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I have to admit it. I had to give up on this after getting about a quarter of the way through. In a 700 page book, that is about 175 pages. Why did I quit on this? To start with, it is hugely overwritten and poorly edited. So even if I had liked it, I...more |
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| This book is about "design thinking". What is that? Well, it is a combination of rational/analytical thinking (deductive/inductive) and intuitive thinking. Borrowing a term from CS. Peirce, it is "abductive" thinking. The process involves being able...more | |
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| Mark Blyth has written this terrific book as a history of a policy choice, The choice is austerity, which involves financial belt-tightening during times of recession or depression, including raising taxes, cutting social transfer payments, raising i...more | |
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The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
by Thomas Dyja (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
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| Thomas Dyja has written a wonderful social and cultural history of Chicago that spans the time period from the death of Louis Sullivan at the start of the Great Depression until the death of Walter Paepcke, the CCA executive who served as "Chicago's...more | |
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