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The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder2 reviews
Allan V. Horwitz, Jerome C. Wakefield

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

A vast conspiracy to pathologize and medicate sadness!
Americans collectively made enormous sacrifices and suffered enormous losses in the effort to emerge as victors in World War II. Perhaps we should have had an official year or more of public mourning to grieve publicly the various losses we collectively suffered as a result of WWII. Unfortunately, we had no such period of public mourning of our losses. Now, in the half century or so since the ... 		  
  







  
  
Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America9 reviews
Walter R. Borneman

Random House, 2008

Perfect account
I didn't know squat about James Polk and now I do. Isn't that the point. The period between Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln is by far the least studied period of my "historical hobby." I picked this book up on a business trip in Canada and read it in a week. First, it is an easy read. It goes into just enough detail to keep you interested but not too much detail to cause you to lose ... 		  
  







  
  
Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies25 reviews
Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff

Harvard Business School Press, 2008

Learning from your audience, customers, and community
In this very readable book Li and Bernoff draw from extensive research at Forrester to describe what they call the Groundswell: consumers using online tools to get more information from each other, and less from traditional institutions and businesses. They offer case studies showing how organizations have readjusted their thinking to take advantage of it. Although the groundswell trend ... 		  
  







  
  
French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States1 review
Francois Cusset

Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2008

A transformation of U.S. intellectual life or merely a surface reading?
If someone was not aware of the controversy surrounding the works of philosophers and literary critics going by the names of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Zizek, Michel Foucault, and Alain Badiou and decided to read samples of their work, it might be interesting to see if such a reader would find them as "radical" as they are sometimes portrayed in both the ... 		  
  







  
  
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World39 reviews
Mark Pendergrast

Basic Books, 2000

"Let's have another cup of coffee . . . "
Resting next to your mouse or keyboard - at a safe distance! - your cuppa steams aromatically. The morning coffee, whether at home or work, is the "kick-starter" of many a person's day. For some, it must be a special flavour, brewed to taste, yet often mixed with sweeteners or cow juice, real or otherwise. For the rest, anything hot and caffeine-laced is sufficient. Yet almost none of us ask ... 		  
  







  
  
The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street39 reviews
Jonathan A. Knee

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007

Relevant observations, spill over effect in retail finance.
I liked the book. Though not in I-banking field, I can see plenty of similarities between the "You'll be gone, I'll be gone" mentality of the I-banking world and the environment in which retail brokerage and bank channel financial advisors work (I am a financial advisor at a large firm). Perhaps it's time a book is written to describe the compromises advisors must make to meet monthly sales ... 		  
  







  
  
Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and ...15 reviews
Melody Petersen

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

If you are a Baby Boomer you need to read this book
This is a great book. It communicates a lot of medical information in an interesting and informative manner. Like everything in life, the more informed you are the better decisions you can make. This book makes tobacco industry executives look like rank amateurs. 		  
  







  
  
The Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind: Access to a Life of Miracles32 reviews
Bill Johnson

Destiny Image Publishers, 2005

Life Changing book
This is a life changing book. The day of miracles is not over. Hundreds of miracles are taking place. Bill Johnson's book ignited a fire in me to see God move in my city. I was so impressed that I bought 15 copies and distributed to my pastors, church board members and a missionary returning to Africa. It's time for the church to realize again who we are. Bill Johnson quotes the Apostle ... 		  
  







  
  
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture66 reviews
David Kushner

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004

Living the dream and hardly living
I got this book from my local library because it looked like an interesting perspective of the early days of FPSs. What I got was a very interesting view of two kids' escape from reality and ultimately their passion. This book is as much about business, persistence, focus, and fun as you will find anywhere. It also deals with the consequences of a fragmented childhood and perpetual need to ... 		  
  







  
  
Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover That Transformed America10 reviews
Burton Hersh

Basic Books, 2007

Connecting more dots from troubled era
It's a well-written, well-sourced book detailing disturbing relationships, among them: * The mob and the Mormons in Las Vegas * The rum-running "founding father" Joseph Kennedy and his intertwined business interests with the criminal element * The at-times destructive relationship of the brothers Kennedy to one another. Mr. Hersh's account is high on credibility and readability. However, this ... 		  
  







  
  
Scarred By Struggle, Transformed By Hope16 reviews
Joan D. Chittister

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005

A Grace filled text
If you are looking for a book to help you understand the bumps and roads along the journey of life, this is the one to read. By God's Grace, the Holy Spirit has instilled wonderful insight and wisdom into each chapter. Joan has written a book that will transform your heart. 		  
  







  
  
Paper Transformed: A Handbook of Surface-Design Recipes and Creative Paper Projects8 reviews
Julia Andrus

Quarry Books, 2007

Handbook of Surface Design Recipes
The subtitle says it all "Handbook of Surface Design Recipes". I met the author, Julia Andrus, at CHA several years ago and found her to be extremely knowledgeable about her craft in addition to being very personable and freely sharing of her ideas. I am thrilled to see her have this book published. There are great techniques covered in this book that I had forgotten about. I have ... 		  
  







  
  
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America1 review
Peter Silver

W. W. Norton, 2007

A Completely Believable Theory of How the White Race was Invented in America
To the extent that all our history is but a conduit back to our collective national memory, this sophisticated book chips away at the "Rosetta Stone" coiled in the nation's bosom: It uncovers one of the key sources of our obsession with the issue of race, and racism. But race, in this context has to do, not so much with black and white issues, as with red and white issues. Unlike the familiar ... 		  
  







  
  
The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
Michael Meyer

Walker & Company, 2008

A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, facing destruction as the city, and China, relentlessly modernizes. “The epitaph for old Beijing will read: born in 1280, died in 2008…what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn’t eradicate, the market economy is,” writes Michael Meyer. A longtime resident, Meyer has, for the past two years, lived as no ... 		  
  







  
  
The Grace in Dying : How We Are Transformed Spiritually as We Die21 reviews
Kathleen D. Singh

HarperOne, 2000

Enhances understanding of the dying process from a healing perspective
Kathleen Dowling Singh presents excellent descriptions of many healings that are possible in the process of dying. While her transpersonal orientation is apparently inspired by Sufi (mystic Muslim) traditions, her writing is relevant universally. As she notes, "I am an ordinary person working with ordinary people dying ordinary deaths." ( p. 3). Singh specifies that this book is for people who ... 		  
  







  
  
Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life3 reviews
Eugene O'Kelly

McGraw-Hill, 2007

excellant
This is an excellant book which we coulde all learn from on bring all our relationship to victory. 		  
  







  
  
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution8 reviews
Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd

University Of Chicago Press, 2006

Genes and Culture working together.
Not By Genes Alone by Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd explains something that should seem simple. Genes made us, we made culture, so genes shaped culture. Yet culture also helped shape us, so genes and culture interact together and work together to make us. But HOW do you do research on culture and link it to genes? Well, if culture also acts like genes, then what you want to do it treat ... 		  
  







  
  
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture89 reviews
John Battelle

Portfolio Trade, 2006

Search - The Future of Technology
This book provides an interesting history of Internet search technology with an emphasis on Google. The book also highlights how search engines and the Internet have rapidly changed and offers insights into where search technology may be heading next. There is no doubt that Google has gone from obscurity to, in some ways, the envy of the world in a matter of a decade. But time will tell as to ... 		  
  







  
  
The Janitor: How an Unexpected Friendship Transformed a CEO and His Company13 reviews
Todd Hopkins, Ray Hilbert

Thomas Nelson, 2007

I Almost Cried at the Ending!
A deightful little read. It caught my eye at the bookstore the other day and I had to look at it! Some of the jacket reviews were enticing and one said that they cried at the end. Hmmm... I thought let's have a look. This was an easy read and boiled down to simplicity. Took me the just over an hour and a half to read the entire thing and in the end I did well up a bit. The six directives ... 		  
  







  
  
Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World21 reviews
Jack Weatherford

Ballantine Books, 1989

Don't know what's true.
This is a good book, and like previously stated by another reviewer, it is an easy read. However, I just see too many errors throughout the pages of this book. I love any good history book as I'm working on my MA in Latin American Studies. But, this book, for all its good qualities, makes some far-fetched assumptions with neither the data nor the facts to back it up. A lot is said in this book ... 		  
  







  




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