The list grows, and is beginning to make me panic...
1) Empires of the Word : A Language History of the world
2) Chaucer and his England
3) Scottish Border Country
4) Human Accomplishment
5) The Arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
6) By Permission of Heaven : The True Story of the Great Fire of London
7) The Great Mortality : An Intimate history of the Black Death
Especially interesting is "Chaucer and his England", reads almost like a travelogue. 'Human Accomplishment' is pretty amazing...I'm through with only the first few chapters and they were delicious. Upcoming chapters have intriguing names like "Is Accomplishment Declining?", "Excellence and Its Identification" and other such. Yet to start off with "Empires of the Word", but rearing to go...couldn't start immediately after reading "Peopleware: Successful Projects and Teams" (Owen lent it).
Oh, and guess what? All the books in the above list excluding the first and last...cost me only around $34 CAD or so. Boxing Week sale and all... :p
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