Thomas Friedman’s newest book Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution is not new territory. There has been a recent groundswell of books that speak to the same general concepts (Common Wealth, The Bottom Billion, Plan B 3.0 as just an example).
Where I think Thomas Friedman adds value in this space is his additional focus on [...]
Have you recently been wondering how the economy has gotten so bad in such a short time; or how business leaders go from being demigods to demons in less than a year; or how about those fluctuations on a stock from external forces that make little to no sense (i.e. a cotton farm in Bangalore [...]
|It’s hard to throw a stick in a book store and not hit a book about Bush 43 (aka Dubya) these days. From Scott McClellan’s What Happenedto Randall Balmer’s God in the White House: A Historyto Bob Woodward’s Plan of Attackthere seems to be an unending stream of books praising, excusing and exalting the current [...]
|Having read two other accounts of the atrocities in Rwanada (We Did Nothing and Shake Hands With the Devil), I wasn’t sure how excited I was about reading one more. Best-selling author and CBC personality Carol Off’s book The Lion, the Fox and the Eagle is slightly different.
In relating her account of the Rwanadan and [...]
|My wife bought me this book while in New York over the summer. Admittedly, I wasn’t initially sure about the concept of the book. I struggled to see how anyone could write a 600-page history on one of the most secretive organizations on the planet? Well, Tim Weiner, a New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner has done [...]
|A week ago I put up a book review of Predictably Irrational, from Dan Ariely. The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World is the opposing view to Predictably Irrational, to the extent that it seems that much of the author’s writings were aimed directly at Mr. Ariely’s thought process and research.
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I borrowed this book from a colleague at work that shares an interest in reading nonfiction. Technically, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines is a work of fiction (the author, Janna Levin, has taken historical accounts from other resources and coloured the book with some fictitious additions), but much of the material is historically correct. Essentially, [...]
|Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions was purchased at the same time I bought The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World (Tim Herford) based on a new way I wanted to read. Essentially, I wanted to buy two books at once that had almost polar opposite views on [...]
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Jeffrey Sachs is one of the world’s most prominent economists and has worked with the current UN General Secretary and world leaders, academics and global companies. Currently a professor at Columbia University, Jeffrey Sachs has previously written End of Poverty, which Common Wealth partly covers in terms of content (extreme poverty). Common Wealth goes much further [...]
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