Name: Tony Dalmyn
Dateline: Victoria, BC, Canada
Weblog: www.sea-of-flowers.ca/weblog/sea
Articles: 70
First Published: Saturday, June 12, 2004
Last Published: Friday, October 6, 2006
Currently listing articles 70-51:
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Book Review: The Endless Knot by Gail Bowen— I come back to Bowen's amazing, loving sense of place and belief in the importance of family and friends. That is grace.
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Book Review: The Hard Way by Lee Child— By the time it's over, Reacher has been in a gunfight with submachine guns and buried the bodies with a backhoe.
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Book Review: School Days by Robert B. Parker— Spenser. He cracks wise, he cracks heads, he cracks the case.
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Book Review: The Road to Wigan Pier— Orwell presented British socialism as an unreal vision peddled by marginal people to an untrusting public.
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Book Review: An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture by Roger Scruton— Do literature and the arts, like religion, express social emotions and play a vital part in maintaining an ethical culture?
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Review: The Revolt of the Elites - by Christopher Lasch— These arguments fall outside the conventional ideological boxes, joining conservative social ideas with a radical critique of capitalist economics and social institutions.
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Staying Alive— The politics of narcissism ... protest the failure of the world to live up to imagined aesthetic ideals of peace and harmony.
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The Culture of Narcissism - by Christopher Lasch— The Culture of Narcissism, American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations was a best-seller when it was first published in 1979, and it stands
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Movie Review: Serenity— ...
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Book Review: Philosophy, A Very Short Introduction by Edward Craig— The approach is to explain the project of philosophy, and examine a few of the problems it has addressed.
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Book Review: The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq— "We have tried find our ideal of happy peaceful life — our essential humanity — by increasing sexual freedom."
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Running Blind - by Lee Child— ...
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Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith— ...
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The Forgotten Man by Robert Crais— ...
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One Nation, Two Cultures - by Gertrude Himmelfarb— Not the first book to identify the culture war, but one of the most penetrating examinations of its origins and consequences.
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Da Vinci Code and History— ...
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The De-moralization of Society - by Gertrude Himmelfarb— The history of Victorian society demonstrates that moral values determine the health and success of a society.
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Faith of the Fatherless - by Paul C. Vitz— Why are atheists angrier and more self-righteous than religious believers?
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Authentic Happiness - by Martin Seligman— Positive psychology - fad or revolution?
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Idiot Proof - by Francis Wheen— The dust jacket promises "Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons and the Erosion of Common Sense".
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