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The author of this blog is Trevor Pateman. I have purchased all the books reviewed here except a very few noted as sent to me. My own books are cheapest at blackwells.co.uk and are usually on Amazon. I can be found at academia.edu but do not have an X account and never used Twitter; that is another Trevor Pateman.

Monday, 27 August 2012

Review: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable

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I took on the The Black Swan in the 2010 Revised edition but I only read the first edition material. This took me to page 300, by which ti...
Saturday, 18 August 2012

Review: David Satter, It Was A Long Time Ago And It Never Happened Anyway

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David Satter lives in Washington DC where the FBI has its Headquarters in a J. Edgar Hoover Building which retains its name despite the fac...
Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Review: Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky, Gulag Boss

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In 1940, aged 22, Fyodor Mochulsky, candidate member of the Communist Party, graduated from the Moscow Institute of Railroad Transport Engin...
Sunday, 12 August 2012

Review: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan

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Some Americans just shouldn't leave the country. Many more don't and so have no reason to know that getting a Visa (what's that...
Friday, 10 August 2012

Review: Orlando Figes, Just Send me Word

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The backbone of this book is provided by long extracts from correspondence between Lev Mischenko (1917 - 2008) and Svetlana Ivanov (1917 - 2...
Wednesday, 8 August 2012

Essay: Writers, Intellectuals, Professors

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One of the first things by Roland Barthes that I read was, "Ecrivains, Intellectuels, Professeurs" which appeared in Tel Quel (Is...
Friday, 3 August 2012

Review: Thaler and Sunstein, Nudge

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There are Econs. There are Humans. And there is America. We need to talk about America before we talk about Nudge theory. America is in many...
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