Architecture & Design &Books Entropy | 06 Apr 2010
Oasis of knowledge – Architecture & Arrangement They are places of peacefulness, where books never lose their significance. Libraries and bookshops are at the centre of cultural life. The Livraria da Vila bookshop in Sao Paulo is a contemporary and, in its architectural arrangement, a highly interesting and consistent interpretation of a bookshop. When refurbishing [...]
Books &Music &Photography Entropy | 20 Mar 2010
The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965 From 1957 to 1965 legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith made approximately 4,000 hours of recordings on 1,741 reel-to-reel tapes and nearly 40,000 photographs in a loft building in Manhattan’s wholesale flower district where major jazz musicians of the day [...]
Books &Economic Behaviour Entropy | 16 Mar 2010
In an era of ever-expanding choices, HOW WE CHOOSE addresses the simple-yet-mystifying question : How do we know what we want? The answers are strange, impressive, and profound. Sheena Iyengar, a Columbia University professor whose work on choice is widely recognized and cited looks into the heart of what we desire– and what we think [...]
Books &Life Entropy | 06 Feb 2010
All that matters is Love & Work.- Freud I usually refrain from reading books about alleged business Management and autobiographies of success stories. Most of them are self styled, self congratulatory, recipe manuals packaged with toxic doses of marketing. Nevertheless, instinctively I bought Simply Fly -A Deccan Odyssey by Captain Gopinath which is refreshing, unpretentious, [...]
Books &Economic Behaviour Entropy | 08 Jan 2010
The discipline of economics is not what it used to be. Over the last few decades, economists have begun a revolutionary reorientation in how we look at the world, and this has major implications for politics, policy, and our everyday lives. For years, conventional economists told us an incomplete story that leaned on the comfortable [...]
Books &Music Entropy | 18 Dec 2009
The music is a bridge across the abyss, it is often the final means of human connection, our closing form of comfort. It is what we have when we have nothing else. In this brief video the writer-doctor/ Neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks discusses his book, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain an investigation into [...]