Critical book review: Christopher Lasch (1991) The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Expectations The culture of narcissism was widely recognised as a socio-cultural critique of American society when published in 1979. Written by Christopher Lasch‚ the book analyzes a social phenomenon identified by Christopher Lasch as ‘cultural narcissism’‚ a process by which certain attributes of the pathological branch of narcissism (Bocock‚ 2002) become societal characteristics (Lasch
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Katherine A. Dettwyler - Dancing Skeletons: Life and death in West Africa (1994) Review In 1995‚ Dancing Skeletons was given the Margaret Mead Award by the American Anthropological Association. It is presented to anthropologists whose work was able to interpret “anthropological data and principles in ways that make them meaningful and accessible to a broadly concerned public”[1]‚ which I consider to be exactly what the book does. Concerned about the relation between nutrition education and child
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Penguin Books in Association with Hamish Hami‚ 2000 1 336pp.‚ £9.99‚ ISBN-10: 0141184949 “The sedge is wither’d from the lake‚ and no birds sing.” I was pleasantly surprised when I firstly opened the title page of Silent Spring. This line of John Keats’s La Belle Dame sans Merci which is one of my favourite poetries seems to be a poetic description of the theme of the book. However‚ unlike the artistic conception of sadness created by the poet in that ballad‚ “no birds sing” in this book refers
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The Evolution of Finance: A Review of Peter Bernstein’s Capital Ideas The world of finance is ever-changing. Over the last century‚ the modern form of economic and financial theory as we see today has been developed and shaped by the minds of many. What we have come to know and accept as fact today were seemingly unheard of nearly fifty years ago. It is with the endless efforts of these like-minded scholars that gives us the opportunity to appreciate the tools and fundamentals we used today to
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article entitled The Long Tail; which he later expanded into the 2006 book‚ The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More. He is the co-founder and chairman of 3DRobotics‚ a robotic manufacturing company. His book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More appeared on the New York Times Nonfiction Best Sellers list. The details of which have been described in the review. His next book‚ entitled Free: The Future of a Radical Price (2009) examines the advantages
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Maya Austell January 31‚ 2012 Book review Apostles of Disunion The way Charles B. Dew opened up this book was touching and smart. He and I share the same qualities in thinking about issues by looking at things from both sides‚ and in ways that haven’t been discussed or thought about. He was a born and raised southerner‚ and told of his up bringing in the south. His ancestors fought and died for the Confederacy. Although it may seem that he should be a die-hard supporter of the Confederate
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Book Review: “Wooden on Leadership” John Wooden is a legendary basketball coach‚ best known for his UCLA dynasty‚ which won an unprecedented and unthinkable 10 national championships in 12 years. That stretch included an 88-game win streak and four perfect seasons. But Wooden’s proudest accomplishments are not those of which are collected in the annals of sports history. And they have little to do with winning or losing. In his book “Wooden on Leadership‚” the coach reveals that he never
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Book Review “Leading Change” by John Kotter 1996 Review by Chris Shea John P. Kotter is internationally known and widely regarded as the foremost speaker on the topics of leadership and change. He is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually achieve successful transformations. The Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership‚ Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and a graduate of MIT and Harvard‚ Kotter’s vast experience and knowledge on successful change and leadership have
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Book Review [THE STARBUCKS EXPERIENCE] * Summary * Summary of this book‚ A Few companies have rallied an employees to participate in a corporate vision that creates a worldwide story of business success. Starbucks has been given access to the Starbucks experience. They are just offering us an in-depth look at every level of the company. * This book is just offering us: * A rare blend of boardroom strategies‚ * Employee motivation tips‚ * Community involvement and
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still one of the most famous superheroes on the planet. Most people in the world can tell you the story of Batman. A young boy witnesses his mother and father killed by a mugger and vows to rid his city of evil. Batman has been a longstanding comic book ran since 1939 when Detective Comics #27 presented a man in a bat-suit ridding Gotham City of evil. Batman has always been a character of the times‚ using high tech gadgets to aid him in his war on crime. Yet‚ in 1989 DC Comics published A Tale of
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