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Book review: 'Inherently Unequal' by Lawrence Goldstone
Special to the Los Angeles TimesInherently Unequal The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903 Lawrence Goldstone Walker & Co.: 242 pp., $26 In the years immediately following the Civil War, America appeared to possess the will and the means to end racial...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Elections, Book, Wars and Interventions, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Book review: 'Here on Earth' by Tim Flannery
Los Angeles TimesEarth could use a biography. Tim Flannery has delivered a provocative one in time for Earth Day. Despite the rising level of greenhouse gases warming the Blue Planet and the failure to unite governments behind efforts to arrest the trend, Flannery is...Tags: Global Change, Science and Technology, Conservation, Book, Biography (genre)
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'The Age of Empathy' by Frans de Waal
The Age of Empathy
Nature's Lessons for
a Kinder Society
Frans de Waal
Harmony Books: 304 pp., $25.99
"Greed is out, empathy is in." So writes optimistic Dutch psychologist and primatologist Frans de Waal in the preface to his latest meditation on...Tags: Science and Technology, George W. Bush, Animals, Science, Barack Obama
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'A Bright and Guilty Place' by Richard Rayner
A Bright and Guilty Place
Murder, Corruption, and
L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age
Richard Rayner
Doubleday: 270 pp., $25
Everything has its counterpart. For every piece of matter there is a like piece of antimatter, for every movie star there is or...Tags: Crimes, Family, Justice System, Daniel Day Lewis, Death
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Movie openings, Darwin photo
Movie openings: Last Sunday's list of movies opening this past Friday included movies that had opened the previous Friday: "New in Town," "Of Time and the City," "The Secret of the Grain," "Serbis," "Taken" and "The Uninvited." Evolutionist: A photo...Tags: Charles Darwin
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'Banquet at Delmonico's' by Barry Werth
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FOR THE RECORD:
Evolutionist: In the Calendar section on Jan. 11, a photo caption with the review of the book "Banquet at Delmonico's" mentioned Charles Darwin and his fellow evolutionist, Herbert Spencer, but did not make clear...Tags: Elections, Biology, William James, Charles Darwin, Philosophy
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