Michael Wade Simpson
Good Books for Hard TimesReprinted with permission from the author, San Francisco Chronicle. Sunday, March 8, 2009 "In a democratic society, where every individual opinion counts, [literature's] incomparable ability to instruct, to make alternatives intellectually and emotionally clear, to ...
Moshpit: The Violent World of Mosh Pit Culture Joe Ambrose I've a confession to make to you, dear readers: I spent a good deal of my youth running around in circles, bumping into fellow frustrated, disenfranchised ...
What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias And The News Eric Alterman Are the media biased? Well, it depends on how you look at it. Fox News Channel, for example, is a right-wing ...
Michael Wade Simpson
Fat, Broke & Lonely No More!—Your Personal Solution to Overeating, Overspending, and Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places. by Victoria Moran Harper One, A Division of HarperCollins Publishers, 2007, New York website ...
Michael Wade Simpson
As a professional journalist, Lucinda Franks has been trained to uncover even the most closely-held information. That skill has served her well over the years, particularly in the 1970s, when she won a Pulitzer Prize for a newspaper series ...
Michael Wade Simpson
U.S. vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America’s Security By J. Peter Scoblic New York, Penguin Group, 2008 Website Of the recent books dealing with right-wing foreign policy, J. Peter Scoblic’s U.S. vs. Them may ...
Michael Wade Simpson
What is the proper scope of macro and micro economics? Should they merely analyze standard monetary statistical data? Or should we measure an economy’s true value by monetizing vital economic factors such as unpaid household labor and the depletion of ...
Karren LaLonde Alenier
If you have been promising yourself that this year you will dig in to appreciate and understand contemporary classical music, start by investing in The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross. However, the carefully crafted ...
Michael Wade Simpson
What is the proper scope of macro and micro economics? Should they merely analyze standard monetary statistical data? Or should we measure an economy’s true value by monetizing vital economic factors such as unpaid household labor and the depletion of ...
Karren LaLonde Alenier
The lyricism of Vivaldi’s Virgins by Barbara Quick rivals the subject matter of this well written and researched novel about gifted orphans taught to play exquisite original music by the master Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi. Quick wields the ...
