Tag Archives: Reviews

Poverty Bibliography (Blog Action Day 2008)

By CircleReader | October 15, 2008

A bibliography for Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty. A collection of readings on economics and poverty, for parents, kids, and churches. “You cannot reduce poverty if you don’t know what poverty is.”

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August, 1945

By CircleReader | August 8, 2008

Sixty-three years ago this week, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The enormity of the event, the inhuman scale of both this power and its consequences, is nearly impossible to communicate. How can one understand the power of a thousand suns unleashed upon whole cities? It became one of the defining stories for generations [...]

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She Could Be President of the United States of America

By CircleReader | July 5, 2008

Review of Catherine Thimmesh and Douglas B. Jones’s Madam President: The Extraordinary, True (and Evolving) Story of Women in Politics.

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Beowulf: Behold the Man

By CircleReader | November 16, 2007

You think you’ve heard about swords, and heroes, and fire-breathing dragons, and friendship, and glory, and treasure, just ’cause you’ve read those Potter books? C’mere, boys, let me tell you a tale…

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