Recreational reading has become very hard to fit into a busy schedule so, when I pick something for pleasure I usually need a connection to something that’s proven interesting in order to ensure it’s not a complete waste of my time. Such was the case with The Lathe Of Heaven.
Spring bursts forth, sometimes from fresh seeds and sometimes from roots that were established many years before. During my first semester at George Mason University, I was fortunate enough to stumble into a college course that had a profound effect on me. The course was listed as “Altered States of
Arriving home late one evening I sat at the kitchen table eating a warmed-up plate of food when I spied a little paperback perched on a pile of papers. I flipped it over to see Animal Farm by George Orwell. It seems my teenage daughter was supposed to have read
In economics, the invisible hand of the market is a metaphor conceived by Adam Smith to describe the self-regulating behavior of the marketplace. In The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, economist Peter Leeson plays off the metaphor to examine how life aboard pirate vessels mimicked self-regulating behavior and
Despite predictions that digital publishing would lead to the demise of printed books, the form is alive and well. The adverse effects of the digital revolution have instead led to the demise of bookstores. When Borders closed its retail locations, it was a real wake-up call for the industry, but