经济学人76:面试 Job interviews
Business books;Book Review;Job interviews;Application; 商业书籍;书评;面试;申请; Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? By William Poundstone. 《你是否聪明过人能进谷歌》威廉庞德斯通。 Whom to hire is one of the g
经济学人77:手工劳动 Handy work
Still in Books and Arts; Book Review; Joys of craftsmanship;Handy work 文艺;书评;手工技艺的乐趣;手工劳动; Made By Hand: Searching For Meaning in a Throwaway World. By Mark Frauenfelder. 《手工制作:在被抛弃的世界中寻
经济学人78:英国乡绅 一路顺风
Books and Arts; Book Review;The English gentry;Happy landings; 文艺;书评;英国乡绅;一路顺风; The gentry: story of the English. By Adam Nicolson. 《乡绅:英国的故事》,亚当尼克森著。 Adam Nicolson has written many
经济学人79:梦之味 Scent of dreams
Still in Books and Arts; Book Review;Memoir of the Middle East;Scent of dreams; 文艺;书评;中东回忆录;梦之味; I Was Born There, I Was Born Here. By Mourid Barghouti. 《我在那里出生,我出生在这里》,穆里德巴尔
经济学人80:艺术家和摄影师
Books and Arts;Artists and photographers;Point and paint 文艺;书评;艺术家和摄影师;瞬间与永恒; A long overdue study of the influence early photography had on painting; 早期摄影对绘画的影响,一项迟来的研究; I
经济学人81:唯命是从 Only obeying orders
Books and Arts; Book Review;Iraq under Saddam;Only obeying orders; 文艺;书评;萨达姆治下的伊拉克;唯命是从; The Weight of a Mustard Seed: The Intimate Story of an Iraqi General and His Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny,
经济学人82:理性的声音 The Dead Sea Scrolls
Still in Books and Arts;The Dead Sea scrolls;Voice of reason; 文艺;死海古卷;理性的声音; The Story of the Scrolls: The Miraculous Discovery and True Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls. By Geza Vermes. 《古卷的故事:死海古卷
经济学人83:工会的力量 The power in the union
Books and Arts; Book Review;American agribusiness;The power in the union; 文艺;书评;美国农业;工会的力量; Trampling Out the Vintage: Csar Chvez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers. By Frank Bardacke. 把葡萄踩在脚下:
经济学人84:外国干扰该如何进退
Still in Books and Arts; Book Review;Foreign interventions;When to hold and when to fold; 文艺;书评;来自外国的干扰;来自外国的干扰究竟该如何进退; Can Intervention Work? By Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus. 《干预有用吗
经济学人85:怀旧也是一种潮流
Books and Arts; The Istanbul Biennial;Vintage is the new vanguard; 文艺;书评;伊斯坦布尔的艺术双年展;怀旧也是一种潮流; Most art biennials are incoherent and exhausting. Istanbul's is an exception; 艺术双年展大多支离
经济学人86:聪明不在 Not so smart now
Books and Arts; Book Review;Human decision-making; Not so smart now; 文艺;书评;人类的决策;聪明不在; Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman. 《思考,快与慢》丹尼尔卡尼曼著。 Towards the end of Thinking, Fast an
经济学人87:逆世唯心的巾帼
Books and Arts; Book Review;20th-century women; Dandy dames; 文艺;书评;20世纪的女性;逆世唯心的巾帼; Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson were remarkableby any standards; 无论何时,Rebecca West和Dorothy Thompson都吸引着世
经济学人88:雄文胜武 Mightier than the sword
Books and Arts; Book Review;Political philosophy; Mightier than the sword; 文艺;书评;政治哲学;雄文胜武; The collected thoughts on this, that and the other of two clever men; 两位智者对于世间百态的思想汇聚; When wr
经济学人89:嗨,去野外散个步吧
Books and Arts; Book Review; New fiction from Japan; 文艺;书评;来自日本的新小说; Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side; 嗨,去野外散个步吧; A black cat, two moons and a host of nocturnal little people populate Haruki Mur
经济学人90:萁与豆 Shock and oar
Still in Books and Arts; Book Review; The Oxford-Cambridge boat race; Shock and oar; 文艺;书评;牛津-剑桥划艇赛;萁与豆; Blood Over Water: Oxford Versus Cambridge. One Race. Two Brothers. Only One Winner. By David and James Living