Edward Tufte Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Edward Tufte

Martin Amis wrote a wonderful essay, “The War against Cliche,” used as a warm-up to help my tone, writing, cognitive style turn sharp, fresh, passionate. Essay has surely escaped to the web, so read it (The Guardian had superb collection obit for MA. NYT obit awful) https://t.co/2sysBLV6Fp

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ETModern landscape #sculpture open weekends tickets https://t.co/Qpo4dCXe7O Philip Greenspun "North America's best sculpture park." Confession: I was reader who approved PG's MIT PhD thesis, and had used his "Software Engineering for Internet Applications" in my Yale seminar https://t.co/9QW2zvUaMv

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A+, brilliant review by James Gleick, scope deep and broad, of new biography of Stephen Hawking, Eclipsed by Fame | by James Gleick | The New York Review of Books, current issue https://t.co/kGT4L4Rjsj

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. Art Spiegelman's interview about Maus: profound analysis of comics, their vast scope of possibilities once conventions are escaped (18 publishers rejected manuscript, which won Pulitzer Prize) Selection transcribed from: https://t.co/iZw7nlzM8M Video: https://t.co/Ep8gGLxk0Q https://t.co/yqtq5ZSi1o

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Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth clothbound and paperback, autographed at https://t.co/GXloAUE3tv 'All communicators should read Edward Tufte's latest book, Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth. Every page is packed with stunning visual and… https://t.co/M1rHTJPEqC https://t.co/b0tyKenYW9

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Over the top, but will go with it SCOTT NEWSTOK, HOW TO THINK LIKE SHAKESPEARE How did you become a writer? I’ve felt stuck in ruts that are endemic to academics. It’s really only now that I feel I can begin to claim to have become a writer. Your writing Influences? https://t.co/e2RG6ESxWZ

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A+ essay by Paul Romer Review of ‘The Economists’ Hour’ by Binyamin Appelbaum and ‘Transaction Man’ by Nicholas Lemann I ordered both books. https://t.co/A4pBnkWZD7

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Beautiful trajectory sparklines, Charles Darwin, The Power of Movement in Plants (1898), alas left out of my Beautiful Evidence probably because of page layout issues (since I write/design/layout my books always to double-page spreads). https://t.co/mGOpiTR6fp

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How 'Peanuts' creator Charles Schulz pushed for Title IX in the 1970s : NPR “Charles Schulz, a tennis devotee, met Billie Jean King and they became fast friends.” The NCAA opposed Title IX. Of course they did. https://t.co/tFuK8lktLS

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On the wonderful Italo Calvino. Reading Calvino 40 years ago yielded deep and divergent quotes for my books. Just ordered his new book. https://t.co/BjEPawcAac

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