Books

Here is the book that relates to an earlier post I made regarding intellectual life. Jonathan Rose’s recent article was excerpted from his own book titled The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. Herre is how Amazon describes the book. “Which books did the […]

This looks like an interesting book. It’s written by Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine. By the way, he will be a guest tonight on the Charlie Rose show. Here is what the publisher has to say about the book. “Since when did believing in […]

I got a new book for Christmas from my in-laws (thanks again if you are reading this). It’s called Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. It’s written by Jared Diamond, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel, –another book I highly […]

It’s been one hundred years since Albert Einstein’s miraculous year of 1905. During that year, Einstein, “a young patent clerk, found the way forward. In five remarkable papers, he showed that atoms are real (it was still controversial at the time), presented his special theory […]

An article in yesterday’s New York Times hints at what may come from publishers in the future. On two publishers’ lists of New Years Resolutions is an idea to sell their books directly to the public. Edward Wyatt of the Times writes, “Last week, Peter […]