May 11, 2020
The Spy Who Came in From the ColdThe Honorable SchoolboyA Legacy of SpiesAgent Running in the Field The four of 26 novels by John LeCarré named above form a group that span the career of this inventive and insightful author. They were evidently not designed to be bedtime reading; unless they were meant to have […]
In this anxiety provoking time, many readers have expressed problems with sleep disturbances. A book entitled Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker, PhD. (professor of neuroscience and psychology at UC Berkeley and Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science) offers the reader information on many aspects of […]
Nick Kristof, who as a columnist for the New York Times, reminds us often of what we should be doing, has, together with his wife Sheryl WuDunn, a former business editor and foreign correspondent for the Times who now works in finance and consulting, written a book entitled Tightrope that inspires us to go do […]
January 30, 2019
As many of us grow older, we dream of ways to make our own lives simpler while conserving resources for future generations. Ideally, we would love to be among friends who share these values. Richard Benner and Michael Royce have managed to achieve these goals and best of all, their recently published book, Sustainable Homes […]
April 12, 2017
Why do Democrats keep losing elections, when Americans tell pollsters they prefer the Democrats’ positions on most of the issues to those of the Republicans? That is the question that Drew Westen, a self-described frustrated Democrat, set out to answer. The result is an insightful, passionate and entertaining examination of how voters make political decisions, […]
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