[lbo-talk] vaca reading

[shag carpet bomb]

At 03:07 AM 5/5/2011, Sandy Harris wrote:
>On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:54 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> > it's that time again: tell me what to read!
> >
> > Anything you've seen lately on the new fiction or new non-fiction shelves
> > that you've read or would like to? Any good social or political
> > theory/philosophy books that everybody's reading. What about sociology 
> Alan?
>
>Books remaindered in their home countries often turn up in China at reasonable
>prices. One I liked was "Guns, Germs and Steel", a broad overview on
>differences in societies with a 10,000+ year perspective.

I got that for R a few years ago and ended up reading it myself. It was 
quite good. I've wondered about his other stuff... But someone remind me, 
didn't he come up against some criticism recently. I think I read some 
controversy in Atlantic Monthly or Harper's where he was caught out fudging 
the data or some of his informants said that he was misrepresenting them or 
something? Anyone know more about the upshot of the controversy?

shag

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