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Book Salon: The Shadow of The Wind |
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Location TBD | Thursday, September 30, 2010 |
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The Shadow of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon --
Buried in the back streets of Barcelona lies the Cemetery of Lost Books - a mausoleum for out-of-print works, salvaged by the bibliophiles of the city. There, 10-year-old Daniel Sempere discovers a book called The Shadow of the Wind, by Julián Carax, which captures his young imagination... |
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Book Salon: Freakonomics |
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Location TBD | Thursday, October 28, 2010 |
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Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner --
Levitt and Dubner maintain that "if morality is how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work." They also show that conventional wisdom is often a convenient way to think about a problem more than a correct way to think about it. Freakonomics asks some good questions, and it inspires readers to do the same. The appeal of Freakonomics lies not in the answers it gives, but in the revelation that answers exist and can be discovered if only we know the right questions to ask. |
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