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Today, in January Magazine’s non-fiction section, contributing editor Pedro Blas Gonzalez reviews An Incomplete History of World War II by Edwin Kiester Jr. Says Gonzalez: An Incomplete History of World War II does not pretend to be an exhaustive tract on the…
Today, in January Magazine’s non-fiction section, contributing editor Caroline Cummins reviews Grave Matters by Mark Harris. Says Cummins: Don’t dig the conventional funeral industry? As Mark Harris describes in his new book, Grave Matters, you don’t have to wind up six feet…
Today, in January Magazine’s non-fiction section, contributing editor Mary Ward Menke reviews Avoiding Cancer One Day at a Time by Lynne Eldridge and David Borgeson. Says Menke: If Avoiding Cancer One Day at a Time simply repeated facts based on research, readers…
Contributing editor Pedro Blas Gonzales reviews the non-fiction work Loyal Comrades, Ruthless Killers by Slava Katamidze. Says Gonzales: Gathering and utilizing the intelligence delivered to the west by the many Soviet defectors through the years, the author is able to paint a…
Today, in January Magazine’s non-fiction section, Cherie Thiessen reviews Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment by Tal Ben-Shahar. Says Thiessen: Tal Ben-Shahar is one of the most popular teachers at Harvard. He also teaches the most popular course…
Today, in January Magazine’s non-fiction section, contributing editor David Abrams reviews The Pentagon: A History by Steve Vogel. Abrams’ review incorporates a surprisingly personal point of view: At this point, I should confess full disclosure: for the past four months, I have…
Today, in January Magazine’s non-fiction section, Cherie Thiessen reviews Above the Falls by John Harris. Contributing editor Thiessen advises us to read the book for: … historical perspective. What the back cover does accurately tell us about the book is that it…
Today, in January Magazine’s non-fiction section, contributing editor Cherie Thiessen looks at The Strange Case of Hellish Nell by Nina Shandler. Says Thiessen: The last person in Britain to be tried as a witch was a Scottish medium. The year, surprisingly, was…
Today, in January Magazine’s non-fiction section, contributing editor Stephen Miller looks at Land of Lincoln by Andrew Ferguson. Miller says: Abraham Lincoln has been dead and buried for over 140 years, but that hasn’t stopped a lot of folks from thinking about…
Today, in January Magazine’s non-fiction section, contributing editor Mary Ward Menke is swept away by The Mandala of Being: Discovering the Power of Awareness by Richard Moss. I have to admit that’s what I was thinking when I started reading Richard Moss’…