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...least the book is not hard to follow; I wish my sourcebook read this easily. Save your highlighters for the literature tome, as Oz highlights her own ideas for you in concise, bullet-pointed orange boxes...
...Lutz Jäkel. Along with his counterparts, Frenchman Christian Jean, Egyptian Amgad Zaki and Syrian Khalil Zakhem, Maass - who has built a reputation for successfully inventing new takes on old standards during his decade-long tenure in the United Arab Emirates - has created an informative, user-friendly tome with 120 culinary creations. The 256-page book applies a Euro-fusion ethos to classic Arab cookery, incorporating new ingredients (lobster with baba ghanoush ravioli, courgette-aubergine salad and cream of red peppers) while respecting regional Muslim customs that disallow alcohol in cooking. Oenophiles are not forgotten, though: selections like...
...Dawkins believes in the truth in science: there must be logic and evidence for every argument made and for the most part, his arguments are lucidly (and logically) backed. Unfortunately for Dawkins, his firebrand spirit and the uncompromising tone of this tome belie his solid reasoning. For some readers, “The God Delusion” will come across every bit as arrogant and fundamentalist as those works and ideas he opposes...
...Heaths trumpet the notion that certain ideas are "sticky"--a term plucked from The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's tome about how ideas and behaviors catch on in society. Gladwell, whom the Heath brothers revere, writes about "the stickiness factor" but never fully fleshes out what makes an idea sticky. That's where Chip and Dan come in. Finding insight in fields as disparate as psychology, politics, screenwriting, economics, folklore and epidemiology, they deconstruct sticky ideas--from Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign classic "It's the economy, stupid" to the way Jane Elliott taught the civil rights movement to third...
...short, these are the two men who are writing the playbook for the Democratic Party as we speak. Indeed, this short tome is that playbook. And it’s deeply flawed...