Quoted: Machiavelli

Quoted: redefining politics as a concern for things around which the fluid and expansive constituency of the public gathers; with contributions by more than 100 writers and artists.

Just finished the book 'Mountains Beyond Mountains' and recently saw the 'The Agronomist.' I really want to better understand the factors behind the failure of the Aristide government, and I hope this book offers an objective account.

Quoted: Damming the Flood analyzes how and why Aristide’s enemies in Haiti, the US and France made sure that his second government, elected with another overwhelming majority in 2000, was toppled by a further coup in 2004.

Quoted: This book, the first in Castells' ground-breaking trilogy, is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information. Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate...

Reminder to pick this up soon...

Quoted: ostensibly set in 1990 at about the time of the first Gulf War, is a roman à clef and scathing portrayal of modern Egyptian society since the coup d'état (aka Revolution) of 1952. The locale of the novel is downtown Cairo, with the titular apartment building (which actually exists) serving as both a metaphor for contemporary Egypt and a unifying location in which most of the primary characters either live or work and in which much of the novel's action takes place.

Clinton highlights nonprofit organizations with inspiring stories.

Quoted: Andre Agassi, who has created a college preparatory academy in the Las Vegas neighborhood with the city’s highest percentage of at-risk kids. “Tennis was a...

The illustrated story of a child growing up in Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the cold war era. I'd like to find this book. Here is a recent feature on Peter Sís from NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12899517

Quoted: Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sís shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw...

Captivating review of "Indian Summer" by Alex von Tunzelmann.

Quoted: A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.