New Books in Communications
Episodes
Ann M. Blair, “Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age” (Yale University Press, 2010)
07 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Chewing on raw turnips and sand, keeping both feet in a tub of cold water, reading with just one eye open (to give the other a chance to rest) and sle...
Robert Lane Greene, “You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws and the Politics of Identity” (Delacorte Press, 2011)
11 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Isn’t it odd how the golden age of correct language always seems to be around the time that its speaker was in high school, and that language has be...
Daniel Veidlinger, “Spreading the Dhamma: Writing, Orality, and Textual Transmission in Buddhist Northern Thailand” (University of Hawaii Press, 2006)
03 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
New media technology changes culture. And when it comes to religion, new technology changes the way people think and practice their traditions. And wh...
Ian McNeely, “Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet” (Norton, 2008)
22 Aug 2008
Contributed by Lukas
We don’t think much about institutions. They just seem to “be there.” But they have a history, as Ian McNeely and Lisa Wolverton show in their i...