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A good job for media?

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Less than a week old, it has generated reams of copy and already changed the way Amazon deals with book publishers. Guardian writers consider what the iPad means for different sectors of the media industrySearch for “Steve Jobs iPad” and [...]

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Books, Radio, TV |

Few Of History’s Top Books Made Into Games, Good Or Bad [Books]

With EA’s Dante’s Inferno game on the verge of release, draw your eyes to some lists of the 100 greatest books of all time. Few games have been made based on the books, for better or worse.

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[ More ] January 26th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Books, Gaming |
 

In praise of… world histories

Much archaeology goes on under the microscope, and most history these days deploys the metaphorical magnifying glass. Whether one is decoding engravings on a Kumaraguptan gold coin or penning a doctorate on the incident at Fashoda, the big picture can drop out of view. All hail, then, to those rare scholars who rescue the wood [...]

[ More ] January 25th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Books, Radio, TV |