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The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
Yasmin Khan
Yale University Press, 2008
An excellent context on partition
Most histories of the Indian Partition focus on the leadership but this one actually provides the social, economic and human context of the event. Khan is very balanced in her analysis identifying the forces that were building in the run-up to the Partition. The ...
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The Last Continent
Terry Pratchett
HarperTorch, 2000
Discworld
I've decided he's too good and too prolific for me to write a brand new review every single time I read one of his books. Discworld currently has 34 titles and every one of them will probably knock your socks off. His mind bubbles and flashes like a boiling pot of ...
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Africa: A Biography of the Continent
John Reader
Vintage, 1999
a biography of continent africa
Very indepth well writen john reader research this book i purchese one for most of my good friends.
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
Bill Bryson
Harper Perennial, 1990
Side-splittingly Funny!
I'd read four Bryson books before I read this one, and this is the funniest of the lot. Irreverence and biting wit on almost every page. I've definitely had more laughs from this book than any other I've ever read.
I can only assume that the people who are giving ...
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Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century
Mark Mazower
Vintage, 2000
Read it at least twice
I agree with an earlier reviewer that this is the best history of 20th Century Europe ever. Keen insights and fresh ideas leap off every page.
But it needs to be repeated: the Dark Continent is not an introduction to the subject. Unless you have a good knowledge of ...
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Eduardo Galeano
Monthly Review Press, 1997
Beautifully Written, Visceral And Timeless.
"Open Veins Of Latin America" has not lost its importance in almost 40 years of circulation, today more than ever, Eduardo Galeano's poetic journey through the history and suffering of Latin America is a vital work of scholarship and observation, it is a record of how ...
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World War I: The African Front: An Imperial War on the Dark Continent
Edward Paice
Pegasus, 2008
The best by far
The Great War in Africa has very few books to define it, and in some cases the better books are just windows into particular experiences. Not so with Paice's book... it treats the war in Africa as the epic that it was and deals with it in all its shades.
During the ...
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Mangoes & Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent
Jeffrey Alford, Naomi Duguid
Artisan, 2005
Finally tried some of the recipes - all turned out great!
I've had this book for about three months, and have flipped through it many times, but this weekend I finally bought the staple ingredients that many of the recipes needed, and tried out three of them. They all turned out delicious! Don't be put off by strange ...
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Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents
Nicholas Ganz
Harry N. Abrams, 2004
So much Diversity, so Little time
This book is a good piece to just leave out on your coffee table and let visitors pick up. It's not hard to let the hours fall away just looking through all of the different artists and all of their different works.
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Death in the Dark Continent
Peter H. Capstick
St. Martin's Press, 1983
Not just for Hunters
Many other reviewers have characterized "Death in the Dark Continent" very, very well. It is a bit more graphic than Capstick's earlier "Death in the Long Grass", but not much.
But you definitely do NOT have to be a hunter to thoroughly enjoy Capstick. I think, ...
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The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876-1912
Thomas Pakenham
Avon Books, 1992
The Dark Continent's Darkest Chapter
It would be an understatement to write that Thomas Pakenham embraced an ambitious project in crafting a comprehensive, single-volume history of the European colonization of Africa over the course of some four decades a century ago. Few authors could have succeeded ...
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Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents
Nicholas Ganz, Nancy MacDonald
"Harry N. Abrams, Inc.", 2006
Skip Louis Bou - This is the book you want!!!!
Street artist/fine artist Nicholas Ganz, author of Graffiti World, offers urban art enthusiasts a second round of exceptional research and art compilation, this time concentrating on the pioneering contributions of women to contemporary graffiti writing and artwork. ...
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Understanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 28 Nations, Clusters of Nations, and Continents
Martin J. Gannon
Sage Publications, Inc, 2003
A practical approach to other cultures
This book uses metaphors as tools to engage with other cultures. And very useful tools they are, indeed. I have been using this book with students for several years now, and the biggest initial obstacle is that people mistake the metaphors for stereotypes. Once this ...
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The Seven Continents (Rookie Read-About Geography)
Wil Mara
Children's Press(CT), 2005
ValhallaTeacher
This book is one in an excellent series by Scholastic. It has beautiful pictures. The text is simple and printed in a large, clear font--perfect for a young reader. It is an excellent supplement to learning about our continents.
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Teaching Reading in the Content Areas: If Not Me, Then Who? 2nd Edition
Rachel Billmeyer, Mary Lee Barton
Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory, 1998
Good strategies
This book provides several good strategies that can be used to teach reading. The back of the book literally has step-by-step instructions for using the strategy as well as a worksheet that can easily be copied and distributed. The beginning of the book is pretty ...
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