A refreshingly original new thriller with minimal violence
A review of
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Author: Mal Warwick
Daniel Yergin’s superb new book: a brilliant survey of energy issues
A review of The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, by Daniel Yergin. @@@@@ (5 out of 5). A survey of virtually every significant aspect of energy in today’s world, touching on every energy source, every significant energy-related technological development of recent decades, and every major location of energy resources, including a short history of each element.
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A story of international intrigue that could have been better told
A review of Tribe, by James Bruno. @@@ (3 out of 5). Following a botched mission to Afghanistan, veteran CIA agent Harry Brennan comes to believe that someone in the agency tried to have him killed in the field to conceal a plot to shift U.S. foreign policy to the benefit of Big Oil.
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Aravind: a social enterprise with impact to match Grameen Bank
A review of Infinite Vision: How Aravind Became the World’s Greatest Business Case for Compassion, by Pavithra Mehta and Suchitra Shenoy. @@@@@ (5 out of 5). How this unique South Indiana nonprofit enterprise became the largest and most productive blindness-prevention organization on the planet.
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Another hilarious tale about inept bounty hunter Stephanie Plum
A review of Explosive Eighteen, by Janet Evanovich. @@@@ (4 out of 5). Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and her sidekick, Lula, find themselves embroiled in a complex set of relationships with Stephanie’s old nemesis, Joyce Barnhardt, and a rumored international gang of jewel thieves called the Pink Panthers.
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