love, feminism, sorrow, childhood, abortion, racism and humor. It is an eye-opening book that has something for anyone, regardless of their interest in the marriage debate.”
Tags: a history of marriage, elizabeth abbott, reviews
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Wilcox’s “Waiting for an Army to Die” and “Scorched Earth” reviewed in PR Watch
September 15, 2011
“These books are not just about the heartbreaking story of chemical warfare in Vietnam that has now affected three generations of Vietnamese, Americans, Australians, South Koreans and New Zealanders. They are also about the need to stop poisoning our own bodies and environment with toxic chemicals. “
Tags: fred wilcox, pr watch, reviews, scorched earth, waiting for an army to die
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Occasionally Offensive reviews Bad Shoes and the Women Who Love Them
September 13, 2011
I recommend this book for red-carpet type women who love teetering sexy shoes, and for run-with-the-wolves women who are baffled by people who spend hundreds of dollars on torture devices which they they wear of their own volition.
Tags: bad shoes and the women who love them, blogs, leora tanenbaum, reviews
“reviews” Posts
- Dec 7, Evolution reviewed on Brain Pickings
- Dec 1, Buzz Aldrin reviewed on Rain Taxi
- Nov 3, Loretta Napoleoni reviewed in The China Daily
- Oct 20, Scorched Earth reviewed in the Washington Independent Review of Books
- Oct 19, Buzz Aldrin reviewed in 3:AM Magazine
- Oct 6, Ina May Gaskin on Workingmums
- Oct 5, Eva Gabrielsson reviewed in The Guardian
- Sep 27, Review of A History of Marriage on Stereo Subversion
- Sep 15, Wilcox’s “Waiting for an Army to Die” and “Scorched Earth” reviewed in PR Watch
- Sep 13, Occasionally Offensive reviews Bad Shoes and the Women Who Love Them
