Category Archives: Current Events & Politics

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

December 21, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Current Events & Politics
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By Bee Wilson Basic Books, $26.99, 327 pages If you are a dedicated cook, consider purchasing not one but several copies of Consider the Fork—some for gifts. As we would expect from the noted food writer/historian, Bee Wilson, the writing is superb …

Who Are We – And Should It Matter in the 21st Century?

February 29, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Current Events & Politics
Who Are We – And Should It Matter in the 21st Century

By Gary Younge Nation Books, $26.99, 256 pages This book looks at the way identity is found in society.  The main question addressed in this book is not whether we have identities but whether we are prepared to recognize them.  The …

The Secrets of the FBI

February 29, 2012 1 Comment the_category Category:Current Events & Politics
The Secrets of the FBI

By Ronald Kessler Crown, $26.00, 296 pages Robert Kessler, a New York Times best-selling author, draws on hundreds of interviews with FBI agents to disclose the bureau’s inner workings and most closely guarded secrets, including the secrets of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe …