Book cover This is a different kind of book about business management. This book is not about success, at least not an initial success. Instead, this book is about continuing to succeed after that initial success. It does this by talking very candidly about narrowly averting complete failure. The very beginning of this book does capture the early history of Pixar up through the release and success of Toy Story....
Book cover I haven't been sleeping well. A good friend of mine suggested that my reading this book may be one of the reasons. I can't dispute that directly. As I write this, right before New Year's 2018, I'm actively looking for employment, and that is stressful, but this book definitely hasn't helped. Subtitled Trump in the White House, Fear is about the presidency of Donald Trump and written by the Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward....
Book Cover I love puns, and this is a book about the grandfather of puns... the good ole euphemism. This book moves smoothly from subject to subject bringing up lots of history. It is sometimes funny, but it doesn't overplay. Overall, it's a pretty serious book about the very human desire to avoid talking directly about certain subjects. Chapter Listing Mincing Words From Bears to Bowdlerism...
Book cover Since this is a non-fiction and educational book, I'm not going to worry about inadvertent spoilers as I usually do with fictional, or even narrative true-stories. This book does have a narrative flow, better that a lot of the fiction books I've already reviewed, but it is the narrative flow of a documentary, moving from subject to subject, building knowledge. Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the top science communicators alive today....