A review of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, by Jon Gertner. @@@@ (4 out of 5). How one company advanced the science and technology that shape the world we live in today: the transistor, the laser, quality assurance methods, communications satellites, mobile telephony, digital photography, and fiber-optic communications,
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A review of Harbor Nocturne, by Joseph Wambaugh. @@@@ (4 out of 5).A story that revolves around human trafficking and prostitution — and the unsavory people who profit from it. But much less a novel of suspense than character study of the LAPD, as embodied in the “coppers” of Hollywood Station.
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A review of The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World, by John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan. @@@@@ (5 out of 5). Provides examples of social enterprises actively at work in virtually every area of interest in development, from healthcare to education to poverty eradication.
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A review of Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere, by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble. @@@ (3 out of 5). Here is the book that C. K. Prahalad should have written instead of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid.
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A review of The Silent Man, by Alex Berenson. @@@ (3 out of 5). The third in Alex Berenson’s series about soldier-spy John Wells and his continuing efforts to keep the world safe for humanity, this time from terrorists with a nuclear weapon.
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Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review,
with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review,
with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.
Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review, with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review, with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.