Tag Archives: Books
Personality Not Included
Posted on 27. May, 2008
Why Companies Lose Their Authenticity And How Great Brands Get it Back - written by a former colleague of mine, Rohit Bhargava.
Top 100 Sci-Fi Books
Posted on 20. Aug, 2007
Great list, I have lots of reading to do.
http://home.austarnet.com.au/...
A Da Vinci Code Tour > London
Posted on 06. Jul, 2004
As the Temple Church (Knights of Templar) from the Da Vinci Code is reasonably close to my office, I thought I might take the bus down to Fleet Street and check it out today:
The Da Vinci Code
Posted on 01. May, 2004
I finished reading The Da Vinci Code a couple of weeks ago. Loved it, highly recommended. The article contains a slight spoiler though and is probably best avoided if you haven't read the book yet.
1,000 Places to See Before You Die
Posted on 11. Mar, 2004
This is a great book! Nicely arranged with fantastic suggestions of the world's great sites to see and experience. It's not just a list of tourist attractions or a backpacker style guide of where to stay, instead each place has a succint useful description of what is special about it and why you should go. I'm sure I'll refer to this many times over the coming years when selecting travel destinations. While it certainly doesn't replace a detailed Lonely Planet guide on your specific destination, this book will help highlight what is special about a place before you go and fork out for the Lonely Planet and book your flights. It's nice to have a single volume covering the whole world, with the all the work done narrowing a list of the best places to visit, that you might just finish in your lifetime. The list is not limited to places, but covers events too such as Canervale in Venice, or the Chelsea Flower Shower in the UK. It's hefty at 972 pages and has Amazon sales rank of 76! A quick flick through reveals a score of 48 places visited by us so far, only 952 to go.
http://www.amazon.com/...
Singlefile
Posted on 22. May, 2003
I quite like Singlefile, an online book collection organiser. Just enter the ISBN of each of your books and keep track of what you've read, where they are, and to whom you've lent books. You can also share your list with others. It's lucky that the trial account only allows 25 books, otherwise I'd find it too easy to procrastinate my way into entering my entire collection instead of working on my international business assignment. Nice idea.. but US$19.95 is a little too pricey for me, but then again.. with the Aussie dollar the way it has been the past few days, I guess the price isn't too bad. (Also note site design is by 37signals) [via CM]
UPDATE: Only getting about a 40% success rate on ISBN numbers entered, perhaps this is due to a out-of-date or heavily Americanised ISBN database that doesn't hold many UK or Australian editions. I thought ISBN was supposed to be international.
http://books.singlefile.com/...
Booklist for the next few months
Posted on 03. Dec, 2002
CM bought over some books he'd finished reading, so I've added those to the top of the to-read pile which now contains:
The Cluetrain Manifesto (Levine et al), High Stakes, No Prisoners (Ferguson), The First $20 million is Always the Hardest (Bronson), The New New Thing (Lewis), Small Pieces Loosely Joined (Weinberger), Class (Fussell), East and West (Patten), The Richest Man in Babylon (Clason), The Lexus and the Olive Tree (Friedman), and How to Think About Weird Things (Schick et al).
I've had to take about a dozen books off the pile as I'll never get around to finishing them. Add to that several Java books and my uni texts on International Marketing and Consumer Behaviour. Plenty to get through over the coming months.
How the world sees Americans
Posted on 08. Nov, 2002
Salon.com: "Journalist Mark Hertsgaard travelled the globe gathering opinions about the U.S. He talks about the surprising results. It's the world's superpower, Hertsgaard stresses, that has a childlike understanding of everyone else."
http://www.salon.com/...
“Can you dumb it down a bit for me?”
Posted on 24. Oct, 2002
Just looking at my Google referrers, it amuses me that so many people come to this site looking for summaries of The Richest Man in Babylon and Who Moved My Cheese. Ok, maybe I'll let Babylon go as it is a whole 143 pages long, but needing a summary of Who Moved My Cheese is inexcusable.
O’Reilly has accepted my book proposal!
Posted on 18. Oct, 2002
Here's the book cover artwork, however I think it'll be a long time before I ever get around to finishing it. [Thanks to Jay Link
http://anthonyjhicks.com/...
Galaxy Bookshop online!
Posted on 07. Mar, 2002
Yay, Galaxy finally has web site with all products online!
http://www.galaxybooks.com.au/...
