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Book Review: Terry Jones’ Barbarians

Posted on April 12, 2011 by nathanalbright

Terry Jones’ Barbarians, by Terry Jones and Alan Ereira Terry Jones might be most familiar to readers as one of the leading lights of the Monty Python troop of historians, but he is also a competent and (as one could … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Totus Christus: A Biblical Theology of the Whole Christ

Posted on April 8, 2011 by nathanalbright

Totus Christus:  A Biblical Theology of the Whole Christ, by Michael Bull Despite being a dense book, almost 800 pages of nearly unreadable symbolic language, organized into a huge and rigid chiastic structure, the book fails to meet up to … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Scars of A Chef

Posted on April 1, 2011 by nathanalbright

Scars of a Chef, by Rick Tramonto with Lisa Jackson [Note:  Full disclosure:  Tyndale House Publishers provided me a copy of this book for free since I am a member of the Tyndale Blog Network.  This has not influenced in … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

Posted on March 21, 2011 by nathanalbright

Fallen Founder:  The Life of Aaron Burr, by Nancy Isenberg It takes a historian or biographer of rare caliber to take an obscure and hated historical figure and to uncover the truth about his life under the surface in a … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Mapping America’s Past: A Historical Atlas

Posted on March 18, 2011 by nathanalbright

Mapping America’s Past:  A Historical Atlas, by Mark C. Carnes and John A. Garraty with Patrick Williams Every story, including a historical atlas, by selecting some events must omit other worthy events from consideration.  The true question of the value … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Modern Physics

Posted on March 14, 2011 by nathanalbright

Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Modern Physics: Special Relativity, Quantum and Statistical Physics, by arlo Maria Becchi and Massimo D’Elia This is the longest 150 page book you will never read.  It meets all of the qualifications of a … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Annals of the Former World

Posted on March 13, 2011 by nathanalbright

Annals of the Former World, by John McPhee As this book is a massive collection of five volumes worth of writing (four volumes of which were previously released as separate books), I thought it best to separately review each of … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Return To Bull Run

Posted on March 7, 2011 by nathanalbright

Return To Bull Run:  The Campaign And Battle of Second Manassas, by John J. Hennessy This is a fine book about an often-neglected campaign, the short and (for the North at least) inglorious Second Bull Run campaign.  The book gives … Continue reading →

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Reading List Suggestion Box

Posted on March 7, 2011 by nathanalbright

I’m always on the lookout for good books, so I’m going to open up this note as a “suggestion box” for good books.  So, what I’d like is for the good readers of this blog to suggest some worthwhile books … Continue reading →

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Book Review: A User’s Guide to the Universe

Posted on March 4, 2011 by nathanalbright

A User’s Guide to the Universe:  Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty, by Dave Goldberg and Jeff Blomquist This book is targeted at a very specific demographic–a nerdy, ironic reader (probably male) with a bad … Continue reading →

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