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BusinessWeek
May 15, 2008 |
The Improbable Heroes of Toontown A new book highlights how Pixar's founders turned their dream - computer-animated films - into a wildly successful movie studio.   |
TIME Europe
May 15, 2008
Robert Service |
Boris Yeltsin: Not Your Average Statesman In Yeltsin: A Life, Timothy J. Colton has written a fine biography of Russia's first postcommunist President. |
TIME Europe
May 15, 2008
Gary Taylor |
Milton and Shakespeare: Battle of the Bards In a new book, Is Milton Better Than Shakespeare?, Nigel Smith sets out to convince "as general a public as possible" that Milton is the "more salient and important" of these literary giants. |
TIME Europe
May 15, 2008
Cynthia Rosenfeld |
Paradise Bound Bangkok-based Bill Bensley is a master at creating landscapes for top-tier Asian resorts. You can get an idea of his lavishly romantic style from the pages of his new book, Paradise by Design. |
The Motley Fool
May 14, 2008
Ryan Fuhrmann |
Warren Buffett's Recommended-Reading List What to read to get ahead in the investing world. |
Global Services
May 12, 2008
Imrana Khan |
Outsmart! The book "Outsmart!" by outsourcing advisor James Champy will help companies reinvent the way they compete. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
Philanthropy
May 5, 2008
Scott Walter |
Giving Thoughtfully Readings to inspire the philanthropic imagination. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Inc.
May 2008
Leigh Buchanan |
A Skimmer's Guide To the Latest Business Books - Sway A brief summary of a business book about motivation. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
May 2008 |
'Levity' and 'Awakening' This month's books for entrepreneurs focus on fun and future. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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." |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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." |
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. |
Humanities
Mar/Apr 2008 |
Curio Fortieth Anniversary of the Prague Spring... Descent into Happiness... Interesting Mustard... |
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