Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy, Michael J.| www.thepsmiths.com
Imperial China: 900-1800, F.W. Mote (Harvard University Press, 1999).| www.thepsmiths.com
Please enjoy a final guest review while our baby works on some teeth.| www.thepsmiths.com
Our universe is fractally strange, and so are our societies. This is a post dedicated to works of non-fiction which, if you close your eyes or change the names, give the same imaginative thrill as the most daring speculative fiction.| www.thepsmiths.com
The Spirit of the Mountains, Emma Bell Miles (James Pott & Company, 1905).| www.thepsmiths.com
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century CE to the Third, Edward N.| www.thepsmiths.com
The Cruise of the Nona, Hilaire Belloc (1925; Loreto, 2014). Late in the May of 1925, around midnight, Hilaire Belloc climbed into a tiny boat and put out to sea so that he would have some time to think. The sea gives ample time to think, especially if like Belloc you disdain the use of a motor. Some wag once jested that sailing is like being at war: long stretches of boredom punctuated by moments of abject terror. I suppose in some sense that’s correct, but give me the boredom of the sailb...| www.thepsmiths.com
