[EliRivers]

So true. The amount of dross one has to wade through on the internet to find something worth the reading can be huge. Whilst being printed in paper format at the end of a chain of editors, proof-readers, financial outlay and vast amounts of effort on the part of the original author (generally quite qualified, and even then you can double check this yourself before you read) doesn't guarantee a good result, the odds are much better.

They picked some good authors to start with; Ha-Joon Chang's previous book for the general audience was a good read from a good writer.

[adestefan]

After slogging through _A People's Tragedy_ I'm interested in Figes book on an expanded time frame of Russian history.