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These are some of the most insightful history books to add to your reading list. "Hands up all who know when Tsarist Russia ...
We usually don't think much about it, but our brain is pretty amazing! This three-pound organ is in charge of everything ...
Another year, another stack of great books to read. Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, to ...
Books can hold decades of earned knowledge in the span of a few hundred pages. When it comes to understanding finances, fewer decisions are easier, cheaper or more impactful than the move to ...
Perry’s wide-ranging study seems to take inspiration from blues music, a genre that melds Black suffering with Black pride. And as I read the book, the origin story of haint blue kept flitting ...
Alexandra Staub, author and professor of architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture's Stuckeman School at Penn ...
Journal of Humanities, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2022), pp. 73-90 (18 pages) Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are the main characteristics of Chinese traditional thoughts and philosophies. However, The Book of ...
In his book, Dust on the Throne (Navayana), he notes that Buddhism had always been there, and that two centuries of archaeological excavation and textual scholarship now point to a long, enduring ...