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Humanities
Jul/Aug 2009
Kenneth Fields |
A Recollection of Wallace Stegner When I came to Stanford in 1963 as a graduate student in English, Wallace Stegner ruled the roost.  |
Humanities
Jul/Aug 2009
David Skinner |
Webster's Third Dictionaary The most controversial dictionary in the English language.  |
Humanities
Jul/Aug 2009
Meredith Hindley |
Who Said It? Man has been enchanted, challenged, and humbled by the sea. In this edition of Who Said It?, we ride the waves of literature and history to see what secrets the tides reveal. |
Humanities
Jul/Aug 2009
Meredith Hindley |
Impertinent Questions with Alan Houston Alan Houston's latest book, Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement, tackles the Founding Father who has confounded generations with his varied opinions and multiple careers. |
Reason
July 2009
Tim Cavanaugh |
Dickens Is Back. Watch Your Wallet. If you want to understand the economy, don't turn to the author of Oliver Twist for answers. Acolytes of the Victorian novelist have recently arisen to champion his rescue from imaginary obscurity. |
Reason
July 2009
Tim Cavanaugh |
Sympathy for the Investment Banker Who killed Bear Stearns? If you want a compelling rendition of the fall of a once-proud investment bank, Bear Trap and House of Cards are both worth reading. |
Reason
July 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Briefly Noted: Downsize Me "I don't like what you're proving here," Tom Naughton's doctor tells him toward the end of Fat Head, his sharp, funny rejoinder to Morgan Spurlock's 2004 fast food expose Super Size Me. |
Reason
July 2009
Nick Gillespie |
The Prehistory of Porn Prosecution How "licentious Gotham" gave rise to today's obscenity laws is explained in a new book by Donna Dennis. |
Reason
July 2009
Tim Cavanaugh |
Briefly Noted: We Often Dream of Trains Robert S. Schleicher's coffee table history The Lionel Legend: An American Icon suggests why industries grow more politically potent as they become less important to the economy. |
Reason
July 2009
Joanne McNeil |
Death of a Dystopian The life and legacy of J.G. Ballard |
Reason
July 2009
Clark Stooksbury |
Briefly Noted: A Foreign Policy They Can't Refuse With The Godfather Doctrine, John C. Hulsman and A. Wess Mitchell have applied the differing views of mob boss Don Corleone's three sons to differing schools of American foreign policy. |
BusinessWeek
June 25, 2009
Paul Barrett |
Going Great Guns with Fear Marketing Whatever your views on gun control, there are lessons to be learned from the firearm industry. |
BusinessWeek
June 25, 2009 |
The BusinessWeek Best Seller List "Outliers" tops this week's list of hardcover business bestsellers. |
Entrepreneur
July 2009
Jennifer Wang |
5 (More) Great Books on Entrepreneurship Once you've read the first 100, check out these other works of entrepreneurial wisdom. |
Wired
June 22, 2009
Chris Anderson |
Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity From the author's new book entitled "Free: The Future of a Radical Price." When scarce resources become abundant, smart people treat them differently, exploiting them rather than conserving them. |
Wired
June 22, 2009
Steven Levy |
Salon Cofounder and Blogger Gives His Short-Form Medium the Long-Form Treatment Salon cofounder Scott Rosenberg has written a new book, Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters. |
Science News
July 4, 2009
Sid Perkins |
Book Review: Flotsametrics And The Floating World By Curtis Ebbesmeyer And Eric Scigliano Today, scientists recognize flotsam as a tremendous source of scientific data. |
BusinessWeek
June 18, 2009
Barry Maggs |
Come Back from the Beach a Bit Savvier This summer reading roundup spotlights a rake's guide to success, outsourced espionage, and a delicious wine caper, among other books. |
TIME Europe
June 17, 2009
Lev Grossman |
Chef Lit: Kitchen Writing Even bad chef memoirs have a certain mesmerizing quality. |
CRM
June 1, 2009
Clara Shih |
Sales in the Facebook Era In this excerpt from her new book, "The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff," the head of social media alliances and product strategy at Salesforce.com provides her take on the future of CRM and social media. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Kate Wong |
Scientific American recommends 3 books about the moon Also: Becoming Human, and Amazing Animals |
Inc.
June 2009
Leigh Buchanan |
Review: In Pursuit of Elegance Author Mathew E. May writes about the virtues of simplicity and symmetry in solving business problems. |
Outside
June 2009
Bruce Barcott |
Survival Books Two new plane-crash memoirs hope to soar into the survival-narrative canon. |
Popular Mechanics
June 4, 2009
Mike Allen |
Questions for Matthew B. Crawford, Author of Shop Class as Soul Craft What possessed him to write this book that make the case for how much thinking goes on in the trade professions? |
Popular Mechanics
June 3, 2009
Harry Sawyers |
Questions for Bill Gurstelle About the Art of Living Dangerously What kind of riskier-than-average activity does your book suggest? |
Chemistry World
June 2009
Philip Ball |
Column: The crucible Scientific fraud highlights flaws in the way that scientists communicate with each other. Eugenie Samuel Reich's book Plastic fantastic, highlights a key element in what transpires. |
MyBusiness
Jun/Jul 2009
Megan Pacella |
Management 101 Take a peek inside DK Publishing's Essential Managers series for answers to common employer questions. |
Reason
June 2009
Michael C. Moynihan |
What Caused the Crisis? In his new book, Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis, John B. Taylor argues that the government bears the most responsibility for creating and sustaining the current crisis. |
Reason
June 2009
Brian Doherty |
The Freaky Father of Fitness In Mark Adams' Mr. America: How Muscular Millionaire Bernarr Macfadden Transformed the Nation Through Sex, Salad, and the Ultimate Starvation Diet, the largely forgotten pulp publishing magnate and fanatical physical training guru has his wild story told for the first time. |
Reason
June 2009
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Life in the Long Tail In The Enthusiast, the novel's protagonist, Henry Bay, explores the wild world of hobbyist publications, from Row! to Kite Buggy. |
Reason
June 2009
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Blackbeard Economics The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, by Peter T. Leeson, gives an insight into the surprising, and surprisingly tame, self-organization of pirates. |
Reason
June 2009 |
The Calm Before the Storm The Age of Anxiety, Andrea Tone's revelatory history of tranquilizers in America, shows that a drug's reputation is a function of culture as much as chemistry. |
Information Age
May 19, 2009
Kenny MacIver |
Book Review: The Adventures of an IT Leader This novelization of a CIO's life is as entertaining and as it is informative. |
Information Age
May 19, 2009 |
Book Review: The Human Factor David Lacey's analysis of the psychological factors of IT security is lucid and engaging. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009 |
My 10 Favorite Mars Novels Renowned sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson reviews a century of Mars fiction |
Wired
May 22, 2009
Clive Thompson |
Clive Thompson on the Future of Reading in a Digital World Books are the only major medium that still hasn't embraced the digital age. |
Wired
May 22, 2009
Jeff Howe |
The Guy Behind Flash Mobs Tackles His Frankenweb Monster Bill Wasik's new book, And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture, is a critical takedown of the Internet-Media Complex and our unhealthy obsession with memes of the moment. |
IndustryWeek
May 20, 2009
John Teresko |
Bookshelf: JIT Implementation Manual: The Complete Guide to Just-In-Time Manufacturing, Second Edition Are you implementing a just-in-time strategy? The second edition of Hirano's JIT Implementation Manual offers step-by-step guidance. |
IndustryWeek
May 20, 2009
John Teresko |
Bookshelf: Why New Systems Fail: Theory and Practice Collide In his new book, Why New Systems Fail: Theory and Practice Collide, software consultant and author Phil Simon evaluates why organizations routinely fail while attempting to implement and upgrade IT systems. |
IndustryWeek
May 20, 2009
John Teresko |
Bookshelf: Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn't Work and Other Surprising Lessons From the Latest Brain Science Author Charles S. Jacobs takes a leap from the latest neuroscience to its implications for business-world competitiveness. |
Philanthropy
May 1, 2009
Bishop & Green |
The Grantmaker's Guide to Excellence Paul Brest and Hal Harvey are the authors of the new book reviewed here |
Philanthropy
May 1, 2009
Lee Edwards |
Right on the Money The indispensable role of the conservative philanthropists is revealed in Funding Fathers: The Unsung Heroes of the Conservative Movement, a fascinating, fast-paced book by Nicole Hoplin and Ron Robinson. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Steve Olson |
Outside the Box In his new book, The Art and Politics of Science, Harold Varmus describes his unusual route to science, his Nobel Prize-winning research, and his global goals for science policy. |
Skeptical Inquirer
Mar/Apr 2009
Greg Martinez |
Bearing False Witness for Profit The author looks at a new book, Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure. By Paul A. Offit. |
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