Search Results for 'Review'

Book Review - Bill Simmons' Book of Basketball

Putting Bill Simmons' name in a headline is sure to elicit (mostly) one of two responses: Simmons is a complete hack, terrible writer and full of himself or Simmons is the most hilarious man who ever made four Michael Buffer jokes and compa [...]

Posted On : Dec, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Sarah Palin's Going Rogue

“I love to write, but not about myself,” wrote Sarah Palin on page 409 of a book that is almost entirely about herself. Going Rogue is subtitled “An American Life,” but Sarah Palin is hardly the typical American &ldq [...]

Posted On : Dec, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - The Percy Jackson Chronicles

Half Man, Half God – All Hero, Garreth Rous introduces us to Percy Jackson, a 21st century boy with a quest to save the world from war and destruction - from the ancient gods of Olympos! Percy Jackson is the main character in a series [...]

Posted On : Nov, 25 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - The New Atheism

In recent years a number of bestselling books have forcefully argued that belief in God can no longer be defended on rational or empirical grounds, and that the scientific worldview has rendered obsolete the traditional beliefs held by Chri [...]

Posted On : Nov, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - The Passport

"A swift, stinging narrative, fable-like in its stoic concision and painterly detail."-The Philadelphia Inquirer The Passport is a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stiflin [...]

Posted On : Nov, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Juliet, Naked, By Nick Hornby

Though Nick Hornby has never seemed to recapture the chemistry that produced High Fidelity, he certainly hasn’t stopped trying. That novel lodged him firmly in the pop-culture echelon, and Hornby seems to have figured out that he has [...]

Posted On : Nov, 20 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Art and Electronic Media

This is the first book to explore mechanics, light, graphics, robotics, networks, virtual reality and the possibilities afforded by the web from an international perspective. It outlines the importance of figures previously neglected by art [...]

Posted On : Nov, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

In Short - Book Reviews

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest Steampunk is a fun genre to read. There are so many possibilities. Priest has some interesting ideas and tells a compelling story but all in all I found that I was not sucked into the story as I woul [...]

Posted On : Nov, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Covet

The ongoing battle between Heaven and Hell is about to be resolved once and for all time in a fight waged by seven ordinary people. The outcome will decide the fate of their souls and that of earth. Naturally, the champions of Hell do not [...]

Posted On : Nov, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

A Century of Poetry Review

With the handover of the laureateship, the Oxford poetry professorship debacle, the 30th anniversary of Radio 4's Poetry Please and a major promotion on BBC television, poetry has been much in the news this year. But one event to pass almos [...]

Posted On : Nov, 14 2009 | Comments : 0

Cookery book reviews

When I was a child, my mother had a cookery book that told you how to cook and nothing else. It came free with the electric oven and it was an admirable volume, whose recipe for Christmas pudding we still use. Looking along my own kitchen s [...]

Posted On : Nov, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - 'Embedded with Organized Labor'

Since his first job as a staff reporter for the United Mine Workers Journal in the 1970s, Steve Early has written about the pressing issues facing organized labor, often to the delight of rank and file activists - and sometimes to the disma [...]

Posted On : Nov, 06 2009 | Comments : 0

Horse SoldiersBook Review, War Review

I just finished reading a fantastic and timely book. Fantastic because of how the writer, Doug Stanton, brilliantly and in gritty, sometimes grisly detail describes the unprecedented actions of a band of American Special Forces heroes who r [...]

Posted On : Nov, 05 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Climate Cover-up, The New Hidden Persuaders

Over fifty years ago, Vance Packard wrote the best-selling Hidden Persuaders, which the New Yorker called "A brisk, authoritative and frightening report on how manufacturers, fundraisers and politicians are attempting to turn the Ame [...]