Name: Tim Gebhart
Weblog: prairieprogressive.com [RSS]
Articles: 173
First Published: Sunday, May 1, 2005
Last Published: Friday, February 22, 2008
Currently listing articles 173-151:
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Book Review: Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell— A fictional journey of self-discovery takes the reader inside the origins of modern Middle East.
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Book Review: Revolutionary Spirits - The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers by Gary Kowalski— Did some of the leading lights of the American revolution have revolutionary views of religion?
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Book Review: Triumph by Philip Wylie— A reissue of a classic post-nuclear apocalypse tale also shines light on the Cold War age in which it was written.
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Book Review: The Whisperers by Orlando Figes— Documentary, family and oral history create a thorough and meaningful exploration of individual and family life in Stalin's Russia.
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Book Review: The Terror Dream - Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi— Was America's response to 9/11 to seek refuge in a longstanding fantasy of "manly men" rescuing the innocent and helpless female?
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Book Review: Malvinas Requiem by Rodolfo Fogwill— A work that has been called Argentina's Catch-22 blends the mundane and the horrible and reality and surrealism.
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Book Review: Living Blue in the Red States edited by David Starkey— A collection of 21 works of "creative nonfiction" explores what it's like to be blue in a red state and whether those colors even matter.
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Book Review: The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout— Tahar Djaout's seemingly prescient tale of a radical Islamist state is a cautionary story that is not limited to Muslim fundamentalism.
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Book Review: The Trap - Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America by Daniel Brook— Journalist Daniel Brook argues that government policy has driven college graduates from public service work to corporate America to survive. economically.
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Book Review: Gradisil by Adam Roberts— A near-future space opera melds its historic American western origins with Greek tragedy.
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Book Review: The SFWA European Hall of Fame Edited by James and Kathryn Morrow, and Literature from the "Axis of Evil" Edited by Alane Mason, Dedi Felman, Samantha Schnee,— Seeing the world through two foreign literature anthologies that captivate, educate and enlighten.
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Book Review: Brasyl by Ian McDonald— This melange of three Brazils in different timelines may lead the pack for the top science fiction awards for this year's books.
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Book Review: Into That Silent Sea by Francis French and Colin Burgess — This well-written history of the first manned space missions reminds us what daring and giant steps they were.
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Book Review: Songs from the Black Chair - A Memoir of Mental Interiors by Charles Barber— This well-written memoir provides an excellent firsthand account of mental illness and its effects and consequences.
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Book Review: Anti-Christ: A Satirical End of Days by Matthew Moses— This farcical broadside at religion and modern politics and government is sure to offend most believers.
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DVD Review: The Tournament— This wonderful CBC Television mock documentary series on youth hockey shows the humor and irony in sports parents.
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Book Review: The Call of the Weird by Louis Theroux— Louis Theroux revisits American subjects of his BBC documentary series on the American fringe.
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The Atheist Manifestos IV: God - The Failed Hypothesis by Victor Stenger— A physicist applies the scientific method to the question of the existence of God.
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Book Review: The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer— Mailer's attempt to explore evil through a fictional recounting of Hitler's youth is better straight historical fiction than philosophical exercise.
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Book Review: Secrets of the SuperOptimist by W.R. Morton and Nathaniel Whitten— Thanks to the Collective Sentience of Intergalactic Energy, you, too, now have the opportunity to be a SuperOptimist!
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Undercutting the Benefit of Blogs: Credentialing Bloggers— Bloggers have been credentialed to cover the Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial, but some credentialing ideas may go too far.
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DVD Review: World War 1 - An American Legacy— A look at the impact of American involvement in World War 1 through the people who served in it.
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DVD Review: Blood and Oil - The Middle East in World War I— A documentary focus on the Middle East during World War I provides important perspective on the region's problems today.
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