Book interviews tagged Business

Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture
- ISBN: 978 0 571 21199 9
- featured in: The trumpet as a force in people’s livesDecember 26, 2008

The Toothpick: Technology and Culture
- ISBN: 978 0 307 27943 9
- featured in: The story of the toothpick industry is the story of American industryJanuary 2, 2009

Ad Women: How They Impact What We Need, Want, and Buy
- ISBN: 978 1 59102 672 3
- featured in: Retelling the History of AdvertisingFebruary 17, 2009

Weather Matters: An American Cultural History since 1900
- ISBN: 978 0 7006 1611 4
- featured in: How we perceive, manage, and market the weatherApril 10, 2009

Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments
- ISBN: 978 0 295 98833 7
- featured in: Challenging the idea of theme space as an essentially American phenomenonMay 4, 2009

The American 1930s: A Literary History
- ISBN: 978 0521734318
- featured in: Against the simplification of history
June 12, 2009

The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture
- ISBN: 978 0520255388 pb
- featured in: The history of comedy is that of the changing social patterns that produce and permit laughterAugust 14, 2009

Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations
- ISBN: 978 0226033648 hb
- featured in: On the role of “shareholder” governments that own multilateral development banksAugust 17, 2009

Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do About It
- ISBN: 978 0 691 14219 7
- featured in: How governments should implement public venturesOctober 12, 2009

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
- ISBN: 978 0674033221
- featured in: Wal-Mart as a Christian pro-capitalist social movementNovember 4, 2009

The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies
- ISBN: 978 0231145664
- featured in: Bertolucci called us a kind of wild cinema universityNovember 27, 2009

Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should Be Led by Top Scholars
- ISBN: 978 0691138008
- featured in: It is experts, not managers that make the better leadersDecember 30, 2009

Transforming Toxic Leaders
- ISBN: 978 0804758284
- featured in: Healing the dark side of highly complex organizationsJanuary 15, 2010

Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks
- ISBN: 978 0 520 26106 8
- featured in: Corporate powers, posing as public service providers, have taken advantage of the privatization of lifeJanuary 18, 2010

Investing in Protection: The Politics of Preferential Trade Agreements between North and South
- ISBN: 978 0521748704
- featured in: Preferential trade agreements erode the political support for broader, non-discriminatory free tradeFebruary 15, 2010

Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way Is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age
- ISBN: 978 0520261372
- featured in: Europe is the new world, not the old
March 31, 2010