This book is the second memoir written by Sheila Fitzpatrick, noted Soviet Historian, and now Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney after a long academic career overseas. Her first memoir was calledMy Father’s Daughterwhich, from the title, I assume explores the generational issue furthe...
Kate Atkinson is one of my favourite writers, but I had my doubts aboutLife after Life.It ticked all my boxes as far as books are concerned: time travel (my guilty pleasure) and London during the Blitz. The book focuses on Ursula, who lives multiple lives, each marked by the falling o...
Nonetheless, I found this memoir fascinating, and hard to put down. Part of that stems from my curiosity about Hasidic Judaism, particularly within enclaves like in Williamsburg. (There’s an interesting photo-essay about Williamsburghere). Yes, I have borrowed her sequel as well, a recent ret...
a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California, puts it more bluntly in his bookHeaven in a Chip(2002): "Biology is not destiny. It was never more than tendency. It was just
You do not know me yet but I am the narrator of this work. My son Thomas, who is printing this book, tells me it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this...
In the end, the Canadian Emigration Association was eclipsed by other developments. The main proponent, Dr Thomas Rolph, became attracted by other (likewise unsuccessful) large-scale land development schemes whereby huge tracts of land would be purchased in England and sold to settlers, and by the...
I often found myself closing the book while I was reading it to look closely at the striking image on the front. It’s a miniature of James Thomas Morisset (1780-1852), painted when he was about eighteen years old. Those who loved him must have later regarded it with wistful sorrow, ...
China meets Western liberalism. Yan Fu was a late 19thcentury naval officer and writer who was fascinated with Western philosophy. His translations of works by Thomas Huxley, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and others were celebrated successes in China. However, in making these texts comprehensible ...