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Reason March 2003 Sara Rimensnyder	Creatures of the Mall Anti-consumerist critics don't merely have billion-dollar ad campaigns working against them, argues cultural writer Thomas Hine, author of the witty and informative I Want That: How We All Became Shoppers. Such shopping nags are going head to head with the entire recorded history of man.
CIO February 15, 2003	Off the Shelf The defining nature of globalization is that it involves everyone. One ignores Joseph Stiglitz's book Globalization and Its Discontents at one's peril... If you believe that intuition is a skill that can be honed with practice, Gary Klein's Intuition at Work may help... etc.
D-Lib February 2003 Barth & Bejune	The Virtual Reference Librarian's Handbook, by Anne Grodzins Lipow Instead of advocating a 'one-size-fits-all' approach to virtual reference planning, Lipow has created a set of questions and exercises that help guide librarians through the maze of complex issues surrounding the extension of a library's current reference services into the virtual realm.
New Architect March 2003	Reviews Technology and the Internet are so dependent on logic and rational thought that it might seem strange to be reviewing a book called Intuition at Work... Christina Wodtke's Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web will make you an IA expert...
Knowledge@Wharton February 12, 2003	The Adam Smith Nobody Knows Who's Afraid of Adam Smith? How the Market Got Its Soul! by Peter J. Dougherty, the publisher and senior economics editor of Princeton University Press, is several books rolled into one. Some of them work better than others.
Registered Rep. February 1, 2003 Will Leitch	New on the Shelf Virtual-Office Tools for a High-Margin Practice, David J. Drucker and Joel P. Bruckenstein... Legacy: The History of Separately Managed Accounts, Sydney LeBlanc... Wheels of Fortune: The History of Speculation from Scandal to Respectability, Charles R. Geisst
Registered Rep. February 1, 2003 David A. Geracioti	Bob Monks' 30-Year Crusade Monks, author of The New Global Investors, argues that shareholders, especially large institutional investors, have become passive, essentially abandoning their responsibility of overseeing the behavior of executives who are charged to serve them, and the common good.
Outside February 2003	Seeking Utopia Book reviews: Drop City, by T.C. Boyle... When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution, by Devra Davis... First, A Little Chee-Chee Then Some Other Weird Sports, by Bill Vaughn... Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival... etc.
Reason February 2003 Jack Shafer	Scourge of the Booboisie: Weighing H.L. Mencken's legacy Terry Teachout undertakes a mammoth biography in The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken.
Reason February 2003 Steve Chapman	Learning to Love the Bomb Is nuclear proliferation inherently dangerous? In The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed, Columbia University political scientist Kenneth Waltz makes an exhaustive case that "the gradual spread of nuclear weapons is more to be welcomed than feared."
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