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Nonfiction Challenges for Mother Earth UNBOUND: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought the World to the Brink By Richard Currier 376 pp. Arcade Publishing   Reviewed by David E. Hoekenga, M.D. While used occasionally before the last two hundred years the term technology has been widely applied to human effort since then. Currier uses it to describe events that in feels were critical to human progress. The author describes the primate baseline and how unusual monogamy is, occurring in only three percent of mammals, including humans. He writes that monogamy, while not perfect, promotes “social stability.” Drawing on very early man out of Africa such as “Lucy,” Currier describes how standing fully upright, forging fire hardening sticks, and especially a bigger brain benefitted the early hominids in their ascent . In the cleverly titled chapter “Hats, Huts, Togas and Tents,” s humans protect themselves and move into more hostile environments around the ...

Her breath rose and fell in fearful gasps but it was too late. She could already see what she dreaded most. The back seat was empty. Her little girl was gone. Abigail  lives the perfect life with her doting husband and adorable baby  Izzy . But someone knows a secret about Abigail and they want the truth to be told. When Izzy is snatched from a carpark, it becomes a case for  Detective Robyn Carter . Someone has been sending threatening messages to Abigail from an anonymous number. What is Abigail hiding?  Robyn’s instincts tell her there’s a connection between Izzy’s abduction and two murders she is investigating. But the last time she acted on impulse her fiancé was killed. To break this case and earn her place back on the force, she must learn to trust herself again – and fast. Robyn is on the hunt for a ruthless serial killer. And unless she gets to the twisted individual in time a little girl will die … I downloaded Little Girl Lost after watching a live chat wi...

Nonfiction Troubled marriage, nanswered questions LOVE AND DEATH IN THE SUNSHINE STATE The Story of a Crime By Cutter Wood 242 pp. Algonquin Books Reviewed by Eric Petersen Author Cutter Wood, previously known as a magazine essayist, makes his debut with his first nonfiction book, but don’t let the subtitle fool you – it isn’t really a true crime book, though true crime plays a big part in it. It isn’t even a nonfiction book entirely; that will become evident later. A few months after his college graduation, before he became a visiting scholar at the University of Iowa, (in the creative nonfiction program) Cutter Wood received a newspaper clipping in the mail from his mother. It was about the motel on Anna Maria Island, Florida, where he’d just stayed. The accompanying photograph showed the motel engulfed in flames, the result of a suspicious fire. What made it suspicious was the fact that a car belonging to one of the motel’s owners, a woman named Sabine Musil-Beuhler, had ...

I am so relieved to finally be able to shout about The Rules of Seeing as part of the blog tour. I read this book a month ago when I was on holiday ( yes I am sure I was the one who brought the sun back to the UK for us all lol! ) I had so many people ask about the book when they saw the cover and I just replied it is amazing and definitely a book that will get your mind thinking. Synopsis  illian Safinova, Nova to her friends, can do many things. She can speak five languages. She can always find a silver lining. And she can even tell when someone is lying just from the sound of their voice. But there’s one thing Nova can’t do. She can’t see. When her brother convinces her to have an operation that will restore her sight, Nova wakes up to a world she no longer understands. Until she meets Kate. As Kate comes into focus, her past threatens to throw them into a different kind of darkness. Can they each learn to see the world in a different … and open their eyes to the lives they coul...

--> Fiction Mutilation, migration, spycraft Amie Cut For Life By Lucinda E. Clark 312 pp. Umhlanga Press Reviewed by: David E. Hoekenga, M. D. Whenever I talk about going back to Africa with excitement in my voice, I invariably run into well-meaning people who claim they can experience it just as well watching a show or two on TV. Well, they can’t. I’ve never been able to convey the amazing smells of the continent that are like no other. If olfactory memories are more persistent than any other, then Amie Fish traveling under the name Felicity Mansell as a British spy tries hard. After, unwisely, spending time with her parents in Jo’berg even though her elaborate cover is that she was killed previously in an explosion in Zimbabwe. Her elaborate fake funeral is a waste because her mother is a blabbermouth. Then she wanders around Botswana and Zimbabwe where an attractive white woman sticks out like a sore thumb. Clark captures the flavor of African towns beautifully. Atari was ju...