16-03-02 Define Your Purpose for Reading Before you start reading, ask yourself why are you reading this book. Most people read for two main reasons - pleasure or knowledge. Being specific and clear about your reading purpose not only helps you to eliminate...
16-03-02 Couldn't put it down. Literally. I neglected other duties for 36 hours. Excellent continuation of the story. Again, fascinating view of drivers of species survival seen through a different cultural lens, somewhat alien to my Western background. I di...
16-03-02 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Song of Solomon ends up on many to-read book lists because of the author's 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, and because the book itself won the prestigious National Book Critics Fiction award in 1977. Somewhat like t...
16-07-11 I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a grown-up. I have a serious reason: he is the best friend I have in the world. I have another reason: this grown-up understands everything, even books about children....
16-03-02 The Road to Character , by David Brooks The insightful New York Times columnist examines the contrasting values that motivate all of us. He argues that American society does a good job of cultivating the rsum virtues (the traits that lead to externa...
16-02-15 The Public Wealth of Nations: How Management of Public Assets Can Boost or Bust Economic Growth Dag Detter and Stefan Flster Governments have trillions of dollars in assets, from companies to forests, but they are often poorly managed. Two investmen...
16-02-15 Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence Jonathan Haslam A detailed appraisal of how the Soviet Union handled undercover operations from the communist revolution in 1917 until the end of the cold war. The most gripping chapt...
16-02-15 How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (1936) Carnegie's classic self-help book counts people as diverse as oracular investor Warren Buffet and murder-mastermind Charles Manson among its acolytes. The book, which comprises a recipe...
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16-01-27 A few years ago when I was 18, I was dating a girl from Edinburgh. Now this place has quite a lot of history so ghost tours are common but one stands out as being famous due to the fact that it has an extremely well documented case of a poltergeist...