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The Game-Changer by A.G. Lafley & Ram Charan

April 28th, 2008

Title: The Game-Changer
Authors: A.G. Lafley & Ram Charan
Publisher: Crown Business (2008)

Bingo!!!
You know that IBM commercial where they play buzzword bingo before they go into the innovation meeting? If not…watch the ad here. Go ahead. I’ll give you a minute. Done? Good.
That’s pretty much what it felt like to read The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive [...]

Stiff by Mary Roach

April 23rd, 2008

Title: Stiff
Author: Mary Roach
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (2004)

A while ago I read the book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach on a recommendation by my sister. A small part of me thought, “gross.” But most of me thought, “gross…awesome…and interesting.” So I hit up the library and grabbed the [...]

Dark Summit by Nick Heil

April 21st, 2008

Title: Dark Summit
Author: Nick Heil
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company(2008)

You know…in the short life of Letters On Pages so far, this is my second adventure book review. If you don’t know me, you would think that I love the outdoors and adventure stuff. Nope. I don’t really like going outside at all. That said, I do [...]

Banker to the Poor by Muhammad Yunus

April 17th, 2008

Title: Banker to the Poor
Author: Muhammad Yunus
Publisher: PublicAffairs (2003)

Do you know what micro-lending is? Basically, micro-lending is when a person or organization lends a very small amount of money to a poor person. Then that poor person uses that loan to start a business in hopes that the business will pull them out of poverty. [...]

Hug Your People by Jack Mitchell

April 16th, 2008

Title: Hug Your People
Author: Jack Mitchell
Publisher: Hyperion (2008)

I got off on the wrong foot with this book. I think my mistake was reading the blurbs on the back cover. You see…there was one blurb written by Jim Nantz. Those who know me at all know how I feel about Jim Nantz. [...]

A Walk For Sunshine by Jeff Alt

April 15th, 2008

Title: A Walk for Sunshine
Author: Jeff Alt
Publisher: Dreams Shared Publications (2007)

I should probably start this review with a mini-disclaimer: Jeff Alt lives a few doors down from me. We were talking one day and he invited my wife and me to a reading at a local Barnes & Noble. He said he was a hiker [...]

Link: A Peek At My Bookshelf

April 15th, 2008

Deena over at A Peek At My Bookshelf recently wrote a small write up for Letters On Pages.
She reviews Christian Fiction and Non-Fiction, and does a really nice job!
Thanks Deena!

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