Book Review
Bandwidth
by Willem Marx
The insider’s history "Bandwidth" filters the meteoric rise, fall, and resurgence of fiber-optic telecommunication companies through the lenses of industry leaders. Part memoir, part technology history, Dan Caruso’s "Bandwidth" is...
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Sunken Lands
by Willem Marx
An interdisciplinary history of flooding and flood stories, Gareth E. Rees’s book "Sunken Lands" explores the eerie legacy of climate change in humanity’s past. Weaving the oracular, poetic, and horrifying together in tales of...
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Toi Te Mana
by Willem Marx
"Toi Te Mana" is a definitive survey of Māori art written by three Māori scholars and artists—Deidre Brown, Ngarino Ellis, and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki. The assumption of art history—that an artwork is more than a beautiful object;...
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You Can't Live in the Ceilings
by Willem Marx
The informative real estate guide You Can’t Live in the Ceilings explains home buying and selling processes with acumen. Mary Cleaver’s practical real estate guide, You Can’t Live in the Ceilings, covers the nebulous process of...
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I Am Scared, Very Scared!
by Willem Marx
"I Am Scared, Very Scared!" is a brief, heartfelt political tract that advocates against a second Donald Trump presidency. John Ayoola Akinyemi’s political manifesto "I Am Scared, Very Scared!" makes an impassioned case against...
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Zeke Borshellac
by Willem Marx
Overflowing with tall tales and slapstick humor, "Zeke Borshellac" traces a hapless adventurer’s coming-of-age. In James Damis’s madcap bildungsroman "Zeke Borshellac", an idealistic young man has fantastical experiences as he seeks...
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Civic Minded
by Willem Marx
A commonsense guide to what the United States government actually does, Jeff Fleischer’s "Civic Minded" demystifies subjects at the heart of contemporary political discourse and creates a groundwork of facts for everyday citizens....
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Dodge County, Inc.
by Willem Marx
The devastation wrought upon US farming communities is tracked in Sonja Trom Eayrs’s courageous book "Dodge County, Inc.", in which the family farm that Eayrs grew up on becomes a microcosmic example of the ills afflicting thousands of...