Danny Yee's Book Reviews

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Latest reviews (all recent reviews)
A Kitchen in the Corner of the House (Ambai)
- short stories celebrating the lives of Indian women
*Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City (Gwendolyn Leick)
- ten cities over five millennia
*A Change of Time (Ida Jessen)
- facing widowhood in a Danish country town
Bringing Words to Life (Beck, McKeown, Kucan)
Robust Vocabulary Instruction
Who We Are and How We Got Here (David Reich)
Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Ancestral Journeys (Jean Manco)
The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
*How To Fold It (Joseph O'Rourke)
The Mathematics of Linkages, Origami, and Polyhedra

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