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According to Amazon, it looks like the book was published in 1981 and now commands a hefty price. A reviewer there mentions a "retro British sci-fi feel" to it. Maybe so, and maybe it was precursor to many post-apocalyptic scenes and stories to follow. Which might explain why, by now, it felt...

Magnetic mapping Technologist though I claim to be, some things still knock my socks off: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/mapping-our-interiors/?_php=true&_type=blogs&emc=edit_th_20140519&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=28874140&_r=0 Sorry for no pic; you'll have to click the article to see...

Many many thanks, Poppy. /doing handsprings/ :D

Don't know of a specific book collection, short of an encyclopedia of biography. Browsing the reference shelves of a real library in the Biography section might produce what you are looking for. For myself, Google, Wikipedia, and Amazon do the trick for whatever I am looking for. A search for...

Hah! Good one -- the new generation being the despair of the old. That seems to have been the case back to at least Roman times. Some things really do not seem to change.

Dredging now from deep memory, I can recall twice reading/hearing the thought that the reason we seem not to learn from history is that: each time the supposed same problem occurs, it is in reality different. I believe Sir Liddell-Hart --mentioned above, I think -- wrote that "Every war is...

HI Sparky, That was a nice review. Especially your inclusion of that first quote about Vienna and Berlin. I have more and more become interested in how wars begin, rather than how they are fought. Especially after Germany suffering so disastrously in two wars in which they were at the focus.

Why? "Same" and "different" are very relative terms, it seems to me. The human organism, beginning with each of its five senses, is capable of sensing very small differences and making very fine distinctions, and it might easily be argued that in the distant past such abilities were required...

I came across this poem recently. I can think of few that compare for both dazzling wordsmanship and meaningful content. "EASTER HYMN If in that Syrian garden, ages slain, You sleep, and know not you are dead in vain, Nor even in dreams behold how dark and bright Ascends in smoke and fire by...

And that sounds like a good example to me! :D Live and let live, is how I tend to view it. Although many people claim to follow the Golden Rule, even that doesn't seem to hack it in the modern world. :(

Club Sandwich The blank sheet is still blank Under the ink upon its surface In ascenders, descenders, loops And whorls forming letters Held in place through forces Of adjacency into words of meaning Connecting transparently into ribbons Unfurling invisibly to wrap anew Ideas emotions insights...

It might correspond quite closely with the way some people try to harmonize their own understanding of their beliefs with their own experience of the real world, i.e. with some bedrock principles and then adjustments as necessary? That wouldn't strike me as so unreasonable.

Actually, you are right; I can't find the sentence I had in mind. So, I can only say my memory must have played a trick on me. But that is no excuse. So I apologize sincerely for reading the word "hate" where it did not appear, I am sincerely sorry for that. Perhaps it was while reading...

Well you sure could have fooled me! With your use of words like Hate, Catholic Evangelical preacher and a catholic church (or was it the movement?) "built on" Jesus' teachings with respect to the poor. (I thought it was Peter, the Rock.) The level of hostility that you introduced in your...

Hi Bob, Up my way, in northern liberal land, evangelical is a code word in political discussions -- along with "right wing" far right wing" and others and a rather disprespectful one among people I know who use it. Most mean Republican Christian. If your issue is with preachers (or people in...

I would go slow on identifying the Catholic church as typical of Jesus' teachings, and rich evangelical preachers as typical of Protestantism.

Nooooooo comment.

Certainly more than it venerates any grand narrative.

[/INDENT] No! I don't think she "must now find!" That is the most hackneyed phrase in all of blurb writing. Couldn't you find some other way to describe her motivation for her quest? Don't mean to pick on you or your book. But you have finally gotten my attention enough to click on your...

For a while, anyway.:oops: