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About meAfter 43 years, I recently retired from a university anthropology museum where I was a collections manager for archaeological collections. My professional interests are mainly in the archaeology, prehistory and material culture of the Southwest US & Northwest MX, the US Great Plains, North America, western Europe, and the Middle East, more-or-less in that order.

About my libraryMy books reflect my working interests in Southwestern (US) archaeology and anthropology and my recreational reading, which tends toward ancient history, military history, biography, historical mysteries, and science fiction.

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GroupsAncient History, Archaeology, TinyCat, What Are You Reading Now?

Favorite authorsMaureen Ash, Isaac Asimov, Rick Atkinson, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Peter Bowen, Janice Emily Bowers, Marie Brennan, James F. Brooks, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thomas Cahill, C. J. Cherryh, Robert Crais, Lindsey Davis, Richard Dawkins, Patrick Leigh Fermor, C. S. Forester, Robert Galbraith, William Gibson, John Gierach, Lauren Haney, Charlaine Harris, J. M. Hayes, Christopher Hitchens, Bettany Hughes, Laurie R. King, Rudyard Kipling, Elmore Leonard, Donna Leon, Susan Cummins Miller, Walter Mosley, Patrick O'Brian, Stephen Oppenheimer, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Lynda S. Robinson, J. K. Rowling, Steven Saylor, Linda Schele, Robert Louis Stevenson, George R. Stewart, Sheri S. Tepper, J. R. R. Tolkien, Nicholas Wade, Jo Walton, Spencer Wells, Roger L. Welsch, Michael Wood (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresAntigone Books, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Eastside, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Westside, Book Stop, Bookmans - Ina, Bookmans - Midtown, Bookmans - Speedway, Clues Unlimited, Mostly Books, University of Arizona Bookstores

Favorite librariesArizona State Museum Library - University of Arizona, Cawker City Public Library, Main Library - University of Arizona, Mankato City Library, Pima County Public Library - Joel D. Valdez (Main), Pima County Public Library - Woods Memorial

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Real nameMike Jacobs

LocationTucson, Arizona

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Member sinceJul 31, 2006

Currently readingEurope Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000 by Barry Cunliffe
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 4-6 by Edward Gibbon
A History of the Ancient Southwest by Stephen H. Lekson
Archaeological Approaches to Technology by Heather Margaret-Louise Miller
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Egyptomania: Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs by Bob Brier
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East by Eugene Rogan
Josephus II: The Jewish War, Books I-III by Josephus
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn
Technological Analysis of Pueblo I Lead Glazed Ceramics from the Upper San Juan Basin, Colorado (ca. 700-850 CE) by Brunella Santarelli
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King
The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time by Keith Houston
Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders
Judaism: History, Belief and Practice by Dan Cohn-Sherbok
The Odyssey by Homer
Everyday Life in the Middle Ages: The British Isles, 500 to 1500 by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History by David E. Fastovsky
The Oxford Illustrated Prehistory of Europe by Barry Cunliffe
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