All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
... group's bassist, Per Mathisen, is one of the reasons the group grooves with such authority. With Jungle City, he turns to a smaller ensemble, and explores a different facet of his roots in the American tradition...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Had Henry Ford stumbled into El Dorado, the Amazon's legendary golden city, he probably wouldn't have had much use for it. First of all, he was rich. Furthermore, Ford's idea of a jungle city was a tad more austere.
Jungle Trader (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Quote from Greg Grandin's Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City : Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century explorers and missionaries often portrayed the jungle either as evil inherent or as revealing the evil men carry inside. Traveling through the region in 1930, the Anglican lay leader Kenneth Grubb wrote that the forest brings out the "worst...
Tourism of Cardiff (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Tourism in Juanjui Juanjui jungle city, belonging to the Mariscal Cáceres province of San Martín region in Peru, simple and friendly people, mainly agricultural area where the archaeological remains of the Great Pajaten culture, founded on September 24, 1827 by Spanish captain José Gaspar Lopez Salcedo. Juanjui Islamists was formed by immigrants and later by people...
World Hum (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... Greg Grandin’s “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City” and David Grann’s “The Lost City of Z” among them. (We interviewed Grann about his book earlier this year.) In slightly less prestigious book-list news, Hudson Booksellers has also released its picks for the best books of 2009 . Take a good look, frequent...
Civil War Bookshelf (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Amazon compiled a top 10 history book list for the year and placed Russell S. Bonds' War Like Thunderbolt at number 5. Congratulations are in order!p.s. Looking for patterns in the data, I notice Thunderbolt is one of two burning books; there are also two lost jungle city books, two majesty-of-science books; and two pop-classical histories. What to make of it?
Daily Advance - Business (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, speaks, as France's president Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, center, look on during the Amazon Summit in Manaus, Brazil, Thursday, Nov.26, 2009. The summit in the steamy jungle city of Manaus to set Amazon priorities on climate change is fizzling after the presidents of Colombia and Venezuela bailed...
Rocky Mount Telegram - Business (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, speaks, as France's president Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, center, look on during the Amazon Summit in Manaus, Brazil, Thursday, Nov.26, 2009. The summit in the steamy jungle city of Manaus to set Amazon priorities on climate change is fizzling after the presidents of Colombia and Venezuela bailed...
Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... turns the memories of his doctor parents into a narrative seed, planting it in both a jungle and a city hospital to see what will grow from each. Few recent films seem as driven by pure, organic intuition—and are as consistently sublime. Thai censors disagreed with such praise. They said Apichatpong's parents should be ashamed for what he'd done to them in his film, said the...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, speaks, as France's president Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, center, look on during the Amazon Summit in Manaus, Brazil, Thursday, Nov.26, 2009. The summit in the steamy jungle city of Manaus to set Amazon priorities on climate change is fizzling after the presidents of Colombia and Venezuela bailed...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Last updated November 26, 2009 4:12 p.m. PTBrazil: 'Gringos' must pay to stop Amazon razingBy MARCO SIBAJABrazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, speaks, as France's president Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, center, look on during the Amazon Summit in Manaus, Brazil, Thursday, Nov.26, 2009. The summit in the steamy jungle city of Manaus...
subrealism (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... for underseas vacationing, desert irrigation, and land reclamation, building roads in the jungle and a City of the Future. Visitors rode through the dioramas in 3-abreast chairs on a ride train. The Futurama exhibit was again sponsored by General Motors and proved to be the most popular exhibit at the World's Fair with more than 26 million persons attending the show in the two 6-month...
Jungle Trader (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I planned to end this blog to focus on new business opportunities. An avalanche of protests from unhappy readers buried that idea. Several of the protests came from Washington, DC. At the moment I am reading Greg Grandin's Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City . A quote from the book: Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century explorers and missionaries often...
SWJ Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... are now “complex” and require “complex and adaptive” solutions. Jungles and cities are now “complex terrain.” Put simply, the discussion about future conflict is being conducted using buzzwords and bumper stickers. The evidence that the threats of the 21st century are going to be that much different from the threats of the 20th is lacking. Likewise,...
ysmarko (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
during my blogging hiatus i still read books! here are the second set of 10 mini-reviews, in no particular order… Nurtureshock: New Thinking about Children by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman a stunning summary of new research about children and teenagers. some of it is truly counter-intuitive and surprising stuff (that still makes total sense [...]
