Book reviews

Nick Peist History 155 Book Review 11/18/15 Omission Is Bliss In The Google Story, authors David A. Vise and Mark Malseed narrate the success story of Google’s creators Larry Page and Sergey Brin. This text goes to great lengths to give the complete story on how Google on because the largest search engine the world has seen since its conception in 1998. Vise and Malseed argued that with sheer intelligence, innovation, and unique business tactics Google has created an empire. And after such a

The Corporation: A Book Review Joel Bakan’s book, The Corporation: the Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, is a decisive look into the mind of the corporation, or big business. It outlines the importance of profit in business and how ruthless corporations are willing to be in order to bring in substantial revenue. The book uses a historical timeframe to portray the ruthlessness of business ever since the idea of the corporation arose in the 17th century. It provides an insight into a world

IR Book Review I chose the book, The Season, because I saw it on the shelve on the library and it said it was a new book so I decided to check it out. When I went to go check it out, I read the flap of the book, and it definitely caught my attention. So, I checked it out for 3 weeks. My first impression was the cover; it had a girl on it in a stained pink dress while the rest of the girls were wearing white, that caught my attention because the girl stood out from the crowd, and was different. Also

Institute Managing Human Behaviour Assignment Blink by Malcolm Gladwell A book review by Narendran Santhanam (G10031) Contents Introduction 3 A brief summary 3 Evaluation 5 Conclusion 5 Introduction “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant – in the blink of an eye – that actually aren’t as simple as they seem. The book deals with the smallest components of our everyday lives—the content and origin

Book Review: Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity: David Entwistle Yvonne M. Garcia Liberty University Summary David Entwistle’s (2010) book, Integrative approaches to psychology and Christianity: An introduction to worldview issues, philosophical foundations, and models of integration, opens the reader’s eyes to unexpected possibilities, beginning with the often combative regimes of faith and reason using Tertullian’s symbolism of Athens as the seat of reason and Jerusalem

sources to back up her claims, which makes the book highly interesting and makes the reader desire to learn to a greater extent about what she's trying to figure out. Her fascination with this subject leads on to explore all of the possible reasons why people are extremely fascinated with the internet, mainly Twitter and blogging, and how much it has affected our daily lives. Additionally, she also discusses how traditional printed material like newspapers, books, and magazines are at risk thanks to the

The Goal (Goldratt & Coxx, 2004) at first sounds like a book on production engineering, yet entrenched deep within it are the fundamentals of cost accounting. The book focuses on the Theory of Constraints in a language that even non-specialists can understand. The authors through a fictional story show that there are various ways to balance their personal lives, business processes, and even industrial relations. Alex, the plant manager, is faced with problems in his problems as a result of spending

Hawkins & Clinton Book Review Paul Kelly Liberty University “Hawkins & Clinton Book Review” Summary After reviewing the important concepts of the Hawkins and Clinton book, I was able to finalize the 8 most interesting points. During the book review, it was mentioned that as Christian counselors, we need to maintain a steady pace with the progression in research, practice, and treatment (Hawkins & Clinton, 2015, p. 2). From my understanding, enhancing our counseling methods and incorporating

Lives. According to Specter, denailists fear science and its complexity even when there exist a lot of powerful data supporting it .Specter uses examples, evidence and members of society to defend and support the issues he presents. Denialism is a book that deserves to be recognized based on its relevancy to the world nowdays. A main idea brought up throughout the chapters of Denialism is how people pay more attention to the failures that result from sciences including vaccinations, medicines, genetically

Book Review of "Goal" 1. What is the problem? Alex Rogo was a plant manager at the Barrington Plant of Uniware, a division of UniCo. One day Bill Peach, division vice president visited his plant and found that there were lots of problems with schedule arrangement, quality, cost & inventory control in his plant. These problems had already made the organization lose money. At last Bill gave Alex three months to improve, otherwise, the plant would be closed. Three months?! That was all Alex Rogo was