Pb Living - A daily book review
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Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
A Book Review - 12 Rules for Life ,Book by, Jordan Peterson
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher: Random House Canada and Penguin Allen Lane (UK) The book is divided into chapters with each title representing one of the following twelve ...
A Book Review - Homo Deus ,Book by, Yuval Noah Harari
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As with its predecessor, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Harari recounts the course of history while describing events and the individual huma...
A Book Review - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History ,Book by, Elizabeth Kolbert
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The target audience is the general reader, and scientific descriptions are rendered in understandable prose. The writing blends explanations of her t...
A Book Review - Guns Germs and Steel ,Book by, Jared Diamond
27 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The book attempts to explain why Eurasian and North African civilizations have survived and conquered others, while arguing against the idea that Eu...
A Book Review - Time of the Magicians: before the dark decade ,Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Cassirer and Ludwig Wittgenstein Book by Wolfram Eilenberger
26 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wolfram Eilenberger’s new book offers us a group portrait of four brilliant young philosophers in the aftermath of the first world war. His awesome...
A Book Review - Tales from the Ant World Book by E. O. Wilson
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants, from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of Alabama to perilous journeys into the Brazilian rai...
A Book(s) Review - Open: The Story of Human Progress, Book by, Johan Norberg and One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger, Book by ,Matthew Yglesias
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ideas or people - has led to stun...
A Book Review - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind ,Book by ,Yuval Noah Harari
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Harari's work situates its account of human history within a framework: he sees the natural sciences as setting the limits of possibility for human a...
A Book Review - The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Novel by, Ayi Kwei Armah ; AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The unnamed protagonist, referred to as "the man", works at a railway station and is approached with a bribe; when he refuses, his wife is furious an...
A Book Review- I Write What I Like Book, by, Steve Biko : AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I Write What I Like (full name I Write What I Like: Selected Writings by Steve Biko) is a compilation of writings from anti-apartheid activist Steve ...
A Book Review - God's Bits of Wood Novel by Ousmane Sembène: African Writers Series.
20 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
God's Bits of Wood is a 1960 novel by the Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène that concerns a railroad strike in colonial Senegal of the 1940s. It was ...
A Book Review - Apeirogon: A Novel Novel by Colum McCann
19 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live near one another - yet they exist worlds apart. Rami is Israeli. Bassam is Palestinian. Rami's license plate is y...
A Book(s) Review - The Economics of Belonging:Book by Martin Sandbu & Economic Dignity Book by Gene Sperling
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Economics of Belonging:Book by Martin Sandbu Fueled by populism and the frustrations of the disenfranchised, the past few years have witnessed t...
A Book Review - Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome Book by Douglas Boin
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Denied citizenship by the Roman Empire, a soldier named Alaric changed history by unleashing a surprise attack on the capital city of an unjust empir...
A Book Review - Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War Book by Bob Davis and Lingling Wei
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Davis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior editor covering economic issues at the Wall Street Journal’s Washington D.C. bureau, and continues to w...
A Book Review - Darke Novel by Rick Gekoski
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cranky and reclusive, ageing and widowed, Dr. James Darke has expelled himself from the world. He writes compulsively in his ‘coming of old age’ ...
A Book Review- Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World Book by Amy Stanley
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo – now known as Tokyo – and a portrait of a gr...
A Book(s) Review - A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion Book by Fay Bound Alberti & A History of Solitude Book by David Vincent
13 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing on a wide array of literary and historical sources, David Vincent explores how people have conducted themselves in the absence of company ove...
A Book Review (Unwritten) - TO BE A KING - The imagined book of Chadwick Boseman is an Obituary of Chadwick Boseman.
12 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
RIP KING TSHALA, WAKANDA FOREVER
A Book Review - Underland: A Deep Time Journey Book by Robert Macfarlane
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land its...
A Book Review - Things Fall Apart Novel by Chinua Achebe
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
58. Its story chronicles pre-colonial life in the southeastern part of Nigeria and the arrival of Europeans during the late 19th century. It is ...
A Book Review - The River Between Novel by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A young man called Waiyaki is a focal point in Ngugi’s story. At an early age, he was already considered to have special gifts. Waiyaki once encount...
A Book Review - Beyond Expectations: From Charcoal to Gold Book by Mutu wa Gethoi and Njenga Karume
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Beyond Expectations: From Charcoal to Gold is as interesting as it is inspiring. It is the story of a freedom fighter and a cultural activist; the st...
A Book Review - HRH: So Many Thoughts on Royal Style Book by Elizabeth Holmes
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Holmes founded the company Real-Time Cures in Palo Alto, California, to "democratize healthcare" year 2003. Holmes described her fear of needl...
A Book Review - Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future Book by James S. Shapiro
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The plays of William Shakespeare are rare common ground in the United States. They are read at school by almost every student, staged in theaters acr...
A Book Review - The Lying Life of Adults, a new novel by the pseudonymous Italian author Elena Ferrante
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) Limited, 2020 The Lying Life of Adults, a new novel by the pseudonymous Italian author Elena Ferrante, is slinky and s...
A Book Review - The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World Book by John Dickie
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Founded in London in 1717 as a way of binding men in fellowship, Freemasonry proved so addictive that within two decades it had spread across the glob...
A Book Review - The Virgin way & Losing My Virginity & Finding My Virginity by Richard Branson
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Losing my Virginity is dedicated to "Alex Ritchie and his family" and a note before the prologue thanks Edward Whitley who helped Branson with the wri...
A Book Review - Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture Book by Jonathan Taplin
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content tha...
A Book Review - Steve Jobs VS Bill Gates: Men of Visions and Innovations (VS HEROES, Bill Gates Life Lessons, Steve Jobs Life Lessons)
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are, undoubtedly, two of the most driven visionaries of our time. Somebody needed to write a comparative biographical book ...
A Book Review - The Bluest Eye Novel by Toni Morrison dedication to Mr. Chadwick Boseman
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Plot summary In Lorain, Ohio, nine-year-old Claudia Mac Teer and her 10-year-old sister Frieda live with their parents, a tenant named Mr. Henry, and...
A Book Review - The Negro Problem Book by Booker T. Washington a dedication to Mr. Chadwick Boseman
30 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Negro Problem is a collection of seven essays by prominent Black American writers, such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Laurence Dunbar, edited by Bo...
A Book Review - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass dedication to Mr. Chadwick Boseman
29 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Douglass begins by explaining that he does not know the date of his birth (he later chose February 14, 1818), and that his mother died when he was 7 ...
A Book Review - Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To have "skin in the game" is to have incurred risk by being involved in achieving a goal. Taleb extends the definition to include any risk so that "...
A Book Review - The Natural Laws of Business Book by Richard Koch
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Running a business–any business–is a risky proposition. It often seems that we are being buffeted by random variables in the economy and the mark...
A Book Review - Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions Book by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives.In this dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author...
A Book Review - The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari Book by Robin Sharma
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This inspiring tale provides a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance, and joy. A wonderfully crafted fable, The Mo...
A Book Review - Thinking, Fast and Slow Book by Daniel Kahneman
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thinking, Fast and Slow is a best-selling book published during 2011 by Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate Daniel Kahneman. It ...
A Book Review - Predictably Irrational Book by Dan Ariely
23 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In chapter 2, consumers purchase items based on value, quality or availability – often on all three. The methods of appointing a value to an ...
A Book Review - Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction Book by Dan Gardner and Philip E. Tetlock
22 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Superforecasting, Tetlock and coauthor Dan Gardner offer a masterwork on predicti...
A Book Review - Freakonomics Book by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The book is a collection of articles written by Levitt, an expert who had gained a reputation for applying economic theory to diverse subjects not us...
A Book Review - The Myth of Sisyphus Novel by Albert Camus
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chapter 1: An Absurd ReasoningCamus undertakes the task of answering what he considers to be the only question of philosophy that matters: Does the r...
A Book Review - Outliers Book by Malcolm Gladwell
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
OUtliers: The Story of Success is the third non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2...
A Book Review: The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (A Personal Favourite)
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe [il ˈprintʃipe], Latin: De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and politic...
A Book Review: The Art of War by SUN TZU
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly 5th century BC). The work, which is attr...
A Book Review - The Alchemist By Paulo Coehne contrasted With The Wizard of OZ
16 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Alchemist follows the journey of an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago. Believing a recurring dream to be prophetic, he asks a Gypsy fortune ...
A Book Review - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness Book by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler
15 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher: Yale University Press 8 April 2008 Buy at AMAZON Human behavior One of the main justifications for Thaler's and Sunstein's endorsement of l...
A Book Review - The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man By John Perkins
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The book provides Perkins' account of his career with engineering consulting firm Chas. T. Main in Boston. According to Perkins, his job at the firm ...
A Book Review- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by Jim C. Collins
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't is a management book by Jim C. Collins that describes how companies transition fr...
A Book Review - The innovator's dilemma Book by Clayton Christensen (Genre: Business theory BY on AMAZON)
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Clayton Christensen demonstrates how successful, outstanding companies can do everything "right" and still lose their market leadership – or even fa...
A Book Review - The state in Africa Book by Jean-Franc̜ois Bayart
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Examines the role and structure of the state in Africa. Amongst the areas considered are: the genesis of the state; the decision to pursue conservati...
A Book Review - The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation - state Book by Basil Davidson
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In many parts of Africa ordinary people are worse off today than at the end of the colonial era. What or who is to blame? Davidson, Africa's pre-emin...
A Book Review- The Dictator's Handbook Book by Alastair Smith and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
09 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics is a 2011 non-fiction book by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith, ...
A Book Review - Pedagogy of the Oppressed: by Paulo Freire
08 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This text argues that the perceived passivity of the poor is the direct result of economic, social and political domination. The book suggests that i...
A book review- Chaos: A Very Short Introduction Book by Leonard A. Smith
08 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its b...
A Book Review- Corruption: A Very Short Introduction by Leslie Holmes
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Corruption is one of the biggest global issues, ahead of extreme poverty, unemployment, the rising cost of food and energy, climate change, and terro...
A Book Review - Big Data: A Very Short Introduction Book by Dawn E. Holmes
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since long before computers were even thought of, data has been collected and organized by diverse cultures across the world. Once access to the Inter...
Pb Living - A daily book review (Trailer)
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas