Sit and Wait for the Sadness The Ozarks—land of hillbillies and a few vast modern fortunes—are the setting for recent literary thrillers. 0 palmerskiss CultureMarch 2014Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 1:06 pm PDT • Views: 1,092 More: Sit and Wait for the Sadness Clickr/Cindy Darling Early 19th-Century Generation Folksongs Goodnight Hollow Handicrafts Hillbillies Hillbilly. Hill Country IPhones Modern World Ozark Settlers Ozark Spirit Petit Jean Mountain Poor White Americans Southern Highland Culture Ozarks
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The Digital Challenge, I: Loss & Gain, or the Fate of the Book 0 researchok OpinionNovember 2012Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 12:25 am PST • Views: 760 Anthony Daniels Books Digital Challenge Extinction Modern World
Once the Wild Is Gone: Nature Conservation Is Still Obsessed With the Pristine. It Needs to Learn to Love This Mongrel World 0 researchok OpinionOctober 2012Friday, October 26, 2012 at 11:47 pm PDT • Views: 739 Nature Conservation Modern World Mongrel World Wildlife Conservation Normal Destructive Rules Catastrophic Decline Elephant Numbers Elephant Population
Cutting the British Empire Down to Size Britain’s imperial reach was neither as great as some once thought nor as pernicious as some historians have argued 0 researchok HistorySeptember 2012Friday, September 28, 2012 at 12:42 am PDT • Views: 748 British Empire Britannia British Imperialists Empire Historical Judgements Imperial Reach Modern World Popular Culture
In Singling Out Nuns, Catholic Church Overlooks Its History 0 researchok ReligionJune 2012Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 1:31 am PDT • Views: 1,230 Nuns Catholic Church Extraordinary Women Modern Feminist Movement Modern World Vatican
The First Global Man: The Americas Before and After Columbus The New World was more technologically advanced than previously believed 0 researchok HistoryMay 2012Friday, May 4, 2012 at 1:20 am PDT • Views: 1,150 Christopher Columbus 500th Anniversary European Soldiers Fifteenth-century Europe Global Epidemic Venereal Disease Interdependence Modern World Native Americans Physical Anthropology
Some People Are Religious- Get Over It! The proposed ‘ex-gay’ bus advert was offensive, but gay Christians face a genuine dilemma. 0 researchok OpinionApril 2012Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 1:03 am PDT • Views: 803 Modern World Religious Faith Internal Struggles Same-sex Inclinations Gay Believer Gay Catholics Gay Christians Genuine Dilemma Catholic Teaching Crude Homophobia
The 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph Derek Thompson - the Atlantic 0 Randall Gross TechnologyApril 2012Sunday, April 8, 2012 at 1:02 pm PDT • Views: 1,520 100-year March Atlantic Bill Bryson Flat Screen Televisions Income Inequality Medical Bankruptcy Moral Obligation New Technologies Poor Seasons Richest Country Technology Starve Worrying Worry Modern World Plumbing Persuasive Gas Lamps Conservatism
A Festival of Lies: A History Of Failed American Middle East Policy 0 researchok OpinionMarch 2012Monday, March 26, 2012 at 1:03 am PDT • Views: 834 Afghanistan American Policy Options Arab World Victor Davis Hanson Modern World Obama Administration Officials Arab Human Development Report Democracy Workers Modern Education
Speak out against the anti science crowd is to make yourself the skunk at the GOP garden party Science and the Chattering Classes 0 researchok OpinionDecember 2011Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 1:04 am PST • Views: 706 Anti Science Crowd Chattering Classes Educated Class Modern World Poor Rationalist Technology Max Weber Physical Sciences