Books

August 13th, 2006 by alephnaught

Ender’s Shadow

Title: Ender’s Shadow Author: Orson Scott Card Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: Tor Books (December 15, 2000) ISBN: 0812575717 This was a great book – perhaps not a fabulous as Ender’s Game, but this one made me cry at the end. This is the story of Bean, an undersized orphan child almost dead from […]

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August 9th, 2006 by alephnaught

Ender’s Game

Title: Ender’s Game Author: Orson Scott Card Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Tor Science Fiction; Reprint edition (July 15, 1994) ISBN: 0812550706 This book has a great premise – Earth has fought the buggers, aliens that appear to be insect-like, twice. Earth is now trying to find someone to lead its forces against the […]

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July 18th, 2006 by alephnaught

Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot

Title: Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot Author: Julian Dibbell Hardcover: 321 pages Publisher: Basic Books (June 28, 2006) ISBN: 0465015352 When I read a short reference to this book in a magazine, I figured I should read the book and then send it to my […]

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July 3rd, 2006 by alephnaught

King of the Vagabonds : The Baroque Cycle #2 (The Baroque Cycle)

Title: King of the Vagabonds : The Baroque Cycle #2 (The Baroque Cycle) Author: Neal Stephenson Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: HarperTorch (February 28, 2006) ISBN: 0060833173 I read this book in Barcelona and on the flight home to Chicago. I enjoyed this book but I’m trying to figure out how it connects with […]

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July 3rd, 2006 by alephnaught

Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)

Title: Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) Author: Neal Stephenson Paperback: 960 pages ISBN: 0060593083 Read this book in Madrid and Seville. I like Neal Stephenson and this series seems aimed to please. Its set in the early 1700’s, with action moving between London and Boston for the most part. There’s lots of character development […]

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July 3rd, 2006 by alephnaught

A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

Title: A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines Author: Anthony Bourdain Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (November 5, 2002) ISBN: 0060012781 Read this book on the way to and while in Madrid, Spain. I really liked this one – I bought it for the trip because we’d been watching Bourdain’s TV […]

June 14th, 2006 by alephnaught

The Business Guide to Legal Literacy : What Every Manager Should Know About the Law

Title: The Business Guide to Legal Literacy : What Every Manager Should Know About the Law Author: Hanna Hasl-Kelchner Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Jossey-Bass (March 31, 2006) Language: English ISBN: 078798255 I won this book on http://inbubblewrap.com/ , which is a great web site (its a give-away site for 800ceoread.com, which is a great on-line […]

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June 10th, 2006 by alephnaught

Oil: A Concise Guide to the Most Important Product on Earth

Title: Oil: A Concise Guide to the Most Important Product on Earth Author: Matthew Yeomans Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: New Press (January 5, 2006) ISBN: 159558028X On my last trip to visit family in Detroit, Aviva and I stopped at the Bookbeat , a very interesting independent bookstore in Southfield, MI. They specialize in art, […]

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May 28th, 2006 by alephnaught

The Big Moo : Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable

Title: The Big Moo : Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable Author: The Group of 33, Seth Godin Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover (October 20, 2005) ISBN: 1591841038 I actually read this one a few weeks ago and forgot to enter it here – big mistake, this is a must-read book. […]

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May 21st, 2006 by alephnaught

The Marketing Playbook

Title: The Marketing Playbook: Five Battle-Tested Plays for Capturing and Keeping the Lead in Any Market Author: John Zagula, Rich Tong Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover (October 21, 2004) ISBN: 1591840384 This book proposes that there are five marketing plays to make: the Drag Race, the Platform Play, the Stealth Play, the Best-of-Both Play, […]

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