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Time in Antiquity by Robert
Hanah, Routledge, New York: 2009 - Reviewed by Tiberiu Popa
This study provides a comprehensive view of various means of
marking and measuring time in the Greco-Roman world and succeeds in
outlining the main facets of this complex and potentially daunting
topic in a generally approachable manner.
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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for
Lovers by Xiaolu Guo, Anchor, 2008 - Reviewed by Ania
Spyra
Xiaolu Guo's A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
(2007) narrates the story of Zhuang, a nineteen-year-old Chinese
woman who arrives in London to study English and falls in love with
an older, eccentric Englishman. As the intercultural
relationship develops, so does Zhuang's language. She writes a
journal . . .
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South of Broad by Pay Conroy, Knopf
Doubleday Publishing, 2009 - Reviewed by Judi Morrel
Pat Conroy's first novel in 14 years is, as is all of his
writing, beautifully written and full of evocative description of
his beloved Charleston, South Carolina. He tells a good
story, too. The novel's narrator Leo King is a Charleston
newspaper columnist who is emotionally damaged, . . .
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Under a cruel star: A life in Prague 1941
-1968 by Heda Margolius Kovály, Holmes &
Meier Publishers, Inc., 1997 - Reviewed by Nathan Harter
The anniversary of the Velvet Revolution is a good time to
revisit the drama stretching from Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia
through Stalinist oppression, leading up to the famous (or
infamous) Prague Spring of 1968. This history sets the
context for the Charter 77 movement that finally prevailed twenty
years ago.
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