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mapmeld set a goal to read 20 books in 2022
mapmeld rated The impossible country: 3 stars
mapmeld rated House on fire: 5 stars
House on fire by William H. Foege (California/Milbank books on health and the public -- 21)
"A story of courage and risk-taking, House on Fire tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions …
mapmeld rated Brutish Museums: 4 stars
Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks
Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: …
mapmeld rated Smashing Statues: 4 stars
mapmeld rated The Genetic Lottery: 2 stars
mapmeld rated Supreme power: 5 stars
Supreme power by Jeff Shesol
In the years before World War II, Franklin Roosevelt's fiercest, most unyielding opponent was neither a foreign power nor "fear …
mapmeld rated Against the Grain: 3 stars
Against the Grain by James C. Scott (Yale agrarian studies series)
Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors …
mapmeld rated “Prisons Make Us Safer”: 2 stars
mapmeld rated No Friend but the Mountains: 4 stars
No Friend but the Mountains by Omid Tofighian, Behrouz Boochani
Winner of The Victorian Prize for Literature, and the Prize for Non-Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019
Where have I …
