|
July 31, 2008 08:54 PM EDT
(shared with group: August 01, 2008)
—
In 1820, China was the world's largest economy, and had been for the better part of two thousand years. But it had been losing ground to Europe for several centuries, and within 50 years, it had fallen . . .
more
|
|
August 11, 2008 04:54 PM EDT
(shared with group: August 11, 2008)
—
A metamorphosis of virtually unprecedented proportions is taking place outside our direct field of vision. China and India, with populations of more than a billion people each, two countries we considered . . .
more
|
|
August 04, 2008 04:47 PM EDT
(shared with group: August 05, 2008)
—
The new trend in books seems to be economics . That is why economists Thomas L. Friedman and Steven D. Levitt have best sellers. We read them because something strange is going on in the . . .
more
|
|
July 20, 2008 09:37 PM EDT
(shared with group: August 01, 2008)
—
For the past several years increasing numbers of jobs have been outsourced overseas. First it was just blue-collar jobs, but now white-collar positions are being outsourced as well. A union job or a college . . .
more
|
|
July 22, 2008 06:42 PM EDT
(shared with group: August 01, 2008)
—
The War for Wealth: The True Story of Globalization, or Why the Flat World is Broken
Gabor Steingart
McGraw-Hill Books
ISBN: 978-0-07-154596-9
I love books, and I seem to find a new one . . .
more
|
|
July 24, 2008 06:23 PM EDT
(shared with group: August 01, 2008)
—
This book is a reality check about globalization, it's current effects and projected future effects. Written from the viewpoint of a global journalist, Gabor Steingart, in an easy to read . . .
more
|
|
August 01, 2008 01:35 AM EDT
(shared with group: August 01, 2008)
—
I had the pleasure of reviewing Gabor Steingart's book The War for Wealth . I must admit, I don't get the chance to read material of this kind on a regular basis so I took it as a special . . .
more
|
|
July 13, 2008 11:46 AM EDT
(shared with group: July 16, 2008)
—
First off, I would like to thank the publisher of this book, McGraw-Hill, for choosing me to recieve a free copy of this book in exchange for a review. I was not paid in any way, and this review . . .
more
|
|
July 13, 2008 05:11 PM EDT
(shared with group: July 16, 2008)
—
I am one of those people who try to purchase American made products whenever possible. I am a proud American and I thought I knew what globalization was until I read this book.
There are very few things . . .
more
|
|
July 16, 2008 10:12 AM EDT
(shared with group: July 16, 2008)
—
Have you ever been to Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan? You can count yourself lucky if you haven't. There isn't a sadder city in the world.
Most of all, it's because of the children. . . .
more
|
|
June 19, 2008 05:39 PM EDT
(shared with group: June 19, 2008)
—
The War for Wealth , the upcoming feature book for McGraw-Hill Books , addresses the issue of globalization and the problems it presents. Is it a force for good or an attempt to destroy the U.S.'s . . .
more
|
|
May 25, 2008 02:13 PM EDT
(shared with group: May 27, 2008)
—
Life can be very ironic. I waited and waited for the book, "Mothers Need Time-Outs, Too" to review on Gather. The book never came and plans for the trip to see our pregnant . . .
more
|
|
May 22, 2008 11:37 AM EDT
(shared with group: May 22, 2008)
—
Can any concept
Capture the Boundless Nature
Of "Being Itself"?
© 2008 RFHay
more
|
|
May 22, 2008 12:05 PM EDT
(shared with group: May 22, 2008)
—
MARS LIFE, by Ben Bova, a BOOKMAN Review
MARS LIFE, by Ben Bova
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Tor Books (August 5, 2008)
Language: English
. . .
more
|
|
May 22, 2008 02:03 PM EDT
(shared with group: May 22, 2008)
—
Just read some statistics on modern marriage if you want to get depressed... according to the U.S. Census Bureau, in the past thirty years families run by single moms rose from 3.4 million to over 10 . . .
more
|
|
May 20, 2008 07:46 PM EDT
(shared with group: May 22, 2008)
—
Entertaining, honest, and enlightening are but a few attributes that Money for Nothing contains. After reading, the first few pages Mr. Ed Ugel brought such anger in me, I was tempted to throw . . .
more
|
|
May 15, 2008 09:32 AM EDT
(shared with group: May 15, 2008)
—
In the old days, multi-tasking meant cooking dinner while holding a baby on your hip. Now-a-days, that mom at the stove has almost certainly just come home from work. The Blackberry . . .
more
|
|
May 12, 2008 10:11 PM EDT
(shared with group: May 15, 2008)
—
I was excited when Gather sent me this book, based on the premise of the book itself and the blurb I had read about it. I couldn't wait to read it. I had never read a Mameve Medwed book . . .
more
|
|
May 12, 2008 09:26 AM EDT
(shared with group: May 15, 2008)
—
No mom really likes to admit she's a perfectionist-but of the 500+ women we spoke with over the years of researching Mothers Need Time-Outs Too , we discovered that perfectionism is the . . .
more
|
|
May 09, 2008 02:53 PM EDT
(shared with group: May 12, 2008)
—
"In six minutes, one of us would be dead. None of us knew it was coming..."
So says Wes Holloway, a once cocky and ambitious presidential aide, about the day that changed his life forever. . . .
more
|
|
|
Hear about the best books first with McGraw-Hill. Now featured: The War for Wealth.
The group owner has not added any tags to this module.
McGraw-Hill Books has 592 members.
0 posts, 0 photos and 0 videos were shared in the past week.
There have been 0 new comments in the past week.
|
