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	<title>Indy Telecom &#38; Industrial Media &#187; Books</title>
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	<description>Would you like fries with that?</description>
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		<title>Development as Freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I rarely recommend textbooks as good reads. Not that they aren&#8217;t, of course, but they often tend to be academic in nature and therefore of little interest to anyone other than academics (and unfortunate students).
However, I&#8217;m taking a class by Professor Stephen P. Marks on World Poverty &#38; Human Rights this Spring, and one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Human Condition &amp; Postmodernist Literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gabriel García Márquez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good friend of mine remarked that South American literature reminds him of Bengali literature, and I replied back that while my knowledge of Bengali literature was scant, it did remind me of Malayalam literature. Of course, he was rather keen to observe that all four societies practice some form of Communism/Socialism or Marxism, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Roman Credit Crunch</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2008/11/18/a-roman-credit-crunch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Annals of Imperial Rome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Paul Kedrosky talked about a blog post on Tired Fools, which talks about how in The Annals of Imperial Rome, Tacitus describes the credit crunch in ancient Rome, complete with property slump and government bailout &#8211;
Accusers were now intesely active. Their present targets were men who enriched themselves by usury, infringing laws by which the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2007/07/19/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the good fortune of landing on a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows a few days before its official release.

And to those fans who have been waiting for it, let me tell you this &#8212; it is more than worth it. It&#8217;s a fantastic piece of work and you will truly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Potter</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2007/06/12/harry-potter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have often being accused of being a heathen in more ways than one, and what better way to be a heathen than to be a fan of Harry Potter, especially amongst those that look at genres like sci-fi and fantasy with disdain?
Anyway, I have refrained from buying the previous six books (borrowing them, instead) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ColdFire Trilogy</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2006/09/03/coldfire-trilogy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading (yet) another very good fantasy series called the ColdFire Trilogy, written by a relatively unknown fantasy author called Celia S. Friedman.
  

My friend Chris had been recommending this series to me for the longest time, and I finally gave in and decided to give it a go. Fortunately, it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freakonomics</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2006/08/28/freakonomics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I finally gave into temptation and purchased the NYT bestseller Freakonomics by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen Dubner.
After all, how could anyone resist a book titled such, especially with a cover so tempting?

Needless to say, I was quite skeptical &#8212; not because I doubted either of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would someone please think of the trees?</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2006/08/20/would-someone-please-think-of-the-trees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 03:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not that I have all that many books, but I&#8217;ve been recently trying to update my compilation of books that I own.
So, here is the list of books that I own for your reading pleasure (horrible pun, I know).
The list is not entirely complete, and I still have a couple of hundred books in storage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gifts of Athena</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2006/07/25/the-gifts-of-athena/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I picked up a book called The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy by Joel Mokyr.

For the most part, the book talks about the evolution of knowledge and ideas as we know today, and the role various technologies played in getting us where we are, both philosophically and technologically.

But [...]]]></description>
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