{"id":34571,"date":"2010-12-09T12:13:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T20:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/wp\/?p=972"},"modified":"2010-12-09T12:13:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T20:13:39","slug":"this-book-is-a-big-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/09\/this-book-is-a-big-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"This book is a big *wow*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0199236631\/geneexpressio-20\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=' float: left; padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0;'  class=\"size-medium wp-image-973 alignleft\" title=\"0199262136\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/0199262136-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0199236631\/geneexpressio-20\/\">War in Human Civilization<\/a> is an awesomely well written and dense book. Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0691058873\/geneexpressio-20\">The Horse, the Wheel, and Language<\/a> it is a scholarly work which stays broadly engaging and relevant to a wider audience than specialists. Highly recommended if you have some spare time over Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>This is naturally not a endorsement of every claim made in this book. But whatever the substantive facts, the author managed to implement the plan of argument and the marshaling of evidence in a fashion which is extremely impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War in Human Civilization is an awesomely well written and dense book. Like The Horse, the Wheel, and Language it is a scholarly work which stays broadly engaging and relevant to a wider audience than specialists. Highly recommended if you have some spare time over Christmas. This is naturally not a endorsement of every claim [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34571"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38263,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34571\/revisions\/38263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}