Book Glutton - Another social internet site, this time designed around the premise that it’s good to read together. The site offers members a chance to form and join reading groups, enabling them to discuss and annotate the book while they read.
ControlC - This website provides a way to save a copy of everything [...]
How do you domesticate a zebra? You can’t, or at least that’s the justification put forward by Jared Diamond in his Guns, Germs and Steel for why these wild beasts were never used as draught animals or cavalry in sub-Saharan Africa. Much of what Diamond writes has a logical ring to it, and whilst the [...]
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On History by E.J. Hobsbawm
The Complete Illustrated History of China by J.A.G. Roberts
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy by Noam Chomsky
