Beyond the Trees by Adam Shoalts

This book’s full title is Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada’s Arctic. This is another interesting adventure story by Adam Shoalts who takes his canoe across the northern part of Canada. This is such forbiting and rugged terrain he travels across. I have read all of Adam Shoalts books and I have also just bought but have not yet read his latest of Vanished Beyond the map.

I really liked the pictures in the book. They show what the far Canadian north is really like. It is quite wild and very beautiful.

There is a great review at Atlantic Books by Martin Bauman. Lisa Schuyler on her Lisa Blog has an interesting review of this book. And another interesting review on Australian Hiker.

An interesting little video on YouTube about this book with great pictures. There is a YouTube video called Alone Across the Arctic showing this trip of Adam Shoalts. The scenery is wonderful. You seldom get a chance to see what the north of Canada looks like.

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Waste Land by Robert Kaplan

This book’s full title is Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis. This a rather depressing book. I have a more positive view of the future. There is a lot of problems and conflicts. See what is going on with Russian/Ukrainian war, I think that Taiwan, even if China attacks can survive. I think as a Canadian, even with Tramp currently in charge, we are lucky to be next to the US than Russia or China. However, no one knows the future and Robert Kaplan is always interesting to listen to.

Colin Robertson writes an interesting and positive review of Waste Land at Canadian politics and Public Policy . The Good Reads site has lots of reviews of this book with various opinions. Frank Diana on Inside the Next Transition writes an interesting review of this book. Matthew Rapaport review on Rumination Blog is interesting, but he has his own agenda that shows clearly.

Robert Kaplan speaks at London School of Economics (LSE) about this book. It starts with the moderator asking questions and then round 42.16, the moderator opens up for question. Robert Kaplan speaks at a university in Madrid Spain. He starts to talk around 17:51 mark. Great speech and well worth listening too. Robert Kaplan on Intelligence Squared is interviewed.

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The Golden Road by William Dalrymple

This book’s full title is The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the world. I knew the basic outline of the history he talks about already, but this is such a wonderful book. The book is clear and a delight to read.

I was attracted to this book because I knew little of Indian history. I did know that what we called Arabic numerals actually came from India. I knew India had developed all sort of things in math. I also knew a bit about the British East Indian company and their time in India. So, I knew very little about Indian history.

Ken Powell writes a review on his Blog called Write Out Loud Blog. The review of this book on Medium is quite long but interesting. The review is sort of negative, but it includes a reply from William Dalrymple and a response from Kiran Kumbhar who wrote the initial review. There is also an interesting and very readable review in the Guardian.

Will Dalrymple talks at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art. His speech starts around the 3.22 minute mark. It is a very interesting lecture. William Dalrymple speaks at the British Library about his book. William Dalrymple speaks at Commonwealth Club of World Affairs of California about an Empire of Ideas: How Ancient India Transformed the World. Great interview.

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Earning the Rockies by Robert Kaplan

This book’s full title is Earning the Rockies: Howe Geography Shapes America’s Role in the World. Robert Kaplan is certainly worth reading because of his views on geography and how geography shapes our world and how it works. I have also bought, but no yet read his latest book of Waste Land.

Nick Hough on Plateroom 28 writes a great review of this book. Tyrell Mayfield on a site called The Strategy Bridge Org does another great review.

On this YouTube from PBS News Hour we have people asking questions of Robert Kaplan. This is a short but interesting video. David Ignatius interviews Robert Kaplan. There is also an interesting talk by Robert Kaplan calledMaps Make US at the Brain Bar.

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Recession by Tyler Goodspeed

This book’s full title is Recession: The Real Reasons Economies Shrink and What to do About it. I quite enjoyed this book. So many people today believe in cycles. Tyler Goodspeed does not. He thinks that recessions are the results of shocks to the economy. He looks at both the US economy and the UK economy over time. Tyler Goodspeed shows a lot of data in this book. I really enjoyed reading this book.

There is a really good review of this book at Works in Progress by Mark Koyama. There is another interesting review by Joel Kotkin on Quillette.

Tyler Goodspeed discusses his book in an interview at Cato Institute. There is a discussion and presentation by Tyler Goodspeed at the Hoover Institution. This is a long but very interesting discussion.

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Land Between the Rivers by Bartle Bull

This book’s full title is Land Between the Rivers; A 5,000 Year History of Iraq. This is a long book and not only covers the area of what is now Iraq, but covers the whole middle east as the Iraq area is invaded or highly influence by the areas surrounding it. For example, he talks a great deal about the beginnings of Islam and the Arabs, as they invaded the area between the two rivers.

This a large read, but it is quite readable and I think that it is worth it for the wealth of information about Iraq and the surrounding area. This is the area of the first civilizations and Bartle Bull covers a lot of ground. Bartle Bull seems to be a good writer, but his interviews are hard to listen to and follow what he is trying to say.

There are some interesting reviews at Good Reads about this book. Peter Gordon on Asian Review of Books has an interest review of this book. He ends the review by saying “Mesopotamia has a good claim on being both incomprehensibly ancient and central to world history to an extent now often under-appreciated, an oversight that Land Between the Rivers should go a long (enjoyable) way to correcting”. The review from Inquiry from an Anti-Library on YouTube covers the story told about in this book, but the reviewer talks in a monotone. The last review I want to point out is one by Douglas Ollivant at Rappahannock Musings. This is a long review, but worth reading.

Leslie Heaney interviews Bartle Bull . They talk about his book and Iraq. Susan Appe moderates a conversation between Robert Kaplan and Bartle Bull about their most recent books on YouTube. Robert Kaplan wrote Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis and Bartle wrote Land Between Two Rivers. There is a comment on Bartle Bull and speaking and he is not a good speaker.

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The Ancient Near East by Amanda Podany

This book’s full title is The Ancient Near East, a Very Short Introduction. This book gives a very good introduction to the first civilizations. It covers the near east from around 3600 BCE to 539 BCE. I think this is a neat little book on the first civilizations.

There is a very good review of this book by Joshua Markon World History Encyclopedia site. On the site of Academia Education, there is a review and access to different papers on this subject for downloading .

Spencer Reads everything on YouTube goes over what this book covers. He basically goes chapter by chapter in the end. It is interesting as it covers what the book is all about. There is an interview by Kelly on World History Encyclopedia of Amanda Podany of her new book of Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East.

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India, A History by John Keay

This book’s full title is above, but on the cover, it says, Keay’s panoramic vision and multidisciplinary approach serves the function of all great historical writing. It illuminates the present. This is by Thrity Umrigar, the Boston Globe. This is a history of India from around 3000 BCE to around 2000 AD. It took me a very long time to read this book and it was worth it. I read the second edition, but apparently this has recently been republished.

What stood out for me was the massacres of Indians by the Muslims and the Muslims by the Indians. There has been a surprising number of these massacres since British rule ended in 1948. I knew little of Indian history before reading this book. That is why I was attracted to it.

The reviews at Goodreads seem to be the best place for reviews of this book. There are quite a number. Some positive and others negative. One reviewer lists a number of books on India he thinks are better. There are a lot of long and thoughtful reviews on this site. Bryan Caswell on Concerning History does an interesting review of this book. The site of Kirkus has a book review on this book. The reviewer ends with saying about the book “Without peer among general studies, a history that is intelligent, incisive, and eminently readable”.

Short comment by John Keay on YouTube. John Keay is interviewed on Harper Broadcast. This is a short video of less than 10 minutes. Rida’s Reels on Instagram offers 6 books on India and Partition.

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1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin

This book’s full title is 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – and How it Shattered a Nation. I took this book on my holiday to the Dominican Republic. I found it a very entertaining read. One surprise was that the year over year decline was just over 17% for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The other thing was that buying stock on credit was fine when only a few people were doing it. The problem came when the general public starting to buy stock on credit. That is what made the market soar and also made the market crash.

There is a popular image of brokers leaping from Wall Street windows. When people saw me reading this book, that is what they said. However, that is not what happened. There were apparently no more suicides in 1929 than other years around 1929. Sorkin does focus on the Wall Street players, but he also mentions briefly about the political infighting between Hoover and Roosevelt. Their actions seemed to me to be probably why the Great Depression happened.

This book is fill of characters. He goes into great detail of all the people involved in the market at that time. The book starts off giving a list of all the people involved with the period around 1929. The book is full of stories about these people who were involved. It is very much a character-driven narrative. This is part of the reason it is a great and easy read.

Two other books on this period were recommended. They were Robert Wright, most recently in FDR’s Long New Deal, 2024 and Jim Powell’s FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression.

Martin Pengelly on Guardian has an interesting take. He thinks that Roosevelt saved the day, but a lot of people think otherwise. Devin Scott at Harvard Business Services has an interesting review stating problems with rapid innovation or economic expansion. Liam Byrne on Substack does a superficial review of this book. The one thing he points out and to which I agree was that getting the general public to buy stock on credit was a bad idea. Amity Shlaes on Substack has the best review. She points out the myth of inevitability where a market crash causes a depression. A lot of people agree with her view that it was the efforts of the government that caused the Great Depression.

There is a very short video interview on Andrew Sorkin last just over 1 minute. Katie Couric interviews Andrew Sorkin. He talks about his book, but also has a long discussion on AI. David Remnick at the New Yorker Radio Hour also does an interview. This interview is entitled Andrew Ross Sorkin on What 1929 Teaches Us About 2025. These interviewers are more interested in what Andrew Sorkin think of today rather than what he has said in his book. Amanpour and Co interviews Andrew Ross Sorkin also does an interview. Andrew Sorkin is on Politics and Prose. As with the other interviews, they talk about how 1929 problems and how they relate to current problems. At the 41 minute mark they started to take questions from the audience.

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The Good Kings by Kara Cooney

This book’s full title is The Good Kings, Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World. I did learn about some Egyptian history from this book. I picked it up for that.

In reading the last bit, Kara Cooney obviously knows little about hunter gatherers societies. They were very diverse in how power was structured, but they were also could be very violent. There was fighting among tribes. If a tribe on their travels met a lone person, they would probably kill that person. Although some tribes had a relatively peaceful society and some had a relatively more violent society with everything in between.

Kara Cooney has her own website promoting her books.

There is an interesting and good review by Book Visier on Good Reads. I must admit that I was looking for a book on Egyptian history and did not fully understand at first about this book and Kara Cooney’s politics. I also understand where Scott D reviewer is coming from. This second review is very favourable to the book at a site called Jathan and Heather and is written by Jathan Fink. There is an interesting discussion on this book at the UCLA site.

Jordan Galczynski has an interview with Kara Cooney. Interesting, but can you really use what happened in Egypt to how the rest of the world works in modern times? There is a virtual author talk at MC Public Library by Kara Cooney.

Reading what Kara Cooney thinks about the world, I thought about what the economist Walter E. Williams said “Capitalism is relatively new in human history. Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering, and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man”.

I read Assyria by Eckart Fahm and Land between the Rivers by Bartle Bull. These were marvelous books. This one, not so much.

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Assyria by Eckart Frahm

This book’s full title is Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire. This is an absolute wonderful book. I know about the Assyrian as I have read a lot of history, but I had never just read a book on them. I do love history. This book is well written and a pleasure to read.

Steve Donoghue’s review on Open Letters gives you a good feel of what it is like to read this book. William Peace on his blog gives a good overview of this book. This last items is an interview by Susan Gonzalez with Eckart Frahm.

Eckart Frahm for MV Public Library discusses his book. It not always easy to listen to as he seems to drone on, but it does cover all the points in the book. In this video, Eckart Frahm is interviewed on MoAn Inc about this book.

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On Democracies and Death Cults by Douglas Murray

This book’s full title is On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization. There are various extreme versions of what has occurred and what is occurring in this area of the middle east. History seems to depend on what you start from.

The first review by Arthur Read on Goodreads is interesting. I read all sorts of different points of view. His history starts in the early 1900’s. I do not agree with him, but I have heard his point of view before and I like to know what people think. Neil Kurtzman on his site of Medicine-opera reviews this book. He talks about the current societies of the Israelis and Palestinians. There is an interesting and very long review and very negative review of this book by Nathan Robinson on Current Affairs. It would seem that everyone just sees what they want to see. Tim Dieppe on does a perhaps more balance review on a Christian site of issacharpeople.

Douglas Murray on YouTube gives a short talk, 2 minutes, about his book. Camilla Tominey talks to Douglas Murray on GB News. Douglas Murray is interviewed at Hudson Institute by Hudson Senior Fellow Dr. Rebeccah L. Heinrichs. Alan Zeitlin on Unpacked has a great review with a couple of videos.

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How Economics Explains the World by Andrew Leigh

This book’s full title is How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity. The start of this book is interesting in that he talks about how much effort we have to put in to get a source of artificial light going from wood fires to the electric light bulb.

Laurence B. Siegal at Advisor Perspectives has a great review of this book. Another good review is by Mourya Krishna on Medium.

A lot of the videos are really Podcasts, which I do not like. There is a podcast on The Next Big Idea Podcast. Andrew Leigh speaks his book of The Shortest History of Economics at The Sydney Institute. This is interesting where Gerard Henderson asks questions for Andrew Leigh to answer.

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The Age of the Strongman by Gideon Rachman

This book’s full title is The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World. In his epilogue, he ends saying that Durable political systems rely on institutions, not individuals. Successful societies are built on laws rather than charismatic leadership.

There are some interesting reviews on Good Reads. I liked the one by Adrian David. John Ikenberry on Foreign Affairs has his own take on Strongmen. The Literary Hub at Book Marks gives a variety of opinions about this book. And finally on Australian Institute of Internation Affairs John West gives an good review of this book.

Gideon Rachman speaks at the Aspen Institute España. His speech starts around 7.06 minutes in and ends around 25.12. Iain Martin interviews Gideon Rachman on his YouTube Reaction. This is from 2022. Gideon Rachman moderates a discussion at Intelligence Squared.

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Dominion by Tom Holland

This book’s full title is Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World. Also, on the front cover is “A galloping tour of Christianity’s influence across the last 2,000 years” – New York Times. My first impression on reading this book was that I thought it was a rather a chaotic view of Europe and Christianity. The book is certainly a romp through Europe with Christianity. However, it is an interesting and readable book.

There is a great review at History for Atheists by Tim O’Neill. It is very long. A review by Nathan Eberline is a good over view of what is in this book. Nicholas E. Meyer on The Freethinker does an interesting review of this book from a very different perspective and one I do not agree with, but it is interesting. Tim Keller does a review of this book and it is also interesting. He talks about the idea that Christianity influenced the west going back to Nietzsche. Richard Hanania's Newsletter reviews this book with a critical slant.

Tom Holland on YouTube debates Anthony Clifford (A. C.) Grayling on Justin Brierley’s Christian radio show/podcast Unbelievable in December 2019. A. C. Grayling is a British philosopher. Tom Hollard points out that Christianity is not only influence by Greek philosophy, but also Jewish philosophy. And it was also influence by Persian philosophy because the Jewish faith was influence by Persian philosophy (Zoroastrianism). Tom Holland thinks that Western Civilization was heavily influenced by Christianity.

A. C. Grayling thinks that that the West think the way we do because we are human and we are overwhelmingly influence by the Greek culture and philosophy. This is what I got from the discussion. Neither man changed their views. I must admit I believe that the Western world was heavily influenced by Christianity. But Christian society was also greatly influenced by the Greeks and Romans. Historically, the Middle East was greatly influenced by the Greeks.

Tom Holland is interview by Eric Metaxas on Socrates in the City at Oxford, England. Tom Holland in interviewed on Triggernometry by Konstantin Kisin and Frances Foster. It is interesting, but there are an awful lot of ads that take away from discussion. Sam Harris interviews Tom Hollard on the Legacy of Christianity on YouTube.

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Alone Against the North by Adam Shoalts

This book’s full title is Alone Against the North: An Expedition into the Unknown. Adam Shoalts is a great Canadian explorer. This is probably his first book. He wants to follow an unknown river in the Hudson Bay lowlands. He tries a number of times with friends, but ends up finding and following the river by himself. Adam Shoalts is a great story teller and I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Adam Shoalts has a web site that lists his books.

Some of the reviews on this book talk about Adam Shoalts treatment of his friend Brent. I read this book after reading some of his later books. He is more mature in the later books. His treatment of Brent was not great, but I think the books shows him starting to be a story teller which is clearer in later works.

See a review of this book on Good Reads. There is an interesting review on Quill and Quire. This review also talks about Adam’s relationship and attitude to his friend Brent. On the Story Graph site the reviews vary quite a bit from denouncing Adam Shoalts as a jerk to be fascinated by his final adventure on the Again River.

There is a CTV News /a> interview that is short with some great pictures. This is an interesting interview called Whisky Fireside Chat . Interviewer is Kevin Callan who is also an author and one that Adam Shoalts has read.

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The Builder’s Stone by Melanie Phillips

This book’s full title is The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West—and Why Only They Can Save It”. I read this book because I saw an interview of Melanie Phillips on YouTube. I found her thesis quite interesting. Certainly, things seem to falling apart. The woke culture is certainly extreme. Covid has certainly changed live a lot. There is a question on how we move forward and this is not clear.

People have moved away from religion, like Christianity in the Western world and certainly in Canada where I live. I have noticed that people are making religion out of global warming. Some people have very extreme views on global warming, and if you say anything that is not exactly what you should say about global warming, they get mad. However, I do not see that anyone is thinking about what they can do. They are expecting that someone else should fix this problem.

The review at Culture Watch by Bill Muehlenberg is quite interesting. It is rather long, but it has lots of links that I found quite interesting as well. Well worth the read. There is another great review on The European Conservative by Rob Killick. Christopher Hancock posted on Oxford House Research a review of this book.

Melanie Phillips is interviewed by Winston Marshall. Because of this interview, I decided to get her book. Melanie Phillips is interviewed on Spectator TV. Melanie Phillips is interviewed by Jonathan Tobin.

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A Short History of Humanity by Johannes Krause and Thomas Trappe

This book’s full title is A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe. It is translated by Caroline Waight from German. I found particularly of interest the movement of people from north of the Black Sea into Europe. This is probably because I am of European decent. A lot of the reviews seem to just skip over this part of the book.

There is a short review on Kirkus Review covering the basics from this book. However, the book covers a lot more concerning Europe. Florence Chilver at The Past site reviews this book. The review on Good Reads cover the part that of most interest to me and that was about European history. There are a number of reviews further down the page on Good Reads. The reviewer named Sense of History go into the European part of the book.

There is almost nothing on video for this book or the authors. That is probably because this book is a translation from the original book. The book was originally published in German as Die Reise Unserer Gene in 2019.

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Fall of Civilizations by Paul Cooper

This book’s full title is Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline. It was an interesting book, but Paul Cooper ruined my enjoyment by the Epilogue where he is extremely negative about our future. Paul Cooper has his own site.

Yes, the world is changing, and it will be hard for some people, but I am not negative about the future. I think that somehow, we will change and the future will be bright. I do not believe that we will destroy the world. Yes, the climate will change. It has changed a lot in the past and it will change in the future. I do believe we have a future. Paul Cooper does not seem to believe we have a future. I will probably not live to see it as I am already 80. But perhaps I will see some of it.

I guess being negative about our future is why the author wrote a book and seems fascinated by civilizations that have failed in the past. I have read a lot of history and it is not just about civilizations falling apart. It is also about people surviving incredible changes in empires, their lives, and the weather.

Look at Egypt. It is still alive and well and has survived a lot and reinvented itself many times. One story was when the Sea People attacked. Some believe that that the big movement of people at that time was because of climate change. The climate getting colder and drier. Another is the Persians/Iranians who had a bigger empire than the Romans and is talked about in the Old Testament. They are still around today and also have reinvested themselves many times. Same is true of India, China, Europe.

However, there are civilizations that did seem to just disappear. This appeared to happened to the Mayans in South America, the Khmer Empire in Asia, the Assyrian Empire in the Middle East. He talks about our current civilization falling because of global warming. Very in theme.

It is interesting that Paul Cooper grew up in Wales where there are ruins of castles that fascinated him. The British Islands and Europe is very different from Canada. There are old ruins there dating back sometimes back into BC. An example is Stonehenge. They are also lots of old castle ruins.

I grow up in Canada in Toronto. There is not much in historical ruins anywhere. I do know there are some ruins in the US. I know of few in Ontario but they are not that old. I have been to Sainte-Marie among the Hurons. And, when they were digging a hole for the reconstruction of the old St. Lawrence market, they came across ruins, but they were not that old and were from the 1800. I do know that there are totem poles carved by Indians in British Columbia, but here again they are not that old, around 200 years. I am also aware of some Indian burial mounds in Ontario, like Taber Hill dating from around the 14th century.

Paul Weimer on Skiffy and Fanty writes a very interesting review of this book. There is an interesting review on Kirkus Reviews. Oscar Rickett at Middle East Eye talks about Paul Cooper’s hit podcast being put into a book format.

A lot of the reviews for Paul Cooper and the Fall of Civilizations are about the Podcasts, not the book. Probably because the book is based on and came after his Podcasts. Paul Cooper has podcasts about the different civilizations in this book on YouTube. They are quite interesting, but also quite long. They seemed to be received well as they are a lot of positive comments. Paul Cooper on YouTube gives a short introduction to his book. Paul Cooper is interviewed on YouTube Primary Source Media by Lynn Robbins and Isaac Luftus. Paul Cooper speaks at York Festival of Ideas in 2024. His speech ends at the 35 minute mark. He certainly thinks we will be destroyed and then we will be replaced by future others.

He thinks we are approaching the end of our current civilization. All the questions had to do with the fall of our society. Yes, we have problems, but I do not really believe that we our society will collapse due to climate change. Our society will change. Just think how different we are from the 1950’s. People from that time would be shocked by how we are changed.

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Pirate Enlightenment by David Graeber

This book’s full title is Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia. I found entertaining but quite confusing. I did not really learn anything about Madagascar or Pirates. The author sort of jumps all over the place, but he also told some interesting stories. I did find it hard to see how the stories all sort of fitted together. On the other hand, I read the book to the end because the stories were interesting.

Fara Dabhoiwala on The Guardian does a review of this book. There is a site for David Graeber with a review of this book by Lena Tama. There is another review of this book on the site for David Graeber by Annelie Hyatt. Edward Carver on Los Angeles Review of Books another interesting review of this book. This author says that Graeber wrote with joy and playful irreverence. I can agree with that.

Since this book was published posthumously, there is no videos of David Graeber talking about this book. The only videos were reviews and discussions about this book, but I got enough reviews and I did not find any video particularly interesting.

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