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51stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
(Posted from Wales - with very limited access!) Tim Winton – Breath Once started it is almost impossible to put this book down again, you want to go on reading, it takes you along, not in the sense that you want to know what the end of the story is, no, it’s to do with wanting to [...]
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Life Goggles (Free subscription) | yesterday
Green Chic - Saving The Earth in Style by Christie Matheson is a book for people who want to go green without giving up on great style. Being thoughtfully, consciously green makes a real difference in the fight against global warming. But did you know it’s also hip, classic and stylish? I like to thing [...]
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Emdashes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Scott McLemee makes a fiercely elegant argument for giving book review sections the vote of confidence they deserve.
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Stranger Fruit (Free subscription) | yesterday
(Another review that was published a few years back, in this case in Isis in 2001 . Alter's book is still in print and still worth reading.) Charles Darwin's Origin of Species was written in a vivid style and, as such, is frequently studied as much as literature as scientific text. Particularly notable is Darwin's use of analogy and metaphor. In the work under review, Stephen G. Alter focuses on two...
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MSDN Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
I am finishing a book that I would recommend to anyone that wants to know the WHY and HOW for performance management. Drive Business Performance; Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution , written by Bruno Aziza and Joey Fitts, provides reason for and a series of practical phases for incorporating performance management. The book more than satisfies my interest in business. It discusses the necessary...
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Genealogy@Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
This book, a lively and thoughtful look at our relationship with dessert, is a must-read for chocoholics.
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aids-write.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
Author asks LAT to save Book Review Yesterday it was the Book Review’s former editors pleading to keep a distinct books presence in the Los Angeles Times. Today, Los Angeles author Daniel A. Olivas (Latinos in Lotusland, among other books) emailed Times editors with an appeal that’s both civic and personal. Los Angeles Times: My wife [...]
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aids-write.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
Book editors protest cuts at the Times Four past book editors of the Los Angeles Times — Sonja Bolle, Digby Diehl, Jack Miles and Steve Wasserman — released a letter protesting the planned termination of the Sunday Book Review, which apparently will be replaced by a smaller number of pages appended to the Calendar section. LOS ANGELES, [...]
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Ghost Word (Free subscription) | yesterday
When the San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News were imploding a year ago, I wrote extensively about the layoffs and the damage the downsizing would do to local news coverage. Well, the newspaper business has only gotten worse since then, with draconian cuts at papers around the country almost a weekly occurrence. At some point I made the conscious decision not to follow the news on my...
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Genealogy@Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Does the path of Druidry call to you? Learn how Robert Ellison lays the foundation for modern Druid practice in this informative work.
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A Book Blogger's Diary (Free subscription) | yesterday
Upside Down Inside Out Author: Monica Mcinerney Publisher: Ballantine Books (June 24, 2008) Synopsis Eva Kennedy is in a rut. After seven years of working at her uncle’s Dublin delicatessen, her artistic aspirations have slipped by the wayside and her latest relationship has fizzled. Hoping to shake things up and find inspiration, Eva takes a break and ventures to Melbourne, Australia, to visit her...
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Desicritics (Free subscription) | yesterday
(Review of Part one of the Ancient Mirrors Series The Dragon Queen ) In the second Ancient Mirrors tale, author Jayel Gibson continues the tale of Ædracmoræ two decades past the reunion of Ædracmoræ by the Dragon Queen, Yávië.(Refer The Dragon Queen - An Ancient Mirrors Tale ). The Wrekening tells the story of Cwen, niece of the Dragon Queen, Yávië, daughter of the guardians Näeré and Nall, accompanied...
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How to Save the World (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Back of the Napkin , by Dan Roam "Visual thinking means taking innate advantage of our ability to see, with our eyes and our mind's eye, in order to discover ideas, develop those ideas quickly and intuitively, and share those ideas with others in a way that they simply 'get'" This book is a brilliant elaboration on Bill Buxton's idea of sketching , with a catch. The brilliance is in the simplicity...
