What a terrific book! This "Big History" is relatively new, published in May 2018. and a wonderful selection of my men's book club. At 287 pages, it is not too long, and has another fifty-plus pages of a very complete Appendix and Glossary. David Christian is brilliant and thorough: the book's story scope includes everything…
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About: JK James George
J. K. (Jim) George writer and student of the world has been an avid amateur radio enthusiast, with special love for Morse code and radiosporting, since his teenage years, over fifty years ago. He started his hobby listening to short-wave broadcasts and long-distance AM radio stations. He is a graduate of Virginia Tech, where he was president of the VT Amateur Radio Club and was inducted into the Virginia Tech Academy of Engineering after serving as Chair of the Advisory Boards for both Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as the College of Engineering.
Recent Posts by JK James George
Book Review: All the Great Prizes; The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Rooseveltby John Taliaferro
Book Review: All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt By John Taliaferro This is a masterpiece of American History, centered on the life and times of John Hay, whose service to the American government and history began as one of two key young aides to Abraham Lincoln well before…
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Book Review: The Trouble with Poetry, and Other Poems, by Billy Collins
Another book club selection, and one that - honestly - I had put off until I read the non-fiction book first. In the past, books of poetry have many times become slogs for me. However, on starting this short collection of only eighty-five pages with forty-three short works, I came to like it very much…
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Book Review: The Man Who Loved Schooners, by R. L. Boudreau
This was another men's book club selection, and a manly one at that! It's a bit tricky to locate a copy, but while relatively short at 170 pages, the read becomes a bit tedious as Budreau, a native of the Canadian Maritimes somehow remembers each and every one of (what I counted as) at least…
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