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New Books…..

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

 

Framing the Sixties by Bernard von Bothmer

Occupation:The Ordeal of France 1940-1944 by Ian Ousby

How Wars are Won: the 13 Rules of War by Bevin Alexander

The first, which is an an analysis of how our historical memory of “the Sixties” have been wielded in cultural and political wars was sent as a review copy by Julie at FSB Associates. The next two were a gift from my regular guest-blogger,  Charles Cameron. Bevin Alexander is probably a familiar writer to many readers here. I’m adding them to my summer reading list.

The book pile towers ominously 🙂

The Rise of the Machines

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Ignite, which is essentially trying to be TED jr. on crack, has a 5 minute presentation by Heather Knight on efforts to satisfy man’s ancient desire to anthropomorphize his environment by building “charismatic robots”

Hat tip to John Hagel.


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