by Site Owner | May 21, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics
Organizing the Party By Ishikawa Yoshihiro, Translated by Joshua A. Fogel Columbia University Press, $55.00, 503 pages The Chinese Communist Party is one of the most secretive organizations in the world, and one of the longest lasting. In the 20th...
by michaeld | Apr 26, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
Where Did Imagination Develop? By Christopher Collins Columbia University Press, $35.00, 272 pages “In my concept of paleopoetics I include the skills that prelinguistic humans practiced, skills that, when language evolved, were expressed in...
by Site Owner | Apr 19, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Film, TV & Theater
Great Ideas Lost in the Verbiage By Hunter Vaughan Columbia University Press, $29.50, 244 pages Sometimes a great idea can get obscured by the language. Where Film Meets Philosophy explores a number of philosophical questions raised by the nature of film...
by Site Owner | Apr 16, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Business & Investing
Innovation Strategy Worth Considering By William Duggan Columbia University Press, $27.95, 165 pages William Duggan teaches Creative Strategy at Columbia Business School, so it is no surprise that his book Creative Strategy is supported with tons of...