Society, Politics & Philosophy Book Reviews

War On Iraq

  • Author: Scott Ritter & William Rivers Pitt
  • Publisher: UK Profile Books. US Context Books.
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  • Reviewed by: J.F.Derry
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‘We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.’ Anais Nin Today there were another 16 US casualties in Iraq (BBC News 03/11/2003). This follows on the heels of the announcement that more British soldiers have been killed since the official end of the war in Iraq than during the conflict itself [...]

Demystifying Tibet: Unlocking the Secrets of the Land of the Snows

  • Author: Lee Feigon
  • Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
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  • Reviewed by: J. F. Derry
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There is no doubting Lee Feigon’s mindset. He holds a chair in East Asian Studies and is Professor of History at Colby College. No surprise then the academic zeal with which he approaches the latest work to add to his erudite canon on Chinese history and politics. But, strange then the unstructured and rambling discourse [...]