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Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny By Kate Manne Oxford University Press, New York, 2018 On August 11, 2020, Joe Biden chose Senator Kamala Harris to be his 2020 running mate. Within minutes, Trump and other Republicans launched misogynist and … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, Donald Trump, down girl, feminism, Hilary Clinton, Kate Manne, misogyny, nonfiction, patriarchy
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A Burning
A Burning By Megha Majumdar Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2020 Faced with a difficult moral choice, would you do the right thing? What if doing the right thing might cost you your job or the chance of a promotion? … Continue reading
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Tagged a burning, book reviews, fiction, kolkata, megha majumdar, novels
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Surviving Autocracy: Can American democracy survive Trump’s autocratic transformation?
Surviving Autocracy By Masha Gessen Riverhead Books, New York, 2020 Most people in the US today have never lived under a dictatorship. Maybe we’ve heard stories from our parents or grandparents who immigrated from such places, but we don’t have … Continue reading
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Tagged autocracy, book reviews, democracy, masha gessen, nonfiction, putin, surviving autocracy, trump
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White Fragility
White Fragility By Robin DiAngelo Beacon Press, Boston, 2018 “White Fragility” sounds like a paradox. How can whites be fragile when we’re supposed to be the largest and smost dominant segment of US society? As author Robin DiAngelo explains it, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Law and justice, Politics
Tagged book reviews, justice, nonfiction, race, racism, robin diangelo, white fragility
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So you want to talk about race
So you want to talk about race By Ijeoma Oluo Seal Press, New York, 2018 In the wake of the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis, and the nation-wide protests that followed, many white people, … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, ijeoma oluo, nonfiction, race, racism, social justice
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Good Economics for Hard Times
Good Economics for Hard Times By Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo Hachette Book Group, New York, 2019 Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics for their research into alleviating global poverty. In Good Economics … Continue reading
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Tagged banerjee, book reviews, duflo, growth, immigration, nonfiction, trade
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20/20 Foresight
20/20 Foresight: Crafting Strategy in An Uncertain World By Hugh Courtney Harvard Business Review Press, Boston, 2001 What better way to start 2020 than a book called 20/20 Foresight? There’s an old Danish proverb that says, “It is difficult to … Continue reading
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Tagged 20/20 foresight, book reviews, business, hugh courtney, non-fiction, planning, strategy, uncertainty
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Range
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World By David Epstein Riverhead Books, New York, 2019 I didn’t finish Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World for the same reason I don’t eat chicken wings: too much effort for … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, david epstein, expertise, gereralists, learning, non-fiction, personal development, range, specialization
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High Output Management
High Output Management is one of the most disappointing books I’ve ever read, and in some places it flat out pissed me off. The focus is always on output. Everyone and every team produces output. A manager’s job is … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew grove, book reviews, high output management, intel, leadership, non-fiction, okr, technology
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More From Less
More From LessBy Andrew McAfeeScribner, New York, 2019 More From Less is a book about dematerialization Demawhat? No, it’s not some sort of Star Trek transporter technology. Dematerialization is the phenomenon of producing the same goods from less material and … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew mcafee, book reviews, books, capitalism, climate change, dematerialization, more from less, non-fiction
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