FiveBooks Newsletter 40

4 Apr 2011 • 3 min read

FiveBooks News

Dear FiveBooks Readers,

This week on FiveBooks, we’ve brought you recommendations from the likes of
Anthony Julius, Michael Palliser, and Alison Gopnik; their chosen volumes
range from _Lady Chatterley’s Lover_ to Henry Kissinger’s _Diplomacy_ and
Marjorie Taylor’s excellent work of child psychology, _Imaginary Companions
and the Children Who Create Them. _Enjoy!

[1]Anthony Julius on Censorship
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anthony-julius-on-censorship

_Monday, March 28th_
Senior solicitor-advocate at Mishcon de Reya discusses the collision between
literature and the law [2]Continue Reading…
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anthony-julius-on-censorship

[3]Rory McTurk on Old Icelandic Culture
Links:
3. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rory-mcturk-on-old-icelandic-culture

_Tuesday, March 29th_
Authoritative academic discusses the Icelandic sagas, medieval Nordic
history and links to Anglo-Saxon England [4]Continue Reading…
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rory-mcturk-on-old-icelandic-culture

[5]Richard Beard on Rugby
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-beard-on-rugby

_Wednesday, March 30th_
Rugby fanatic Richard Beard explains the difference between rugby league and
rugby union – and says the aggression you need for the game doesn’t always
translate well into life [6]Continue Reading…
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-beard-on-rugby

[7]Michael Palliser on Diplomacy
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-palliser-on-diplomacy

_Thursday, March 31st_
Veteran diplomat Michael Palliser discusses his friend Henry Kissinger’s
diplomatic skills and says his experiences in post-war Germany made him a
committed European [8]Continue Reading…
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-palliser-on-diplomacy

[9]Alison Gopnik on Children and Their Minds
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alison-gopnik-on-children-and-their-minds

_Friday, April 1st_
American author and psychology professor talks about what is really going on
in our children’s minds [10]Continue Reading…
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alison-gopnik-on-children-and-their-minds

[11]Bob Johnstone on Solar Power
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bob-johnstone-on-solar-power

_Sunday, April 3rd_
Former _Wired_ contributing editor and MIT Science Journalism Fellow
explains why the Germans lead the world in solar energy and whether it's
time to install a panel on your own roof [12]Continue Reading…
Finally, this week we’ll feature a six-part Poetry series in honour of
National Poetry Month. Our first interview is with [13]Gillian Clarke, the
National Poet of Wales, who tells us why she considers Ted Hughes, Seamus
Heaney and R S Thomas ‘the gods of poetry’.
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bob-johnstone-on-solar-power
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gillian-clarke-on-poetry

Yours,

The FiveBooks team at TheBrowser

[14]The Matchmaker
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/matchmaker

Leon Neyfakh | Boston Globe | 3 April 2011

Alvin Roth, Harvard economist, designs markets that work without money.
Helped develop systems for matching doctors with hospital internships, and
assigning children to NY public schools. Working now on national kidney
exchange

Current Topic

[15]Moral Philosophy
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/topics/moral-philosophy

Do babies have morals? Does surveillance make us better? Is free will an
illusion or not? Is there such a thing as evil? Get to grips with the big
questions of right and wrong

Book of the Week

[16]Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/winning-our-energy-independence-energy-insider-shows-how-by-david-freeman

_by David Freeman_

_Bob Johnstone says:_ “So many books about serious subjects are insufferably
dull, but this one is really enjoyable. It’s also quite an unknown book. I
don’t imagine a lot of people have come across it, but it deserves to be
widely read.”

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