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The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law
Bardo Fassbender, Anne Peters, Simone Peter and Daniel Hogger
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law provides an authoritative and original...
Iraq: People, History, Politics
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Few countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq. Its...
Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) in Movies
Sep 25, 2019
After having rewatched the first offering from this franchise I was fully up to date with my rip off Transformers. For those of you who don’t remember the first one, they’re man operated robots that think they’re a combination of your favourite superheroes with almost power poses, and almost hero landings.
You don’t have to worry about not having seen the first one. It's very accommodating to show you what you missed... World was bad. World had a war. World won! There are bits that would benefit from the original knowledge, but you can glean what happened from what's going on.
There's certainly entertaining action, and a few moments where they seem to have a little laugh at themselves. It will pass the time relatively easily... as long as you ignore the very out of place montage in the middle.
I'm glad they brought new elements in and it didn't end up just being a resurgence of the Kaiju and "oh no, let's get the band back together".
Awix (3310 KP) rated When the Tripods Came (The Tripods #4) in Books
Sep 18, 2019
A bit dated, but that's the least of the book's issues. A prequel to the main series was really not required, and the main catalyst for writing it seems to have been the Tripods TV show which was broadcast three or four years earlier. (The TV show the Masters use to take over the world bears a suspicious resemblance to the TV adaptation of the first two books.) It's not really meta, more sort of peeved: peeved at critics of the show's shortcomings, but also peeved at the makers of the show for not doing a better job. As well as being dated, the relationship subplots of the book feel a bit proforma, but the depiction of the world slowly sliding out of human control and the end of modern civilisation is vividly presented in the usual compelling fashion. Whether it should all feel a bit more downbeat and bleak is probably a question of personal taste; Christopher's prose retains its good manners as well as its readability.
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The Age of Unreason
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With capitalism in deep crisis, this urgent and impassioned book shows how and why growing populist...