Pb Living - A daily book review

A Book Review - the unwritten book of Xenophobia in South Africa

08 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Despite a lack of directly comparable data, xenophobia in South Africa is perceived to have significantly increased after the election of a Black majo...

A Book Review - You People Novel by Nikita Lalwani

07 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Penguin Books Limited, 2020 The Pizzeria Vesuvio looks like any other Italian restaurant in London - with a few small differences. The chef...

A Book Review - Why We Act: Turning Bystanders Into Moral Rebels Book by Catherine A. Sanderson

06 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2020 Why do good people so often do nothing when a seemingly small action could make a big difference? A pioneeri...

A Book Review - The Dissidents: A Memoir of Working with the Resistance in Russia, 1960-1990 Book by Peter Reddaway

05 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press, 2020 It has been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union--enough time for the role that th...

A Book Review - The Trick: Why Some People Can Make Money and Other People Can't by William Leith

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020 Some people can make money. Other people can't. It's a thought that makes William Leith wake up in a cold sweat...

A Book Review - Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: The Power of Story Book by Eric Selbin

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Why do revolutions happen?  Decades of social science research have brought us little closer to understanding where, when and among whom they occ...

A Book Review - Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science Book by Royston M. Roberts

02 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Many of the things discovered by accident are important in our everyday lives: Teflon, Velcro, nylon, x-rays, penicillin, safety glass, sugar substitu...

A Book Review - The unwritten book of fingerprints

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Why Fingerprint Identification? Fingerprints offer a reliable means of personal identification. That is the essential explanation for fingerprints hav...

A Book Review - The Unwrittten Book of earth Longitude on the earth

31 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In response to the problems of navigation, a number of European maritime powers offered prizes for a method to determine longitude at sea. The initial...

A Book Review - The Sum of the People Book by Andrew Whitby

30 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Basic Books, 2020 This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its politi...

A Book Review - War and Peace Novel by Leo Tolstoy

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If You Like what we do support us here,  https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support Originally published: 1867 ABOUT WAR AND PEACE From the award-winning...

A Book Review - Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug by Augustine Sedgewick

28 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If You Like what we do support us here,  https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2020 The epic story of how coffe...

A Book Review? - The unwritten book about the rise of potatoes and forks

27 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Potatoes and forks were first rejected but then they grew to be accepted. Listen to learn about it

A Book Review? The Unwritten Book - A history of electricity and cars Nikola Tesla vs. Thomas Edison: Who was the better inventor?

26 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If You Like what we do support us here,  https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support Nikola Tesla The Serbian-American scientist was a brilliant and eccen...

A Book Review - MOI - The Making of an African Statesman Book by Andrew Morton

25 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If You Like what we do support us here,  https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support Publisher :  Michael O'Mara, 1998 Daniel arap Moi, the President...

A Book Review - The Discomfort of Evening: A Novel Novel by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

24 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher; Graywolf Press, 2020 Ten-year-old Jas lives with her strictly religious parents and her siblings on a dairy farm where waste and frivolity ...

A Book Review - Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West Book by Catherine Belton

23 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2020 The Putin book that we’ve been waiting for’ Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland ‘Books about modern R...

A Books Review - A Biography of Loneliness Book by Fay Bound Alberti A History of Solitude Book by David Vincent

22 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

publisher: Oxford University Press, 2019 Despite 21st-century fears of a modern "epidemic" of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Bio...

A Book Review - The Kenyatta Succession by Joseph Karimi & Philip Ochieng

21 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher : Transafrica; First edition (stated) (January 1, 1980) Reviewer; The fifth estate A Good read

A Book Review - The Unwritten book: The Kapenguria 6

20 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kapenguria 6 Reviewer: The Fifth Estate The Kapenguria museum was opened in 1993. It is located in Kapenguria town, at the site where the six most inf...

A Book Review - Freedom and after Book by Tom Mboya

19 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher Little, Brown, 1963 Original from the University of California Digitized30 Nov 2006

A Book Review - Not yet uhuru Book by Jaramogi Oginga Odinga

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Published 1967 Reviewer the 5th Estate As far as memoirs books go, this fits the genre well. It is written from Odinga's perspective after breaking wi...

A Book Review - Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries Book by Eric Hobsbawm

17 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, 2017 Reviewer: The fifth  estate Social agitation is as essential a part of public life today as it has ever...

A Book Review - Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife Book by Bart D. Ehrman

16 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If You Like what we do support us here,  https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support Published March 31st 2020 by Simon Schuster What happens when we die?...

A Book Review - Inventory: Ghost Town: A River, A City, A Family A Memoir Book by Darran Anderson

15 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If You Like what we do support us here,  https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support Publisher: Random House, 2020 A smuggler and a deserter, Darran Ander...

A Book Review - The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes Book by Zachary D. Carter

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If You Like what we do support us here,  https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2020 At the dawn of World W...

A Book Review - Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano

13 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If You Like what we do support us here,  https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support Published October 30th 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux  Review...

A Book Review - The Untouchables Book by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley

12 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If You Like what we do support us here,  https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support Published January 22nd 2015 by NYLA Everything Melody Callahan has ev...

A Book Review - Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If You Like what we do support us here,  https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support Published April 2nd 2002 by Penguin Group (first published 2001) Revi...

A Book Review - Conjure Women: A Novel Novel by Afia Atakora

10 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If You Like what we do support us here,  https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2020 Conjure Women is a swe...

A Book(s) Review - (1) Active Measures by Thomas Rid (2) Russians Among Us by Gordon Corera (3) From Russia with Blood by Heidi Blake (4) The Folly and the Glory by Tim Weiner

10 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If You Like what we do support us here,  https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political...

A Book Review - Pomeranski Book by Gerald Jacobs

08 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If You Like what we do support us here,  https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support Published April 30th 2020 by Quartet Books Limited As Benny ‘the Fi...

A Book Review - The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919 by Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (Editor, Preface), Quentin Bell (Introduction)

07 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If You Like what we do support us here,  https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support Published May 15th 1979 by Mariner Books (first published 1977) I rec...

A Book Review - Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed by Jessica Weisberg

06 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Reviewer: The Fifth Estate A delightful history of Americans' obsession with advice -- from Poor Richard to Dr. Spock to Miss Manners Americans, for ...

A Book Review - The Laws of Wealth: Psychology and the secret to investing success Book by Daniel Crosby

05 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Harriman House, 2016 psychologist and behavioral finance expert Daniel Crosby offers an accessible and applied take on a discipline that ha...

A Book Review - How to Win Friends and Influence People Book by Dale Carnegie

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Simon and Schuster (1936) Six Ways to Make People Like You Become genuinely interested in other people. "You can make more friends in two...

A Book Review - Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money, Book by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter

03 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Warner Books Ed 2000 Rich Dad Poor Dad is Robert's story of growing up with two dads — his real father and the father of his best friend,...

A Book Review - Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery Book by Wendy Lesser

02 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020 "Even those unmoved by its subject will thrill to [Scandinavian Noir], a beautifully crafted inquiry into f...

A Book Review - The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph

01 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Basic Books, 2020 This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding...

A Book Review - The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism by Susan Berfield

31 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020 A riveting narrative of Wall Street buccaneering, political intrigue, and two of American history's most coloss...

A Book Review - The Habsburgs: To Rule the World Book by Martyn Rady

30 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries -- from their rise to power to their eventual downfall. In The ...

A Book Review - The Richest Man in Babylon Book by George Samuel Clason

29 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Penguin Books 1926 The parables are told by a fictional Babylonian character called Arkad, a poor scribe who became the "richest man in Bab...

A Book Review - Animal Farm Book by George Orwell

28 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Originally published: August 17, 1945 A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set...

A Book Review - Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe Book by Suzanne L. Marchand

26 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

publisher: Princeton University Press, 30 Jun 2020 "This is a history of porcelain as a business and consumer product, from the eighteenth century to...

A Book Review - Twilight of Democracy Book by Anne Applebaum

25 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding the appeal of the strongman as a leader and an exp...

A Book(s) Review - Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town Book by Barbara Demick & The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier Book by Benno Weiner

24 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier publisher: Cornell University Press, 15 Jun 2020 , Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of...

A Book Review - A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of Haldane Book by Samanth Subramanian

23 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: S&S India, 2019 J.B.S. Haldane, scientist extraordinaire—born in Britain yet spiritually bound to India—remains one of the most eni...

A Book Review - Utopia Avenue Novel by David Mitchell

22 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Published July 14th 2020 by Random House The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. Ut...

A Book Review - Miss Iceland Novel by Auður Ava Ólafsdótti

21 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Pushkin Press, 2020 ‘A potent, atmospheric story of creative frustration and fulfilment. I loved the wry, tender voice of Ólafsdóttir's...

A Book Review - The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Russia’s Secret Doping Empire Book by Grigory Rodchenkov

20 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Ebury Publishing, 2020 The full story behind Oscar award-winning Icarus One of the Financial Times's 'Fifty people who shaped the decade' ...

A Book Review - On Time and Water Book by Andri Snær Magnason Translated by Lytton Smith

19 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Profile, 2020 Icelandic author and activist Andri Snær Magnason's 'Letter to the Future', an extraordinary and moving eulogy for the lost ...

A Book Review- Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI Brought Down the Nazis in America Book by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

18 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: History Press, 2020 In 1935–37 America passed several Neutrality Acts, vowing never again to take sides in a European conflict. In 1938 p...

A Book Review - The Party Upstairs: A Novel Novel by Lee Conell

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2020  An electrifying debut novel that unfolds in the course of a single day inside one genteel New York Cit...

A Book Review - Earthlings Novel by Sayaka Murata Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori

16 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Grove Atlantic, 2020 From the beloved author of cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, which has now sold more than one million copies wor...

A Book Review - The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War Book by Giles Tremlett

15 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020 Magnificent. Narrative history at its vivid and compelling best' Fergal Keane The first major history of the I...

A Book Review - Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar

14 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2020 "Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." - Salman Rushdie A deeply personal work about hope and identity in a nation c...

A Book Review - Hotels of Pyongyang Book by Nicole Reed and James Scullin

13 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

 Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea  For many travellers, spending a lot of time in a hotel means you haven't properly gone out and enj...

A Book Review? - The sistine chapel by callaway arts and entertainment and the Vatican

12 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Callaway arts and entertainment and the Vatican Now more than ever, when travel is limited and the immense amount of digital imagery fatigu...

A Book Review - China’s Good War Book by Rana Mitter

11 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2020 Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation's brutal experience during World War II. Now...

A Book Review - The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich

10 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020 A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and cultu...

A Book Review - The Margot Affair: A Novel Novel by Sanaë Lemoine

09 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Crown/Archetype, 2020  "There were so many of us, children of these double families who dreamed of the other side." Margot Louve is ...

A Book Review - Inside Story Novel by Martin Amis

09 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Random House, 2020 Up there with Money and London Fields as the finest work he's produced.' Observer This remarkable novel gives the reade...

A Book(s) Review - Slave Empire by Padraic X. Scanlan and The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery Book by Michael Taylor

08 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, 2020 Slave Empire by Padraic X. Scanlan Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horr...

A Book Review- Chinatown Pretty: Fashion and Wisdom from Chinatown's Most Stylish Seniors Book by Andria Lo and Valerie Luu

07 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC, 2020 Chinatown Pretty features beautiful portraits and heartwarming stories of trend-setting seniors across six Chinat...

A Book Review - Mr Wilder and Me Novel by Jonathan Coe

06 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A young woman named Calista meets the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder in the sweltering summer of 1976. She knows nothing about him or his work,...

A Book(s) Review - The Upswing by Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett and The Tyranny of Merit by Michael Sandel

05 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

the upswing These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of the already fortu...

A Book Review - Perestroika in Paris, by, Jane Smiley

04 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“Is there anything Jane Smiley cannot do? . . . She turns literary and stylistic cartwheels.” —Time From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-s...

A Book Review - Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930 , by , John Darwin

03 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order ...

A Book Review - The Antichrist: A New Biography Book by Philip C. Almond

02 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The malign figure of the Antichrist endures in modern culture, whether religious or secular; and the spectral shadow he has cast over the ages continu...

A Book Review - The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today by David Stasavage

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After our month long break, we are back with fresh new exciting books. Tune In and share. The Princeton Economic History of the Western World, Publish...

A Book Review - Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents Book by Rod Dreher

26 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The New York Times bestselling author of The Benedict Option draws on the wisdom of Christian survivors of Soviet persecution to warn American Christ...

A Book Review - Magdalena: River of Dreams Book ,by, Wade Davis

23 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life the story of the great...

A Book Review - Sisters Novel by Daisy Johnson

22 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Desperate for a fresh start, their mother Sheela moves them across the country to an old family house that has a troubled life of its own. Noises com...

A Book Review - Maoism: A Global History Book by Julia Lovell

21 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

PUBLISHER: Random House, 14 Mar 2019 Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favour of authoritari...

A Book Review - The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency Book by Chris Whipple

20 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Crown, 2017 What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the ...

A Book Review - Nineteen Eighty-Four Novel by George Orwell

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Secker & Warburg , 8 June 1949; 71 years ago Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by ...

A Book Review - A World Beneath the Sands:Book by Toby Wilkinson

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton, 20 Oct 2020 A thrilling history of the West’s scramble for the riches of ancient Egypt by the foremost Egyptologist of our...

A Book Review - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Book by Shoshana Zuboff

18 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Profile Books Zuboff states that Surveillance Capitalism "unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into be...

A Book Review - JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 Book by Fredrik Logevall

18 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, ye...

A Book Review - Trio Book by William Boyd

17 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of...

A Book Review - The Other Americans Book by Laila Lalami

16 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Late one spring night in California, Driss Guerraoui—father, husband, business owner, Moroccan immigrant—is hit and killed by a speeding car. The ...

A Book Review - A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

15 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." This spy was V...

A Book Review - How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Book by Daniel Immerwahr

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For a country that has always denied having dreams of empire;  the United States owns a lot of overseas territory. America has always prided its...

A Book Review - The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, by, James Surowiecki

13 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Thinking and information processing, such as market judgment, which he argues can be much faster, more reliable, and less subject to political forces...

A Book Review - Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat Book by Oliver Soden

13 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange...

A Book Review - Factfulness- Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things are , Book by, Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Ola Rosling

12 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in ...

A Book Review - The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science Book by Seb Falk

12 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk. Soaring Go...

A Book Review - Weapons of Math Destruction Book by Cathy O'Neil

11 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

O'Neil, a mathematician, analyses how the use of big data and algorithms in a variety of fields, including insurance, advertising, education, and poli...

A Book Review - Skinned by Lesley Nneka Arimah

10 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

'Skinned' envisions a society in which young girls are ceremonially 'uncovered' and must marry in order to regain the right to be clothed. It tells t...

A Book(s) Review - Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World Book by Tom Burgis and Everybody Knows: Corruption in America Book by Sarah Chayes

10 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough ... A new and terrifying book, Kleptopia follows a global current of dirty money, a...

A Book Review - The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III Book by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser

09 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

From two of America's most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of stat...

A Book Review - MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang Book by Steven Dudley

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1980s, El Salvador was involved in a bloody fight for control of the government. To escape the guerrilla assaults and death squads many fled ...

A Book Review - Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music ,Book by, Alex Ross

07 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known as Wagnerism saturated E...

A Book Review - Memories We Lost by By Lidudumalingani Mqombofhi, and Other Stories: An Anthology of Short Stories ,Compiled by, Chris Wanjala

06 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Memories we lost is a biography. The life of a sister seen by a younger sister. The story is about mental illness and its effect. It is first describ...

A Book Review - We Need New Names ,Novel by, NoViolet Bulawayo

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We Need New Names is the 2013 debut novel of expatriate Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo. The first chapter of the book, "Hitting Budapest", initi...

A Book(s) Review - Discovering Home Book by Binyavanga Wainaina and Weight of Whispers Book by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

... flicked a match to light the paraffin lamp. "They say we won't have any more paraffin next month..." he said. The farmer paused. The room smelt o...

A Book Review - Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession Book by Gavin Francis

03 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In Island Dreams, Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and...

A Book Review?- The life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (RBG, NOTORIOUS RBG) book by Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik

03 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

(bonus episode) Publisher: HarperCollins "A tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that does more than catalog her achievements; it conveys her spiri...

A Book Review - The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War ‑‑ a Tragedy in ... Book by Scott Anderson

03 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Quiet Americans chronicles the exploits of four spies – Michael Burke, a charming former football star fallen on hard times, Frank Wisner, the ...

A Book Review - Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World Book by Carl Bergstrom and Jevin D. West

02 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's increasingly difficult to know what's true. Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news abound. Our media environment has become hyperpartisan...