by Site Owner | Feb 24, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Business & Investing
by Edward M. Hallowell, MD Harvard Business Review Press, $26.95, 197 pages Managerial advice books tend to be a little boring, as they look towards the bottom line. Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People reverses that trend, it states that...
by Site Owner | Feb 24, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics
Edited by Karl Weber Public Affairs Books, $15.95, 288 pages The children of the US are in trouble. An education system that was once top in the world is failing our children and the problem is getting worse by the day. In the book Waiting for “Superman”: How We Can...
by Site Owner | Feb 24, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics
by Evgeny Morozov Public Affairs Books, $24.95, 409 pages The Internet has been sold as a panacea for the world’s ills. Economic equality, totalitarianism, social justices are all problems that the Internet has been proposed to be an answer to. Much like its...
by Site Owner | Feb 24, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics
by Joseph S. Nye Jr. Public Affairs Books,$29.99, 320 pages There are no better examples of the shifting meaning of power than the recent regime changes in North Africa. It used to be that the force with the biggest guns won the war, but as events Tunisia and Egypt...
by Site Owner | Feb 22, 2011 | Science Fiction
by Marcella Burnard Berkley Publishing Group, $15.00, 342 pages Sometimes you have to wonder what would happen if Jane Austen was a little racier and into science fiction. Enemy Within goes a long ways towards answering that question. Captain Alexandria “Ari” Rose is...