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« Previous Entries Next Entries »The Weekend Read – Rowing The Atlantic-Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean by Roz Savage
Saturday, October 24th, 2009This is the story of a young(ish) woman who had the courage to listen to her instinct, walk away from her seemingly conventional life and re-invent herself as an ocean explorer and climate change campigner. From a degree at Oxford University, good jobs in business and a seemingly happy marriage to a single handed oar [...]
Seth Godin’s Reading List
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009After the summer novels on the beach here’s a few suggestions from Seth’s library. www.squidoo.com/book-roundup Is it a duck or a rabbit?
The Weekend Read – Synchronicity (The Inner Path of Leadership) by Joseph Jaworski
Sunday, July 12th, 2009This is (yet) another book that I wouldn’t have come across without Chris Barrow’s guidance, so cheers again cb. One of the joys or occasional chores of this, recently neglected, part of the blog is that I demand of myself to re-read or at least scan the mentioned book if it isn’t a new one [...]
W.H.S. – Bring back choice.
Sunday, June 14th, 2009I have a soft spot for W.H.Smith & Son, they were my father’s first employers and he worked for them from 1938 through until 1953. Had he not he would not have moved from South Wales to Gloucester, would not have visited his boss, a man with the improbable name of Arthur Austritch, and would [...]
The Weekend Read – The Scientific Basis of Oral Health Education
Sunday, June 14th, 2009Now in its sixth edition this slim volume by Ronnie Levine and Catherine Stillman-Lowe was released during the last couple of months. Described as “an essential document for all those involved in providing oral health education to the public” I cannot praise it enough. During my visits to dental practices and conversations with teams I [...]
The Arizona Weekend Read – 2
Monday, May 11th, 2009The Damned United by David Peace another book nominally about sport but really about so much more. David Peace has become one of the leading contemporary British novelists with his Red Riding Quartet. This book first published in 2006 and recently filmed with Michael Sheen in the main role is, to quote the author, “another [...]
The Arizona Weekend Read – 1
Monday, May 4th, 2009I have spent a disorientating weekend flying and attempting to become acclimatised to the heat in Arizona. I’m here for the Kolbe Professional Growth Seminar of which more later in the week. One of the advantages of long haul flights (and I can’t think of many) is the chance to catch up with some reading. [...]
The Weekend Read – 50 Prosperity Classics
Saturday, March 21st, 2009I bought this on a whim after reading a review somewhere. It won’t be so much a weekend read as a bedside one to send me to sleep with inspiration, or to grab if the brain stirs me in the early hours. Compiled by Tom Butler-Bowden under the headings: Attract It Create It Manage It [...]
The Weekend Read – Freakonomics by Levitt & Dubner
Saturday, February 28th, 2009I know little about economics but from what I can gather economists know not a lot more. A refreshing and intriguing read. Buy it here.
The Weekend Read – Avoid Boring People by James Watson
Saturday, February 7th, 2009This book was a present from my brother who has looked upon James D. (Jim) Watson as a hero since his early teens. Watson (as in Crick & Watson of DNA discovering, Nobel prize winning legend) has written a very readable account of his life from early years through to his departure from the faculty [...]
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