Archive for June, 2005
Article on hacking iTunes 4.9
Make magazine just published an article on its
blog on hacking iTunes 4.9
June 23rd, 2005 by alephnaught
The Jews of Florence
Title: The Jews of Florence From the Origins of the Community up to the Present
Author: Roberto G. Salvadori
Paperback: 95 pages
Publisher: Editrice La Giuntina, Florence, Italy, 2001
ISBN: 88-8057-124-9
A good short book describing the history of the Jews in Florence. There were lots of ups and downs for the Jews in Florence – often, they were [...]
June 22nd, 2005 by alephnaught
June 22nd, 2005 by alephnaught
We Did Nothing
Title: We Did Nothing: Why the Truth Doesn’t Always Come Out When the UN Goes In
Author: Linda Polman
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Viking Adult (Penguin Books), 29 May 2003
ISBN: 067091424X
Found this book at the English Book Exchange in Florence on vacation – I had finished the two I’d brought, was reading a couple of the short books [...]
June 20th, 2005 by alephnaught
God and Money
Title: God and Money: Florence and the Medici in the Renaissance
Author: Richard Fremantle (Leo S. Oleschki Editore)
Paperback: 66 pages
Publisher: Casa Editrice Leo S.Olschki (December, 1992)
ASIN: 8822239393
We bought God and Money in the upstairs bookstore at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.
This book discusses the struggle between money and the Church during the Renaissance. Before the [...]
June 18th, 2005 by alephnaught
Ada Blackjack
Title: Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Artic
Author: Jennifer Niven
Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Hyperion (November 3, 2004)
ISBN: 078688746X
Ada Blackjack was an Eskimo who joined the ill-fated attempt to colonize Wrangell Island.
This book starts with a description of Ada and the Chautauqua tours, where famous people and musicians would tour the backwoods United States [...]
June 12th, 2005 by alephnaught
June 12th, 2005 by alephnaught
Inside the Kingdom
Title: Inside the Kingdom
Author: Carmen bin Ladin
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Warner Books (June 13, 2005)
ISBN: 0446694886
This is finally out in paperback, so I brought it along for my latest flight to Amsterdam.
The book is pretty good and a fast read. She’s obviously lived inside Saudi Arabia as a wife of a Saudi (that’s different than [...]
June 10th, 2005 by alephnaught
The Dutch-Muslim Culture War
Another article talking about the problems with
tolerance in the Netherlands
June 10th, 2005 by alephnaught
Freakonomics
Title: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Author: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: William Morrow (May 1, 2005)
ISBN: 006073132X
This book is a fun read. It purports to be about nothing and everything, and its probably pretty close.
While some of the statements are probably over blown, the underlying [...]
English
June 30th, 2005 by alephnaught