Are you looking for a very good book, one which will help you learn about the history of Japan? If so, there is a very good book I would like to recommend to you, one which is in my personal library, and one that I believe will give you with the overview you need to [...]

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This is a book that will live for ever. In it Khaled Hosseini has accomplished what many writers, most unsuccessfully, try to achieve. It’s the big stories, those turning points in history, which often attract us. They automatically have something to say, we might believe, something that needs to be aired, perhaps explained. So wars, [...]

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Tami Brady earned a BA and MA in Archeology before turning her interests to alternative medicine, largely due to her own issues with infertility and being diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. Today she provides whole health therapy sessions to help people with Fibromyalgia and infertility issues. She is the author of seven books, [...]

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Every man in the course of their existence wonders about many things in their life. The impacts they have had on others and the impacts that others have had on them. There are even some that question the wrong events that have transpired in their short history here. But if I had to recommend anything [...]

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Erik Larson’s 2006 non-fiction work chronicles Guglialmo Marconi and the development of the wireless ‘telegraph’, which we now refer to as radio and its importance to shipping in the first few years of the twentieth century. The advances Marconi made, although impressive, were fraught with controversy, opposition and accusations of stealing secrets. However, none of [...]

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I have shown in this series of articles that there are several pieces of evidence that the Persian Empire did not last the 200 years proposed by historians but only 21 years as described in the Old Testament. This is an idea I presented in detail in my book, The Fourth Day: Why the Bible [...]

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The Rape of the Lock portrays the fashionable world of the early eighteenth century London, and its title page describes it as a heroic-comical poem. Pope remarks that “the use of pompous language for low actions is the perfection of the mock-epic.” The mock-heroic is singularly effective in exposing the follies of the fashionable society [...]

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“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it”, quotes James Bryce. This adage is applicable for academic and hobby reading as well. The reader gains insight into diverse range of subjects and is in control of utilizing the knowledge, thus gained. The ideal ways in which [...]

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“Every chapter taught me something new and unexpected,” reads one of the reviews on the back of the book 33 Questions about American History You’re not Supposed to Ask, by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. This is as an appropriate summary of the book as one could expect, as Woods sets out to revisit some of [...]

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A Danish Scientist, Doctor Tyge Krogh from Rigsarkivet, has found a group of murderers from the 18th century that he calls “Melancholy Murderers”. When I read about his research in an article in the newspaper Politiken (11 October, 2009) it made me think of the Muslim terrorists who set out to kill as many as [...]

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