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26 mars 2018

We Need To Tell Our Students That 'It's Better Than It Looks’

By Joshua Kim. Teaching critical optimism.
It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear by Gregg Easterbrook. More...
25 mars 2018

Reading 'Behemoth' and Thinking about Factories, My Kids, and Our Students

By Joshua Kim. The manufacturing of our modern world.
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World by Joshua B. Freeman. More...
25 mars 2018

February Fiction

By Joshua Kim. Fans of spy books will have probably already discovered The Red Sparrow Trilogy.  If you enjoy the espionage genre, or simply appreciate a well written thriller, I recommend that you read this series. More...

25 mars 2018

Demonstrating Value

HomeBy Paul Fain. Robert Kelchen, an emerging scholar and expert on higher education, discusses his new book on what the accountability push means for higher education. More...

24 mars 2018

In a Cardboard Grave

HomeScott McLemee reviews Alberto Manguel's Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions. More...

24 mars 2018

A Dry Story

HomeAlmost a century after Prohibition went into effect, we remember it as Puritanism run amok. Scott McLemee looks into a book taking a different view. More...

23 mars 2018

What Books Should Every Intelligent Person Read?: Tell Us Your Picks; We’ll Tell You Ours

What Books Should Every Intelligent Person Read?: Tell Us Your Picks; We’ll Tell You Ours
Dan Colman, Open Culture, April 8, 2014

I find the lists offered by Dan Colman and Neil DeGrasse Tyson to be a bit parochial, steeped in (their) local culture and issues of the day. Why else include Darwin and de Tocqueville? Why else include the Bible but not the Qu'ran or the Upanisads, or Sun Tzu but not Lao Tze? So, what would my list of (say, top ten) must-reads be? How about this?

  • Rene Descartes, Meditations
  • David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
  • John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
  • Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
  • Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
  • Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
  • On Certainty and Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgeinstein
  • Confucius, Analects

Why these? Balance. More...

23 mars 2018

The Processed Book

The Processed Book
Nice draft version of an essay posted for comment looking at diferent ways to think of online books. I really like the approach as the author considers the book as portal, the book as self-referencing text, the book as platform, the book as machine component, and the book as network node. More...

21 mars 2018

Promising Chapter in E-Book Story

Promising Chapter in E-Book Story
Here's a rare article, one predicting a positive future for ebooks. Keep in mind that the source is Wired News, an agency with a demonstrable preference for the format. That said, the author digs up some encouraging statistics from eBookWeb, a web site specializing in ebooks: 500,000 page views per month and improved ebooks sales by a number of vendors, including McGraw-Hill with an increase of 55 percent over this time last year. More...

19 mars 2018

The Tower Under Siege: Technology, Power and Education

The Tower Under Siege: Technology, Power and Education
Book review. Educators foster the idea of the university as an institution that stands set apart from society as a whole, a sanctuary where academics may conduct research and advance ideas without being beholden to the politics or economics of the day. It's unclear whether this ever in fact the case, but in any event, this conception of the university is increasingly under siege. More...

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