And why shouldn't movies influence books?
Ian Buruma, in his review of recent books on China, considers the country's military might but neglects its most daunting challenge to American global dominance: its growing economic influence (Books, June 19th).
But how much influence the Influences book, and the fabric trade show, exert, is hard to assess.
The larger fascination, for those not drawn to its elaborate scholarship, is the dialogue between media: how sculpture, in the form of these coins, influenced book illustration, which influenced sculpture, and so on.
The same Influences book, from January 1999, also predicted a return to logos, more than six months ahead of the spring 2000 collections, where houses from Christian Dior to Louis Vuitton pushed them.
In what the company calls its Influences book, which is distributed twice a year to clients, none of whom it will name, for $1,375 a copy, the consumer population is divided into various "tribes".
It is more political than his previous works, by turns frank, funny, angry and full of recollections from his childhood, which deeply influenced books like "Huckleberry Finn".
In recent years, as he battled cancer, he made a radical transformation to a holistic lifestyle and wrote several New Age-influenced books, which became widely popular with his two million countrymen.
It is one of the most important and influencing books translated by Constantine the African [36].
