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History Returning From the Past

February 19, 2022 Dr. Cliff Cunningham 0

Hegel stated that Europe was the “Centre and end of History.” In a chapter by Suresh Sharma, where she gives this quote by Hegel, she writes that by the early 20th century, “the rest of […]

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Ancient Latin Poetry Books

January 10, 2022 Dr. Cliff Cunningham 0

What is a poem? That is the question Gabriel Macedo (University of Liège in Belgium) tackles at the outset of this book. While the ancient Romans left us few theoretical definitions, the one that seems […]

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Achilles and the Black Cloud of Grief

January 9, 2022 Dr. Cliff Cunningham 0

In this book on the futility of longing for the dead, Professor Emily Austin of the University of Chicago explores the reaction of Achilles to the loss of his compatriot Patroclus. The text is, of […]

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Jan. 6 and the Ancient Greek Poet Simonides

January 6, 2022 Dr. Cliff Cunningham 0

Proving that poetry is the path to eternity, we have here a large book on Simonides. While most of the leaders and military generals of that long ago time when he lived (born in 556 […]

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Building Democracy

January 2, 2022 Dr. Cliff Cunningham 0

The built environment is something we often take for granted. For example, if you were born in London anytime in the last century, the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace would be seemingly timeless landmarks. […]

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Diderot: Prose of the World

December 30, 2021 Dr. Cliff Cunningham 0

This book could have been subtitled The Many Faces of Diderot. Like the 1957 film Man of a Thousand Faces, even the world expert on Diderot, who authored this, can’t fully explain him. As editor […]

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The Story of Undersea Cables

December 28, 2021 Dr. Cliff Cunningham 0

In lively prose that transforms an otherwise dull subject into an exciting adventure story, Dr Bruce Hunt of the University of Texas in Austin has written a book on how undersea cables were developed in […]

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British Literature in 1,165 pages

December 26, 2021 Dr. Cliff Cunningham 0

There are several landmarks in the study of British/English literature. The latest of these is a 3-volume set published by Cambridge University Press. Covering the period 1557-1714 in an expansive 1,165 pages, a host of […]

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Edgar Allan Poe and Science

December 13, 2021 Dr. Cliff Cunningham 0

The title of this book is very provocative; one must read the subtitle to realise it is actually about America’s great poet Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). More than just a biography, it relates how Poe […]

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Stand-Up Comedy in Ancient Rome

October 21, 2021 Dr. Cliff Cunningham 0

To quote playwright Alan Bennett: “If not quite a platform, a play is certainly a plinth, a small eminence from which to address the world, hold forth about one’s concerns or the concerns of one’s […]

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Dr. Cliff Cunningham is a planetary scientist, the acknowledged expert on the 19th century study of asteroids. He is a Research Fellow at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. He serves as Editor of the History & Cultural Astronomy book series published by Springer; and Associate Editor of the Journal of Astronomical History & Heritage. Asteroid 4276 in space was named in his honour by the International Astronomical Union based in the recommendation of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Dr. Cunningham has written or edited 15 books.
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