Jonathan Lyons: The House of Wisdom [2010] paperback Condition:New amid the joys of late

amid the joys of late motherhood and prestigious teaching posts abroad

Bonded by love and friendship

and rituals from the author's personal Book of Shadows

a book to treasure

Sanger takes these prejudicial views of women's abortion decisions into the twenty-first century by uncovering new connections between abortion law and American culture and politics

Jonathan Lyons: The House of Wisdom [2010] paperback Condition:New amid the joys of lateFor centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was backward and benighted, locked into the Dark Ages and barely able to tell the time of day. Arab culture, however, was thriving, and had become a powerhouse of intellectual exploration and discussion that dazzled the likes of British adventurer Adelard of Bath. The Arabs could measure the earth's circumference (a feat not matched in the West for eight hundred years); they discovered algebra;