pickPale Rider, by Laura Spinney (2017)
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Premise: An exploration of the origins, epidemiology, and lasting impacts of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Review: This is an exceptional—and disturbingly prescient—book. So much of this felt like it was written in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and yet it was published years before. ⬇️
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
pickTook me the better part of a year to finish this — but we finally did it.
Art was a comfort to the Greeks. Through wars, natural disasters, and the cruel fates of life, art has a way of saving people, and the Greeks recognized that and used it, particularly in their tragedies. #tragedy #art #europe #normandavies #greek #ancientgreece #europeanhistory #history #worldhistory #greekhistory #arthistory
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii Friday is here!
1. Went fishing and caught a 28 in Pike.
2. My rose just had one flower this year. Didn't like the cold spring.
3. My lilies are blooming
4. Started a new pen pal group with @StayCurious . You can sigh up litsysnailmail@yahoo.com
5. My Romain letters are really nice.
Play @dabby @Gissy @AmyG @Princess-Kingofkings @Mimi28
pickThis was very interesting. It goes through 500 years of history and points out things and ways we messed up the environment. It's very broad but he does a good job.
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pickThe maps always change…
pickInteresting and informative although a bit dense at times (it read like a text book). Recommend for any history lovers.
pickOona Hathaway is Professor of International Law and Political Science at Yale and Scott Shapiro is Professor of Law and Philosophy at Yale. This is a thorough and engaging look at the legal framework underpinning war as a means of dispute resolution and how the Grotius view of “might is right” was overturned with the 1928 Paris Peace Pact, which changed attitudes to the legitimacy of war and formed the basis of the modern international order.
Bookish Pair: My favourite public health book before this was The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson (2006). 2d