Danny Yee's Book Reviews

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Latest reviews (all recent reviews)
How To Drive a Nuclear Reactor (Colin Tucker)
- layout, operation, and control
*Children of Mars: The Origins of Rome's Empire (Jeremy Armstrong)
- a federation of elite families working together for mutual benefit
*Religions of Early India: A Cultural History (Richard H. Davis)
- a broad historical perspective
Great Fear on the Mountain (Charles Ferdinand Ramuz)
- an Alpine village and the mountain above it
*Bike City Amsterdam (Fred Feddes, Marjolein de Lange)
How Amsterdam Became the Cycling Capital of the World
The History of Wales in Twelve Poems (M. Wynn Thomas)
- short historical essays accompanied by poems

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