BOOK REVIEWIn Plain Sight: An Investigation into UFOs and Impossible Scienceby Ross Coulthart 2021 About the AuthorRoss Coulthart is an award-winning investigative journalist and writer. Previously an investigative reporter on news and current affairs program 60 Minutes on Channel Nine and chief investigations reporter for the Sunday Night news program, Coulthart has won five prestigious … Continue reading In Plain Sight
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Indigenous Continent
BOOK REVIEWIndigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen 2022 About the AuthorPekka Johannes Hämäläinen (born 1967, Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish historian who has been the Rhodes Professor of American History at the University of Oxford since 2012. He was formerly in the History Department at University of California, Santa Barbara. … Continue reading Indigenous Continent
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The Mandaean Book of John
BOOK REVIEWThe Mandaean Book of John: Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentaryby Charles G. Häberl & James F. McGrath 2020 About the AuthorsChares G. Häberl is an American religious studies scholar, linguist, and professor. He is currently Professor of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL) and Religion at Rutgers University. Häberl's primary … Continue reading The Mandaean Book of John
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Green Fraud
BOOK REVIEWGreen Fraud: Why the Green New Deal Is Even Worse than You Think by Marc Morano 2021 About the AuthorMARC MORANO is a former senior staff member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, publisher of ClimateDepot.com, bestselling author The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change and Green Fraud, and producer of Climate … Continue reading Green Fraud
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The Great Guide
BOOK REVIEWThe Great Guide - What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Wellby Julian Baggini 2021 About the BookDavid Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known for his ideas about cause and effect and his criticisms of religion, but he is rarely thought of as a philosopher with practical wisdom to offer. … Continue reading The Great Guide
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Code Name Blue Wren
BOOK REVIEWCode Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy―and the Sister She Betrayed by Jim Popkin 2022 About the AuthorJim Popkin is a journalist and writer whose work has appeared in Washington Post Magazine, WIRED, Newsweek, Slate, The Guardian, Washingtonian and on National Public Radio. He was a senior investigative … Continue reading Code Name Blue Wren
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The Matter With Things
BOOK REVIEWThe Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the Worldby Iain McGilchrist 2021 About the AuthorDr Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal … Continue reading The Matter With Things
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