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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Essay By Dan Geddes 13 March 2001 Summary Introductory Poems Chapter I—Down the Rabbit-hole Chapter II—The Pool of Tears…
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom Review By Dan Geddes 11 February 2001 See also reviews of Bloom’s The Book of J, The Anxiety of…
LIFE AFTER GOD. By Douglas Coupland. Review By Dan Geddes From Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X, comes Life After God, a slick and very…
The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot Review By Dan Geddes Many readers of The Holographic Universe will have doubted religion earlier in their lives, and…
From Dawn To Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun Review By Dan Geddes 5 January 2001 For most of its 800…
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Review By Dan Geddes 1 January 2001 Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale unabashedly places itself in the negative utopian…
The Kabbalah of Money Rabbi Nilton Bonder Review By Dan Geddes I found the title misleading, insofar as the mystical connotation of Kabbalah were largely…
How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand Review By Dan Geddes How Buildings Learn is an examination of buildings in time, as opposed to buildings as…
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt Review By Dan Geddes 11 November 2000 Jacob Burckhardt’s Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy…
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