Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Welcome to Subirdia

Welcome to SUBIRDIA
By John M. Marzluff, copyright 2014
303 pages
began reading May 24, 2016
Completed reading June 6, 2016 and review written.

Chapter one:  Home Turf
Chapter two:  Finding Subirdia
Chapter three:  A Child's Question
Chapter four:  A Shared Web
Chapter five:  The Fragile Nature of Subirdia
Chapter six.  Where We Work and Play
Chapter seven:  The Junco's Tail
Chapter eight:  Beyond Birds
Chapter nine:  Good Neighbors
Chapter ten:  Nature's Tenth Commandment

The Coming Anarchy

THE COMING ANARCHY
Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
by Robert D. Kaplan, copyright 2000
finished reading May 24, 2016
Interesting reading but far from up-to-date  considering writing was about 29 years ago.

Contents:
A series of writings by journalist Kaplan
I. The Coming Anarchy   February 1994
II.  Was Democracy Just a Moment?   December 1997
III.  Idealism Won't Stop Mass Murder   November 14, 1997
IV.  Special Intelligence   February 1998
V.  And Now For the News: The Disturbing Freshness of Gibbon's Decline and Fall    March 1997
VI.  Proportionalism: A Realistic Approach to Foreign Policy   August 1996
VII.  Kissinger, Metternich, and Realism   June 1999
VIII.  Conrad's Nostromo and the Third World    Spring 1998
IX.  The Dangers of Peace