Posted Sat, 02/27/2010 - 5:49pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
February 2010
James Buchan is a novelist, critic, and contributor to the NYT Book Review and the NY Observer. He was formerly a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times. He won the Duff Cooper Prize for Frozen Desire, an examination of money. This was a gift book. Read more
Posted Sat, 01/02/2010 - 5:24pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
December 2009
Publisher:
St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition
James Herriot is the pen name for James Alfred Wight, OBE (1916-1995), a British veterinary surgeon and writer best known for his semi-autobiographical stories, often referred to collectively as All Creatures Great and Small, a title used in some editions and in film and TV attractions. Read more
Posted Sat, 08/22/2009 - 3:51pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
August 2009
Publisher:
University of Iowa Press
Iowa native John Madsen (1923-1995) wrote about the natural history and resource conservation of rivers, plains, and deserts. He wrote 11 books and was published in periodicals such as Audubon, Smithsonian, and National Geographic. Read more
Posted Tue, 06/02/2009 - 6:35pm by fred
James W. Loewen, a sociologist, spent two years at the Smithsonian studying 12 textbooks widely used throughout the US, resulting in this, his best-known book. He concluded not one textbook does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. A new 2005 Preface updates the book but not his conclusion. Read more
Posted Tue, 03/31/2009 - 3:23pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
January 2009
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Morley Winograd is executive director of the Center for Telecom Management at USC’s Marshall School of Business and is president and CEO of Morwin, Inc. a government reform consulting company. Michael D. Hais is retired as vice president of entertainment research at the communications firm Frank N. Magid Associates. Read more
Posted Tue, 03/31/2009 - 3:17pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
January 2009
Publisher:
PublicAffairs; Reprint edition
Muhammad Yunis had a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt. He devotes his life to provide financial and social services to the most poor of Bangladesh. He founded the Grameen Bank. He and Grameen won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Read more
Posted Sun, 03/22/2009 - 4:17pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
September 2008
Publisher:
Holt Paperbacks; 1 edition
Michael Shermer, author of nine previous books is an adjunct professor of economics at Claremont Graduate Univ., a Scientific American columnist, the publisher of Skeptic magazine, and the founder and director of the International Skeptics Society. (For his books I've read, click on his name.) Read more
Posted Sun, 03/22/2009 - 3:37pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
August 2008
Publisher:
William Morrow; 1 edition
Steven Levitt teaches economics at the Univ. of Chicago. He received the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every 2 years to the best American economist under 40. Stephen Dubner, a NYT and New Yorker writer, had bestselling books Turbulent Souls and Confessions of a Hero Worshipper. Freakonomics was a NYT bestseller. Read more
Posted Fri, 03/20/2009 - 3:06pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
March 2008
Michael Pollan is a contributing writer for the NYT Magazine who also teaches writing in the Graduate School for Journalism at UC Berkeley. His writings received numerous awards. In 2002 his The Botany of Desire (book 164) was a national bestseller. (For his books I've read, click on his name.) Read more
Posted Fri, 03/20/2009 - 11:35am by fred
Date Fred Read:
February 2008
Publisher:
Bloomsbury USA
Eric Lane is a law professor who has written several texts on government and served as director of the NY State Commission on Constitutional Revision. Michael Oreskes, executive editor of the International Herald Tribune, has held several jobs with the NY Times. Read more
