Finding a new spin on a leadership book is a difficult challenge because the category is always brimming with titles. Ruma Bose and Lou Faust have managed to add a new twist with "Mother Teresa, CEO". The authors set up the premise of... Read More
In February 2008, Joseph and Laurel Dubowski lost their twenty-year-old daughter, Gayle, when a gunman on the campus of Northern Illinois University went on a rampage inside a classroom. In one of his recollections of Gayle, her father... Read More
With over 70 million baby boomers approaching retirement age, there is no shortage of books about retiring in the “golden years.” These days, of course, the economy has forced many of these pre-retirees to re-think what retirement... Read More
The twentieth-century workplace meets the twenty-first-century workforce in this examination of the mashup between Boomer employers and Millennial employees that Jim Finkelstein and Mary Gavin say will ignite the full power of the... Read More
There’s no guarantee a reader will reach nirvana—possessing true bliss—after completing this book but Edward P. H. Woo does a workman-like job of setting down the premises of Buddhism the religion he believes can provide that type... Read More
"Surface Tension" tackles that greatest of mysteries: the male—female relationship. Only a former professor of psychology would have the guts to openly acknowledge such a project. True most poets can’t avoid the subject of love but... Read More
“Einstein’s instincts as well as his mathematics told him that gravity was caused by inertia,” the author writes. “But the concept of the earth’s surface accelerating outward into space seemed absurd. What if Einstein, Newton,... Read More
“I want to make it very clear. I want action and I want it right now.” That’s how Stuart O. Van Slyke was introduced to his new assignment as mess officer. He was to build a mess hall for 400 men to be operational twenty four hours... Read More