Archives for: October 2006

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (buy from Amazon) by John Gray Type: Relationship Author: John Gray, PhD My rating: 4 Book introduction: Do men and women understand each other? Why do men and women communicate in different modes? Can we lea… more »

Mars and Venus on a Date

Mars and Venus on a Date: A Guide for Navigating the 5 Stages of Dating to Create a Loving & Lasting Relationship (buy from Amazon) by John Gray Type: Relationship Author: John Gray My rating: 4 Posted by irene Book introduction: This book exp… more »

Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff--and it's all small stuff (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Series) (buy from Amazon) by Richard Carlson Type: Self-improvement Author: Richard Carlson My rating: 3 Posted by Dominic Book introduction: 100 tips on how to cal… more »

In Search Of Excellence

In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (Collins Business Essentials) (buy from Amazon) by Robert H. Waterman Type: Business Author: Thomas Peters, Tom Peters, Robert H. Waterman, Robert Waterman My rating: 4 Book introduc… more »

The Dilbert Principle

The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions (buy from Amazon) by Scott Adams Type: Leisure Author: Scott Adams My rating: 3 Book introduction: The Dilbert Principle is a part co… more »

The McKinsey Way

The McKinsey Way (buy from Amazon) by Ethan M. Rasiel Type: Business Author: Ethan M. Rasiel My rating: 3 Book introduction: A book on the McKinsey's way to management consulting.written by an McKinsey Alumnus. My review: This could be an interes… more »

Afterglow of Creation

Afterglow of Creation: From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripples (buy from Amazon) by Marcus Chown Type: Science Author: Marcus Chown My rating: 4 Posted by Dominic Book introduction: This book talks about the "Big Bang" - the creation… more »

The Wisdom of Teams

The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization (Collins Business Essentials) (buy from Amazon) by Douglas K. Smith Type: Business Self-improvement Author: Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith My rating: 3 Book introduction: This boo… more »

Beyond The Black Hole

Beyond the Black Hole: Stephen Hawking's Universe (buy from Amazon) by John Boslough Type: Science Author: John Boslough My rating: 4 Book introduction: A book that summarises Stephen Hawking's work on the Black Hole. My review: As a Cambridge gr… more »

Modern Competitive Analysis

Modern Competitive Analysis (buy from Amazon) by Sharon M. Oster Type: Business Author: Sharon M. Oster My rating: 3 Book introduction: How strategic planners can use powerful ideas from economic analysis in making business decisions? My review:… more »

An Introduction to Modern European History 1890-1990

Posted by irene An Introduction to Modern European History, 1890-1990 (Access to History - Context S.) (buy from Amazon) by Alan FarmerType: History Author: Alan Farmer My rating: 3 Book introduction: Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Content c… more »

Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist

The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist (Helix Books) (buy from Amazon) by Richard Phillips Feynman Type: Self-improvement Science Leisure Author: Richard Feynman My rating: 5 Book introduction: A collection of the seminar notes of P… more »

The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate (buy from Amazon) by Gary Chapman Type: Relationship Author: Gary Chapman My rating: 4 Book introduction: This book talks about the 5 different ways of communicating and plea… more »

海邊卡夫卡 Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore (Vintage International) (buy from Amazon) by Haruki Murakami Type: Fiction Author: 村上春樹 Haruki Murakami My rating: 3 Book introduction: A 15 year old boy leaves home to escape his fate, his father pred… more »

A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History (buy from Amazon) by Michael H. Hart Type: History Author: Michael Hart My rating: 4 Book introduction: This book attempts to rank the 100 most influential people of mankind of all time.… more »

A brief history of time

A Brief History of Time : From the Big Bang to Black Holes (buy from Amazon) by Stephen W.; Sagan, Carl Hawking Type: Science Author: Stephen Hawking My rating: 5 Posted by Dominic Book introduction: How does the Universe begin or is there a begin… more »

Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types

Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types (buy from Amazon) by Marilyn Bates Type: Self-improvement Author: David Keirsey, Marilyn Bates My rating: 4 Book introduction: This book attempts to classify people along 4 preferences (with 2 p… more »

The Art of Happiness

The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living (buy from Amazon) by Howard C. Cutler Type: Self-improvement Author: Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler My rating: 3 Posted by Dominic Book introduction: A Dalai Lama's view on happiness and how to achieve it… more »

101 Philosophy Problems

101 Philosophy Problems (buy from Amazon) by Martin Cohen Type: Philsophy Author: Martin Cohen My rating: 3 Posted by Dominic Book introduction: This book discusses some elementary questions in philosophy, it forms a good base of questions for beg… more »

The Servant : A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership (buy from Amazon) by James C. Hunter Type: Leadership, Business Author: James C. Hunter My rating: 4 Posted by irene Book introduction: John Daily, a businessman who heads up a compa… more »

The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code (buy from Amazon) by Dan Brown Type: Fiction Author: Dan Brown My rating: 4 Book introduction: The curator of The Louvre Museum, Paris was murdered inside Louvre and he left behind bizarre clues at his own murder scene. The Harvar… more »

Veronika Decides To Die

Veronika Decides to Die (buy from Amazon) by Paulo Coelho Posted by Joanna Type: Fiction Author: Paulo Coelho My rating: 5 Book introduction: This is another excellent book by Paulo Coelho. Don?t be misled by the title ? this is not some dark… more »

Good To Great

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (buy from Amazon) by Jim Collins Type: Business Author: Jim Collins My rating: 3 Posted by Dominic Book introduction: From the author and research team that brought us - Build to… more »

Mr. China

Mr. China: A Memoir (buy from Amazon) by Tim Clissold Type: Business Author: Tim Clissold My rating: 5 Book introduction: This is a memoir of an Englishman who felt really attached to China since late 1980s. He came to Beijing in 1990s to study Man… more »

在世界中心大聲呼喊:我愛你

Type: Fiction Author: 片山恭一 My rating: 4 Book introduction: Sakutaro and Aki are high school sweet heart. Aki died of leukemia. This is the story of Sakutaro and Aki as told by Sakutaro, how they fell deeply in love, ho… more »

Norwegian Wood 挪威的森林

Norwegian Wood (Vintage International Original) (buy from Amazon) by Haruki Murakami Type: Fiction Author: Haruki Murakami 村上春樹 My rating: 3 Book introduction: A story of complex love relationships that have been further… more »

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (buy from Amazon) by Malcolm Gladwell Type: Business Author: Malcolm Gladwell My rating: 5 Book introduction: This book attempts to explain why some ideas or diseases spread like wild f… more »

New Grub Street

New Grub Street (Penguin Classics) (buy from Amazon) by Bernard Bergonzi Type: Fiction Author: George Gissing My rating: 4 Posted by irene Book introduction: Stories of the life of the literary man in 19th century in the UK. How they struggle, dea… more »

Angels and demons

Angels & Demons, Special Illustrated Edition (buy from Amazon) by Dan Brown Type: Thriller Author: Dan Brown My rating: 5 Book introduction: A world renowned CERN scientist is murdered by a secret brotherhood that is the sworn enermy of the Vat… more »

Stand out

Stand Out! Branding Strategies for Business Professionals (buy from Amazon) by Simon Vetter Type: Business Self-improvement Author: Simon Vetter My rating: 2 Book introduction: This book is about personal branding strategies for Business Profession… more »

Blink, The power of thinking without thinking

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (buy from Amazon) by Malcolm Gladwell Type: Business Author: Malcolm Gladwell My rating: 4 Book introduction: This book talks about how snap judgement can be tremendous useful at times and at other time… more »

Reason for hope

Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey (buy from Amazon) by Phillip Berman Type: Biography Leisure Author: Jane Goodall My rating: 5 Book introduction: This is an auto-biography of an amazing and fascinating woman, Dr. Jane Goodall. Very inspiring in… more »

Digital Fortress

Digital Fortress (buy from Amazon) by Dan Brown Type: Adventurous Fiction Author: Dan Brown My rating: 4 Book introduction: National Security Agency (NSA) has received an unbreakable code and it is being held hostage as a result. It they cannot cra… more »

Deception Point

Deception Point (buy from Amazon) by Dan Brown Type: Adventurous Fiction Author: Dan Brown My rating: 3 Posted by Dominic Book introduction: A shocking scientific discovery by NASA has such profound implication that it will be used as a political… more »

1421 The Year China Discovered The World

1421: The Year China Discovered America (buy from Amazon) by Gavin Menzies Type: History Author: Gavin Menzies My rating: 5 Book introduction: Based on 10 years of research by Gavin Menzies, piecing together evidence that Zheng He had conducted… more »

The pleasure of finding things out

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (buy from Amazon) by Freeman Dyson Type: Biography Author:Richard Feynman My rating: 3 Book introduction: A collection of short works of a great physicist - Prof Richard Feynman My review: I must say, I am not a… more »

The Art of the Long View

The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World (buy from Amazon) by Peter Schwartz Type: Business Author:Peter Schwartz My rating: 4 Book introduction: A book that teaches people how to plan for future scenarios and positi… more »

5 Golden Rules For Finding Your Life Partner

by Rabbi Dov Heller, M.A. A relationship coach lays out his 5 golden rules for evaluating the prospects of long-term success. When it comes to making the decision about choosing a life partner, no one wants to make a mistake. Yet, with a divorce rate… more »