Tag Archives: History

The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine

Posted on June 30, 2014 by hardlyregistered

I love my job, but it isn’t perfect. Nothing is. Over the past two months there had been a patient on my unit with a poor prognosis of thrombocytopenia, a condition that chronically wastes the body’s platelets, one of the … Continue reading →

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Why The West Rules – For Now

Posted on June 28, 2012 by hardlyregistered

The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future Ian Morris, 2010 This is one of the best books I have read in a long while. In ‘Why the West Rules – For Now’ Ian Morris has crafted … Continue reading →

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China – A History

Posted on June 17, 2012 by hardlyregistered

John Keay, 2009 Being a westerner, my upbringing is obviously western. Although I live in the Bay Area with a large Asian population, am married to an American born woman of Chinese descent, and despite having traveled to Shanghai, Hong … Continue reading →

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Collapse

Posted on May 31, 2012 by hardlyregistered

Jared Diamond, 2005 I can’t begin a review of Collapse by Jared Diamond without first acknowledging his sentinel work, Guns, Germs, and Steel. I read that book in 2007 and it revolutionized the way I consider history. How so? Diamond … Continue reading →

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Fast Food Nation

Posted on October 16, 2011 by hardlyregistered

Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser 2005 Fast Food Nation is a palatable and informative read with a heavy dose of historical contextualization on the side. This grease-laden social commentary is broken into two major sections: the first deals with the … Continue reading →

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The Man in the High Castle

Posted on January 28, 2011 by hardlyregistered

The Man in the High Castle by, Philip K. Dick 1962 Every thing we take for granted has been a result of the efforts of our past.  America’s status as world super power was a result of D-day and the … Continue reading →

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