alarm that went off and said, 'This just isn't right in some way.' " Mortenson answers, "There were alarms, Tom. I didn't listen to them. I was willing to basically kill myself to raise money and help the projects." Mortenson has previously claimed that his co-author, David Oliver Relin, "did nearly all the writing." Relin committed suicide in 2012.

For The New Republic, William Deresiewiczreviews Michael Suk-Young Chwe's "abominable volume" Jane Austen, Game Theorist: "Austen, he claims, was a 'social theorist' who 'carefully establishes game theory's core concepts' and 'systematically explored' them in her novels, which are 'game theory textbooks.' This is a perfectly valid statement, as long as we ignore the accepted meaning of most of the words it contains."Location URL

The earliest and largest man-made structure that can be recognized from space. One of two astounding lakes engineered by Angkor's master builders. Popularly thought to be reservoirs for a gigantic irrigation system, no evidence of such a system has been found despite extensive archeological surveys. Pre-Angkor temples, abandoned early on by the Khmer and now engulfed by the gigantic walls of the West Baray, suggest that the lake's design was meant to keep out floods from the nearby Tonle Sap. The twin Baray's were very likely sacred models of the celestial Sea of Milk from which life itself was churned by the union of gods and demons, a scene famously depicted in Angkor Wat's stone galleries. In the very center of the lake is a small island