Geoffrey Pullum writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education about the re-release and 50th anniversary of Professor Noam Chomsky’s book “Aspects of the Theory of Syntax.” “Every page presents bold new ideas and strikingly original insights; every section inspired new research programs,” Pullum writes.
The Economist reviews Prof. Marcia Bartusiak’s new book, “Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved.” “Ms Bartusiak weaves scientific concepts to create a portrait of the scientific institution itself, showing how its norms and personalities served to shape the path taken by the idea.”
Financial Times reporter Eric Beinhocker reviews Prof. César Hidalgo’s new book, “Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies.” Beinhocker writes that Hidalgo’s book is, “the future of growth theory and his thought-provoking book deserves to be widely read.”
In an article for The Boston Globe, John Tirman writes about why people are fleeing countries like Libya, Syria, and Mexico. Tirman writes that much of the migration “results from unsustainable livelihoods, the disruption of traditional forms of agriculture, production, and government services that for decades provided adequate — in many cases, barely so — incomes in the developing world.”
New York Times reporter Steve Lohr reviews “Strategy Rules,” a book co-authored by Professor Michael Cusumano that draws lessons from the careers of tech pioneers Bill Gates, Andy Grove and Steve Jobs. The authors provide a “a strategic framework to the corporate handiwork of the three, and find common themes.”
John Tirman, executive director of the MIT Center for International Studies, writes for WBUR about opposition within the Republican party to immigration reform. “Opposition to immigration reform is one of the more perplexing symptoms of Washington paralysis nowadays,” says Tirman.
In an article for The Huffington Post, John Tirman argues that the wave of migration from African and Latin American countries is a crisis caused partially by economic and political policies that American and European leaders have played a role in shaping. “Until the first world policies change, the third world will keep coming, at all costs,” Tirman writes.
Michael Blanding writes for Forbes about Professor Michael Cusumano’s new book “Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs. Cusumano and his co-author examine and draw lessons from the careers of the three tech pioneers.
Richard Waters writes for The Los Angeles Times about Professor Michael Cusumano’s new book “Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons From Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs. “The authors attribute the outsized success of the three pioneers of the personal computing age, as well as their sometimes damaging inflexibility, to the driving passions that shaped them.”
Natasha Singer writes for The New York Times about Professor Natasha Dow Schüll’s research examining how people have begun to use technology to alter their behavior. “It is not really about self-knowledge anymore,” says Schüll. “It’s the nurselike application of technology.”
The Economist highlights “Strategy Rules,” a new book co-authored by Prof. Michael Cusumano that draws lessons from the careers of three tech executives. “The book provides plenty of insight to help navigate a world that is ever more driven by IT.”
Richard Waters reports for The Financial Times about “Strategy Rules,” a book co-authored by Prof. Michael Cusumano that draws lessons from the careers of tech giants Steve Jobs, Andy Grove, and Bill Gates. The authors “boil their observations down to five lessons, some of which offer more teachable moments than others.”
Ty Burr reviews Prof. Alan Lightman’s Book “Screening Room” for The Boston Globe. “Lightman bends his nostalgia through the prism of a writer’s creativity the way light through a projector blooms into a story on the screen,” notes Burr.
John Winters of WBUR reviews Professor Alan Lightman’s memoir of growing up in Memphis, “Screening Room: Family Pictures.” “I’d wanted to write a book about Memphis for many years and also to explore more of the complex relationship between my grandfather, my father and myself,” says Lightman.
In a piece exploring the possibility of time travel, BBC News reporter Sean Coughlan highlights Prof. Brad Skow’s new book about the concept of time. Skow argues that, “past moments or experiences are just as real as the present, but are inaccessible in another part of time.”