- 12th December
2011 - 12
- 18th October
2011 - 18
- 4th October
2011 - 04
We celebrate the words and deeds of great leaders and seek to emulate their achievements. Yet recalling the grim historical record of the destruction wreaked by powerful, charismatic leaders, we above all long for good leaders…
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(Source: thesmithian)
- 26th September
2011 - 26
…despite the small gains, a solid half of the country still rarely, if ever, picks up a book for pleasure. In the same press release, the N.E.A. said that “The U.S. population now breaks into two almost equally sized groups—readers and non-readers.”
more.
(Source: thesmithian)
- 25th September
2011 - 25
Colin Powell has written a book revealing the lessons that shaped his life and career, to be published by HarperCollins in May…The book, “It Worked for Me,” is a “collection of lessons and personal anecdotes that have driven the four star-general and former Secretary of State’s legendary career in public service,” the publisher said.
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art: painting by Adam Guthman
(Source: thesmithian)
- 23rd September
2011 - 23
Former President Bill Clinton is offering up a plan to fix the economy and push the United States into the future in a new book to be published by Knopf in November.
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art: painting by Ashley Cecil
(Source: thesmithian)
- 16th September
2011 - 16
In clean and efficient prose, Banks presents a lucid picture of romantic life in black America.
more.
(Source: thesmithian)
- 3rd September
2011 - 03
The next time you see Barack Obama gliding into a White House press conference, take note of that jazzy walk. It is a dead ringer for the strut that was the bearing of choice among inner-city cool guys in the 1960s, when Barry Obama was still a tyke growing up in the exotic precincts of Hawaii and Indonesia. The Obama glide represents his embrace of a black aesthetic that was not his by circumstance of birth. It speaks on an intimate frequency to African-American men, who have been smiling in recognition and rating it for style ever since he stepped into the national spotlight. President Obama is acutely aware of how to deploy the physical self to excellent effect. If we looked back closely at 2008, we would no doubt notice him amping up the glide for black audiences and dialing it back elsewhere.
(Source: thesmithian)
- 19th August
2011 - 19
An infographic of every book President Obama has read since the last campaign. (Click here to see it in full size.)
- 20th July
2011 - 20
#teamreadabook Brain Bugs: The Glorious Imperfections of Our Brains
via TheAtlantic - A new book examines the fact that our heads contain the most advanced device in the known universe—a device that isn’t perfect. more here
sidethought: o.k. this might have been my psychology major peeking out a lil too much. o well. still looks interesting to me! and go.
- 19th July
2011 - 19
A Bookshelf to THINK about.
(Source: fubiz.net)
- 12th July
2011 - 12
