books about: our     books:     Our      One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation George Will Crown Forum, 2008 Thoughtful, insightful, lots of big words I enjoyed One Man's America for its insight, and because George Will refuses to allow readers to be lazy. I must admit, though, that it often seems like he just swallowed a thesaurus, that he's never met a compound adjective he didn't like. "No vulgarity is unthinkable ...             Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder Richard Louv Algonquin Books, 2008 TEN Star Great book!!!! Cannot recommend this book enough whether you live in a city, suburb or rural area. Nature is all around you as the book says, and sadly to many children have no idea what trees are in their neighborhood, or what that flower called a dandelion is growing thru the ...             Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions Dan Ariely HarperCollins, 2008 not so arbitrarily coherent Ariely writes of, among other things, arbitrary coherence. The mind has a thought based on expectation, excitement or bias. Every thought thereafter complies with this original thought for the purpose of creating coherence. The problem is that the validity of the ...             Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation Cokie Roberts William Morrow, 2008 Ladies of Liberty A great sequel to Founding Mothers. Wouldn't it be great if history were taught this way? We forget that those starched and stuffy people, with sophisticated speech and elaborate manners, were just as real as you and me. Only they had a good deal more adversity in ...             The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives Leonard Mlodinow Pantheon, 2008 And You Thought Probability Theory Couldn't Blow Your MInd I was waiting for someone to write an in-depth and fascinating book about the wild and wierd aspects of probability theory in our lives. It is broader and more informative than Nassim Taleb's Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets ...             A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive Dave Pelzer HCI, 1995 A tale that needed to be told. I read this book about ten years ago, after my first child had turned one and as I read it I found myself picturing my child as David. I connected with him in that way- like a real loving mother should have. I've never forgot the horror that he went through and still ...             Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons Tim Russert Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007 Buffalo Wings The coasts have had too much influence on America for the last 50 years, beginning with Rock & Roll, I suppose, and the cult of youth. There is much to be said for the heartland beginning with the unglamorous mid-west and the great rust-belt cities of Buffalo, ...             Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices Frank Viola, George Barna BarnaBooks, 2008 Reviewing the Reviewers As of today (6/20/08), 138 others have already written a review of Pagan Christianity. I read all of them - carefully - before venturing to add the 139th. Admittedly, there is little helpful analysis that I can add, since just about everything that can be said about ...             Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber, ... St. Martin's Press, 2006 Such a great change management teaching tool Just about evey kind of situation you might encounter managing change in a big company exists in this easy to read book. Makes a great team building exercise having everyone read the book, then discuss all the different personalities one must work with in any change ...             Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, ... Crown Business, 2002 Management Take Notice Execution is a must read for all Executives. So many in management have trouble making decisions for fear of the Old Boy Network politics. Larry Bossidy would have none of that, and changed out his Executive staff until he had one's who would EXECUTE!             Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent ... George Crile Grove Press, 2007 This book added a dimension to my own Afghan experience. Recommended to me by a friend, this book added immeasurably to my foreign service experience in Afghanistan. I'm the same age as Charlie Wilson, and have been part of the Foreign Service during the years described in the book. The preposterous antics of Charlie and ...             Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age Arthur Herman Bantam, 2008 A TALE OF TWO GIANTS Writing a dual biography of two political giants is not an easy task.One is reminded about the outstanding joint biography written many years ago by Lord Bullock on Hitler and Stalin. In this book,two themes run concurrently:the British Empire's fin-de-siecle and the ...             The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time Jeffrey Sachs Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006 Amazing What a wonderful book. I won't go into detail, as I think the first few reviews do a fine job, but this book is definitely worth reading.             The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't ... Mark Bauerlein Tarcher, 2008 Amen! It's About Time Someone Spoke the Truth About Today's Kids It's about time someone had the guts to step forward with the stats that show today's young people are not even close to being the "greatest generation." They are a bunch of under-achieving, spoiled, whining know-it-alls that in truth know very little. The book is ...             The Apostles Pope Benedict XVI Our Sunday Visitor, 2007 A "Must Read" book Pope Benedict XVI does a beautiful easy to understand in depth look into the apostles. He pulls from Scripture and opens up insights into their lives and personalities as only one guided by the Holy Spirit can do. The reader benefits from his gifts as teacher and ...          products you might be interested in search for books christianity, extraordinary, jeopardizes, nature-deficit, possibilities, provocations we recommend A tale that needed to be told. randomly chosen book: Le livre de Marco Polo, citoyen de Venise, conseiller privé et commissaire ...