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Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War
Tom Wheeler
Collins Business, 2006
The E-Mail of the Civil War
+ T-Mail--the 1800's EMail
+ Communications technology wins the Civil War!
+ A new means of communication
+ Moving Washington Electronically to the Battlefield
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A Stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair
Stephen Wall
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
Foreign Office treachery
Stephen Wall worked in the Foreign Office's European Communities Department from 1983 to 1988, was Private Secretary to successive Foreign Secretaries from 1988 to 1993, Ambassador to Portugal 1993 to 1995, Ambassador to the EU from 1995 to 2000 and Blair's senior adviser on the EU from 2000 to ...
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Influence: Science and Practice (4th Edition)
Robert B. Cialdini
Allyn & Bacon, 2000
A good textbook
+ Read Chapters 1-3
+ A must for anyone who wants to be heard in the world of business.
+ Good Intro to Social Psych
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1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War
Benny Morris
Yale University Press, 2008
Balanced and informative
+ Weighty History
+ Benny Morris and his Critics
This is the best book on the 1948 Israeli-Arab war. Morris has matured as a historian since his first book on the Palestinian refugees and puts various events into perspective. For example, Israeli behavior vis a vis the Arab population is seen in the context of fears created by the invasion of ...
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Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
Roger Crowley
Faber & Faber, 2008
"Empires of the Sea" shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453, it is a breathtaking story of military crusading, Barbary pirates, white slavery and the Ottoman Empire - and the larger picture of the struggle between Islam and Christianity. Coupled with dramatic set piece battles, a wealth of riveting first-hand accounts, epic ...
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Politicians and Public Services: Implementing Change in a Clash of Cultures
Kate Jenkins
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008
The continued failure to provide public services both to agreed standards and electorate expectations is one of the major problems of modern government. Drawing on the experience of government in the UK and beyond, this book will consider the ways in which public institutions have tried to adapt to meet new demands. The author argues that there is a common inability to connect ideas and decisions ...
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Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes
Ferdinand Mount
Bloomsbury UK, 2008
A five-star autobiography but just one reservation!
+ A Warm Memoir
+ Parochial but fascinating
Ferdinand Mount has written a five-star autobiography, but I have just one reservation about it despite having enjoyed it immensely.
Mr Mount 'jumps about' rather too much. The ultra-long chapters don't deal consecutively with aspects of his fascinating life. For example, the sad account of his ...
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Samantha Power
Harper Perennial, 2003
Thorough Study of Genocide History
+ An important book to read
+ What About America's own Age of its Genocide?
Samantha Power has produced a history of genocide through the 20th century. She presents an impressive accounts of genocide against Armenians in Turkey, Jews in Holocaust, Tutsi in Rwanda, Kurds in Iraq, and Bosnian Muslims in the Balkan war; the stories are extremely well-written, and the images ...
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Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson
Andrew Gimson
Pocket Books, 2007
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The Post-American World
Fareed Zakaria
W. W. Norton, 2008
Undoing of the United States by the United States
+ Interesting but....
+ A must read for the current times
+ The Post American World
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A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East
Lawrence Freedman
PublicAffairs, 2008
intriguing look at America, its enemies, and their countless interrelations with one another
+ A choice of Enemies
+ The Uncertainty Principle
+ well worth the effort
+ Economist Review
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
Yale University Press, 2008
One of the best in the economics genre
+ This book is awesome!
Before I get to the book review, note that Thaler has done an excellent 1-hour talk about this book for Authors@Google, which is well worth your time whether or not you actually read Nudge. It's much better than the videos on Amazon.
The book. Thaler & Sunstein define their use of the word ...
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Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq. Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn
Faber & Faber, 2008
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Good Business: Your World Needs You
Steve Hilton, Giles Gibbons
Texere, 2005
Business Can be Good . . . and Save the World
+ Has a very direct and candid message
Enron. WorldCom. Tyco. And the list goes on. Capitalism is practically a dirty word. Conversations in board rooms, executive suites, universities, and other environments of though wrestle with how corporations can pull themselves out of the quicksand of questionable integrity. Hilton and Gibbons ...
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Britain in Africa (African Arguments)
Tom Porteous
Zed Books, 2008
Why has Africa become such an important priority for Britain's foreign policy? What interests and values is the UK seeking to uphold? Why has aid to Africa more than tripled over the past decade? How has the UK's involvement in the War on Terror affected its efforts there? In Britain in Africa , Tom Porteous seeks to answer these and other questions about Britain's role in Africa since 1997. ...
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