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Holocaust in Film and Literature, Lec 1, German 59, UCLA6 comments

Elijah G wrote 1 week ago: Course Description: German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature is a course that provides insight in … more →

Tags: Literature, Comparative Literature, German 59, Germanic Languages, History of the Jews in Germany, Holocaust, Holocaust in Film and Literature, Jew, Judaism

Haruki Murakami on translating The Great Gatsby

miagermain wrote 2 weeks ago:   It seems like all I can see, hear, taste, smell lately is people re-reading The Great Gatsby … more →

Tags: Publishing, Personal, Books, Reading, haruki murakami, Great Gatsby, Zelda, Murakami, Japan

Links for Upbuilding 4.24.13

Dean wrote 1 month ago: It’s that time again. Is posting twice on one day bad manners? If so, I’m chewing with m … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Links 2, Religion, Sören Kierkegaard, Philosophers, local events, Existentialism, Literature, Walker Percy

Secret Financial Life of Food

appetiteck wrote 2 months ago: The Secret Financial Life of Food by Kara Newman, Columbia University Press 2012, hardback $26.95, 1 … more →

Tags: History, Cultural, Secret Financial Life of Food, Kara Newman, butter and egg men, Commodities, Spice Trading, Épicerie, Wall Street

Artichokes~French or Globe1 comment

rockyscafe wrote 3 months ago: A flowering globe artichoke, Cynara scolymus. Jardin des Plantes, Paris. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) “ … more →

Tags: GAPS/Back 2 Basics, recipe, Artichoke, Zeus, Cynara, Hera, pink panther, olive oil, Parmigiano-Reggiano

Pharmaceuticals: A market for producing 'lemons' and serious harm1 comment

Vitamin and Herb Stores wrote 5 months ago: 2010 report posted for filing Contact: Daniel Fowler fowler@asanet.org 202-527-7885 American Sociolo … more →

Tags: Pharmaceutical - Medical Devices, Lethal or Unintended Side Effects, Corruption - Ghost Writing - Fabricated Data, Food and Drug Administration, united states, Pharmaceutical Industry, American Sociological Association, Pharmaceutical drug, daniel fowler

Pharmaceuticals: A market for producing 'lemons' and serious harm

Ralph Turchiano wrote 5 months ago: 2010 study posted for filing Contact: Daniel Fowler fowler@asanet.org 202-527-7885 American Sociolog … more →

Tags: Pharmaceutical - Medical Devices, Corruption - Ghost Writing - Fabricated Data, Lethal or Unintended Side Effects, united states, Food and Drug Administration, Pharmaceutical drug, Pharmaceutical Industry, American Sociological Association, ASA

StoryAlity #7 - On `the 10-Year Rule’ and Creativity6 comments

joeteevee wrote 5 months ago: On `the 10-Year Rule’ and Creativity It takes an average of 10 years, before you can do anything mas … more →

Tags: StoryAlity, Screenwriting, Story-Ality, JT Velikovsky, screenplay, Joe Velikovsky, Pierre Bourdieu, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, narratology

Happy Repeal Day! A look at the American Liquor Exchange

karanewman wrote 5 months ago: Today, December 5, celebrates the anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition – one of the best a … more →

Tags: The Secret Financial Life of Food, Whiskey, Spirits, book, American Liquor Exchange, Repeal Day, Liquor, Prohibition, trading pit blog

Introducing my new book - The Secret Financial Life of Food2 comments

karanewman wrote 5 months ago: The team over at Columbia University Press has done a bang-up job this week introducing my new book, … more →

Tags: The Secret Financial Life of Food, book, Food, Commodities, Finance, History, Economics, Trading Places, Eddie Murphy

Columbia University Press Celebrates The Art of Making Magazines

ksmokeobserver wrote 5 months ago: Evan Cornog and Victor Navasky. (Photo credit: Brendan Fitzgerald) If you came to New York expecting … more →

Tags: Nicholas Lemann, Victor Navasky, evan cornog

Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict - $475

rgonzalezr wrote 6 months ago:   For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than … more →

Tags: Historia, Economia y Politica, 2012, Résistance, History, activism, Politics, Human Rights, Chenoweth and Stephan

Rivalry1 comment

Kathryn wrote 6 months ago: Title: Rivalry: A Geisha’s Tale Japanese: 腕くらべ (Ude kurabe) Author: Nagai Kafū (永井 荷風) Transla … more →

Tags: Modern Literature, Novels, Traditional Culture, A Giesha's Tale, Asakusa, geisha, Gossip Girl, Japanese Novels, Kabuki

Pope Vijay’s Proclamations

Admin. wrote 6 months ago: We reproduce here, an article that was posted on the website “auroleaks.wordpress.com“ w … more →

Tags: impostor, Vijay Poddar, Alok Pandey, The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Society, Raman Reddy, Gopal Bhattacharjee, Jayant Bhattacharjee, Geetanjali Jain Bhattacharjee

How much do YOU know about the secret financial life of your food?

karanewman wrote 7 months ago: My new book, The Secret Financial Life of Food: from commodities markets to supermarkets, officially … more →

Tags: The Secret Financial Life of Food, quiz, book, Commodities

Got Supervision? (part 3) Communication Competence for the Supervisor

Deona Hooper, MSW wrote 7 months ago: [Contributed by David L. Bastin (2012) [David Lee Bastin studies social work as a graduate student a … more →

Tags: Communication, nonverbal communication, Chichester, Oxford University Press, cursive, writing, Kadushin & Harkness

Got Supervision? Part 2 Inspiration in the Process of Educational Supervision

Deona Hooper, MSW wrote 8 months ago:   [Contributed by David L. Bastin (2012) [David Lee Bastin studies social work as a graduate st … more →

Tags: Social Work, Education, twitter, Tennessee State University, Tennessee, clinical supervision, David

My new book - coming Nov. 201 comment

karanewman wrote 8 months ago: Exciting news! My new book, The Secret Financial Life of Food, will be available in bookstores on No … more →

Tags: Classes and Seminars, My Writings, The Secret Financial Life of Food, Culinary Historians of New York, book, Food, Culinary, culinary history, American Liquor Exchange

Feeding My Book Addiction14 comments

hannahkarena wrote 10 months ago: Maybe I entered a contest and won twenty pounds of free books from Columbia University Press. Twenty … more →

Tags: Books 2, writing, Books, Reading


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