Mary Beard’s exposition of Pompeii was undoubtedly one of the best books that I read last year.  Indeed, so enamoured was my father of the book that he bought 3 copies, as he’d recently been on a field trip to Pompeii, and knew that my uncle and I are also greatly enthused [...]

This is a fantastic treatise on the subject of violence, very much aided by the fact that Slavoj Zizek’s prose is always very lively and informative.  Zizek also employs examples from popular cinema to illustrate his work, which very much adds to its readability.  You can’t really argue against a book that draws sublime parallels [...]