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Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets 14 reviews
John McMillan
W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
The Best Begginers Guide to Markets
Mc Millan's book makes it easy to understand how markets work, as well as their bennefits. Although it is not a book advocating free markets, it puts some sense into the idea through fun examples, stories and quotes. Anyone toying with the idea that free market economies are bad should read this book. As an imparial comment it might show a thing or two about why it is that free market policies ...
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Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth & Innovation 5 reviews
Aaron J. Shenhar, Dov Dvir
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
What you measure identifies what you value.
In this book, Aaron J. Shenhar and Dov Dvir introduce and develop what they characterize as "a new approach and a new formal model to help managers understand what project management is all about. This new approach is based on a success-focused, flexible, and adaptive framework. We call it the `adaptive project management approach [APM],' and it differs from [and is preferable to] the traditional ...
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Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthough Program to End Negative Behavior...and Feel Great Again 40 reviews
Jeffrey E. Young, Janet S. Klosko
Plume, 1994
Very difficult to find a book about schemas
I was recommended to buy this book as it deals with specifics that you can relate to. I'm in Australia and it is very hard to find any book about schemas. Sometimes you can get into the whole CBT thing but it's difficult to understand. I found this book to be quite easy to read and i have learnt alot about myself from reading it. Definatlely the book to read if you are familiar with CBT ...
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Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion4 reviews
Stuart Kauffman
Basic Books, 2008
A review of Kauffman's essay in Edge outlining the main thesis of the book
The main idea of this work , if I understand it correctly, is that the Universe is an evolving creative, self- organizing system. Creativity and non- predictability are inherent in its development. Attempts to understand the 'higher levels' of reality by reducing them to ' simpler' or ' lower ' ones including reductions of the realm of the spiritual to the physical do not provide satisfactory ...
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Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be27 reviews
Steve Chandler
Career Press, 2005
So completely practical.
This guy is awesome. So practical, so direct. No condescension, no preaching. Zero chaff. 100% content.
One (actual) example. I just pour out some hurt to my GF about my job. One client who is such a problem that if one our guys so much as *annoys* her, she could get a contract canceled that would get 4 of our guys laid off. An impossible to please person with a lot of power.
So I tell my ...
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The Reinventing Government Workbook: Package B: Introducing Employees to Reinvention, Set of 5 copies 12 reviews
David Osborne, Victor Colon Rivera
Jossey-Bass, 1999
Reinventing Government
This is an excellent book that covers all of the facts about our old and new government laws in comparison to current events that occur within our society. Regulations and guidelines are also described about the Private and Public Sector and how they differ. It is definately a great book.
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Reinventing the CFO: How Financial Managers Can Transform Their Roles and Add Greater Value8 reviews
Jeremy Hope
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
Required reading for leadership
I'll be brief given the previous detailed reviews. My view is that the author provides great insight based on my experience working for large companies struggling with many of the issues described in the book. The author did his homework. The principles are clear and nicely discussed. This reading is valuable to those aspiring to finance leadership.
I don't agree with everything the author ...
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Reinventing Your Board (J-B Carver Board Governance Series)1 review
John Carver, Miriam Carver
Jossey-Bass, 2006
REINVENTION of Reinventing Your Board
I have not yet completed reading this new edition so this is initial views only. I have closely read and noted changes in a couple of chapters. First impressions are that the language has got less formal and therefore the book is greatly more readable, and less formidable for the first time serious investigator of governance and Policy Governance. Secondly the years between the first edition and ...
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Reinventing Jesus37 reviews
J. Ed Komoszewski, M. James Sawyer, ...
Kregel Publications, 2006
Carefully researched and masterfully argued
The authours of "Reinventing Jesus" have done a masterful job of writing an in-depth, scholarly book adressing the critical questions of the historicity and cononization of scripture. The thing that sets this book apart from many others is that it is readable and easy to understand for the non-academic reader. It lays open the wealth of evidence that shows how weak the are the assumptions of the ...
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Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects
Dmitry Orlov
New Society Publishers, 2008
In the waning days of the American empire, we find ourselves mired in political crisis, with our foreign policy coming under sharp criticism and our economy in steep decline. These trends mirror the experience of the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. Reinventing Collapse examines the circumstances of the demise of the Soviet superpower and offers clear insights into how we might prepare for coming events. Rather than focusing on doom and gloom, ...
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Reinventing Organization Development2 reviews
Pfeiffer, 2005
OD is in crisis and this book tells you why!
As someone who has been practicing Organizational Development for the past 20 years, I have felt like I have been in a declining profession. This book taps the knowledge and insight of top thinkers in the field and tells us why this is happening. There analysis is right on the money. People who practice and believe in OD may find the authors conclusions depressing, but I would rather know what ...
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Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form33 reviews
Scott Mccloud
Harper Paperbacks, 2000
The Great McCloud Comics Trilogy- 3 of the Best-Ever
Want 3 of the best-ever books on the general topic of comics? Here they are! (each generally sold separately)
1.*Understanding Comics- A *landmark* & bestselling examination of the medium. A comicbook on comics! While I try not to use the "genius" label *too* liberally, with Understanding Comics it really seems to fit(!). 5 Stars!
2.*Reinventing Comics- Maybe his best *looking* book (in my ...
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Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age2 reviews
Suzie Boss, Jane Krauss
International Society for Technology in Education, 2008
Project Based Learning for the Modern Classroom
Full Disclosure: The authors mentioned my classroom in this book.
I believe that this book gives an exceptional overview of project based learning in the modern classroom. From the up front planning, to the tools, to the nature of managing global collaborative projects that link classrooms like mine with classrooms around the world (we've partnered with classrooms in Bangladesh, China, ...
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Reinventing the Museum, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift
Gail Anderson
AltaMira Press, 2004
Reinventing the Museum gathers 35 seminal articles reflecting over 100 years of dialogue within the musem community about what it means to be a high-quality, relevant institution. Important reading for museum professionals, students, and anyone interested in museums and their development.
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Pierre Gagnaire: Reinventing French Cuisine1 review
Peter Lippmann
Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2007
Essence: Recipes from Le Champignon Sauvage
An Interesting book. Shows the trend of food that the chef does from years to years.
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Reinventing Strategy: Using Strategic Learning to Create and Sustain Breakthrough Performance5 reviews
Willie Pietersen
Wiley, 2002
A survival guide for business
Willie Pietersen has managed to pull together what's really important to achieve breakthrough performance. He's done this by telling clearly and convincingly the lessons learned from his years as a chief executive, but explained them from his new role as a Professor of the Practice of Management at the Columbia Business School. I've had the personal pleasure of watching Pietersen in action with ...
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Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America15 reviews
Laura Shapiro, 2005
Fascinating
I savored this book, and didn't want it to end. I thought the subtitle did the book a bit of a disservice: "Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America," making it sound too narrow. It is really more of a social history of the rise and fall of the housewife stereotype, seen through the lens of food, the rise of the food industry, and high and low cooking. As some of the other reviewers have stated, a few ...
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Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City (Urban and Industrial Environments)1 review
Robert Gottlieb
The MIT Press, 2007
Best LA book
Gottlieb is incredible! This easy to read book, was a requirement in one of my classes but honestly no need to require since its like reading a novel. What an awesome book!
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Reinventing Retirement: 389 Bright Ideas About Family, Friends, Health, What to Do, and Where to Live 3 reviews
Miriam Goodman
Chronicle Books, 2008
Thinking about retiring??
This book is so upbeat and user friendly that it should be the first book any retiree or potential retiree ever reads. It is full of information and stories from real people who have succeeded and learned important lessons about their plans for retirement.
The author breaks down the different issues one needs to consider in retirement, realizing that it is not a decision that can be made in a ...
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Reinventing Paul5 reviews
John G. Gager
Oxford University Press, USA, 2002
Gager - required reading for the student of Paul
Gager's text, "Reinventing Paul" is perhaps mislabeled, as he does less re-inventing than "recovering." With the sort of exasperation characteristic of E.P. Sanders' in "Paul and Palestinian Judaism" Gager dismantles, by way of a thorough review of recent Pauline scholarship, the age-old distortions of Paul and first century Judaism that have plagued Christianity from the outset. His dismay is ...
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