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An entertaining review of Ron Rosenbaum's "How the End Begins," a pessimistic but thought-provoking book about the prospects of nuclear war in a post-cold war world.
The Next Wall Street Collapse
"Simon Johnson and James Kwak, 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown. Vintage, $15.95 (paper).
Richard A. Posner, A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of ’08 and the Descent into Depression. Harvard University Press, $23.95 (cloth).
Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm, Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance. Penguin Press, $27.95 (cloth).
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy. W.W. Norton, $16.95 (paper)."
"Jacques Bonnet does (he can't stop buying them) – but what's the future for the book business?"
Before my recent trip to China, I read parts or all of a range of books on the country. Below is a list of suggested reading for anyone else who’s interested. It is by no means exhaustive, and I would welcome further suggestions from readers and other bloggers.
Publishers have stocked books in nonbook retailers for decades — a coffee-table book in the home department, a novelty book in Urban Outfitters. In the last year, though, some publishers have increased their efforts as the two largest bookstore chains have changed course.
BASHO: The Complete Haiku, translated, annotated and with an introduction by Jane Reichhold; artwork by Shiro Tsujimura. Kodansha International, 2008, 432 pp., ¥2,600 (cloth)
"At 77 and in truculent good health, Jimmy Breslin has clearly not died and has even, with some notable exceptions, managed to avoid that quasi death by documentary, a process by which an otherwise vital personality is turned into a bag of talking bones on PBS."
"Anthony Powell, the author of A Dance to the Music of Time, also wrote one of the great literary memoirs of the twentieth century"
A newly translated Russian novel retells Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" from the perspective of the bad guys
Kang's book makes such important points that it should be read by everyone in the U.S. foreign policy establishment, including the DOD.
nd so Hermione Granger, that charming grind, still goes to the Hogwarts library and spends hours and hours working her way through the stacks, finding out what a basilisk is or how to make a love potion. The idea that a wizard in training might have, instead, a magic pad where she could inscribe a name and in half a second have an avalanche of news stories, scholarly articles, books, and images (including images she shouldn’t be looking at) was a Quidditch broom too far. Now, having been stuck with the library shtick, she has to go on working the stacks in the Harry Potter movies, while the kids who have since come of age nudge their parents. “Why is she doing that?” they whisper. “Why doesn’t she just Google it?”
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Prostitute, concubine, mistress, wife: the boundaries are blurred in this study.
it looks like an interesting read, but once again an attempt to create a world history of a subject overlooks completely anything outside of Greater Europe and North America.
America truly has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to bookstores. Sadly, the bookstore is becoming a premium experience - for which one has to pay extra for the privilege of browsing.
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