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Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne,
Viking, 2009 - Reviewed by Bill Watts
Bookstore owners will have a difficult time deciding where to
place David Byrne's Bicycle Diary on their shelves. This book, by
the talented musician and leader of the now-disbanded Talking
Heads, does not fit readily into any of the established categories.
It is part travelogue as it recounts . . .
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Bringing Nature Home: How you can sustain wildlife
with native plants by Douglas W. Tallamy, Timber
Press, 2007 - Reviewed by Rebecca Dolan
Doug Tallamy is an entomology professor at the University of
Delaware. Although he and his students are actively publishing in
the scientific literature, he has written a wonderfully accessible
book on the importance of native plants in backyard habitats.
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Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy
of Cuzco, Peru by Kathryn Burns, Duke University
Press, 1999 - Reviewed by James Keating
A few years ago, visiting Peru, I noticed something. In Cusco,
the charming ancient capital, drivers recklessly speed through
crowded streets heedless of rules or common sense, scattering
pedestrians before them… with a single exception.
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Manhunt: the 12-day Chase for Lincoln's
Killer by James L Swanson, Harper Perennial, 2007 -
Reviewed by Richard McGowan
This year, Washington, D.C. has enthusiastically displayed
Lincoln memorabilia in all manner, shape, and form. For instance,
the Library of Congress displayed the original Emancipation
Proclamation, the one shown his cabinet in private.
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This Republic of Suffering by Drew
Gilpin Faust, Knopf (Vintage, reprint edition 2009) - Reviewed by
Susan Sutherlin
With an historian's curiosity and a humanist's sensibility,
author Drew Gilpin Faust, the current President of Harvard
University, meticulously examines the cultural and social impact of
mass death on the American consciousness in the aftermath of the
Civil War . . .
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