Dellinger's nimble book chronicles the history of a largely unbuilt highway — if completed, it would stretch from the Canadian to the Mexican border — and tells the stories of the communities that stand to profit or to be imperilled by it.
"Interstate 69," by Matt Dellinger — which the magazine notes is an "intelligent and surprisingly nimble" book — is the story of a highway which, if completed, would stretch from the Canadian to the Mexican border.
His latest book is Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009).
His new book, just out, is Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009).
Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge.
Susan Sontag once wrote an essay advocating "an erotics of art," and that's the main point of Orr's passionate, nimble little book: that poetry is for lovers, not cryptologists.
That label was often and too easily applied, in London in the late 1920s and early '30s, to members of the so-called Bright Young People: a small, carefully circumscribed circle of elite 20-somethings who seemed to glide, as D. J. Taylor puts it in his nimble new book, on "a compound of cocktails, jazz, license, abandon and flagrantly improper behavior".
While publishers have been nimble about marketing e-books to consumers, until very recently they've been mostly unwilling to sell e-books to libraries to lend, fearful that doing so would hurt their business, which is under considerable pressure.
The children in his books -- the nimble, crosshatched figures who gaze with wonder and skepticism from the bottom of the page -- are indeed free.
The director Sam Raimi and the screenwriter David Koepp's nimble adaptation of the venerable comic book turns out to be a pretty good movie.
If your son has nimble fingers then "push and pull" books with sliders are a fun way to interact with books but many are simply not robust enough to cope with enthusiastic toddlers for long.
