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...planning, executing, innovating, marketing and selling your killer app. He is an avowed enemy of what he calls "bull shiitake" and urges others to wise up fast. Toward that end, he lists the "top lies" of venture capitalists, lawyers, engineers, partners and CEOs. At nearly 500 pages, this tome is obviously not intended for a sitting; rather, dip in and out as the subjects move you. Kawasaki more than meets his stated goal of providing "hardcore information to hardcore people who want to kick...
...main misconception about the book itself is that it was some sort of political tome. The book is a woman's story. I wanted to write it as though I was talking to my girlfriends, to tell a story not just of my 10 years in Downing Street but of the 50-year journey of a woman who comes from a relatively humble beginning in Liverpool and finds herself living for 10 years in one of the most famous addresses in the world, with this ringside seat on history...
...latest shot in the abortion wars is not a new law or a court case. It is a fat blue-covered tome entitled Abortion under State Consititutions: A State-by-State Analysis by Paul Benjamin Linton. Although intended - as indicated by its $75 price tag - for libraries, it could become one of the country's most thumbed-through tomes if the Republicans win in November and take steps to overturn the Supreme Court ruling that protects abortion rights, Roe v. Wade...
...fuzzy math aside, the good news is that malaria control efforts are working. The 2008 World Malaria Report singles out Eritrea, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, and the Tanzanian region of Zanzibar for their remarkable improvements in cutting malaria illness and death. Since 2000, all of them have managed a greater than 50% drop in both rates, and all of them have done it through a combination of familiar methods: using long-lasting insecticidal bed nets to prevent mosquito bites; treating the disease with the newer, more effective artemisinin-based combination drug therapy; and spraying homes with insecticide. In these...
...couple of entries flick at Bradman's famously prickly character, but overall the tome - published to coincide with his centenary - is respectful. Such is Bradman's posthumous clout, and as cricket writer Gideon Haigh says in the foreword: "We are content for the deeds to stand...