Book Reports

I'd like to read the other side of the story. But, I suspect that Tara's parents are not the type of people who would publicly trash their daughter, however they felt about her privately.

Implied in the exchange is the author's self satisfaction in conceiving the clever, triple entendre novel title.

Like other Islamic rulers during the Golden Age of Islam, the Moghuls were enlightened leaders.

This book outlines how new scientific knowledge of human genetics, post the 2003 sequencing of the human genome, comes into conflict with social science orthodoxy on race.

Amos and Alex sleuthing at the house across the street draws them, with the assent of local police, into a cauldron of area crime that involves multiple murders, life insurance fraud, pill pressing, and a treasure hunt for a long-forgotten gold stash.

From China’s slumping economy to war clouds over the South China Sea and from environmental devastation to demographic crisis, Auslin says Asia’s future is uncertain.

Polk is one of the five US most successful American presidents in advancing American exceptionalism (the others, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump). ***

***Second Five: Nixon, FDR, Truman, Jackson, TR.

Its a different world up there that few of us, even the well traveled, will ever experience.

No hope... any place. No good story in Africa.

A troubled three billion dollar thrift like ASF is one thing...but, what happens when a crisis of such magnitude occurs that government regulatory officials, to prevent financial system collapse, are forced to take remedial steps that go beyond the statutory?