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Tag: Non-fiction books
Sociologist reflects on living in the time of the pandemic
Reading Time: 4 minutes Until Further Notice, by Amy Kaler, is a collection of short personal reflections written in real-time during the first year of the pandemic
What an aging society will mean for inequality, inflation
Reading Time: 4 minutes A labour shortage will reduce income inequality. But inflation will trend higher
Windsor bookstore’s highly successful venture into publishing
Reading Time: 4 minutes Biblioasis has recently released two new books, one on baseball, the other on the origins of Covid
The assassination of Sir Henry Wilson Ireland’s Sarajevo?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Regardless of the British reaction to Wilson’s death, the Irish civil war was likely to happen
Richard Nixon’s California embarrassment
Reading Time: 4 minutes How did a man with one of the highest profiles in American politics – someone who’d just come within a hairsbreadth of winning the presidency in 1960 – flop so badly in 1962?
The last children of Anglo-Saxon England
Reading Time: 4 minutes For the upper class of England, the Norman conquest was wipe out time
Uncovering the myths and celebrating the reality of André the Giant
Reading Time: 4 minutes Bertrand Hébert and Pat Laprade’s book, The Eighth Wonder of the World: The True Story of André the Giant, helped unlock this Giant mystery
Bizarre economic theory maintains deficits don’t matter
Reading Time: 4 minutes A new twist on MMT argues deficits don’t matter, government surpluses are counter-productive and there’s no reason to restrain government spending
Silent Witness of a Holocaust Suitcase
Reading Time: 5 minutes A Canadian family helped solve the mystery of a teenage girl’s life and death at Auschwitz