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The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture (Omite British Commonwealth)
Peter Garnsey, Richard Saller
University of California Press, 1987
The Roman Empire: Econmy, Society and Culture
Good book to start with the basics of the Roman Empire for people who have little or no understanding of the Roman Empire. It helped me have a better understanding of Rome.
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Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)
Kip S. Thorne
W. W. Norton & Company, 1995
Just nice!
Really makes difficult concepts understandable in addition it is a
joy to read. Not like a boring or overwhelming text book.
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
Simon & Schuster, 2005
An Incredibly Pleasant Surprise
Like some others that reviewed the book, I hastily ordered it and failed to realize that the collection was simply edited and introduced by Mr. Sedaris, not written by him. But I decided to read the book despite my mistake, and I was rewarded instantly. From the ...
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The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies
Robert Kirk
Dover Publications, 2008
A Classic in the Field
This is one of the must-reads if you're interested in the historical literature of the field.
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The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997
Piers Brendon
Knopf, 2008
Empires inevitably fall; but leave legacies
The message of Piers Brendon's magnificent history of the British Empire is that its fall was inevitable and that that is the fate of all other empires, past and future. Because empires are founded on brutality and illegitimacy, says Brendon, their fault lines in the ...
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The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
Lawrence James
St. Martin's Griffin, 1997
Here's an Empire of the good kind!
I really enjoyed this excellent narrative by Lawrence James about the history of the British Empire.
Essentially the modern concept of the British Empire began in the 17th Century not as a land grab but rather as an economic necessity of this small Island based ...
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Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
Thomas Hobbes
Touchstone, 2008
The First Modern Political Philosopher
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) wrote "Leviathan" in 1651, it was his most important philosophical work. I think you should know something of Hobbes to understand how his thinking was influenced by his experiences. He was born 2 months prematurely on the day the Spanish ...
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Boston, A Year in the Life
Carol Beggy
Commonwealth Editions, 2008
Boston A Year in the Life
I purchased this book as a Christmas present for my brother-in-law who loves Boston. I am sure he will enjoy this book as much as I did.
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Quofum
Alan Dean Foster
Del Rey, 2008
The Mystery Planet
Quofum (2008) is the twelfth SF novel in the Humanx Commonwealth series, following Drowning World. It is set on the uncertain world of Quofum, which occasionally vanished from its solar system. When a probe returned to Science Central with its data and startling ...
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Longman Anthology of Women's Literature
Mary K. DeShazer
Longman, 2000
A great anthology!
I'm using the Longman Anthology of the Romantics and their Contemporaries (3d edition) for the first time in my 3d-year Romantics course (enrolment 88 and counting!) -- I would like to thank the editors for doing a fantastic job -- the introductory essay (pp. 3-29) is ...
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A Short History of Boston
Robert J. Allison
Commonwealth Editions, 2004
Short and densely packed
I purchased this book to get a little more connected to my adopted home. The book is crammed full of information in its slim 128 pages. Space does not allow any topic to be reviewed in full detail. But, on many pages I found myself saying, "Wow, that's really ...
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Cicero: On the Commonwealth and On the Laws (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cambridge University Press, 1999
Good apparatus, hit-or-miss translation
Zetzel's edition of the Cicero's Republic and Laws contains all of the nice extras that go along with the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. It has helpful footnotes, biographical glossary, and an introduction into some of the difficulties that ...
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Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth (Keystone Books)
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002
Pennsylvania History Presented in Fine Fashion
A much needed history book concerning Pennsylvania has finally been published, and that book is "Pennsylvania", edited by Randall Miller and William Pencak. This is one of the best state history books ever, as it is comprehensive, readable, and vastly informative. Its ...
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The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)
Bill Ashcroft
Routledge, 2002
All in one
Despite its "trendy" title -- very postmodern, combining Salman Rushdie with George Lucas and Star Wars -- and the multiple authorship, this survey is a very readable, clearly articulated consideration of the central problems and issues in post-colonial scholarship. ...
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The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth (Commonwealth Fund Book Program (Series).)
J. E. Lovelock
W. W. Norton & Company, 1995
This Look Into The Past Can Insure Our Future
Imagine living in Europe during the Dark Ages, when everyone thought the world was flat, and having someone demonstrate to you that the world is a sphere. In our modern version of the Dark Ages of the environment we are under the delusion that our Earth is lump of ...
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