{"id":3024,"date":"2010-07-21T12:52:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T17:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2010-07-21T12:53:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T17:53:50","slug":"some-summer-reading-at-unc-alumni-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/some-summer-reading-at-unc-alumni-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Summer Reading (at UNC Alumni Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good folks that <a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.unc.edu\/\">the UNC Alumni Review<\/a> asked a bunch of faculty and administrators what we were planning to read this summer. What a challenge! We&#8217;re all a bunch of speed reading overachievers who obviously set up unrealistic goals for ourselves &#8212; there are a big bunch of books from every very busy contributor. And many of us listed our pleasure reading, our speculative reading, our airport and bad weather in the hotel or beach\/mountain house reading rather than our reading for research or teaching or even books-by-our-friends reading, me included.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.unc.edu\/publications\/summerreading\/\">Here&#8217;s the full list.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My own list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blankets, a graphic novel by Craig Thompson<\/li>\n<li>Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson and Michael B. Horn<\/li>\n<li>Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World by Alex Pentland<\/li>\n<li>How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar&#8217;s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks by Robin Dunbar<\/li>\n<li>I Don&#8217;t Bow to Buddhas: Selected Poems of Yuan Mei Translated by JP Seaton<\/li>\n<li>Juliet Naked by Nick Hornby<\/li>\n<li>Makers by Cory Doctorow<\/li>\n<li>No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment by David Lange and H. Jefferson Powell<\/li>\n<li>Praying for Sheetrock by Melissa Fay Greene<\/li>\n<li>The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking Is the Next Competitive Advantage by Roger L. Martin<\/li>\n<li>Who&#8217;s Your City: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life by Richard Florida<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good folks that the UNC Alumni Review asked a bunch of faculty and administrators what we were planning to read this summer. What a challenge! We&#8217;re all a bunch of speed reading overachievers who obviously set up unrealistic goals for ourselves &#8212; there are a big bunch of books from every very busy contributor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3026,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}