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Newsletter #214

January 7, 2019

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape

Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape

by Brian Hayes

"What's that thing?" Brian Hayes's daughter used to ask from the back seat. You might have asked the same, when seeing some strange man-made object sticking out of the ground or on the side of a build... (Tom)

Cover of Sparks!

Sparks!

by Ian Boothby and Nina Matsumoto

MADE-UP

An enthusiastic customer tipped us off to this graphic novel, nearly a year after it came out. All we needed to hear, really, was "two cats in a robotic dog suit," but "narrated by a sentient litter b... (Tom)

Cover of The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

by Julius S. Scott

TRUE

This innovative book of history comes with a history of its own: as a legendary PhD thesis shared for three decades among scholars but never published for a wider audience until now. Its innovation? P... (Tom)

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