Pb Living - A daily book review
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A Book Review - Untraceable by Сергей Лебедев, Sergei Lebedev, Antonina W. Bouis (Translator)
January 22, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes - 1.77 MB"One of Russia's most interesting young novelists takes on Putin, poison and power in this unique novel; Lebedev provides a fascinating window on modern Russia." ―Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History and Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe In 2018, a former Russian secret agent and his daughter were poisoned with a lethal neurotoxin that left them slumped over on a British park bench in critical condition. The story of who did it, and how these horrend...
A Book Review - The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro
January 20, 2022 16:00 - 4 minutes - 1.84 MBBy the award-winning writer of Beautiful Thing, a masterly inquest into how the mysterious deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation. The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli. Sixteen-year-old Padma sparked and burned. Fourteen-year-old Lalli was an incorrigible romantic. They grew up in Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in western Uttar Pradesh crammed into less than...
A Book Review - Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston
January 19, 2022 16:00 - 5 minutes - 2.34 MBA dramatic, gripping account of the rise and fall of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell from the acclaimed author of A Very English Scandal - available for pre-order now In February 1991, Robert Maxwell made a triumphant entrance into Manhattan harbour on board his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine. He had come to complete his purchase of the ailing New York Daily News. Crowds lined the quayside to watch his arrival. Taxi drivers stopped their cabs to shake his hand, children asked for hi...
A Book Review - America and Iran: A History 1720 to the Present by John Ghazvinian
January 18, 2022 16:00 - 6 minutes - 3.12 MBAn important, urgently needed book--a hugely ambitious, illuminating portrait of the two-century long entwined history of Iran and America, the first book to examine in all its aspects, the rich and fraught relations between these two powers, once allies, now adversaries. By admired historian, author of Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil ("he would do Graham Greene proud" --Kirkus Reviews). In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations of t...
A Book Review - Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise by Scott Rozelle, Natalie Hell
January 17, 2022 16:00 - 8 minutes - 3.9 MBAs the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible China, the truth is much more complicated and might be a serious cause for concern. China’s growth has relied heavily on unskilled labor. Most of the workers who have fueled the country’s rise come from rural villages and have never been to high scho...
A Book Review - Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato
January 16, 2022 16:00 - 6 minutes - 2.94 MBThe extraordinary efforts that took mankind to the moon 50 years ago were more than a scientific feat of aeronautics. They required new forms of collaboration between the public sector (notably, NASA) and private companies. This book asks: what if the same level of boldness - the boldness that set inspirational goals, took risks and explicitly recognized that this requires large spending but will be worthwhile in terms of long-term growth - was applied to the biggest problems of our time, c...
A Book Review - In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu #1-7) by Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator), Andreas Mayor (Translator), Terence Kilmartin (Translator), D.J. Enrigh
January 15, 2022 16:00 - 6 minutes - 2.47 MBOn the surface a traditional "Bildungsroman" describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, this huge and complex book is also a panoramic and richly comic portrait of France in the author’s lifetime, and a profound meditation on the nature of art, love, time, memory and death. But for most readers it is the characters of the novel who loom the largest: Swann and Odette, Monsieur de Charlus, Morel, the Duchesse de Guermantes, Françoise, Saint-Loup and so many others — Giants, as the au...
A Book Review - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
January 13, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes - 1.6 MBFrom the best-selling author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel—his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature—about the wondrous, mysterious nature of the human heart. From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibili...
A Book Review - Hades, Argentina Novel by Daniel Loede
January 12, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes - 1.66 MBIn 1976, Tomás Oriilla is a medical student in Buenos Aires, where he's moved in hopes of reuniting with Isabel, a childhood crush. But the reckless passion that has always drawn him is leading Isabel ever deeper into the ranks of young insurgents fighting an increasingly oppressive regime. As its thuggish milicos begin to disappear more and more people like her, she presents Tomás with a way to prove himself. As always, he'll do anything for Isabel. But what exactly is he proving, and at wh...
A Book Review - Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old by Andrew Steele
January 11, 2022 16:00 - 4 minutes - 1.9 MBWith the help of science, could humans find a way to become old without getting elderly, a phenomenon otherwise known as "biological immortality"? In Ageless, Andrew Steele, research fellow at Britain's new and largest biomedical laboratory, the Francis Crick Institute, shows us that the answer lies at the cellular level. He takes us on a journey through the laboratories where scientists are studying every aspect of the cell--DNA, mitochondria, stem cells, our immune systems, even age genes ...
A Book Review - The Volga: A History by Janet M. Hartley
January 10, 2022 16:00 - 4 minutes - 2.24 MBA rich and fascinating exploration of the Volga River and its vital place in Russian history—named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times “A memorable journey into the heart of Russian social, political, and cultural history.”—Jennifer Eremeeva, Moscow Times “'Without the Volga, there would be no Russia.' The final words of Janet Hartley's book sound sweeping. But its 400 pages make the case powerfully.”—The Economist The longest river in Europe, the Volga stretches over three and a half...
A Book Review - This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth
January 09, 2022 16:00 - 5 minutes - 2.13 MBFrom The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapons market-the most secretive, invisible, government-backed market on earth-and a terrifying first look at a new kind of global warfare. Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break into your devices and move around undetected. One of the most coveted tools in a spy's arsenal, a zero day has the power to silently spy on your iPhone, dismantle the safety controls at a chemical plant, alt...
A Book Review - Unquiet Ghosts by Daniel Kawer's Reviews
January 08, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes - 1.66 MBI was excited to see a new Meade book how ever is not my favorite. I liked his older works better. It still is a good book, but now as exciting --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pbliving/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pbliving/support
A Book Review - CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans Book by Henry Greely
January 07, 2022 16:00 - 9 minutes - 3.84 MBWhat does the birth of babies whose embryos had gone through genome editing mean--for science and for all of us? In November 2018, the world was shocked to learn that two babies had been born in China with DNA edited while they were embryos--as dramatic a development in genetics as the cloning of Dolly the sheep was in 1996. In this book, Hank Greely, a leading authority on law and genetics, tells the fascinating story of this human experiment and its consequences. Greely explains what Chine...
A Book Review - Snow: A History of the World’s Most Fascinating Flake by Anthony R. Wood
January 05, 2022 16:00 - 4 minutes - 1.92 MBThe complete story of snow, this is the first book to fully examine snow as a historical, cultural, and scientific phenomenon. From "Winter Wonderland" to "Snowmageddon," we've had a long, love-hate relationship with snow. This entertaining look at snow in all its delightful and fearsome manifestations delves into science, history, economics, and popular culture to examine snow's enduring hold on the imagination. Through profiles and anecdotes, the author discusses the reactions throughout...
A Book Review - Them and Us: How Immigrants and Locals Can Thrive Together Book by Philippe Legrain
December 20, 2021 16:00 - 9 minutes - 3.87 MB‘The beauty of diversity is that innovation often comes about by serendipity. One day in 1904, at the World Fair in St Louis, the ice cream vendor ran out of cups. Ernest Hami, a Syrian waffle vendor in the booth next door, rolled up some waffles to make cones – and the rest is history.’ Filled with data, anecdotes and optimism, Them and Us is an endorsement of cultural differences at a time of acute national introspection. By every measure, from productivity to new perspectives, immigrants...
A Book Review - Migrations Book by Charlotte McConaghy
December 19, 2021 16:00 - 3 minutes - 1.52 MBFranny Stone has always been the kind of woman who is able to love but unable to stay. Leaving behind everything but her research gear, she arrives in Greenland with a singular purpose: to follow the last Arctic terns in the world on what might be their final migration to Antarctica. Franny talks her way onto a fishing boat, and she and the crew set sail, traveling ever further from shore and safety. But as Franny’s history begins to unspool—a passionate love affair, an absent family, a deva...
A Book Review - Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City Book by Samira Shackle
December 18, 2021 16:00 - 5 minutes - 2.14 MBKarachi. The capital of Pakistan is a sprawling mega-city of 20 million people. It is a place of political turbulence in which those who have power wield it with brutal and partisan force, a place in which it pays to have friends in the right places and to avoid making deadly enemies. It is a society where lavish wealth and absolute poverty live side by side, and where the lines between idealism and corruption can quickly blur. It takes an insider to know where is safe, who to trust, and wha...
A Book Review - ALL ON THE BOARD by All on the Board
December 17, 2021 16:00 - 6 minutes - 3.08 MBTHE PERFECT CHRISTMAS PRESENT! A BOOK TO BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY – A GIFT OF HOPE, COMFORT, POSITIVITY, OPENNESS AND LOVE FOR ANY OCCASION – INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND DUO Transport for London employees and dynamic masked duo, All on the Board (aka Jeremy and Ian), made it their mission to bring smiles to the faces of London commuters through writing creative messages, quotes and poems on the underground’s service information boards. ‘We were tired of looking at a board that just ...
A Book Review - The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources by Javier Blas, Jack Farchy
December 16, 2021 16:00 - 5 minutes - 2.27 MBThe modern world is built on commodities - from the oil that fuels our cars to the metals that power our smartphones. We rarely stop to consider where they come from. But we should. In The World for Sale, two leading journalists lift the lid on one of the least scrutinised corners of the economy: the workings of the billionaire commodity traders who buy, hoard and sell the earth's resources. It is the story of how a handful of swashbuckling businessmen became indispensable cogs in global ...
A Book Review - The Happy Traitor Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake Simon Kuper
December 15, 2021 16:00 - 4 minutes - 1.9 MB'A deeply human read, wonderfully written, on the foibles of a fascinating, flawed, treacherous and sort of likeable character.' Philippe Sands Those people who were betrayed were not innocent people. They were no better nor worse than I am. It's all part of the intelligence world. If the man who turned me in came to my house today, I'd invite him to sit down and have a cup of tea. George Blake was the last remaining Cold War spy. As a Senior Officer in the British Intelligence Service who...
A Book Review - La familia grande by Camille Kouchner
August 03, 2021 21:00 - 9 minutes - 3.77 MB« Souviens-toi, maman : nous étions tes enfants. » C.K. C’est l’histoire d’une grande famille qui aime débattre, rire et danser, qui aime le soleil et l’été. C’est le récit incandescent d’une femme qui ose enfin raconter ce qui a longtemps fait taire la familia grande. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pbliving/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pbliving/support
A Book Review - No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
August 02, 2021 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.3 MBAs this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats--from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an ep...
A Book Review - Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live by Nicholas A. Christakis
August 01, 2021 21:00 - 6 minutes - 2.89 MBA piercing and scientifically grounded look at the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic and how it will change the way we live—"excellent and timely." (The New Yorker) Apollo's Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and of how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on momentous (yet dimly remembered) historical epidemics, contemporary analyses, and cutting-edge research from a range of scientifi...
A Life Review - LaDonna Brave Bull Allard died on April 10th The historian and campaigner for Native-American rights was 64
July 31, 2021 21:00 - 8 minutes - 3.67 MBThe first time they drove up to Whitestone Hill, in south North Dakota, LaDonna Brave Bull Allard had to ask her husband to stop. She could hear grief coming out of the ground, crying and screaming. She had to lay down food and water there, as well as prayer-ties of sweet willow-bark tobacco that could soothe and heal the spirits of the dead. Whitestone Hill in 1863 had seen a terrible massacre, when hundreds of men, women and children had been herded into a ravine and shot by the United St...
A Life Review - Michael Collins Apollo 11 Astronaut 3rd Man on the moon
July 30, 2021 21:00 - 7 minutes - 3.07 MBAn astronaut who flew on one of the most famous space missions of all time has died. Michael Collins, 90, was part of the three-member crew on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing mission in 1969. Unlike Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, he never walked on the moon. Collins stayed behind and piloted the command module as it circled above. Because of that, Collins is often called the "forgotten astronaut." Collins had been battling cancer. A statement released by his family said, "He spent his f...
A Life Review - Yang Huaiding died on June 13th China’s “first shareholder”, known as “Yang Millions”, was 70
July 29, 2021 21:00 - 7 minutes - 3.42 MBIf you had been riding on one of China’s crammed, rickety green trains in 1989, bouncing in a hard-seat carriage, you might have noticed Yang Huaiding sitting nearby. Or you might not. He had taken pains not to stand out, wearing drab clothes and carrying a faded mock-leather travel bag. The black-rimmed glasses, messy hair and stained teeth were his customary look. If he was smoking more than usual, and wiping more sweat, it was because in the bag, layered in newspaper, he had thousands of ...
A Book Review - The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson
July 28, 2021 21:00 - 6 minutes - 2.76 MBOne of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the press, of rationality and evidence-based argument. Yet why, over three hundred years after it began, is the Enlightenment so profoundly misunderstood as controversial, the expression of soulless calculation? The answer may be that, to an extraordinary extent, we have accepted the account of the Enlightenmen...
A Book Review - Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization by Kurt Braddock
July 27, 2021 21:00 - 10 minutes - 4.33 MBStrengthen your understanding of the persuasive mechanisms used by terrorist groups and how they are effective in order to defeat them. Weaponized Words applies existing theories of persuasion to domains unique to this digital era, such as social media, YouTube, websites, and message boards to name but a few. Terrorists deploy a range of communication methods and harness reliable communication theories to create strategic messages that persuade peaceful individuals to join their groups and e...
A Book Review - Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Book by Michael Lewis
July 26, 2021 21:00 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBBilly Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods ...
A Book Review - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Book by Susan Cain
July 25, 2021 21:00 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBAt least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society. In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal thro...
A Book Review - Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis Book by Serhii Plokhy
July 24, 2021 21:00 - 9 minutes - 3.87 MBNearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis. Serhii Plokhy’s Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making that produced and then resolved it, which involved John ...
A Book Review - The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights Book by Dorothy Wickenden
July 23, 2021 21:00 - 5 minutes - 2.22 MBIn Auburn, New York, in the mid-nineteenth century, Martha Wright and Frances Seward, inspired by Harriet Tubman’s rescues in the dangerous territory of Eastern Maryland, opened their basement kitchens as stations on the Underground Railroad. Tubman was enslaved, Wright was a middle-class Quaker mother of seven, and Seward was the aristocratic wife and moral conscience of her husband, William H. Seward, who served as Lincoln’s Secretary of State. All three refused to abide by laws that deni...
A Book Review - Lean Fall Stand Novel by Jon McGregor
July 22, 2021 21:00 - 3 minutes - 1.41 MBRobert 'Doc' Wright, a veteran of Antarctic surveying, was there on the ice when the worst happened. He holds within him the complete story of that night--but depleted by the disaster, Wright is no longer able to communicate the truth. Instead, in the wake of the catastrophic expedition, he faces the most daunting adventure of his life: learning a whole new way to be in the world. Meanwhile Anna, his wife, must suddenly scramble to navigate the sharp and unexpected contours of life as a care...
A Book Review - On the Origin of Species Book by Charles Darwin
July 21, 2021 21:00 - 9 minutes - 8.64 MBDarwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extinction looming for those not fitted for the task. Yet The Origin of Species (1859) is also a humane and inspirational vision of ecological interrelatedness, revealing the complex mutual interdependencies between animal and plant life, climate and physical environment, and—by implica...
A Book Review - Republic Book by Plato
July 20, 2021 21:00 - 9 minutes - 8.43 MBPresented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men as guardians of the people. With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato arrives at a de...
A Book Review - How to lie with maps Book by Mark Monmonier
July 19, 2021 21:00 - 10 minutes - 9.79 MBOriginally published to wide acclaim, this lively, cleverly illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches us how to evaluate maps critically and promotes a healthy skepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality. Monmonier shows that, despite their immense value, maps lie. In fact, they must. The second edition is updated with the addition of two new chapters, 10 color plates, and a new foreword by renowned geographer H. J. de Blij. One new chapter examines the role of ...
A Book Review - The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
July 18, 2021 21:00 - 9 minutes - 8.6 MBThe Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitte...
A Book Review - The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World Book by Séverine Autesserre
July 17, 2021 21:00 - 4 minutes - 2.2 MBThe word "peacebuilding" evokes a story we've all heard over and over: violence breaks out, foreign nations are scandalized, peacekeepers and million-dollar donors come rushing in, warring parties sign a peace agreement and, sadly, within months the situation is back to where it started--sometimes worse. But what strategies have worked to build lasting peace in conflict zones, particularly for ordinary citizens on the ground? And why should other ordinary citizens, thousands of miles away, c...
A Book Review - The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations Book by Céline Antonin, Philippe Aghion, and Simon Bunel
July 16, 2021 21:00 - 6 minutes - 2.73 MBFrom one of the world’s leading economists and his coauthors, a cutting-edge analysis of what drives economic growth and a blueprint for prosperity under capitalism. Crisis seems to follow crisis. Inequality is rising, growth is stagnant, the environment is suffering, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed every crack in the system. We hear more and more calls for radical change, even the overthrow of capitalism. But the answer to our problems is not revolution. The answer is to create a bet...
A Book Review - How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog (Signed B&N Exclusive Book)
July 15, 2021 21:00 - 5 minutes - 2.64 MBAn incredible, revolutionary true story and surprisingly simple guide to teaching your dog to talk from speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger, who has taught her dog, Stella, to communicate using simple paw-sized buttons associated with different words. When speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger first came home with her puppy, Stella, it didn’t take long for her to start drawing connections between her job and her new pet. During the day, she worked with toddlers with signific...
A Book Review - Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk
July 14, 2021 21:00 - 8 minutes - 3.46 MBWe have been keeping informing you for a long time about Turkish series, dramas, and more similar news. This is only because we know that you love those works and we also know that Turkey is satisfyingly good at it. However, we also know that you are familiar with Turkey’s Nobel-winning author Orhan Pamuk. So, here is his new shocking novel named “Nights of Plague” (Veba Geceleri) published on March 2021. As soon as the novelist’s new book took its place on the shelves of the book markets, ...
A Book Review - What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 by Tina Seelig
July 13, 2021 21:00 - 9 minutes - 8.68 MBMajor life transitions such as leaving the protected environment of school or starting a new career can be daunting. It is scary to face a wall of choices, knowing that no one is going to tell us whether or not we are making the right decision. There is no clearly delineated path or recipe for success. Even figuring out how and where to start can be a challenge. That is, until now. As executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Tina Seelig guides her students as they mak...
A Book Review - The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
July 12, 2021 21:00 - 10 minutes - 9.6 MBA young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed. Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the biggest flops in company history. Suddenly, one o...
A Book Review - So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport
July 11, 2021 21:00 - 7 minutes - 7.11 MBIn this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice. Not only is the cliché flawed-preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work-but it can also be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping. After making his case against passion, Newport sets out on a quest to discover the reality of how people end up loving what they do. Spending time with organic farmers, venture ca...
A Book Review - The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion
July 10, 2021 21:00 - 5 minutes - 2.53 MBWitnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—some still in their teens—helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. With courage, guile, and nerves of steel, these “ghetto girls” paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, and helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with German soldiers, bribed them ...
A Book Review - Whereabouts Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
July 09, 2021 21:00 - 3 minutes - 1.65 MBA marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant: the sidewalks around her house, parks, b...
A Book Review - How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World Book by Henry Mance
July 08, 2021 21:00 - 4 minutes - 1.85 MBWe all love animals, but does that make their lives happier? With factory farms, climate change and deforestation, this might be the worst time in history to be an animal. In an age of extinction and pandemics, our relationship with the other species on our planet has become unsustainable. What if we took animals' experiences seriously - how would we eat, think and live differently? Henry Mance sets out on a personal quest to see if there is a fairer way to live alongside other species. He...
A Book Review - Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die Book by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
July 07, 2021 21:00 - 9 minutes - 8.68 MBMark Twain once observed, "A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on." His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus news stories circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas--entrepreneurs, teachers, politicians, and journalists--struggle to make them "stick." In Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the human sca...
A Book Review - The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? Book by Seth Godin
July 06, 2021 21:00 - 9 minutes - 8.66 MBIn Seth Godin’s most inspiring book yet, he challenges readers to find the courage to treat their work as a form of art. Everyone knows that Icarus’s father made him wings and told him not to fly too close to the sun. But he ignored that warning and plunged to his doom. We’ve retold this myth, and many others like it, to generations of kids. All these stories have the same lesson: Play it safe. Obey your parents. Listen to the experts. It was the perfect propaganda for the industrial economy...