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CollectionsYour library (883), Jane's library (60), Currently reading (4), Dissertation (6), Giveaways (17), Read but unowned (9), To read (3), Wishlist (36), All collections (960)

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Tagshistory (322), fiction (148), JH (133), U.S. (116), novel (114), religion (107), U.S. South (75), deutsch (65), American Indians (60), 19th century (52) — see all tags

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GroupsBirmingham Alabama, Deep South, Graduate Students, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, ISLAM, Native/First Nations Literatures & Studies, Non-Fiction Readers, The Middle East, We of the Laptop

Favorite authorsKathryn E. Holland Braund, Bertolt Brecht, Bill Bryson, Patricia Kay Galloway, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Judson Mitcham, Iain Pears, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Shakespeare, Laurence Sterne, Richard White (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAlabama Booksmith, Eclipse Coffee and Books, Gnu's Room, Greencup Books, Jim Reed Books / Museum of Fond Memories, Little Professor Book Center - Homewood

Favorite librariesAuburn University (Ralph Brown Draughon Library), Friends of Homewood Public Library Bookstore, Robert W. Woodruff Library (Emory University), Roddenbery Memorial Library

About meGrad student in history, way down in Alabama. Research will be taking me to Basel, Switzerland, and throughout the eastern U.S. My wife teaches English literature and our home libraries have merged.

About my libraryYou'll find a lot of history, dozens of books in German, quite a few on Islam, and a whole bunch about southeastern American Indians. Most of the fiction is my wife's, along with a fine Quaker history collection. I've collected several old paperbacks full of shrill warnings about the communist menace; it's a hobby. (These are tagged "Red Menace.")

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Currently readingA History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
Beginning Creek: Mvskoke Emponvkv by Pamela Joan Innes
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States) by Daniel Walker Howe
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America by Peter Silver

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It seemed kind of cheesy to ask you to review a book and they give you a PDF to do so. That already costs it some points, since reading a PDF without a dedicated reader is not that fun. I think that a separate collection is the only way to record the PDF's
That's another one of my favorites. An ability to sound out the alphabet is still impressive. I'm starting grad school for Russian in the fall, and I've been a Russian tutor before -- you might be far ahead of some of my former students. haha
Roughly:

Первой на войне погибает правда.
Truth is the first to die in war.

It sounds better in Russian than in English. :)
This is a terrific book, read 30 years after publication. Afghanistan is not mentioned, but the end of the USSR and Warsaw Pact are spelled out as they happened over 10 years later. What is predicted is a Japan China Australia economic domination. Is this about to come to pass

What did you think of it
Hi alarob

Welcome to Basel. Do you have any idea when? If so, say hello, I can show around the city. I am working with the Swiss Economic Archives - so I could help you there, if that's your historical interest.
You have a wonderfully variegated selection of books :)
Hi, alarob! Glad that my wiki suggestion has been so helpful! I also used my wiki to prepare for oral exams, and found it really useful to be able to link pages together by historical debate, or by author, or whatever. Now that I'm teaching, I use the wiki to put together my lecture notes, and that's also really helpful.
My CueCat has arrived. For reasons of historical interest, I'm pleased to see that it's the original model, the 68-1965. It's been diverting to find out about the whole "Digital Convergence" fiasco that surrounded the manufacture of these odd little beasts. For thorough anatomies of CueCats, see http://www.sujal.net/tech/declaw/
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