by Anthony Burgess. http://bit.ly/JUcU9
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by Lawrence Durrell. http://bit.ly/4suL4
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by Mario Vargas Llosa. http://bit.ly/K6mRm
Less conventional novel than a blend of memoir, folklore and polemic. The narrator tells of his college friend Saul Zuratas, a man obsessed with preserving the culture of the Machiguengas, a tiny, isolated Indian tribe threatened both by rapacious rubber barons destroying the Amazon jungle and the missionaries who want to bring the Machiguengas into the 20th century.—Publisher’s Weekly
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Calamity in the Caucasus, by Carlotta Gall and Thomas de Waal. http://bit.ly/fZePv
Gall and de Waal, two reporters who spent many months in the war-torn territory of Chechnya dodging bullets and the threat of hostage crisis, give a truthful and balanced view to a subject that is both complex and harrowing.—Amazon.com
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by Roy Jenkins. http://bit.ly/V5RIp
Political biography at its best.—Financial Times
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Language as a Window into Human Nature, by Stephen Pinker. http://bit.ly/5h5XY
According to the Harvard psychologist, people are “verbivores, a species that lives on words.” If you want to understand how the brain works, how it thinks about space and causation and time, how it processes emotions and engages in social interactions, then you need to plunge “down the rabbit hole” of language.
