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Barnes & Noble Launches 16th Annual Summer Reading Program: Imagination's Destination

Barnes & Noble, Inc. , the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced the launch of its 2012 Summer Reading Program: Imagination's Destination.

Euro buyer’s remorse

With hindsight, was the euro a good idea? Will it come through the present crisis intact or will any country decide to leave? And what happens if they do? All this and more answered by economics professor Barry Eichengreen. When we look back 50 years from now, what do you think we’ll say about the whole euro project? I think we’ll say that it was dangerously premature but ultimately proved ...

Information hoarders

History professor and author of "Too Much to Know" Ann Blair tells us what researchers have been discovering about how earlier human societies collected, organized and used information. Our topic is the history of information. Before we broach the books, please sketch the evolution of this subject as a field of academic inquiry. The history of information has developed especially in the last 10 ...

America’s failing powerhouse

The American economy has been driven by waves of technological change and the successful adoption of ideas from elsewhere. Michael Lind, the author of "Land of Promise," tells us how it happened, and what history teaches us about the way ahead. Your latest book is a sweeping economic history of America. In a nutshell, how did America become such an economic powerhouse? Well, it did so as a ...

Secrets of Southern California

Dennis McDougal, the writer dubbed “L.A.’s number one muckraker,” peels away the phoney baloney to tell us about power, pollution and pulp fiction in the City of Angels. The New York Times called you “L.A.’s number one muckraker.” You grew up largely in L.A., attended UCLA, worked for the Los Angeles Times and wrote nine books about the region. What inspired you to make a career out of covering ...