Author Archive
Workplace mentoring
I’ve been helping students from Tilton Elementary School to read better for three years, participating in the WITS program via LaSalle Bank’s Workplace Mentoring program. Here’s Davion: Davion is a student at Tilton Elementary here in Chicago. The school is located on the west side in an economically depressed part of town. Davion is a […]
January 27th, 2006 by alephnaught
January 27th, 2006 by alephnaught
Collapse
Title: Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Author: Jared Diamond Paperback: 592 pages Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (December 27, 2005) ISBN: 0143036556 This is the follow up to Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel . Where his first book attempted to answer the question, “why do you people have such great cargo,” this book […]
January 22nd, 2006 by alephnaught
City of Walls
Title: City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in Sao Paulo Author: Teresa P. R. Caldeira Paperback: 473 pages Publisher: University of California Press (April 2, 2001) ISBN: 0520221435 This was a very scholarly work. The main premise is that the culture of Sao Paulo is causing a segregation of its people based upon class, […]
January 21st, 2006 by alephnaught
São Paulo
I got to go to São Paulo , Brazil, on a business trip from January 15 through January 21, 2006. This was my first time in Brazil; I had a great time and would go again. We stayed at L’Hotel, a very nice hotel near one of the major shopping and banking streets, Avenida Paulista. […]
December 31st, 2005 by alephnaught
Getting Things Done
Title: Getting Things Done Author: David Allen Paperback: 267 pages Publisher: Penguin Books (January, 2003) ISBN: 0142000280 This is a very good book – it was recommended, as an aside, in an RSS news feed I read regularly (the main thrust was recommending a web-based list management site, tasktoy). David Allen suggests that we spend […]
December 26th, 2005 by alephnaught
Dutch debate rights in struggle against terror
An article from the NY Times, reprinted in the Herald-Tribune, about the difficulties facing the Dutch in fighting terrorism.
November 28th, 2005 by alephnaught
Pompeii: Stories from an Eruption
Aviva and I went to the “Pompeii: Stories from an Eruption” exhibit at the Field Museum. This was a very good exhibit (even if visting it on the Saturday after Thanksgiving may not have been good timing). It was very very busy – there was some crowd control but not too much, and the staff […]
November 28th, 2005 by alephnaught
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tails of Terror
Title: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tails of Terror Author: H. P. Lovecraft Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: Del Rey; Reissue edition (September 13, 1991) ISBN: 0345329457 My son Nathan recommended this book to me – I had nearly finished the book I brought along for the flights and hotel room, and he said […]
November 19th, 2005 by alephnaught
The Great Heresies
Title: The Great Heresies Author: Hilaire Belloc Paperback: 161 pages Publisher: T A N Books & Publishers (October, 1991) ISBN: 0895554755 This book was a waste of my time. The author is obviously Catholic – the viewpoint of the book is that all heresies are wrong, the Catholic Church is the one right church, and […]
January 28th, 2006 by alephnaught