Books &Music Entropy | 13 Jan 2011
Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) bring you this amazing new deluxe hardback 12″ x 12″ book, 200 pages, 100s of stunning absolutely killer Bossa Nova sleeves from Brazil plus loads of historical, cultural and social text as well as biographies on loads of the artists! Bossa Nova And The Rise Of Brazilian [...]
Books &Poetry Entropy | 07 Jan 2011
In the words of the Poet Edward Hirsch – ” She teaches us how the World defies and evades the names we give it “ A new book of poems by Wislawa Szymborska is a rare and exciting event. When recently her Book “ Here “ was published in Poland, reviewers marveled, “How is it that [...]
Books &Music Entropy | 26 Nov 2010
Listen: Herman Leonard and his World of Jazz Herman Leonard’s life was an example of the phrase “everything in its time.” Shortly after earning a fine-arts degree in photography in the late 1940s, Leonard was making a living as a commercial photographer during the day and hanging out in jazz clubs in New York at [...]
Books &Science Entropy | 22 Jul 2010
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world.– Primo Levi Most people [...]
Books &Life Entropy | 14 Jun 2010
“Such is the way of civilized man; we no longer kill in a bloody hunt for food. We’re refined. We work in clean well-lighted places making civilized movements, and kill instead from a great distance . . . .” Wish to introduce wonderful world & Books of Ferenc Máté Ferenc Máté was born in Hungary [...]
Books &Meditation-Introspection Entropy | 19 May 2010
Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience- By Stephen S. Hall This Book is a compelling investigation into one of our most coveted and cherished ideals, and the efforts of modern science to penetrate the mysterious nature of this timeless virtue. In the words of Lama Surya Das – Wisdom is an endangered natural resource today in [...]