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TIME Europe
May 8, 2008
Lev Grossman
The New James Frey: A Review In his two previous books, Frey has a history of having a little too much fun with facts. In his latest fictional novel Bright Shiny Morning, he finally has written in a genre where that's not a problem. mark for My Articles similar articles
Humanities
May/Jun 2008
A Conversation with John Updike Jefferson Lecturer John Updike shares his passion for American art with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole. Updike, a Pulitzer Prize-winner and well-known novelist, has also written two volumes of art criticism: Just Looking and Still Looking. mark for My Articles similar articles
Humanities
May/Jun 2008
Adam Gopnik
A Fan's Notes Of all modern American writers, Updike comes closest to meeting Virginia Woolf's demand that a writer's only job is to get himself, or herself, expressed without impediments. mark for My Articles similar articles
Humanities
May/Jun 2008
Francis-Noel Thomas
Journalist A. J. Liebling Reading almost any twenty consecutive pages of A. J. Liebling's Second World War reportage offers an excellent demonstration of just how specious the distinction between journalism and literature can be. mark for My Articles similar articles
Humanities
May/Jun 2008
Mary Jo Paterson
Impertinent Questions As the managing editor of the Adams Papers and primary editor for Adams Family Correspondence, Margaret A. Hogan has an all-access pass to the lives of John, Abigail, John Quincy, and the rest of the Adams dynasty. mark for My Articles similar articles
BusinessWeek
May 8, 2008
Stanley Reed
The New New World Order Fareed Zakaria's sobering book analyzes the changes afoot as rising global players challenge U.S. dominance mark for My Articles
TIME Europe
May 7, 2008
Peter Savodnik
Chill Out: The New Cold War In "The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West," Edward Lucas makes a powerful case that Russia hasn't simply lost its way or stumbled on the path to modernity; it has reignited the same intercontinental struggle Americans thought they'd long won. mark for My Articles similar articles
Philanthropy
May 5, 2008
Scott Walter
Giving Thoughtfully Readings to inspire the philanthropic imagination. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
May 2008
Katherine Mangu-Ward
Pirate Capitalism In The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism, author Matt Mason discusses that piracy is now an accepted business model, and competitive enough to be a major threat to traditional businesses going forward. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
May 2008
Michael C. Moynihan
Flight of the Neocons In They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons, Jacob Heilbrunn, a senior editor at the conservative journal The National Interest, retraces the history of Norman Podhoretz's movement through its wilderness years to its ignominious decline post-Iraq. mark for My Articles similar articles
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2008
Make Market Frenzy Your Friend In his new book, "7 Commandments of Stock Investing," Gene Marcial's offers a counterintuitive method of picking market winners and profiting from a long-term approach. mark for My Articles similar articles
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2008
Brian Hindo
Winning the Board Game This primer offers useful, if sometimes equivocal, ideas about getting back to good-governance basics. mark for My Articles similar articles
CRM
May 2008
Lior Arussy
The Excellence Myth In an exclusive excerpt from his new book Excellence Every Day, the author examines the truth and crippling fictions behind the value of experience. mark for My Articles similar articles
AskMen.com
Michael Hodges
5 Things You Didn't Know: AK-47 The author of AK-47: The Story of the People's Gun lets us in on a few little-known facts about the AK-47 he uncovered while researching his work. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
May 2008
Kenneth R. Foster
In Defense of Dumb A review of Donald A. Norman's book The Design of Future Things, which makes the case that some systems may be too smart for our own good. mark for My Articles similar articles
Inc.
May 2008
Leigh Buchanan
A Skimmer's Guide To the Latest Business Books - Sway A brief summary of a business book about motivation. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
May 1, 2008
Elizabeth O'Brien
The Little Book That Builds Wealth Dorsey, director of equity research at Morningstar, covers various elements that help identify companies with competitive advantage in his new book The Little Book that Builds Wealth. mark for My Articles similar articles
BusinessWeek
April 24, 2008
The BusinessWeek Best Seller List A list of interesting business-related books from BusinessWeek's Best Seller list. mark for My Articles similar articles
TIME Europe
April 24, 2008
Lev Grossman
Stephenie Meyer: The Next J.K. Rowling? Five years ago, a Phoenix housewife named Stephenie Meyer had a dream: a young woman was talking to a beautiful, sparkling man in a sunlit meadow. The man was a vampire. They were in love and he was a vampire. mark for My Articles similar articles
BusinessWeek
April 23, 2008
Mobsters Without Borders In his new book, McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld, Misha Glenny guides readers through the worldwide "shadow economy," where we meet criminal entrepreneurs thriving on globalization with well-organized, cosmopolitan networks. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
April 24, 2008
Harlequin Romances Go Digital A new digital service that uses the LibreDigital Internet Digital Warehouse solution to provide readers with new ways to access Harlequin titles digitally, including online and mobile formats. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
April 21, 2008
Josh McHugh
How the Self-Published Debut Daemon Earned Serious Geek Cred First-time novelist Leinad Zeraus scored encomiums for his debut work, Daemon by courting bloggers and influential techies like Joi Ito, Stewart Brand, and Craig Newmark. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
April 21, 2008
Scott Brown
Scott Brown Rallies America's Nerds to Embrace Their Rise to Power Benjamin Nugent, author of the fascinating mock ethnography American Nerd: The Story of My People, defines different categories of nerds and specifies who may qualify. mark for My Articles similar articles
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2008
Jill Jusko
Bookshelf: Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way your Company Innovates In their new book, Peter Skarzynski and Rowan Gibson detail how to evaluate new growth opportunities, provide guidelines to manage innovation resources and suggest design rules to improve a corporation's innovation pipeline. mark for My Articles similar articles
Entrepreneur
May 2008
'Levity' and 'Awakening' This month's books for entrepreneurs focus on fun and future. mark for My Articles similar articles
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2008
John Teresko
Bookshelf: Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem that Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier Written for CEOs, managers and business professionals, Gary Harpst's new book offers a peek into the author's own entrepreneurial mind. mark for My Articles similar articles
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2008
John Teresko
Bookshelf: The Executive Guide to Boosting Cash Flow and Shareholder Value V. Rory Jones' book guides the reader through a concise set of pragmatic management approaches and practical steps - along with real-life examples, everyday business anecdotes and helpful sidebars - to illustrate specific points and critical insights. mark for My Articles similar articles
Computing Unplugged
April 2008
Joe Dolittle
Three Essential Guides to Understanding LEGO Robotics and the LEGO System Three recent books The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide, The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book, and The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide vie for the best LEGO tutorial. mark for My Articles similar articles
Health
April 2008
DIY Non-Toxic Home Cleaners Here are four eco-friendly recipes for cleaning products, adapted from "Better Basics for the Home: Simple Solutions for Less Toxic Living" by Annie Berthold-Bond. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
April 2008
Nick Gillespie
Soundbite: Monkeys and Money Michael Shermer's new book, The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics, seeks to explain "how evolution shaped the modern economy and why people are so irrational about money." mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
April 2008
Joanne McNeil
The 'White Slavery' Panic Anti-prostitution activists have been equating sex work with slavery for over a century. Karen Abbott's latest book suggests that prostitution was better respected a century ago. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
April 2008
Jacob Sullum
No Bad Drugs Two books on drug use in America offer conflicting opinions and further emphasize the arbitrary distinctions at the root of drug prohibition. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2008
David A. Geracioti
It's All Greenspan's Fault A conversation with William Fleckenstein, whose book, Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance At The Federal Reserve, was recently published by McGraw-Hill. mark for My Articles similar articles
Finance & Development
March 2008
John Odling-Smee
Book Reviews Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods, is the new book by Barry Eichengreen, a leader in the field of international monetary history. The theme of this compact and engrossing book is that history suggests that the current situation is unlikely to last for long. mark for My Articles similar articles
CRM
April 1, 2008
Christopher Musico
Required Reading: Learn the New Rules for Building Brands A new book outlines the lessons to be learned from "accidental" marketers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Inc.
April 2008
Leigh Buchanan
Skimmers Guide to the Latest Business Books A summary of the new business book "The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth With Innovation." mark for My Articles similar articles
Direct
April 1, 2008
Beth Negus Viveiros
Down and Dirty "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Guerrilla Marketing," by Susan Drake and Colleen Wells, aims to help companies find alternatives to big-buck campaigns. mark for My Articles similar articles
Direct
April 1, 2008
Beth Negus Viveiros
Novel by Design "The Learners" is a bit of a love letter to the idea of words as elements in a design and the fact that people need to be careful about the words they use. mark for My Articles similar articles
Humanities
Mar/Apr 2008
The Dandy A conversation with Michael Anton, author of The Suit, a parody of Machiavelli's The Prince and a ringing defense of old-fashioned dressiness for men. mark for My Articles similar articles
Humanities
Mar/Apr 2008
Curio Fortieth Anniversary of the Prague Spring... Descent into Happiness... Interesting Mustard... mark for My Articles similar articles
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