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11 July 2001

Book review: The Slave Trade, 1440-1870 (1999), by Hugh Thomas, *****

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Synopsis After many years of research, Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. The Atlantic sla...
02 May 2001

Book Review:The Floating Brothel: the Extraordinary True Story of An Eighteenth-Century Ship And Its Cargo of Female Convicts, by Sian Rees, *****

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list of names of convicts shipped to Australia Synopsis In 1789, 237 women convicts left England for Botany Bay in Australia on board...
04 March 2001

Book Review: A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean, by Melinda and Robert Blanchard, *****

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Synopsis A Trip to the Beach is about the maddening, exhausting and exhilarating challenges Melinda and Robert Blanchard faced while tryi...
25 February 2001

Lettera a Indro Montanelli sulla sinistra italiana

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Caro Montanelli, la leggo dall'estero, vivo in Belgio, perché lei rimane un raggio di chiarezza nel guazzabuglio quale appare la scena p...
05 February 2001

Recensione: "La Via della Cina" di Renata Pisu, ****

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Sinossi In questo libro l'autrice racconta il suo rapporto con la Cina, iniziato nel 1957 quando, insieme con alcuni compagni, si trasf...
01 January 2001

Today the new Millennium starts

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Today is the start of the new millennium. Some, like Dick Teresi , have argued that this is the result of a number of errors in year countin...
26 November 2000

Recensione: In Sudamerica, di Italo Moretti, ****

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Sinossi Dei fatti che hanno segnato la storia dei Paesi latinoamericani negli ultimi trent'anni si parla sempre più spesso, per la loro...
06 November 2000

Recensione: Straneurocrate (2000), di Marco De Andreis, *****

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Sinossi Poche cose risultano più ostiche e tediose dell'Europa comunitaria. D'altra parte l'Unione europea ha un'importanz...
26 July 2000

Book review: Zero, the Biography of a Dangerous Idea (2000) by Charles Seife, *****

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Synopsis The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now it...
08 March 2000

Book Review: Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, by John Gray, *****

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Man and woman in a Sikh temple Synopsis A practical guide for improving communication within relationships, helping both sexes get wh...
25 February 2000

Recensione: Lettera da Singapore, ovvero il Terzo Capitalismo, (1995) di Giuseppe Bonazzi. ****

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Sinossi Il libro nasce da un'esperienza personale dell'autore ed è strutturato in maniera inconsueta: a una prima parte scritta ...
01 January 2000

Today is not the start of the new Millennium!

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To see when the new millennium actually starts, go to my post of 1 January 2001! Much of the world celebrates the new Millennium today, bu...
22 December 1999

Itinerary of trip to Rajasthan, India 22 December 1999 - 10 january 2000

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View Rajasthan trip in a larger map This the map of my itinerary. Soon to be followed by details and pictures from this trip...
19 September 1999

Book Review: Bad Times in Buenos Aires (1999), by Miranda France, ****

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Synopsis In 1993 Miranda France moved to South America, drawn to Buenos Aires as the intellectual hub of the continent, with its wealth o...
11 September 1999

Book review: Cobra Road, by Trevor Fishlock, ***

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Synopsis Trevor Fishlock set off from the harsh and haunted gables of the Khyber, zigzagged to the dazzle of India's southern tip at C...