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One of the best novels I have ever read.

For me, a fascinating history. I served a Portuguese Jewish congregation in Curaçao and also worked a year in Santa Fe. Stan Hordes was a congregant and friend there. This is earliest American Jewish history and no one’s knowledge of that history is complete without knowing the Conversos of northern New Mexico.

For me, a fascinating history. I served a Portuguese Jewish congregation in Curaçao and also worked a year in Santa Fe. Stan Hordes was a congregant and friend there. This is earliest American Jewish history and no one’s knowledge of that history is complete without knowing the Conversos of northern New Mexico.

For me this book is about putting together things leartned long ago. Einstein is a hero to me. The kind of science that led to Einstein and that has resulted from his work has always fascinated me. This volume, silly name and all, brings all of that together.

Iaian Pears is one of my favorite authors. This book is like his historical fiction, a complex triple narrative which I assume will resolve in the end. It is different because this book is basically science fiction dealing with all kinds of issues about what is real. It was written with its ebook in mind and there is an app that goes along with it.

This is one of the most beautifully-written books I have encountered recently. Aside from its subject, I recommend it. I read it in small bits because its prose is so rich.

Actually I got these books on my Kindle, but I have not read them yet, except a bit of the Rami Shapiro. I will post what I am actually reading.

This book is a must for anyone who teaches at any level. Our system of treating students from K to Ph.D as passive recepticals damages the process of education. If the teacher cannot treat the student as having a mind of his or her own, education becomes repulsive to many students. This book is also good for anyone who ever went to school and wonders why some of that experience was so unpleasant.

This book shows how progressive republicans saved America fron the gilded age. It says to me that progressive republicans can save us from our current gilded age 2 . All we need are progressive republicans.

Excellent historical fiction with an interesting combination of cultures (Portuguese, Jewish, Scottish, Bushman, Americans (New Yorkers, WSoutherners, slaves in 1820s)