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...think you know a continent when you see one, think again. Asia's ambiguous geographical and cultural divisions are immediately apparent in the index of The Asia Book-the latest pictorial tome from Lonely Planet. Transcontinental nations like Turkey and Russia (whose eastern extremities stretch to the same longitudes as Japan) are seen as European in orientation, but places like Israel and Syria, which shares a border with Turkey, somehow make the cut. So do 41 other countries, grouped into five regions: Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent and Himalayas, and the Middle East...
...Wall Street crash of 1987 are all demonstrations that "the world is dominated by the extreme, the unknown and the very improbable." A follow-up to his Fooled by Randomness, about the role chance plays in life, The Black Swan is a provocative macro-trend tome in the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and The Tipping Point. Taleb draws on history, philosophy and psychology to suggest that our love for simplistic explanations blinds us into thinking we understand how things work. What to do? Look for ways to foster serendipitous developments (like discoveries--good Black Swans) while preparing broadly...
...University’s library books digitized as part of the Google Books Library Project will be made directly accessible through links in the online HOLLIS system. For instance, a student looking for the 1850 book “Antitrinitarian Biography” by Robert Wallace, a three-volume tome on Unitarianism, can get to it simply by clicking the “Internet Link” in its HOLLIS record rather than hot-footing it over to the Andover Theological Library. “The books will be available instantaneously, seven days a week, 24 hours...
...only such cheery tome on shelves these days. In Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes, trader Michael Panzner warns of an economic meltdown that will lead to Zimbabwe-style hyperinflation and possible martial law. In Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis, which briefly hit business best-seller lists in 2005 and will feature next year in a documentary film by the makers of acclaimed crossword-puzzle geekfest Wordplay, financial-newsletter authors William Bonner and Addison Wiggin draw parallels between the early 21st century U.S. and the decline of Rome and imperial Spain. There...
...never did get to interview the President, and the readers of TIME will be always the poorer for that. But by the time I left Sao Tome and Principe, I, you know, really couldn't be bothered...