The Page 99 Test

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65560413982258301872009-11-24T14:23:46.455-06:00The Page 99 Test"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." --Ford Madox FordMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comBlogger664125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-64568213403552777502009-11-24T11:11:00.000-06:002009-11-24T11:11:00.857-06:00Brenda Cooper's "Wings of Creation"

Brenda Cooper is a futurist who works with Glen Hiemstra at Futurist.com. She’s the co-author of the novel Building Harlequin's Moon, which she wrote with Larry Niven. Her novel The Silver Ship and the Sea won the 2008 Endeavour Award. Her solo and collaborative short fiction has appeared in multiple magazines, including Analog, Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Oceans of the Mind, and The Salal

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-8692470938544321092009-11-22T03:33:00.000-06:002009-11-22T03:33:00.059-06:00Susan M. Reverby's "Examining Tuskegee"

Susan M. Reverby is the McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She is editor of Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. She writes on the history of American women, health care and race.Reverby applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-23884397649114901392009-11-20T02:34:00.000-06:002009-11-20T02:34:00.206-06:00Brian Z. Tamanaha's "Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide"

Brian Z. Tamanaha is professor of law at Washington University School of Law. His books include On the Rule of Law and Law as a Means to an End.He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide: The Role of Politics in Judging, and reported the following:Here is the first full paragraph on page 99: This conventional picture, however, fails to acknowledge the

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-84876335818935243132009-11-18T12:41:00.001-06:002009-11-18T12:41:03.861-06:00James P. Sterba's "Affirmative Action for the Future"

James P. Sterba is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of twenty-five books, including Affirmative Action and Racial Preference: A Debate, Does Feminism Discriminate against Men--A Debate, Justice for Here and Now, and Terrorism and International Justice. He is also past president of the American Philosophical Association, Central

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-19969161331364408672009-11-16T03:45:00.001-06:002009-11-16T03:45:00.514-06:00Steven E. Landsburg's "The Big Questions"

Steven E. Landsburg is a Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester, where students recently elected him Professor of the Year. He is the author of The Armchair Economist, Fair Play, More Sex is Safer Sex, The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics, two textbooks in economics, a forthcoming textbook on general relativity

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-68040370819795000542009-11-14T03:33:00.000-06:002009-11-14T03:33:00.815-06:00Saleem H. Ali's "Treasures of the Earth"

Saleem H. Ali is associate professor of environmental studies at the University of Vermont and serves on the adjunct faculty of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He was chosen in 2007 by Seed magazine as one of eight Revolutionary Minds in the World for his work on using the environment to help resolve conflicts.He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book,

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-81853175053107704242009-11-12T10:10:00.000-06:002009-11-12T10:10:00.475-06:00Andrew G. Walder's "Fractured Rebellion"

Andrew G. Walder is the Denise O'Leary and Kent Thiry Professor in the Department of Sociology at Stanford, where he is also a Senior Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI).He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his latest book, Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement, and reported the following:The Red Guard movement was at the heart of China’s Cultural

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-14976304722280816032009-11-10T02:34:00.000-06:002009-11-10T02:34:00.176-06:00Gregory D. Koblentz's "Living Weapons"

Gregory D. Koblentz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs and Deputy Director of the Biodefense Graduate Program at George Mason University. The Biodefense Graduate Program is a graduate-level research and educational program designed to develop the next generation of biodefense and biosecurity professionals and scholars. Dr. Koblentz is also a

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-18004684102143604472009-11-08T04:44:00.000-06:002009-11-08T04:44:00.107-06:00Eli Berman's "Radical, Religious, and Violent"

Eli Berman is Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, and Research Director of International Security Studies at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism, and reported the following:Page 99 of Radical, Religious and Violent

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-58253473434449467212009-11-06T11:11:00.000-06:002009-11-06T11:11:00.171-06:00Caroline Cox's "The Fight to Survive"

Caroline Cox is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. She is the author of A Proper Sense of Honor: Service and Sacrifice in George Washington's Army. She has also written numerous articles for history publications and has appeared as a commentator on the History Channel.She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, The Fight to

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-46947409237726171202009-11-05T05:55:00.000-06:002009-11-05T05:55:00.471-06:00Bertrand Taithe's "The Killer Trail"

Bertrand Taithe is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Manchester. He has published extensively on war, medicine and war, and humanitarianism, including most recently Benjamin's Arcades: An Unguided Tour, and is an editor of the European Review of History.He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa, and reported the

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-64667017522953670562009-11-04T04:44:00.000-06:002009-11-04T04:44:00.389-06:00Ayala Fader's "Mitzvah Girls"

Ayala Fader is Associate Professor/Associate Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Fordham University, Lincoln Center.She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn (2009), and reported the following:Page 99 of my book, Mitzvah Girls, introduces what I call Hasidic Yiddish, the language, along with Hasidic English,

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-10441459234942472402009-11-02T21:19:00.002-06:002009-11-04T12:36:01.814-06:00Alan Philps & John Lahutsky's "The Boy from Baby House 10"

Alan Philps is an experienced foreign correspondent living in London. John Lahutsky is an American high school student who lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.Their new book is The Boy from Baby House 10: From the Nightmare of a Russian Orphanage to a New Life in America.Philps applied the “Page 99 Test” to The Boy from Baby House 10 and reported the following:Page 99 is one third of the way through

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-26927957381026897452009-11-01T02:22:00.000-06:002009-11-01T02:22:00.974-06:00J. William Harris' "The Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah"

J. William Harris is professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The Making of the American South: A Short History, 1500–1877; Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation (finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in history); and Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society: White Liberty and Black Slavery in Augusta’s Hinterlands.He

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-86669571023721458482009-10-30T11:55:00.001-05:002009-10-30T11:55:00.755-05:00Peter H. Wilson's "The Thirty Years War"

Peter H. Wilson is G. F. Grant Professor of History at the University of Hull.He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy, and reported the following:The Thirty Years War was Europe’s most destructive conflict prior to the twentieth-century, contributing to the deaths of proportionately far more Europeans than either world war. My interpretation differs

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-70589018015686114042009-10-29T02:22:00.000-05:002009-10-29T02:22:00.846-05:00Michael Goldfarb's "Emancipation"

One of Michael Goldfarb's documentaries for the public radio program Inside Out became the basis for his first book, Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq, which was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2005. Reporting another documentary, British Jihad: Inside Out, provided the inspiration for his new book, Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-77476516471074975262009-10-27T13:11:00.000-05:002009-10-27T13:11:00.777-05:00Mark Garvey's "Stylized"

Mark Garvey has worked in book publishing since 1988 and is currently an executive editor for a large Boston-based publishing house. A former editor of Writer's Market, he has been writing on the side since the early 1980s. His books include Searching for Mary (Penguin) and Come Together (Thomson).He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk &

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-1104711803976787262009-10-26T09:11:00.001-05:002009-10-26T10:58:54.802-05:00Edward M. Lerner's "Small Miracles"

Edward M. Lerner is a writer of SF and technothrillers, most recently Small Miracles.Lerner gave Small Miracles the “Page 99 Test” and reported the following:Small Miracles is a novel of nanotechnology, one of the most promising – if also the most hyped – technologies of our time.Briefly, nanotech deals with building objects at the scale of nanometers (billionths of a meter), and doing so with

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-36893544491437828682009-10-25T02:22:00.001-05:002009-10-25T07:28:50.464-05:00Arthur Ripstein's "Force and Freedom"

Arthur Ripstein is a professor of law and of philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Equality, Responsibility and the Law (1999), and editor of Ronald Dworkin (Cambridge 2007) and co-editor of Law and Morality (1996, second edition 2001, third edition 2007), and Practical Rationality and Preference (2001).He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Force and Freedom:

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-63616566107598647992009-10-23T15:49:00.001-05:002009-10-23T15:49:00.099-05:00"Erotic City"

Josh Sides is Whitsett Professor of California History, and Director of the Center for Southern California Studies, at California State University, Northridge.He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco, and reported the following:On the ninety-ninth page of Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-59730483219883148482009-10-22T15:47:00.001-05:002009-10-22T15:49:00.334-05:00Diana Welch & Liz Welch's "The Kids Are All Right"

Liz Welch is an ASME award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Glamour, Inc., the New York Times Magazine and many other publications. Her sister, Diana Welch, is a writer based in Austin, Texas. A former reporter for the Austin Chronicle, she is currently a curator for Monofonus Press.The sisters are also co-authors of The Kids Are All Right, a memoir in four voices in which they

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-31467434769105915142009-10-21T15:47:00.000-05:002009-10-21T15:47:00.227-05:00Martin Kitchen's "Rommel's Desert War"

Martin Kitchen is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, Simon Fraser University. His publications include The Third Reich: Charisma and Community (2007), A History of Modern Germany, 1800–2000 (2006) and Europe Between the Wars (second edition, 2006).He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his latest book, Rommel's Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941-1943, and reported the

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-16741139790339588702009-10-20T15:46:00.001-05:002009-10-20T15:46:00.152-05:00Thad Carhart's "Across the Endless River"

A dual citizen of Ireland and the United States, Thad Carhart is the author of the international bestseller, The Piano Shop on the Left Bank. He lives in Paris with his wife, the photographer Simo Neri, and their two children.He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his latest book, Across the Endless River, and reported the following:My story in Across the Endless River proceeds with a number of

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-32829705371510118012009-10-19T15:46:00.000-05:002009-10-19T15:46:00.357-05:00Carla Nappi's "The Monkey and the Inkpot"

Carla Nappi is Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia.She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and its Transformations in Early Modern China (Harvard University Press, 2009), and reported the following:Much like the naturalists and doctors I write about in The Monkey and the Inkpot, I became fascinated with the bugs

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-7299955842392898692009-10-18T15:45:00.000-05:002009-10-18T15:45:00.304-05:00Jake Adelstein's "Tokyo Vice"

Jake Adelstein was a reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper, from 1993 to 2005. From 2006 to 2007 he was the chief investigator for a U.S. State Department-sponsored study of human trafficking in Japan. Considered one of the foremost experts on organized crime in Japan, he works as a writer and consultant in Japan and the United States.He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new

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