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In January 2024, the World Economic Forum predicted that by 2050 climate change will cause 14.5 million deaths and $12.5 trillion in damage....

James Gilchrist Swan was a remarkable individual. Born in 1818 he spend most of his life in the Pacific North West, now part of Washington s...

The US Marxist Hal Draper is perhaps best remembered for his monumental, multivolume study of the revolutionary thought of Karl Marx. But so...

Wole Talabi is a well known Nigerian author, but this is their first foray into fantasy. Set in a universe where the spirit and human worlds...

Until I picked up Chantal Lyons' Groundbreakers I had no idea that there were parts of the British Isles that had hundreds of wild boar...

This, the second Jack Reacher novel, follow a pattern that I suspect will become common place in the series. Jack Reacher randomly finds him...

The "Rebecca Riots" were one of the most striking examples of rural rebellion during the 19th century. Today they are mostly remem...

This 1941 novel by James M. Cain is not one of his best known, though it was made into a film starring Joan Crawford as the eponymous Mildre...

Çatalhöyük is perhaps one of the most remarkable neolithic archaeological sites in the world. Situated in  Anatolia, Turkey, it is one of th...

The town of Butte, Montana, USA, was built on mining. Its miners came from everywhere around the world, and their labour lined the pockets o...

This sort of political biography rarely interests me. But I must admit to a certain fascination with the short 49 day premiership of Liz Tru...

Abram Leon was a brilliant intellectual and socialist activist whose life was cut short when he was murdered in Auschwitz. Born in Warsaw in...

Walter Mosley is best known for his crime novels, many of which feature Easy Rawlins, an American black detective working in Los Angeles. Bu...

I write this review in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Milton's devastation of parts of Florida . Milton followed Helene , just a w...