Category Archives: Reviews

Review: ‘Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers’ by N. Harry Rothschild

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Published by: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 16th June 2015
ISBN: 9780231169387
Price: 40.00
Currency: USD
Edition: Hardcover

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A selection of new books from Llewellyn, reviewed

On this lovely day, I should like to share three reviews with you dear readers. As usual I got the ARC’s from http://www.netgalley.com; it’s a good place for amateur reviewers to get books early, but you don’t get to keep them; they expire 55 days after being downloaded, and sometimes I have to download them again.
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You don’t find my Dr Marten’s attractive? Really? How sad, never mind, I think I’ll survive your disapproval.

Just in case anyone missed the bulletin, women are under no obligation to dress or express themselves only in ways that are attractive to men. And if you think they are, the 1950’s called and would like their misogyny back.
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(Yes, I am being passive aggressive today; no, I don’t care.)

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Review: ‘Soul, Self and Society’ by Edward L. Rubin

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ISBN: 9780199348657
Price: 29.95 (USD)
Edition: Hardcover
Published by: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 13th March 2015

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