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Vatican thriller
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/08/2017
» Christianity hasn't been around long, its two millennia shorter than Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism. The God-Mary match captured the public's imagination and Holy Mother Church has been matched with God ever since. It survived its encounters with the Saracens and the Reformation, and now has an estimated following of 1 billion.
The Law is the law
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 18/08/2017
» From being overlooked in fear of retaliation, Isis has sprung to the forefront of favoured subject matter among books.
Lock up your daughters
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 30/12/2016
» Of all crimes, those against children are the most heinous. While they may not all be innocent, they are weak and vulnerable, expected to be protected from the dangers of the world and shown the right path by their parents and respected members of their community.
Loving non-humans
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/04/2016
» The close relationship between humans and lower forms of animals was noted millennia before Charles Darwin found a primordial connection. The relationship broadened in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book.
Yes? No? Maybe?
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 15/09/2014
» We know what history and historical fiction is, but pseudo-history? It is fiction made to seem fact. Untrue, yet commonly believed. The origins of religions is an example, founded by an interplay between God and humans. Another is how countries came to be, such as Romulus and Remus raised by wolves. Brits are pretty sure that Robin Hood was a literary creation, but tend to accept King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
A plausible 'what if?'
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 09/12/2013
» A game played by children as well as adult boffins is "what if?" The possibilities are as wide as the imagination. It's fun thinking about things being different than they are. What if I found a million dollars? What if I found the cure to cancer? What if I could read your mind? What if, tragically, Hitler had won World War II.
The Greater Depression
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 27/02/2012
» One of the subjects my brain can't grasp is finance _ make that the field of economics. The one thing about it I thought I knew, not to spend more than one earns, is clearly wrong. Countries with billions of dollars in debts and counting are still spending with alacrity.