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The description of Waterloo in this book I'm currently reading (The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme) has piqued my curiosity. Enjoying a lot of military history lately, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege by Antony Beevor, Nelson’s Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed...

that cover one or more of the famous explorers: Magellan, Cook, Pizarro, De Soto, Ponce de Leon, etc. Any specific titles/authors that you'd recommend? Thanks in advance, Chris

Another one I really enjoyed, just finished it this week. Book Review: Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege by Antony Beevor "When I was reading Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World a few months ago once of the reviews said that it was to the battle of Trafalgar what Beevor's book...

Here are all of my reviews from last year, probably a little bit of something for almost everyone in there. ;-) Amateur Economist: A Look Back At Books In 2010 ...

I'm not much of a fiction reader and am new to Mr. Llosa. What one or two titles of his would you recommend to get started? Thanks very much in advance, Chris

Looking for books on Ernest Shackleton & Stanley/Livingstone ... Anyone have any titles they recommend? Thanks very much in advance!

Quick Book Review: Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux "A good friend recently recommended this book to me. I set Hayek's Road To Serfdom down for a bit and jumped into Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari: Overland From Cairo To Cape Town. Published March 2003, 496 pp. Theroux is a prolific travel...

Hey, all. Been away for a while, but have read a few books I thought others might like, too. ;-) Book Review: The Wolf: How One German Raider Terrorized the Allies in the Most Epic Voyage of WWI "The Wolf: How One German Raider Terrorized the Allies in the Most Epic Voyage of WWI by Richard...

The book's full title is: Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly. * Paperback: 320 pages * Publisher: Harvest Books (September 15, 1997) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0156005492 I don't recall where I first...

I saw this (The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson) reviewed earlier in the year and put it in my queue. Didn't think much more of it until I saw it on the new book shelf at the library recently. Normally, I have no notable interest in...

"A man can not make love with any kind of conviction unless he is wearing a coat cut within a half mile of Piccadilly." -- Tailor & Cutter c. 1860 I suspect that there are no "casual Fridays" at Richard Anderson Ltd, nor at Huntsman before that. ;-) I became aware of this book (Savile Row...

Only recently discovered him. 2/3 of the way through Dark Star Safari and love it so far.

Milton Friedman's Free To Choose is another book I regret waiting so long to read. As I read it I felt that same way Mr. Jeffrey Tucker did when reading Against Intellectual Monopoly, "I've felt that sense of intellectual stimulation that comes along rarely in life — that sense that makes you...

Great book, just finished it. Recommended. ;-) Michael Tonello's Bringing Home the Birkin is not like any of the other books I have recently read/reviewed. It's definitely non-fiction, but more of whimsical and personal tale of a man who fell into a business unexpectedly. Prior to his...

I've been meaning to read about this for some time and a question on another forum piqued my curiosity. Can you recommend a book that covers say, the North Africa campaign of WWII, Rommel, and the British? I've been reading Amazon reviews but I'm interested in opinions here too. Thanks in...

Fooled By Randomness book update "I just began reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Black Swan. But first I wanted to go back and reread Fooled By Randomness, which I looked at a little over a year ago." http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/fooled-by-randomness-book-update.html Quick Book...

Hey everyone, completely new to the forum, just found it today via Google. :) I've been doing a bunch of brief book reviews over the last year or two, I'll post links to them in the appropriate forums here, I hope some others are interested in the same books.