The Glass Cage
Nicholas Carr (1959), studied English and American literature at Harvard. He was editor of Harvard Business Review, collaborator of The New York Times Magazine,The Financial Times, Wired, and Die Zeit. As...
Essay
La haine du monde, Totalitarismes et postmodernité
L’auteur explique comment deux visions du monde s’opposent dans le monde contemporain : celle qui tente de le remplacer (la vision démiurgique) et celle qui veut le défendre et le protéger, à l’image du...
Does the Richness of the Few Benefit Us All?
Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds and one of the most-read living sociologists. This short book deals with the unequal distribution of riches in today’s world. One...
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
"The Story of Alice" was published in the sesquicentennial of "Alice in Wonderland" and focuses on Lewis Carroll (the author of "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass"), Alice Liddell (the...
Who Owns the Future?
The author, born in New York in 1960, is an expert in computers, business and music. He came up with the concept of virtual reality, teaches in Berkeley California and works for Microsoft. He reproaches big...
Maybe I do – Modern Marriage and the Pursuit of Happiness
The book is a thorough analysis of current state of marriage in Australia from social, political, psychological and economic perspective. The author is a well-known conservative politician with good values...
No Full Stops in India
Sir William Mark Tully worked for 30 years with the BBC’s Delhi bureau. For a period of 20 years, until July 1994, he held the position of bureau chief. Tully's No Full Stops in India (1988) is a collection...