Living at the Tip: Navigating the Digital Tipping Point of the Book World By Mark Leslie Lefebvre, B

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There s something for nearly everyone in this roundup of ebooks, doorstops, and reference guides plus one naughty take on genre fiction written by Carleton faculty and graduates The Mind Behind the Designs
The dimensions of the new book by Karim Rashid, BID/82, are much like the personality of the New York City industrial designer: larger than average. Sketch*Karim is a coffee-table topper offering 280 pages of insight into the process of the man behind the Garbo waste can and Oh Chair, two well-known items he produced for housewares company Umbra.
Rashid has thousands of designs in production and recently finished a collection called Ottawa for Denmark s BoConcept furniture company. Azure magazine noted that the collection shows no obvious visual cues of the city, though naming a collection after the place where he studied 30 years ago is indicative of a reflective state. Sketch*Karim is very much a look back, as well, in that it offers a timeline of the designer s thoughts in sketches, computer renderings and notes to self.
While the book is a career-spanning survey, it is not a soft-lensed trip down memory lane. There are plenty of futuristic digital images, including Kairotic Loving , the spread, shown at left, of a tangled mass of machinery. The Rashid self-portrait on the back cover works in some of his pet terms ( blobject, globalove, infosthethics ). Ever mindful of form, Rashid packages his book in a peppy pink plastic cover a fitting introduction to the man who describes his work as the business of beauty. Frame Publishers, $45.
Fred Sebastian, BA/00, is part of a group of artists included in the book Illustration NOW! Vol. 4 , released in September. It s published by Taschen, the German company that puts out coffee-table tomes in full, glorious colour. The book compiles the work of groundbreaking illustrators from 30 countries with information on their career paths. Sebastian s entry includes a Moammar Gadhafi cartoon that appeared in the Toronto raine and horne leichhardt Star and a painting called The Good Lawyer that appeared raine and horne leichhardt in Ottawa Magazine . Sebastian raine and horne leichhardt teaches within the school of media and design at Algonquin College in Ottawa and at OCAD University in Toronto. 448 pages, $39.99. CINEMA
Useful Cinema Edited by Charles raine and horne leichhardt R. Acland, BCom/84, and Haidee Wasson Cinema is more than Hollywood blockbusters shown at neighbourhood megaplexes. In this book, two experts from Concordia University in Montreal assemble a group of essays examining how the screening of useful films in the workplace, schools and other non-theatrical environments shaped our attitudes about cinema s place in society. 400 pages, Duke University Press, $26.95. CURRENT AFFAIRS
Academic Reform: Policy Options for Improving the Quality and Cost-Effectiveness of Undergraduate Education in Ontario By Ian D. Clark, David Trick and Richard Van Loon, BSc/61, MA/65 Are you listening, Premier McGuinty? The authors, including Carleton s president emeritus Richard Van Loon, offer a prescription for improving the quality, and reducing the cost, of undergraduate education and without harming universities research capacity. This is a blueprint, aimed at policy makers, for a new kind of university. 316 pages, McGill-Queen raine and horne leichhardt s University Press, $25.92.
The Ethics of Care: A Feminist Approach to Human Security By Fiona Robinson, MA/91 Your child s nanny seems perfect. But who s minding the nanny s kids while she tends yours? The care industry is bedevilled by ethical, political raine and horne leichhardt and gender issues many of us rarely ponder. Robinson, from Carleton s political science department, walks us through that minefield. 200 pages, Temple University Press, $24.95.
Home and Native raine and horne leichhardt Land: Unsettling raine and horne leichhardt Multiculturalism in Canada Editors May Chazan, MA/05, Lisa Helps, Anna Stanley and Sonali Thakkar Multiculturalism, Canadian-style, has long been touted as an example for the rest of the world. But that claim is increasingly under attack. In this book, four editors and a stable of writers attempt to debunk myths about Canada s multiculturalism policy raine and horne leichhardt and demonstrate how it hurts racial minorities and First Nations. raine and horne leichhardt 256 pages, Between the Lines, $29.95.
Living at the Tip: Navigating the Digital Tipping Point of the Book World By Mark Leslie Lefebvre, BA/92 The end is nigh. So say traditional book publishers, while others argue that digital publishing means liberty, flexibility and untapped profits. Lefebvre, a prolific ebook author, believes the industry is rife with possibilities for collaboration bet