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28 January 2012

Book review/Recensione: Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, *****

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Recensione in italiano di seguito! Synopsis Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in ...
22 January 2012

Book Review: Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps, by Allan and Barbara Pease, ****

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Synopsis The classic international bestselling book. Allan and Barbara Pease spotlight the differences in the way men and women think. Boys...
21 January 2012

Book Review: What the Chinese Don't Eat, by Xinran, ***

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Synopsis Since June 2003 Xinran has been writing about China in her weekly column in the Guardian. She has covered a vast range of topics f...
12 January 2012

Book Review: The Skeptical Environmentalist, by Bjorn Lomborg, *****

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Pollution in the Maldives Synopsis Lomborg, an associate professor of statistics in the Department of Political Science at the Univer...
05 January 2012

Film Review: Windtalkers, by John Woo, **

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Synopsis US Marine Nicolas Cage--with a scarred ear and a fed-up look--is given the job of looking after Navajo Adam Beach, whose complex ...

Recensione Film: Windtalkers, di John Woo, **

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Sinossi Durante la seconda guerra mondiale, l'esercito americano decide di usare il linguaggio degli indiani Navajos per codificare i m...
24 December 2011

Book Review: Inferno, by James Nachtwey, *****

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Synopsis A document of war and strife during the 1990s, this volume of photographs by the photojournalist James Nachtwey includes dramat...
21 December 2011

Film Review: Pacific Battleship Yamato (2010), by Junya Sato, ****

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Synopsis World War II action film set aboard the Battleship Yamato, the most fearsome ship in the Pacific fleet and still to date the l...
20 December 2011

Film Review: Assault on the Pacific - Kamikaze (2007), by Taku Shinjo, ****

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Synopsis World War II epic about a squadron of Japanese Kamikaze pilots and their journey through training and first missions toward the te...
13 December 2011

Book Review: The Rape of Nanking, by Iris Chang, ****

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Japanese soldier beheading a Chinese man Synopsis In December 1937, in what was then the capital of China, one of the most brutal mass...
09 December 2011

Map Review: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Freytag & Berndt, ****

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Description Explore Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia with this Freytag&Berndt road map. The best way to plan your trip, prepare your itinerar...
07 December 2011

Film Review: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), by R Fleischer, T Masuda and K Fukusaku, *****

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Synopsis Today is the sixtieth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. That is one reason to review a forty years old movie. Another is ...
30 November 2011

Book Review: My China Years, by Helen Foster Snow, **

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Foster Snow is the wife of Edgar Snow, the author of "Red Star Over China - The Rise Of The Red Army". She actually met "Ed...
24 November 2011

Book Review: City of Sadness, by Bérénice Reynaud, ****

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Synopsis This work introduces the Western audience to the richness of New Taiwanese Cinema. It revisits a painful e...
23 November 2011

Book Review: Singapore Swing, by John Malathronas, *****

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MBS from the modern art museum Synopsis For generations of Britons, Singapore was the international crossroads of the Empire, the ulti...
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