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reviewed: Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan
Buruma, visits and talks to survivors, historians and general populace in both Germany and Japan to discuss how they feel abo...
Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan - Ian Buruma
March 2014
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Enoch at 100 - Lord Howard of Rising
reviewed: Enoch at 100
Enoch Powell is obviously synonymous with his 'Rivers of Blood' speech and remembered today for little else, but this is a sh...
Enoch at 100 - Lord Howard of Rising
March 2014
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We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer's - D. F. Swaab
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We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer's - D. F. Swaab
We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer's D. F. Swaab
March 2014
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reviewed: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Somehow I was expecting more from this book. Ironically Susan Cain presents her views on Introversion better (see the excelle...
Quiet. The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
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Quiet. The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
Quiet. The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Susan Cain
March 2014
08
reviewed: Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
An interesting collection of short stories,'in the bamboo grove', 'hell screen' and 'O-Gin' are excellent short stories of mo...
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami
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Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami
March 2014
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reviewed: ソードアート・オンライン (13) アリシゼーション・ディバイディング (電撃文庫)
After reading the the last 7 or 8 on my holiday last year - with volume 12 ending in a real cliffhanger And I do mean cliffha...
ソードアート・オンライン13:アリシゼーション・ディバイディング [Sōdo āto onrain 13:Arishizēshon Dibaidingu] (Sword Art Online #13) - Reki Kawahara
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ソードアート・オンライン13:アリシゼーション・ディバイディング [Sōdo āto onrain 13:Arishizēshon Dibaidingu] (Sword Art Online #13) - Reki Kawahara
ソードアート・オンライン13:アリシゼーション・ディバイディング [Sōdo āto onrain 13:Arishizēshon Dibaidingu] (Sword Art Online #13) Reki Kawahara
February 2014
21
reviewed: Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe: The Hunt for the Higgs Boson
Moffat appears to be strangely obsessed with Nobel prizes and CERN funding - perhaps in his skepticism of the Higgs discovery...
Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe - John W. Moffat
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Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe - John W. Moffat
Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe John W. Moffat
February 2014
16
reviewed: The Making of Modern Britain
From the death of queen Victoria and the Edwardian age of toffs to Victory in Europe day and the profoundly changed Britain, ...
The Making of Modern Britain - Andrew Marr
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The Making of Modern Britain - Andrew Marr
The Making of Modern Britain Andrew Marr
January 2014
28
reviewed: The Craft of the Japanese Sword
The book starts by talking a bit about history and Japanese sword appraisal. Then gets into the four stages of manufacture 1)...
The Craft of the Japanese Sword - 'Leon Kapp', 'Hiroko Kapp', 'Yoshindo Yoshihara'
reviewed: Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival
Pilling, a journalist for the Financial Times, unsurprisingly concentrates in large parts on the economics of Japan and links...
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival - David Pilling
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Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival - David Pilling
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival David Pilling
finished reading:
The Craft of the Japanese Sword - 'Leon Kapp', 'Hiroko Kapp', 'Yoshindo Yoshihara'
The Craft of the Japanese Sword 'Leon Kapp', 'Hiroko Kapp', 'Yoshindo Yoshihara'
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