Posted in paterfamilias, reseña, tagged finances, Mary Hunt, reseña on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Something has happened to Mary Hunt since her 1999 publication on Debt-Free Living. Or perhaps it’s happened to her editor. Or perhaps a ghost writer has slipped into her life.
Regardless, the same passion and good sense is now expressed with a pleasant and flowing presentation that makes her medicine all the more bearable to the debt-laden patient. (more…)
Posted in clarity, paterfamilias, reseña, tagged health, Kurt Patrick Gutierrez, reseña on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Kurt Gutierrez believes you can apply the same planning, discipline, and anticipated outcomes to saying healthy on the road as you do in the rest of your professional and personal life. ‘Just get it out there on an Excel spreadsheet’, I can almost hear the author say.
I like that. (more…)
Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged Ken Blanchard, leadership, management, reseña on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Ken Blanchard’s little One Minute Manager books define a genre.
Neither riveting reading nor high-stakes illumination, they simply get a message across effectively to the management reader who is not too concerned with aesthetics. Even the illustrations are garden-variety basic.
Yet these books have sold millions and they work. (more…)
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Proverbs, textures on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
‘You always know just what to say’ is one of the highest of available compliments. One hears it too seldom. (more…)
Posted in my hometown, when a white boy dances, tagged dance on August 30, 2007| 1 Comment »
‘Do you find yourself thinking a lot about your hips lately?’, Heather asks me with a completely straight face and no hint of irony.
It is difficult for a middle-aged man who has not once in his life contemplated his hips to respond quickly to such a question. After a moment’s hesitation, I manage to muster an awkward, ‘Umm …. not really.’ (more…)
Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged computing, reseña on August 30, 2007| Leave a Comment »
It is difficult to imagine that so few years ago academic and professional writers painstakingly typed and checked (or typed and didn’t check) reference after reference. EndNote takes care of the hassle of managing multiple works and citations while writing a manuscript. As long as you type things in correctly the first time, you’re good to go, from title page to the last page of your index. (more…)
Posted in reseña, tagged film, reseña, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, war movies on August 30, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have honored the Greatest Generation as it deserves with this superb based-on-a-true-story film version of Easy Company’s long march through various kinds of warfare from D-Day through the fall of the Third Reich. (more…)
Posted in reseña, tagged Africa, Don Cheadle, film on August 30, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Hotel Rwanda shatters complacency, so long as—in the words of Nick Nolte’s UN coronel—we don’t ‘gasp and then turn back to eating dinner’.
Don Cheadle turns in a memorable if unpolished star turn that anchors this survival tale.
That’s precisely what Hotel Rwanda is: a survival tale. A true one, to be sure, and not unlike many that remain unrecorded and unthanked because their own heros perished among the million corpses left behind by this most inexplicable genocide. (more…)
Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged periodicals, reseña on August 30, 2007| Leave a Comment »
I could not carry on with life as I know it without the Economist.
No hype. It’s that good. (more…)
Posted in reseña, tagged Asia, reseña, Thailand on August 30, 2007| Leave a Comment »
The authors of this compact Cambridge University Press history of Thailand deliver on their promise. This is a vintage CUP product: balanced, full of measured opinion, error-free in typography and layout, sweeping without shallowness.
There is not a better one-volume entrance to this fascinating but lesser-known South East Asian Country. (more…)
Canter Bridge 