Posts Tagged ‘book review’
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The Importance of Thinking about Thinking
March 3, 2010 | 7 commentsby Ellie Collier A review of How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer I play Magic. It’s a fairly complicated card game which calls on many of the same skills needed for games like chess or poker. Poker has suits, Magic has colors. And I hate playing black. Unlike other colors, when I play a black card I…
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Sticking it to Instruction
November 5, 2008 | 10 commentsMade to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath & Dan Heath By Ellie Collier I always feel the need to preface my praise for this book with a little background. I’ve read a slew of best sellers on behavior. I started when a friend was raving about Malcolm Gladwell. I…
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What Happens in the Library…
October 8, 2008 | 4 commentsTags: book review, elizabeth burns, librarianship, marketing, pop, pop goes the library, review, sophie brookoverBy Brett Bonfield In 1968, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, a couple of newlywed architects, had the humility to laugh with Las Vegas rather than at it. A few years earlier, Tom Wolfe had written, Las Vegas has become, just as Bugsy Siegel dreamed, the American Monte Carlo-without any of the inevitable upper-class baggage…