Category: books

  • “Good Thinking” by Denise D. Cummins

    I(Chris) have not read a non-fiction cover to cover for a long time (in fact, I can’t remember the last one). Recently, while I was in Boston, I toured the bookstores of MIT and Harvard (see earlier posts here and here). This book “Good Thinking” was displayed on the “staff’s pick” table in the MIT…

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  • Boston academic bookstore tour: Harvard

    As I was saying in the previous post on visiting the MIT Press bookstore, we really crave visiting English language bookstores while living in continental Europe. This is the American Book Center we visited in Amsterdam. So, back to when I was in Boston, the other academic bookstore I visited was the Harvard Coop in Harvard…

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  • Boston academic bookstore tour: Massachussetts Institute of Technology

    Earlier this month, I (Chris) went on a business trip to Boston and had a half-day which was free of meetings. Having been to Boston many times before and I probably saw most of the major sights. What should I do with that free time in this city? Living in Lausanne, we are a bit…

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  • Stanfords, the London mapseller

    Stanfords on Long Acre, Covent Garden is one of my (Chris) favourite shops in London. The shop has been at that same location when I was a student in London in the 80’s. It seems to have expanded as it now has a coffee shop. I like this shop because 1) completeness in geographic coverage…

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