By: David Elzey,
on 10/31/2007
(A Not-So-Scary Story) written and illustrated by Alison Paul Houghton Mifflin 2007 I am of two distinct minds about this picture book. 1. Interesting idea, flawed execution. 2. Not every recent illustration graduate from art school deserves to have their final project published. No, I don't have evidence of this last statement being true in this case, or in the many others I have seen
By: Rebecca,
on 9/4/2007
Some mornings, you just have to admit that the internet is a strange and wonderful place. The kind of place where people post shout-outs to “missed connections” on Craig’s List about hot women reading good books. In case you were wondering “5′9″ medium to slight build” there are lots of beautiful women reading good books at 35th and Madison (the OUP offices.) Keep reading for a guaranteed morning laugh.
You were reading “The Bottom Billion” on the 2 train on Tuesday - m4w (Midtown West) (more…)
By: Rebecca,
on 7/11/2007
Below Paul Collier the author of The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It and a Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University explains why guilt is no solution for poverty.
To date policy towards the bottom billion has been driven predominantly by guilt: America’s guilt about slavery, Europe’s guilt about colonialism. (more…)
Posted on 6/21/2007
Rebecca OUP-US
Today we are thrilled to have an original piece from Paul Collier the author of The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It. Below, Collier a Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University, argues that the G8 did not go far enough in its efforts to assist Africa.
Since the 1960s around a billion citizens of the world have been diverging from the rest of us at an accelerating rate, a trend which will generate unmanageable social pressures. Most of these countries are in Africa, and so it is appropriate that the region should again have been on the G8 agenda during the recent summit in Germany. (more…)
By: Paul Conrad,
on 4/26/2007
THIS IS IT!
The Fist-A-Cuffs EAST VS. WEST CHAMPIONSHIP!
And it's for or all the marbles!...Actually for two swell championship belts!
The "Pain Brothers" need your HELP one more time!
(which translates to votes.)
Y'know, it had a great start. I liked the cover and the concept. Some people pooh-poohed the central conceit of mimicking "The Raven", but for a while I thought it really worked. But as the crow turned into various people, it just sort of fell apart. It's a pity too since I was inclined to really like the book. Ah well.