The Super Hero's Journey

The Super Hero's Journey by Patrick McDonnell

A bit hard to rate because it's in a genre all its own. Half auto-biography, half superhero story, leavened with philosophy. About the impact of comics on his childhood imagination and lessons learned from them.

Winters in the World:

Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year by Eleanor Parker

A review of all that Anglo-Saxon literature has to tell us about the year and the seasons.

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experience and history

What experience and history teach us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel