If I were ever teaching a geometry class, I would not go to McDougal-Little or Pearson or the other big-name textbook publishers, but would instead direct my students to obtain a copy of Euclid’s Elements, and build my curriculum around it.
Luther the Reformer Review
After purporting to tell the story of “the man and his career,” Kittelson instead provides a dry, biased history that barely even scratches the surface of the complexity of Luther and his times.
Grant Review
Grant lived up to my exospheric expectations for a Chernow biography in spectacular fashion, and my biggest challenge reading it was not inhaling it in three-hundred-page binges.
Relativity Review
Many misunderstandings exist surrounding the theories of relativity, and after you read Relativity, you might wonder why - Einstein renders the special theory’s claims and precepts so self-evident.
Mastering Bread Review
In my mind, cookbooks were just binders of recipes you keep on a greasy shelf somewhere that may or may not be close to the kitchen, from which you might have one or two go-to recipes you follow for nostalgia’s sake, and otherwise they serve little useful purpose. That is, until I received a copy of Mastering Bread as a gift.
War: How Conflict Shaped Us Review
I was interested to see what insights I might glean from MacMillan’s War: How Conflict Shaped Us, but the answer, sadly, was ‘not many.’
Two Treatises of Government Review
After spending the first treatise lambasting a proponent of absolute, unlimited monarchy, Locke turns in the second treatise to what I would consider the more productive exercise of defining, deriving, and justifying for himself the source of political power in any commonwealth.
Volsunga Saga Review
If I were feeling lazy, I could probably summarize this review by saying that reading the Volsunga Saga was a little like reading a cross between Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology and The Story of Burnt Njal.
Niccolò Rising Review
The elements that I enjoyed about the Lymond Chronicles are all present: a brilliant protagonist, beautiful writing, fascinating historical context, and evocative descriptions. Despite all of that, I found it difficult to engage with the story.
The Lion Review
The Lion captures one of the most significant time periods in the history of the western world, the pact that helped forge the Hellenic peoples into a single culture.
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