Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs I often describe myself as a wanderer. I have lived in twenty homes, two with my parents in my childhood, and all [...]
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Here and There – Denmark
Here and There – Denmark Louisiana is quintessentially Danish. I know some people go on about the Mermaid on the Rock in Copenhagen Harbour, [...]
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Susan Isaacs
Susan Isaacs Some writers have the knack of opening a novel in such a way I can’t forget. One example is Jane Austen at [...]
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Here and There – Macau
Here and There – Macau How is it possible to go somewhere several times and yet see so little? Yes, that’s a rhetorical question: [...]
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Max Holland
Max Holland If there’s a category of books that many people find boring, those on the management of manufacturing would rate among the worst, [...]
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Here and There – India
Here and there - India We’re looking at a village somewhere in India. A young man is entering a compound. He is missing part [...]
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Kenneth Gergen
Kenneth Gergen On page 14, there is a cartoon, a Larson cartoon. In an otherwise empty room, a man is sitting at a desk, [...]
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Here and There – Trobriand Islands
Here and There – Trobriand Islands One weekend, staying overnight on the Saturday, is scarcely enough to claim I have spent time in the [...]
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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Felipe Fernández-Armesto In the face of vast quantities of information and analyses about wars, floods, political jousting and so many other topics, we are [...]
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Here and There – Finland
Here and There – Finland In a way I hadn’t anticipated, I found writing about Finland was also an exercise in writing about memory. [...]