Recently Mentioned Books
Showing 25 of 6684 mentions, ordered by most recent.
4. Blogger Tim Kane has a new eNovel , which I thought was very good, some free chapters are here .
And tomorrow the physical version of the book is available from Amazon , Barnes&Noble.com , and in book stores.
Patrick Wilcken is the author of this excellent book , excerpt:
It’s an interesting book .
That is from David Mamet’s new The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture .
The answer and full interview is here , concerning Galor’s new book Unified Growth Theory . Here is an earlier interview with Oded Galor .
My very first (co-authored) book was on the NME , circa 1994. The NME is most interesting when monetary institutions are in an abnormal state, but now “abnormal” is “the new normal.” The NME is less interesting in explaining, say, the macroeconomics of 1963.
By the way, I just pre-ordered Ezra F. Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China , which looks to be an important book.
Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age , by Robert Bellah.
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean , by David Abulafia.
I’ve been reading the fascinating A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander et.al., a book which I recommend to all urbanists, all architecture fans, Jane Jacobs fans, and Hayekians. In passing, the authors toss out a proposal for reorganizing modern universities. It has two simple principles:
That is from Mann’s forthcoming book 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created , reviewed enthusiastically here .
2. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and Another Side of Bob Dylan and Blood on the Tracks and most of all Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits volume II are the albums I listen to most often. The last one sounds horrible from its name, but it was conceived conceptually, avoids the traditional problems of greatest hits albums (unlike Vol. I), and has some not otherwise available tracks; highly recommended. Then comes Time Out of Mind . I think of Bringing it All Back Home as the “best” Dylan album, but I enjoy...
2. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and Another Side of Bob Dylan and Blood on the Tracks and most of all Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits volume II are the albums I listen to most often. The last one sounds horrible from its name, but it was conceived conceptually, avoids the traditional problems of greatest hits albums (unlike Vol. I), and has some not otherwise available tracks; highly recommended. Then comes Time Out of Mind . I think of Bringing it All Back Home as the “best” Dylan album, but I enjoy...
2. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and Another Side of Bob Dylan and Blood on the Tracks and most of all Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits volume II are the albums I listen to most often. The last one sounds horrible from its name, but it was conceived conceptually, avoids the traditional problems of greatest hits albums (unlike Vol. I), and has some not otherwise available tracks; highly recommended. Then comes Time Out of Mind . I think of Bringing it All Back Home as the “best” Dylan album, but I enjoy...
2. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and Another Side of Bob Dylan and Blood on the Tracks and most of all Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits volume II are the albums I listen to most often. The last one sounds horrible from its name, but it was conceived conceptually, avoids the traditional problems of greatest hits albums (unlike Vol. I), and has some not otherwise available tracks; highly recommended. Then comes Time Out of Mind . I think of Bringing it All Back Home as the “best” Dylan album, but I enjoy...
2. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and Another Side of Bob Dylan and Blood on the Tracks and most of all Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits volume II are the albums I listen to most often. The last one sounds horrible from its name, but it was conceived conceptually, avoids the traditional problems of greatest hits albums (unlike Vol. I), and has some not otherwise available tracks; highly recommended. Then comes Time Out of Mind . I think of Bringing it All Back Home as the “best” Dylan album, but I enjoy...
2. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and Another Side of Bob Dylan and Blood on the Tracks and most of all Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits volume II are the albums I listen to most often. The last one sounds horrible from its name, but it was conceived conceptually, avoids the traditional problems of greatest hits albums (unlike Vol. I), and has some not otherwise available tracks; highly recommended. Then comes Time Out of Mind . I think of Bringing it All Back Home as the “best” Dylan album, but I enjoy...
2. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and Another Side of Bob Dylan and Blood on the Tracks and most of all Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits volume II are the albums I listen to most often. The last one sounds horrible from its name, but it was conceived conceptually, avoids the traditional problems of greatest hits albums (unlike Vol. I), and has some not otherwise available tracks; highly recommended. Then comes Time Out of Mind . I think of Bringing it All Back Home as the “best” Dylan album, but I enjoy...
2. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and Another Side of Bob Dylan and Blood on the Tracks and most of all Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits volume II are the albums I listen to most often. The last one sounds horrible from its name, but it was conceived conceptually, avoids the traditional problems of greatest hits albums (unlike Vol. I), and has some not otherwise available tracks; highly recommended. Then comes Time Out of Mind . I think of Bringing it All Back Home as the “best” Dylan album, but I enjoy...
1. No Direction Home , the biopic directed by Martin Scorsese. It’s one of the best documentaries on American music more generally, and a superb albeit hagiographic portrait of Dylan and his music.
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus , by Charles C. Mann, is one of my favorite books ever, in any field. And now there is a “sequel,” namely 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created , due out in August. Excerpt:
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus , by Charles C. Mann, is one of my favorite books ever, in any field. And now there is a “sequel,” namely 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created , due out in August. Excerpt:
The authors are the renowned Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch and the subtitle is How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong with America .
That’s the new book by Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd and the subtitle is The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World . I read it as offering three major messages: a) there is no unique pattern for Muslim demographic evolution, b) there is more civilizational convergence than divergence, and c) the demographic data we observe explain a good deal about various Muslim countries. Here are some specific points: