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"Top five books ever written... if you care to understand a thing about human civilization, travel, immigration, commerce, and conquest, that is. Standage has one of the most refreshing voices and well covers a subject that is so familiar to people that they haven't a clue how little they truly know about it. Guilt as charged, too... :)" — Dec 02, 2014 03:19AM
"Top five books ever written... if you care to understand a thing about human civilization, travel, immigration, commerce, and conquest, that is. Standage has one of the most refreshing voices and well covers a subject that is so familiar to people that they haven't a clue how little they truly know about it. Guilt as charged, too... :)" — Dec 02, 2014 03:19AM
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"Gave the book to one of my clients on a tour I was leading in France. Must buy another one. Reading the food one now." — Dec 02, 2014 03:16AM
"Gave the book to one of my clients on a tour I was leading in France. Must buy another one. Reading the food one now." — Dec 02, 2014 03:16AM
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"America is one year away from its entry into WWI, one hundred short years ago.
I cannot recommend this book enough for anyone wanting to get a glimpse into the American experience of that conflict. The timing couldn't be better, either, as countries seem to be pulling at the seams... and a lot of different views on patriotism are floating around.
This is a superb read, built on the diaries of five gallant men." — Aug 30, 2016 04:04PM
"America is one year away from its entry into WWI, one hundred short years ago.
I cannot recommend this book enough for anyone wanting to get a glimpse into the American experience of that conflict. The timing couldn't be better, either, as countries seem to be pulling at the seams... and a lot of different views on patriotism are floating around.
This is a superb read, built on the diaries of five gallant men." — Aug 30, 2016 04:04PM


“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
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“I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My view is that the moon is made of rock. If someone says to me 'Well, you haven't been there, have you? You haven't seen it for yourself, so my view that it is made of Norwegian Beaver Cheese is equally valid' - then I can't even be bothered to argue. There is such a thing as the burden of proof, and in the case of god, as in the case of the composition of the moon, this has shifted radically. God used to be the best explanation we'd got, and we've now got vastly better ones. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. So I don't think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational or arrogant a point of view as belief that there is. I don't think the matter calls for even-handedness at all.”
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