Four Queens by Nancy Goldstone

This book’s full title is Four Queens, The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe. I loved this book. It is the way history should be written. This book covers the lives of these sisters, but also the lives of their husbands. These women had a lot of influence and we seldom hear about women having influence in the Middle Ages. However, most history is written by men about men, but this is slowly changing. This book reads more like historical fiction, but it is all true.

Hmalagisi on Adventures of a Tudor Nerd write a good review outlining the story in this book. The blog The Creative Historian gives another fine review of this book. Megan Marshall at The New York Times write a rather critical review of this book. You can sometimes learn more from critical reviews than flattering ones.

There are few videos featuring Nancy Goldstone. This video covers a number of books by Nancy Goldstone. The part on Four Queens starts are 6:39 in the video. See the video by Hudson Library and History.

An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.

World on the Brink by Dmitri Alperovitch

This book’s full title is World on the Brink: How America Can beat China in the Race for the 21st Century. The author is Dmitri Alperovitch with Garrett M. Graff. I found this a very interesting and well written book. Dmitri Alperovitch explains the history and current tensions between China and the US. He talks about the challenges the US faces because of the rise of China.

If you want to understand the problems with China and what the US could possibly do about their relationship with China, this is the book to read.

There is a good review at the Cipher Brief. There is a review of this book on Reason Magazine. There is a site just for this book. There is also a good review at NYJournalofBooks.

The author is interviewed on Mauldin Economics by Ed D’Agostino. The author speaks at Cornell . Dmitri Alperovitch talks to Jason Kikta on Automox about cybersecurity.

An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.

The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell

This book’s full title is The Bomber Mafia, a Dream, A temptation and the Longest Night of the Second World War. I always like books by Malcolm Gladwell. It writes very readable books. I do like his style of writing. I do not generally read war books, although a read a lot of history. I picked this up mainly because it was written by Malcolm Gladwell. I have read other books by him and they were all very readable.

There is a review of this book on Wikipedia. It says that the book got mixed reviews on release. I am not surprised. It is light reading of a complex subject. There is a review and some background on a site called Pushkin. It is offering the book as an audiobook. This review by Brian Castner on The Wrath-Bearing Tree is long and critical. With critical reviews, sometimes to learn more than in reading the book you are covering.

Malcolm Gladwell is interviewed on How to Academy. This is part 1. Part 2 is here for the How to Academy interview. Morning Joes interviews Malcolm Gladwell . This is a shorter interview of 11 minutes. Malcolm Gladwell is interviews by Amanpour and Company . This is also short at around 18 minutes.

An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.

Cities That Shaped the Ancient World by John Julius Norwich

This book’s title is Cities That Shaped the Ancient World and is edited by John Julius Norwich. This book covers in every part of the world from the near east to the Americas. The author uses descriptions of these cities from various people. It was interesting read, but did nothing to advance my understanding of history.

I read the paperback edition of this book. The review by Peter Gordon is exactly right. The book is a collection of brief city-by-city essays that are very short. As I had said above, it was interesting but did nothing to advance my understand of history.

There is a short review of this book on Good Reads. There is a good review of this book on Asian Review of Books by Peter Gordon. Most of the reviews are the same as they seem all to be coming from bookshops.

Norwich talks on YouTube about Venice. There are no videos on this book.

An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.

The Mending by Lynne Golding

This book’s full title is The Mending, Beneath the Alers Series. Lynne Golding has a site here. Her twitter account is here with a twitter name of @lynne_golding.

I very much enjoyed this book. You can learn about some Canadian History while reading about Jessie Stephens and her life in Brampton. The book is part fiction and part stories from the author’s Great Aunt Jessie. What I enjoyed most in reading this book was about Jessie attending Victoria College.

Lynne Golding talks about this book at Open Book. There are some nice reviews on Amazon . Scroll to the end of bottom of the page. Canadian Federation of University Women in had Lynne Golding as a speaker at a Aurora-Newmarket meeting. There is an interview with Lynn Golding by Steve Paikin via TVO today.

Lynne Golding speaks about this series on her site. Her Facebook page is here. She has a number of videos on her site.

An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.

Possess the Air by Taras Grescoe

This book’s full title is Possess the Air: Live, Heroism and the Battle for the Soul of Mussolini’s Rome. This was a wonderful read. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is history, but told in a different way than usual for people writing history.

Megan Moore Burns at Quill & Quire does a nice review of this book. There is another good review by Joe Taylor at Forward. And the best review I write was by Ian McGillis at Montreal Review of Books.

There is one interview with the author by Kath Sterns on Facebook. (The review, interestingly, is on Facebook and there are odd little videos included below the interview.)

An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.

Everything Under the Heavens by Howard French

This book’s full title is Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power. I found this a very interesting book and fits in with other histories I have read about China. He thinks that understanding China’s history will help us understand China’s current ambition. The current world order came about when China was at a weak point. China was for a very long time the dominant power in Asia. China now wants to be the or at lease one of the dominant powers currently.

From Edoardo Agamennone, a quote “Howard French thus portrays China as an ultra-Machiavellian power seeking to regain its rightful place in the current world order, far from being a peaceful and harmless defender of underdeveloped and developing countries alike.”

Jonathan Chatwin does a good review of this book on Asian Review of Books. Robert W. Foster does another good review of this book on Association for Asian Studies. Also, there is Edoardo Agamennone on Torino World Affairs Institute with an insightful view of this book.

Howard French talks at Politics and Prose Bookstore. He also speaks at the National Committee on US-China Relations.

An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.