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The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Penguin Press HC, The, 2007
It works, and let me add a bit....
I bought this book not to become happy but because it was written by my colleague Sonja Lyubomirsky; I knew her from work, found her research interesting, and wanted to find out more. The book actually did make me happier. I knew most of the material from the ...
Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression
James S. Gordon M.D.
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
The organic solurion to depression
Jim Gordon's Unstuck is the first book I know of that gives away the store. To gain this insight in the past would have cost you years of therapy, drug testing and miserable years of life. In this book you get all of it summarized and explained in depth. By reading ...
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Clay Shirky
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
Great Quality Political Analysis
Clay Shirky provides insightful and well-developed analysis of today's new technology and its possible impact on politics and other areas of society, such as journalism. This is interspersed with stories to keep the reader interested. All in all, I am very glad I ...
Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
Mark Mazower
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
excellent documentary and close analysis, but...
This is an excellent book, with a qualifying 'but'. If you want to understand the dynamic of 'Hitlers Empire', how it developed and collapsed, and the details of its particular flavour of genocidal gangsterism, then this will satisfy all the curiosity you have, and ...
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
Alan Greenspan
Penguin Press HC, The, 2007
Better than the election debates
This guy breathes economics and shares several thoughtful insights into how the global economy is affecting American politics. Pair this book with The Power of Productivity and you'll definitely have a better picture of how the world works.
The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs
Charles D. Ellis
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
A History Of A Survivor
In his massive history of Goldman Sachs (over 700+ pages), Mr. Ellis gives a glowing and comprehensive history of the the investment bank. He writes as the insider he is (a former consultant to the firm) and is not as critical of Goldman Sachs as he could be. Founded ...
Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
Philip Delves Broughton
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
it's about life, stupid.
As the father of a recent HBS graduate, I was drawn into the book to understand more about the inside workings of Harvard. As a graduate of a community college in New York, and the father of eight children, and owner of a 30 year successful technology business, I ...
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
Barton Gellman
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
Angler
As a reader with advanced degrees in Political Science and Public Policy, and 20 years of employment in senior government service, this is the best expose with the required restraint and research that I have read in 30 years. A MASTERPIECE.
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Michael Pollan
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
A Must Read: And here is why
Healing the Rift: Merging Science and Spirituality Michael Pollan chronicles the dogma and misconceptions concerning food and food nutrition. With tens of thousands of books published each year on cooking, diet, food, and nutrition, few really give readers the ...
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
James M. McPherson
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
Another McPherson Blockbuster
James McPherson strikes again with yet another well researched and exceptionally well written book on Lincoln and how lucky we, as a nation, were to have him at the helm during the civil war. It is such a pleasure to read since his prose flows effortlessly through ...
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
Steve Coll
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
Amaze your friends on how much you know about the Bin Ladens!
I started reading this book mainly because the author is a pulz prize winner. I started it back in April. Mind you I am a slow reader but this is one that I can't put down. I remember after 9/11 hearing that the Bin Laden family had been flown out the next day or so by ...
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Sudhir Venkatesh
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
A great look into a side of America that most people never see.
This is a narrative of Sudhir Venkatesh as he explores the community and economy of a crack gang. This is a very interesting book and I think it really helped me understand the world better. I would suggest this to anyone that will work with the public, any teachers, ...
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
John Carlin
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
Playing the Enemy is a must read for anyone who wants to understand Mandela's genius
A marvelous book. Anyone who wants to understand the hope (and the chances for failure) in post-apartheid SA should read this book, particularly in the light of Mbeki's failure and the test that is to follow.
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Niall Ferguson
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance . Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. ...
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
Tim Tzouliadis
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
Disturbing stuff
I saw a review of this book in the Economist a few weeks ago, and it reminded me of a brief newspaper article I read in about 1996. It talked of thousands of US POWs who had disappeared after WW2, apparently kidnapped by the Russians. At the time I thought that was ...
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