http://netvouz.com/emmineb/tag/book?feed=rss&pg=1 emmineb's bookmarks tagged "book" on Netvouz http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/ "For anyone with influence on energy policy, whether in government, business or a campaign group, this book should be compulsory reading." Tony Juniper Former Executive Director, Friends of the Earth "At last a book that comprehensively reveals the true facts about sustainable energy in a form that is both highly readable and entertaining." Robert Sansom EDF Energy "The Freakonomics of conservation, climate and energy." Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net "...a tour de force..." The Economist "... a cold blast of reality ... a must-read analysis..." Science magazine "...this year's must-read book..." The Guardian emmineb Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:31:01 GMT http://www.notechmagazine.com/2009/05/bookbinding-a-tutorial.html Step-by-step instructions. More tutorials can be found here, here and here. emmineb Mon, 11 May 2009 22:52:04 GMT http://legacy.ncsu.edu/classes/ec348001/SummerReading2005.htm The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade, by Pietra Rivoli ||The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life by Paul Seabright ||Freakonomics by Steven Levitt ||Stephen Dubner: The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki ||Paul Blustein: The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF + And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of America. ||William Easterly's The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics ||Russell Roberts's The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism + The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance emmineb Sat, 07 Oct 2006 07:36:58 GMT http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/ Wired editor Anderson declares the death of "common culture"—and insists that it's for the best. Why don't we all watch the same TV shows, like we used to? Because not long ago, "we had fewer alternatives to compete for our screen attention," he writes. Smash hits have existed largely because of scarcity: with a finite number of bookstore shelves and theaters and Wal-Mart CD racks, "it's only sensible to fill them with the titles that will sell best." Today, Web sites and online retailers offer seemingly infinite inventory, and the result is the "shattering of the mainstream into a zillion different cultural shards." These "countless niches" are market opportunities for those who cast a wide net and de-emphasize the emmineb Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:57:50 GMT http://www.flickr.com/photos/jl-incrowd/sets/72157600188341501/show/ Angry young men, wayward and wanton women, troubled youth, and just plain trouble. Exposés exposed, coming of age in a bygone age. A batch published in the late '50's through to the mid-'70's. '- - Now finally in paperback!' '- - Soon to be a major motion picture!' '- - Read the book that shocked a nation!' emmineb Wed, 09 May 2007 07:06:18 GMT http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/ Don't have time to read it all? We at Book-A-Minute understand that your time is valuable. You want to experience the wonder and excitement of the fine art of literature, but reading actual books requires a significant time investment. We've got the solution for you. Our ultra-condensed books are just the ticket. emmineb Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:23:25 GMT http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/ We at Book-A-Minute understand that your time is valuable. You want to experience the wonder and excitement of the fine art of literature, but reading actual books requires a significant time investment. We've got the solution for you. Our ultra-condensed books are just the ticket. emmineb Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:15:26 GMT http://www.bostonreview.net/BR30.1/vancreveld.html In 1966, Israel’s leading newspaper, Maariv, invited the legendary military commander Moshe Dayan to be its war correspondent in Vietnam. Dayan, then 51 years old, jumped at the chance. He had been working in politics since 1959, eventually serving as minister of agriculture under Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, but he had left his post in 1964 when Ben-Gurion fell out with the new prime minister, Levi Eshkol. He had been casting about for a new project. emmineb Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:53:07 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/books/review/01SCHULMA.html?ei=5070&en=b87f0f582be82b67&ex=1149393600&pagewanted=print&position= ... science seemed to be tidying the mess of the real world into an eternal order beautiful and pure -- a heavenly file cabinet labeled mathematics. Then, Einstein published his relativity theory, Werner Heisenberg his uncertainty principle and Gödel his incompleteness theorem. Many thinkers -from the logical positivists with whom Gödel drank coffee in the Viennese cafes of the 1920's to existentialists, postmodernists and annoying people at cocktail parties - have taken those three results as proof that reality is subjective and we can't see beyond our noses. You can hardly blame them. But she makes a persuasive case that Gödel and Einstein understood their work to prove the opposite: reality exists, whether or not we can ever touch it emmineb Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:17:10 GMT http://www.shirky.com/herecomeseverybody/2008/02/ Along with the book, I am launching a Here Comes Everybody blog, designed to both chronicle and extend the themes of the book. I'm delighted to finally have to book out, and to be able to begin blogging about it. In addition, this site collects many of my older writings, from which many of the themes of the book arose. emmineb Wed, 07 May 2008 14:37:17 GMT