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By admin, on November 8th, 2011%
Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle) [Hardcover] by Christopher Paolini – I’m about 400 pages into Inheritance (half way through) and the main thing I’ve noticed about the book is that it has the same problem as Brisingr: it lacks momentum, purpose, and a sense of importance. Eragon and Eldest both had a good sense of progress being made and movement; Inheritance spends too much time on insignificant side plots involving minor characters. Continue reading Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle) by Christopher Paolini
By admin, on October 6th, 2011%
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson – Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. Continue reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
By admin, on August 15th, 2011%
The Old Rules of Marketing are Dead: 6 New Rules to Reinvent Your Brand and Reignite Your Business (PAPERBACK) [Paperback] – Reinvent your marketing to keep up with an ever-changing marketplace
“A must-read for any business leader or marketer. It explains how brands must be true to their essence and be reinvented to remain relevant in this radically changed, information-rich, and Internet-oriented world.”
—Robert Hanson, President, Global Levi’s® Brand, Levis Strauss & Co.
“Pearson makes the clearest statement yet about the new world of marketing, as he makes the difficult and complex concepts of brands and reinvention understandable to everyone.”
—Bob Jeffrey, CEO, JWT
“When it comes to global brands, Pearson has no peers. His understanding of how companies and enterprises that breakaway from their competitors and reinvent their businesses will inherit the next era of global commerce is revolutionary.”
—Michel Recalt, Director of Marketing and Brand Strategy, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton
Continue reading The Old Rules of Marketing are Dead: 6 New Rules to Reinvent Your Brand and Reignite Your Business (PAPERBACK) [Paperback]
By admin, on July 7th, 2011%
Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach – “* ‘Total genius.’ – Jonathan Lethem, father of two, author of MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN * ‘A children’s book for grown-ups! I really did laugh out loud-hilarious!’ – David Byrne, father of one, musician, artist * ‘This is the most honest children’s book ever written. And it’s f*cking hilarious.’ – A.J. Jacobs, father of three, author of THE YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY * ‘I wish this book had been around during my daughter’s overly protracted sleep rituals! Continue reading Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach
By admin, on April 3rd, 2011%
The Entrepreneur Equation: Evaluating the Realities, Risks, and Rewards of Having Your Own Business (Hardcover) - “One thing readers can be certain of is that Carol Roth will tell it like it is. Her no-nonsense, direct, humorous, and engaging style is part of what makes The Entrepreneur Equation one of the more enjoyable business books to read. But the author also has a serious purpose: to ensure that anyone thinking about starting a business is prepared for it. Continue reading The Entrepreneur Equation: Evaluating the Realities, Risks, and Rewards of Having Your Own Business (Hardcover)
By admin, on March 22nd, 2011%
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover) – Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2011: Moonwalking with Einstein follows Joshua Foer’s compelling journey as a participant in the U.S. Memory Championship. As a science journalist covering the competition, Foer became captivated by the secrets of the competitors, like how the current world memory champion, Ben Pridmore, could memorize the exact order of 1,528 digits in an hour. He met with individuals whose memories are truly unique—from one man whose memory only extends back to his most recent thought, to another who can memorize complex mathematical formulas without knowing any math. Continue reading Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
By admin, on March 10th, 2011%
Slow Cooker Revolution (Paperback) – The “new” name is “slow cooker” but most of us know the device as a “crockpot” because that’s the name it was first marketed under a couple of decades ago. If you’re like me, you got one because you thought, “Hey, I can put in the ingredients in the morning and have a tasty meal when I get home from work – cool”. Then you found out that only certain recipes seemed to work well in the crockpot, er, slow cooker. You bought crockpot cookbooks, and found while many of them were beautifully designed with multiple and elaborate fonts, blank spaces for notes, line drawings of cute little collections of vegetables, the recipes either contained about 20 different ingredients or else the recipe required so much pre-browning, pre-sautéing, post-blending, post-broiling of the ingredients that it would just be quicker to cook the darn recipe once you got home from work. Continue reading Slow Cooker Revolution (Paperback)
By admin, on February 12th, 2011%
As One by Mehrdad Baghai and James Quigley (Hardcover) - Our world is as much about cooperation as it is about conflict; as much about collaboration as competition. Yet our knowledge of collective behavior is still relatively slim. Leaders who have been trained in the command-and-control mode of management are realizing that it often fails to truly engage people; in response, management thinkers have proclaimed the advent of a new, participatory model. But why should there be only two modes of collective behavior? For the past two years Deloitte has invested in a major global initiative, the As One project, to study effective collaborations. Continue reading As One by Mehrdad Baghai and James Quigley (Hardcover)
By admin, on February 2nd, 2011%
The Investment Answer (Hardcover) – Review
- “Demystifies the investment process . . . a book every American should read.” — By The Honorable Bill Bradley, former United States senator
- “Wow! If I could give only one book on investing to my friends, this would be it.” — By Bob Waterman, bestselling coauthor of In Search of Excellence Continue reading The Investment Answer (Hardcover)
By admin, on January 2nd, 2011%
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman [Hardcover] – Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger… which 150 pages will you read? Is it possible to:
- Reach your genetic potential in 6 months?
- Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours?
- Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing?
Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness book. Continue reading The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman [Hardcover]
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