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    Idea Makers Podcast

    Idea Makers Podcast

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    Conversations with prominent business and thought leaders about lessons learned, beginning and...

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Carrie Brownstein recommended The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary in Books (curated)

 
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester | 1998
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"One of my favorite history books. It’s a story about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary and of an epistolary and academic friendship between two men, one of whom (unbeknownst to the other) was an inmate at an insane asylum."

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James Dyson recommended English Culture and The Decline of The Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980 in Books (curated)

 
English Culture and The Decline of The Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980
English Culture and The Decline of The Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980
Martin J. Wiener | 2020
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"It took an American academic to research and diagnose this British class snobbishness about the activity of manufacturing. Astonishingly, it is more acceptable for the educated classes to go into banking or insurance rather than dirty their hands making things."

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