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Gerard Brown is 20% done with Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Seems not to be able to keep the big picture in focus as well as in "Guns, Germs, and Steel"...
Mar 08, 2013 05:15PM Add a comment
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

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Geek fun on this site - choose a friend and go to their page. Click 'compare books' for a venn diagram of how your library and their's intersect...
Feb 27, 2013 05:39PM Add a comment

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Gerard Brown is on page 100 of 259 of A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution
Another reviewer noted that the book is more informative than argumentative and that's kind of keeping me at arm's length...
Nov 03, 2012 11:41AM Add a comment
A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution

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Gerard Brown is on page 50 of 320 of Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination
This is a bit of a slog. While I am interested in the topic, I feel Drucker is having a hard time keeping the big picture in mind as she lays out the alphabet's origins....
Nov 03, 2012 08:17AM Add a comment
Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination

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Gerard Brown is on page 100 of 352 of The Social Conquest of Earth
Good so far, the summary of human evolution and social adaptation has been very interesting and convincing, but I a little alarmed by Wilson's claim (which appears to be in contradiction others I've read) that significant evolutionary adaptation could have occurred in recent human history...will read on and see where this goes...
Sep 18, 2012 09:08AM Add a comment
The Social Conquest of Earth

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so much re-reading for classes these days...it's hard to have a book going for pleasure...
Sep 12, 2012 08:47AM Add a comment

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a little crazed having all my books packed for a move later this week...feel like I can't start anything...
Aug 14, 2012 08:22PM Add a comment

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