{"id":2539,"date":"2007-12-28T16:08:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T16:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2539"},"modified":"2007-12-29T18:22:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T18:22:47","slug":"book-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2539","title":{"rendered":"Book Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the pleasures of\u00a0 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. &#8211; gift cards for new\u00a0books.\u00a0 That, coupled with accumulated Amazon gift certificates from the past year, means I will be on a book-buying bonanza next week. Huzzah!<\/p>\n<p>Helpfully,<strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaspmbarnett.com\/weblog\/\">Dr. Barnett<\/a><\/strong> 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:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaspmbarnett.com\/weblog\/2007\/12\/more_and_more_books.html\">More and more books<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaspmbarnett.com\/weblog\/2007\/12\/four_more_books.html\">Four more books<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaspmbarnett.com\/weblog\/2007\/12\/more_books.html\">More books<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaspmbarnett.com\/weblog\/2007\/12\/blowing_through_books.html\">Blowing through books<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaspmbarnett.com\/weblog\/2007\/08\/taking_august_to_read.html\">Taking August to read &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDENDUM:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ha! Could not wait, so I just ordered the following from <strong>Amazon<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_ss_b\/103-2854769-9179021?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=+the+black+swan\"><strong>The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable<\/strong> <\/a>by <strong>Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Globalized-Islam-Comparative-Politics-International\/dp\/0231134991\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1198952174&amp;sr=1-1\">Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 by <strong>Olivier Roy<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the pleasures of\u00a0 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. &#8211; gift cards for new\u00a0books.\u00a0 That, coupled with accumulated Amazon gift certificates from the past year, means I will be on a book-buying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,228,2,133,332,51,336,218,187,445,127,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barnett","category-biography","category-blogroll","category-book","category-economics","category-history","category-intellectuals","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-reading","category-strategy","category-synthesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}