This book's full title is The History of the Ancient World From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome. She has a very interesting take on Ancient History. Most of it seems to be who was killing whom in the Royal Families of ancient kingdoms and empires. She also paints a picture of quite a violent world. This book is also a broad coverage of the ancient world rather than focusing on details. She also has her own website here.
There are good reviews on Good Reads. Most liked the book, but there were some good critical reviews. She does take a big person type overview of this history. There is an interesting review on Publishers Weekly.
The author of this review at Library Thing is quite critical. Most of the people commenting did not read the book. I did not find that it was overtly religious and she admits in places that what is thought about some of the history but that the facts are not clear. This is fair enough as it covers history a long ways back and we do not know and perhaps will never know exactly what happened in many cases. Unlike the reviewer I did read the whole book.
We humans can make viewpoints into religion. Some people use atheism as a religion. Theirs is the only one true way. If you do not think exactly like they do you are either stupid or evil. Actually this sounds like religious fundamentalism to me.
This is a short reading from this book starting at Chapter one by Carmine Hudgens. It will give you a flavor of this book. Susan Wise Bauer and Jim Weiss have a discussion in this video. This is a reading from another book by Susan Bauer called Medieval World. This is part 2. I cannot find a part 1. In this short video, Susan Bauer talks about how Christians justified Slavery.
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.
Friday, October 28, 2016
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book
This is this book's sixth edition and there are co-authors of Karen Lindsey and Elizabeth Love. A number of people think that this is the bible for women with breast cancer and they use this quote from the New York Times on the cover. Dr. Susan Love has her own site here. You cannot do better than to start here and then read her book.
When I was getting tested for breast cancer, from the technologist that did the Mammogram to the second technologist that did the second one to the technologist who did the Ultrasound and the doctor that did the Biopsy all knew there was cancer. However, this being Ontario I had to wait and see my family doctor to get the results. I read the In-Between Days by Teva Harrison thinking the worst before I finally got some results. When the results were not so bad I read this book on everything you could want to know about breasts and breast cancer.
There is a good review of this book at Nancy Stordahl's site called Nancy's Point. She also talks about her books and other stuff on her site. As is usual there are good reviews of this book at Good Reads. Most people find this book excellent. Amazon also has good reviews but as usual you have to scroll to almost the bottom of the page to get them.
Dr. Susan Love is talked about at the Fred Hutch Org site and gives a Q&A session. This is a very short video by Dr. Susan Love. It is annoying as it is so short and you see an advertisement first and then it is rather choppy. This video is advise from Dr. Susan Lover via POPSugar. It gets points across, but it is also a bit annoying in the presentation and first you have to see an ad for the 2 minute video. Ads seem as long and the video. This is a 20 minute presentation by Dr. Susan Love brought to you by Young Survival Coalition.
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.
When I was getting tested for breast cancer, from the technologist that did the Mammogram to the second technologist that did the second one to the technologist who did the Ultrasound and the doctor that did the Biopsy all knew there was cancer. However, this being Ontario I had to wait and see my family doctor to get the results. I read the In-Between Days by Teva Harrison thinking the worst before I finally got some results. When the results were not so bad I read this book on everything you could want to know about breasts and breast cancer.
There is a good review of this book at Nancy Stordahl's site called Nancy's Point. She also talks about her books and other stuff on her site. As is usual there are good reviews of this book at Good Reads. Most people find this book excellent. Amazon also has good reviews but as usual you have to scroll to almost the bottom of the page to get them.
Dr. Susan Love is talked about at the Fred Hutch Org site and gives a Q&A session. This is a very short video by Dr. Susan Love. It is annoying as it is so short and you see an advertisement first and then it is rather choppy. This video is advise from Dr. Susan Lover via POPSugar. It gets points across, but it is also a bit annoying in the presentation and first you have to see an ad for the 2 minute video. Ads seem as long and the video. This is a 20 minute presentation by Dr. Susan Love brought to you by Young Survival Coalition.
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.
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