![]() If, early on, you criticize a section of a book for “fail to come to terms with genius and character,” you might want to unpack that statement.Mention that the publisher’s website sells the book for the price listed at the top of your review.This includes their prices, the cost of publishing works with over 100 full-color illustrations, the intended audience(s), and the possibility that a specific work might intentionally cross genres, and that that’s a good thing. ![]() Familiarize yourself with the current market for the book you’re reviewing – say, hypothetically, early modern European military history books.Other stuff I can’t remember right now.Review of a iPad app on the battle of the Bulge. ![]() Playing around with basic textual analysis.More on note-taking, with Devonthink Pro Office and Scrivener.What else is coming up on the blog, you ask? Unfortunately I’m too impatient for Max Planck’s constant to take effect: “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” Maybe I’m tilting at windmills, but then English accounts of the war could use a bit more of the ‘windmill perspective.’ I didn’t think it was necessary, but apparently it is. New posts will be on the way, including a summary of the Performances of Peace conference that I just returned from last week.Īnd given a particular book review of our Marlborough book that will remain semi-anonymous, this summer must be the summer of destroying Winston Churchill’s biography of the Duke. ![]() But the research projects for the semester are finally concluded, for which I’m thankful. ![]()
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