Books

February 10th, 2007 by alephnaught

24 Declassified: Cat’s Claw

Title: 24 Declassified: Cat’s Claw Author: John Whitman Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: HarperEntertainment (December 26, 2006) ISBN-10: 006084227X ISBN-13: 978-0060842277 Just to show that I don’t only read deep tomes…. I’ve been reading each of these books as they come out (I have a pre-order at Amazon for the next two). I love […]

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January 14th, 2007 by alephnaught

Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution

Title: Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Author: Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, David Robertson Hardcover: 234 pages Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (August 8, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 1591398398 ISBN-13: 978-159139839 This is a great book once you have some knowledge of what architecture and strategy are. I think a […]

December 31st, 2006 by alephnaught

How to Survive in the Jungle of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks: Creating or Choosing an Enterprise Architecture Framework

Title: How to Survive in the Jungle of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks: Creating or Choosing an Enterprise Architecture Framework Author: Jaap Schekkermann Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Trafford (July 6, 2006) ISBN-10: 141201607X ISBN-13: 978-1412016070 This book disappointed me. There are some good recommendations, but there’s little empirical material to lend credence to the claims. And, over […]

December 26th, 2006 by alephnaught

The Whole Deal: Fulfilling the Promise of Acquisitions and Mergers

Title: The Whole Deal: Fulfilling the Promise of Acquisitions and Mergers Edited: Michael Sisk and Andrew Sambrook This book is a collection of articles from the magazine Strategy+Business . The first three-fourths of this book is right on target, discussing mergers and acquisitions. There is a section on strategic alliances which, while useful, seems out […]

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December 15th, 2006 by alephnaught

Management of the Absurd

Title: Management of the Absurd Authors: Richard Farson and Micheal Crichton Paperback: 176 pages Publisher: Free Press; Reprint edition (March 13, 1997) ISBN: 0684830442 I didn’t like this book at all. It contains a number of paradoxes related to management, but there are precious few ideas about what to do about them. The book brings […]

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December 9th, 2006 by alephnaught

Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World

Title: Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World Author: Paul Cartledge Hardcover: 376 pages Publisher: Overlook Hardcover (November 2, 2006) ISBN: 1585675660 Having studied ancient Spartan history in college, I just had to read this book when I found out it was available. The book is divided into three main sections: the lead-up to the […]

November 29th, 2006 by alephnaught

More Space: Nine Antidotes To Complacency In Business

Title: More Space: Nine Antidotes To Complacency In Business Edited by: Todd Sattersten Paperback: 152 pages Publisher: Astronaut Projects (October 25, 2005) ISBN: 097700483X This book was another free one from inBubbleWrap.com . This is a collection of nine stories by different authors having to do with complacency. I found the book somewhat lacking – […]

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November 26th, 2006 by alephnaught

The Story of Writing

Title: The Story of Writing Author: Andrew Robinson Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Thames & Hudson; New Ed edition (September 1, 1999) ISBN: 0500281564 I bought this book a year or so ago at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. I’ve always been interested in language, especially since I don’t seem able to learn much […]

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November 14th, 2006 by alephnaught

Sarah: Women of Genesis

Title: Sarah: Women of Genesis Author: Orson Scott Card Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Forge Books; 1st Forge Ed edition (August 30, 2001) ISBN: 0765341174 I enjoyed this book a lot. Its very much fiction – as Card writes in the end notes, the Torah includes little detail and so any undertaking like this […]

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November 4th, 2006 by alephnaught

The Red Tent

Title: The Red Tent Author: Anita Diamant Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Picador; 1st Picador USA Pbk. Ed edition (September 15, 1998) ISBN: 0312195516 This is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. Its a novel based upon the short section of the Torah describing the life of Dinah, daughter of Leah […]

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