Thought Leader Insights on Innovation Ecosystems and Clusters

This article provides short, “book reviews” and selected comments on recent, popular books that focused on ecosystems and clusters. They include: AnnaLee Saxenian (reflections and lessons from “Regional Advantage”; Leslie Berlin (the building of Silicon Valley from “Troublemakers”); Richard Florida (reflections and extensions of “The Creative Class”); and, Greg Horowitt (lessons from “Rainforest”).

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Book Reviews

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v7i1.185 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 115-122

Author(s):

Book Reviews

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Material Culture ◽

Mexican Immigrants ◽

Silicon Valley ◽

Harvard University ◽

University Of California ◽

Street Vendors ◽

Missing Link ◽

Transit Migration

Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley by Christian Zlolniski Berkeley, CA, USA: University of California Press, 2006 ISBN 0520246438, 249 pp.The Archaeology of Xenitia: Greek Immigration and Material Culture Ed. by Kostis Kourelis Athens: Gennadius Library, 2008 ISBN 978-960-86960-6-8, 104 pp. Transit Migration: The Missing Link between Emigration and Settlement by Aspasia Papadopoulou-Kourkoula New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 ISBN 0-230-55533-0, 177 pp.How Professors Think: Inside The Curious World of Academic Judgment, 1st Edition by Michele Lamont Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0674032668, 336 pp.

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Book reviews: Evolutionary studies, a centenary celebration of the life of Julian Huxley

Notes and Records the Royal Society journal of the history of science ◽

10.1098/rsnr.1992.0018 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 193-196

Keyword(s):

Major Part ◽

Director General ◽

The Public ◽

Julian Huxley ◽

Evolutionary Studies ◽

Popular Books

Evolutionary studies, a centenary celebration of the life of Julian Huxley . Edited by Milo Keynes & G. Ainsworth Harrison. London: Macmillan, 1989. Pp. 256, £63.00. ISBN 0-333-45723-4 Sir Julian Huxley died in 1975. Although primarily a biologist, his broad social and philosophical interests ensured that he was much in the public eye for the greater part of his life. He was a motivator in the foundation of UNESCO, ensuring that ‘S’ became a major part of its remit, and he became its first Director General. He was a member of the BBC’s extremely popular Brains Trust; he was co-author (with H.G. and Gip Wells) of the seminal Science of life , and author of many ‘popular’ books and articles on scientific, social and philosophical matters.

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Book Reviews

City and Community ◽

10.1111/1540-6040.00032 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 1 (4) ◽

pp. 391-401

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Racial Integration ◽

Creative Class ◽

Urban Restructuring ◽

Global Village ◽

Digital Revolution ◽

Urban Condition ◽

Religious Ecology ◽

New Geography

Books reviewed: Gerald Gamm, Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed Nancy L. Eiesland, A Particular Place: Urban Restructuring and Religious Ecology in a Southern Exurb Ingrid Gould Ellen, Sharing America's Neighborhoods: The Prospects For Stable Racial Integration Joel Kotkin, The New Geography: How The Digital Revolution is Reshaping The American Landscape Richard Florida, The Rise Of The Creative Class: And How it's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life Barry Wellman (ed.), Networks in The Global Village Graham and Marvin, Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities, and the Urban Condition

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