Category: books
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Livraria Cultura @ Shopping Iguatemi, São Paulo
This is the third bookstore that I came across in my two-and-a half-day stay in São Paulo. This Livraria Cultura is situated in one of the more luxury shopping malls in town (Tiffany & Co., Louis Vuitton are its neighbors). Like the shop they have in downtown on Avenida Paulista (see my post here), the entrance…
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Livraria da Vila @ Alameda Lorena, São Paulo
This is the second bookstore that I came across in downtown São Paulo. I almost missed it because of its non-descript facade. The size of the store and the neighborhood in which it is located (Rua Oscar Freire) reminded me of SoHo in New York and Rizzoli on West Broadway (closed since late 2000’s). The…
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Livraria Cultura @ Shopping Conjunto Nacional, São Paulo
Walking around São Paulo, I came across three remarkable bookstores. Two in the downtown area and one in a luxurious shopping mall in the business district. My short visit had become an unintended bookstore tour and I was delighted. I will dedicate a post for each one of them. This one owned by Livraria Cultura is…
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“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…