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> Tag: Jacob Goldstein

Some stuff — Round Up

Money by Jacob Goldstein

Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo

Time and Free Will by Henri Bergson

Mind of my Mind by Octavia Butler

The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber

Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny

Assembly by Natasha Brown

Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel

People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn

A Fanatic Heart by Ron Rosenbaum

How Civil Wars Start by Barbara Walter

My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood

March 28, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Time and Free Will – 5/5 I am not a philosopher or even particularly well-read in philosophy, so this review is more from the perspective of someone with a literature background, and who is used to using philosophy to serve the aims of literature and philology. This book is particularly suited to the task because through early breakthroughs (or perhaps just ideologies) in psychology — specifically he references William James (and it’s possible he mentions Freud, but I don’t recall it specifically) — to better […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Barbara Walter, Dara Horn, David Baddiel, David Graeber, Henri Bergson, Jacob Goldstein, Margaret Atwood, Natasha Brown, octavia butler, roger zelazny, Ron Rosenbaum, Timothy Mo

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:130 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Barbara Walter, Dara Horn, David Baddiel, David Graeber, Henri Bergson, Jacob Goldstein, Margaret Atwood, Natasha Brown, octavia butler, roger zelazny, Ron Rosenbaum, Timothy Mo ·
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Two stories that couldn’t be more different

Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein

We Are All Monsters Here by Kelley Armstrong

November 8, 2020 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein (4 stars) What, exactly, is money? How does it work? Why does it work? How did it develop? What I’ve always assumed, and what I think most people who think about it assume, is that money evolved from early barter economies. Instead of selling, for instance, crops for money, early farmers would exchange crops for things that they needed. So a farmer would have to find, say, a potter and exchange a bushel of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Horror, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Jacob Goldstein, Kelley Armstrong, Money, We Are All Monsters Here

ingres77's CBR12 Review No:62 · Genres: Fiction, History, Horror, Non-Fiction · Tags: Jacob Goldstein, Kelley Armstrong, Money, We Are All Monsters Here ·
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