Kathy Lin » Books http://www.kathylin.com/blog Kathy Lin's personal website -- so it's mainly about nothing. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:56:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The End of an Era http://www.kathylin.com/blog/2007/02/01/the-end-of-an-era/ http://www.kathylin.com/blog/2007/02/01/the-end-of-an-era/#comments Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:39:34 +0000 Kathy http://kathylin.dreamhosters.com/blog/2007/02/01/the-end-of-an-era/ Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be published on 21st July, 2007. It’s the end to a saga I have enjoyed for a while now. My only wish is that it ends the series on a bang, as the previous books (Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince) have left me a little wary.

Here’s to your seventh year, Harry Potter. May you embody the spirit and imagination that have made so many people fans and avid readers.

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From the Publisher: Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the other way around? In this groundbreaking work, an evolutionary biologist dismantles racially-based theories and reveals the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns. A whirlwind tour through 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire population. Here is a truly a world history, brilliantly written and radically new.

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