Book Note
One of the pleasures of Christmas is that a majority of my friends and relatives with whom I exchange gifts save themselves trouble and get me something I can actually use, i.e. – gift cards for new books. That, coupled with accumulated Amazon gift certificates from the past year, means I will be on a book-buying bonanza next week. Huzzah!
Helpfully, Dr. Barnett has been on a reading marathon lately in preparation for writing the body of Book III and has published an extensive bilbiography of his effort with micro-reviews of most of the books. Worth checking out if you are a bibliophile like me:
ADDENDUM:
Ha! Could not wait, so I just ordered the following from Amazon:
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah by Olivier Roy
December 29th, 2007 at 1:09 am
Tom just added Edward Luce’s "In Spite of The Gods" as you were posting. ;o)
http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2007/12/luces_in_spite_of_the_gods.html
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:19 pm
The Black Swan is a great book. Taleb’s writing style might make you want to strangle him but it’s very entertaining and thought-provoking.