by Site Owner | Feb 4, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, Pop Culture
Read the Clues of History to Envision the Future By Tom Standage Bloomsbury, $26.00, 278 pages Writing in the Wall shares the evolution of how communication happened from the beginning ages to present day. Standage references major events in history to prove his...
by Site Owner | Nov 20, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Pop Culture
All Things Cute and How They Dominate Japan By Manami Okazaki & Geoff Johnson Prestel, $24.95, 224 pages This in-depth look at Japanese cute culture addresses a plethora of perspectives on the subject. Supported through examples from food to fashion and everything...
by Site Owner | Nov 4, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Pop Culture
How to Make Cities Livable By Ivor De Wolfe Artifice, 280 pages, $39.95 The battle over how towns should look, feel, and function is a debate that has engulfed communities for many decades. Since the birth of the Industrial Revolution, and the aftermath...
by Site Owner | Oct 30, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Pop Culture
Story of Graffiti to Tattoo Through Twelve Artists By Michael “Kaves” McLeer & Billy Burke Prestel, 240 pages, $34.95 Just a few decades ago graffiti was despised by many and fought by municipalities. Yet today many graffiti writers are...
by Site Owner | Oct 29, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Pop Culture
Capturing the Past By John Strausbaugh ECCO, 624 pages, $29.99 “’When the geist moves, it never comes back to its old neighborhood’” For many of the nearly 50 million travelers who flock to New York City every year, Greenwich Village is little more than...
by Site Owner | Sep 18, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Pop Culture
Race and Religion By Tudor Parfitt Harvard University Press, $29.95, 197 pages Could Africans be Jews and could Jews be African? That is a question that has been asked across the centuries; mostly by Protestant Europeans and some African leaders. They...