![]() ![]() ![]() Thus it is treated with contempt by both: economists reject it as unproductive and mathematically under-complex, historians as too quantitative, positivist, materialistic and, quite bluntly, ‘boring’. ![]() Already back in 1988, Carlo Cipolla in his classic introduction to economic history saw it caught between ‘Two Cultures’ – economics and history. Why should anyone, let alone a medievalist, care about economics and economic history? Economic history indeed has a difficult stand these days. Critiquing myself I am not wasting a reviewer’s time and I reap the added benefit of looking terribly modest and self-reflective. Would it not be more appropriate to have colleagues critically review the book and tear it to shreds? Upon deeper reflection it seems wise, however, to have the editor doing the job himself. Our centre leader’s request to write about a book I co-edited might seem unusual at first. Georg Christ, and Philipp Robinson Roessner, ed., History and Economic Life: A Student’s Guide to Approaching Economic and Social History Sources Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources, (London: Routledge, 2020) – a reflection ![]()
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Starflight by Melissa Landers7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() As he pursues a set of mysterious coordinates rumored to hold the key to clearing his name, he and Solara must get past their enmity to work together and evade those out for their arrest. When a twist of fate lands them instead on the Banshee, a vessel of dubious repute, Doran learns he’s been framed on Earth for conspiracy. ![]() She’s so desperate to reach the realm that she’s willing to indenture herself to Doran Spaulding, the rich and popular quarterback who made her life miserable all through high school, in exchange for passage aboard the spaceliner Zenith. Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. Life in the outer realm is a lawless, dirty, hard existence, and Solara Brooks is hungry for it. ![]() Arthur c clarke and stephen baxter7/7/2023 ![]() We witness the life of Jesus, go to the premiere of Hamlet, solve the enigmas that have baffled generations. Humanity encounters itself in the light of other days. Then WormCams are made to work across time as well as space. Realtime television coverage is here: earthquakes and wars, murders and disasters can be watched, exactly as they occur, anywhere on the planet. With OurWorld’s development of wormhole technology, any point in space can be connected to any other, faster than the speed of light. With these words Hiram Patterson, head of the giant media corporation OurWorld, launches the greatest communications revolution in history. ’Space is what keeps everything from being in the same place. Clarke and his universally acknowledged heir Stephen Baxter pool talent, fantastic ideas, unprecedented cosmic insights as well as page-turning plotting skills and breathlessly good writing to produce the most awesome novel of the future since 3001. ![]() In the most exciting SF collaboration ever, Arthur C. ![]() The Bohemians by Ben Tarnoff7/6/2023 ![]() He finds that the war has only made California richer: the economy booms, newspapers and magazines thrive, and the dream of transcontinental train travel promises to soon become a reality. Twain arrives by stagecoach in San Francisco in 1863 and is fast drunk on champagne, oysters, and the city’s intoxicating energy. ![]() Ben Tarnoff’s elegant, atmospheric history reveals how these four pioneering western writers would together create a new American literature, unfettered by the heavy European influence that dominated the East. ![]() The bards of the moment are the Bohemians: a young Mark Twain, fleeing the draft and seeking adventure literary golden boy Bret Harte struggling gay poet Charles Warren Stoddard and beautiful, haunted Ina Coolbrith, poet and protectorate of the group. A global seaport, home to immigrants from five continents, San Francisco has become a complex urban society virtually overnight. Far from the front lines, the city at the western edge roars. The Gold Rush has ended the Civil War threatens to tear apart the country. The Bohemians begins in 1860s San Francisco. ![]() Flu by gina kolata7/6/2023 ![]() Gina Kolata, an acclaimed reporter for The New York Times, unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of a great adventure story. Scientists have recently rediscovered shards of the flu virus frozen in Alaska and preserved in scraps of tissue in a government warehouse. ![]() Eskimos living in remote outposts in the frozen tundra were sickened and killed by the flu in such numbers that entire villages were wiped out. As many American soldiers were killed by the 1918 flu as were killed in battle during World War I. Children were left orphaned and families were devastated. An estimated forty million people died as the epidemic raged. ![]() In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. Veteran journalist Gina Kolata's Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It presents a fascinating look at true story of the world's deadliest disease. ![]() But where is the green sheep7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Where Is the Green Sheep? is picture book by Australian author Mem Fox. She is an influential international consultant in literacy, but she pretends to sit around writing full time. She has visited the United States over one hundred times, mostly in her role as a literacy expert although she is also a well-known author in America. She has received many civic awards, honours and accolades in Australia, including two honorary doctorates. Mem Fox was an Associate Professor in Literacy Studies at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, where she taught teachers for twenty four years until her early retirement in 1996. Mem has written thirty picture books for children and five non-fiction books for adults, including the best-selling Reading Magic, aimed at parents of very young children. Time for Bed is on Oprah’s list of the twenty best children’s books of all time. And in the USA Time for Bed and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge have each sold over a million copies. Her first book, Possum Magic, is the best selling children’s book ever in Australia, with sales of over three million. Mem Fox is Australia’s most highly regarded picture-book author. ![]() ![]() Mem Fox was born in Australia, grew up in Africa, studied drama in England, and returned to Adelaide, Australia in 1970, where she has lived with her husband, Malcolm, and daughter Chloë, happily ever after. ![]() Cobalt blue by sachin kundalkar7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Though the narrative of Black Bread is based in Catalonia just after the Spanish Civil War, it is a timeless setting for contemporary humanity. ![]() From the opening scene to the finale, the narrative of war and chaos and coming-of-age is underpinned with what seems an eternal forest-a natural world that holds secrets and desires and will ultimately outlive all the pettiness that is humanity. Peter Bush has given us a poetic translation of Emili Teixidor’s novel Black Bread, in which each line seems to be given complete attention and where Teixidor has loaded line after line with both wonderful and terrible beauty. There is nothing more profound than the realization of what war does well beyond its official end. The novel almost floats we are engaged from beginning to end, and one couldn’t find a better companion than Rostov. ![]() More engaged with the Russian spirit than with the country’s quotidian concerns. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]() ![]() ![]() You'll care only about the darkness and you'll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you're some kind of indispensable, universe-appointed sentinel, as if just by looking you could actually keep it all at bay. Even with all that iridescent magic up there, your eye will no longer linger on the light, it will no longer trace constellations. You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again. ![]() ![]() You'll have forgotten what granted you this awareness in the first place Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. Out of the blue, beyond any cause you can trace, you'll suddenly realize things are not how you perceived them to be at all. You'll be sick or feeling troubled or deeply in love or quietly uncertain or even content for the first time in your life. You'll finish and that will be that, until a moment will come, maybe in a month, maybe a year, maybe even several years. “This much I'm certain of: it doesn't happen immediately. ![]() ![]() ![]() When she sees her younger sister, Annabelle, falling for a man who is notoriously unfaithful, she determines to intervene and save Annabelle from a similar fate, hiring the handsome and witty adventurer Captain Burnside to distract her.Ī Sister's Secret was previously published as A Professional Gentleman. WILL SHE PROTECT HER SISTER AND LEARN TO LOVE AGAIN?Ī disastrous marriage has left the young and beautiful Lady Caroline widowed and vowing never to marry again. ![]() "I couldn't put this down - it was brilliant." - 5 STARS. "Enjoyed this book from start to finish." - 5 STARS. This is such a lovely book- emotional, serious and funny in all ways. ![]() "Mary Janes Staples is one of my favourite authors - loved her Adams Family series. Her characterization was wonderful and her intertwining of her characters with some famous historical characters is nothing short of genius." - 5 STARS "Mary Jane Staples is a genius! The storyline was amazing. Perfect for fans of Georgette Heyer and Netflix hit Bridgerton, a dashing Regency romance from multi-million copy seller Mary Jane Staples. ![]() Show Jumping Team by Clare O'Beara7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() West Cork women dominated the event winning three golds in the singles events with Aoife McMahon (Clonakilty), Breda O’Donovan (Clonakilty) and Emily Meagher (Bantry). Every player on the squad managed to win a medal, with the tally including a hugely impressive six golds. Three were from CoAction Skibbereen, three from CoAction Bantry and three from the Cope Foundation in Clonakilty. WEST Cork athletes enjoyed many golden moments at the Special Olympic Ireland Games in Dublin, with nine of the 16 player table tennis squad selected from three of the area’s service providers. West Cork athletes enjoyed many golden moments at the Special Olympic Ireland Games in Dublin. ![]() |