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Finance & Development
June 1, 2006
Arvind Subramanian |
Economist as Crusader An interview with economist Paul Krugman whose Age of Diminished Expectations and Peddling Prosperity filled the gap between the boringly descriptive genre of up-and-down economics books and sensationalist and shallow airport economics books.   |
Finance & Development
June 2006 |
Book Reviews Deciding how to divide the economic pie: Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy... Brain drain or brain gain?: Give Us Your Best and Brightest... Paying for old age: Rethinking Pension Reform... etc. |
Wired
June 2006
Robert Capps |
Man vs. Machine Daniel Wilson's book How to Survive a Robot Uprising provides realistic tips for surviving a robot rampage. |
DailyCandy
May 30, 2006 |
Behind the Music Jancee Dunn's memoir, But Enough About Me, makes clear, that's one of the best things a girl can be is shameless. |
BusinessWeek
June 5, 2006
Peter Coy |
Placing Your Bets "The Poker Face of Wall Street" offers a provocative case that gambling is a key engine of capitalism. |
Smithsonian
June 2006
Amy Crawford |
Interview: Christiane Nusslein-Volhard A Nobel laureate holds forth on flies, genes and women in science. Her first book, Coming to Life, explains the genetic and cellular basis of animal development and explores the ethical implications of recent progress in genomics and biotechnology. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2006 |
Birdmen, Batmen, and Skyflyers Michael Abrams' book Birdmen, Batmen, and Skyflyers is being published in May by Harmony Books. Here is an excerpt. |
Wired
June 2006
Gaiman & Rogers |
The Myth of Superman In An Unlikely Prophet, soon to be reissued in paperback this Spring, Alvin Schwartz describes that Superman is a real man, not just a comic book hero. |
Parameters
Summer 2006
Arthur C. Winn |
The Future of US Intelligence The four books reviewed here address the future of US intelligence. However, each has a different focus: Countdown to Terror: The Top-Secret Information that Could Prevent the Next Terrorist Attack on America...and How the CIA has Ignored it by Curt Weldon... etc. |
Parameters
Summer 2006 |
Book Reviews Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. By Jimmy Carter... State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century. By Francis Fukuyama... Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945. By Max Hastings... etc. |
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