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BOOK REVIEW: ‘My Cross to Bear’ by Gregg Allman With Allan Light – Hollywood Reporter

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:47:27 +0000

Soom books cry out for their own soundtrack. Cue up The Allman Brothers Band’s At Fillmore East and relive that seminal moment when the ’60s gave way to the ’70s in Gregg Allman’s new memoir, My Cross to Bear (co-written with former Spin and Vibe editor …

Book review: ‘Second Person Singular’ by Sayed Kashua – Los Angeles Times

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:47:27 +0000

Early in the novel, “Second Person Singular,” a main character known throughout the book as “the lawyer” reads a note in his wife’s handwriting. “I waited for you, but you didn’t come,” the note says. “I hope everything’s all right. I wanted to …

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Strongman’ – Washington Times

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:47:27 +0000

In June 2000, President George W. Bush and his Soviet counterpart, Vladimir Putin, met for the first time in “neutral” Slovenia. Mr. Bush was mesmerized, telling members of his party, “I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very …

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Passage of Power’ – Washington Times

admin — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:45:12 +0000

Robert A. Caro has spent much of his life writing about the political monument who was Lyndon Baines Johnson, a man of whom he is sharply criti- cal yet of whom he often stands in reluctant awe. Mr. Caro’s assessment of Johnson’s life and …

Book Review: Investment Valuation, 3d Ed. – Seekingalpha.com

admin — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:45:12 +0000

Aswath Damodaran’s work is always worth reading. Earlier I reviewed The Little Book of Valuation. The subject of today’s review, Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset, 3d ed. (Wiley, 2012), is the big book of …

Book Review: Best Exercises You’ve Never Heard Of: Shock Your Body Into New Gains by Nick Nilsson – Seattle Post Intelligencer

admin — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:44:10 +0000

Best Exercises You’ve Never Heard Of by Nick Nilsson is a unique program for advanced training aimed at developing the triceps, calf, biceps, abdominals and trapezius muscles. Each exercise series consists of groups of diagrams depicting how to do the …

Book Review: Sugar Street by Nagib Mahfuz – Seattle Post Intelligencer

admin — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:44:10 +0000

The parents have aged. What used to be the children are now the parents themselves. And change, in all its dimensions, is in the air. The saga about the al-Jawad family concludes in Sugar Street, Nagib Mahfuz’s third book in the Cairo Trilogy. For the …

Book Review: The Risk Of Trading – Seekingalpha.com

admin — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:43:00 +0000

A truly first-rate book on risk management for the individual trader has yet to be written. In the meantime Michael Toma’s The Risk of Trading: Mastering the Most Important Element in Financial Speculation (Wiley, 2012) helps to fill the void. If I had to …

Book Review: How Will You Measure Your Life? – Forbes

admin — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:43:00 +0000

Writing this column for the past several weeks has been hard for me. How I wish it were the only thing I could do. But scrambling to live, I’m forced to attend to other matters. They are namely matters that enable me to have a roof over my …

Book Review: The Little Book Of Emerging Markets – Seekingalpha.com

admin — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:43:00 +0000

This book is written by one of the foremost stock investors in emerging markets, Mark Mobius. This is a short book that has little to no math in it, and few graphs. It can be read in 2-3 hours. The edge that this book will give you is understanding the …