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76% complete! Phil in SF has read 23 of 30 books.
A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only …
I kinda want to skip ahead to the last part where Moses get his walking papers. Caro does a pretty masterful job of building Moses up and then pulling back the curtain so the reader hates him.
A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only …
Effectively half way through, as I am now starting Chapter 26 of 50. however, by page count it's only 42%, and by whatever measure Kobo counts, it's 27%.
A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only …
Starting this again
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable …
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a …
This book is so good.
There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it …
This was literally required reading for my new job that I started last Monday. That being said, it seems pretty solid and I only have extremely small nitpicks around minor points.
My previous job that laid me off in January would be a an example in all the chapters of what not to do.
That being said, doing stuff the wrong way according to this book doesn't mean doing things the way the author recommends will result in an amazing organization. Since the new job supposedly organizes around the methods from The Advantage, I'll find out how well they work in practice.
There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter …
This edition is the free download provided on tor.com prior to sale via ebook platforms. — When a teenaged girl …
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a …
The tech feels too nice for this floor with its darkened windows and dust so thick you know it's at least partially the accumulated dead skin of the people on all the floors above.
— Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #2) (8%)
Such a great sentence.
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable …
In 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California “can and does furnish the best bad things,” including “purer liquors…finer tobacco, …
A sharp, funny, and engaging introduction to socialist ideas, movements, and solutions for a world …
I started off really disliking this author's approach. The opening chapters are a diatribe against capitalism, and that almost always falls flat for me. Additionally, his early chapter describing a day in the life of some person on a bad day after the socialist revolution described a day of absolute hell, when I'm pretty sure he meant to describe something that wouldn't be too bad even on bad days. However, I was won over by his approach once he got to the chapters describing actual socialism. Unlike a lot of other writers that I've read and online socialists I've encountered, he actually engages with why some people are turned off by what is portrayed as socialism, and doesn't hand-wave away some of the things that give people pause.
This isn't the book that converts me to socialism, but it is a book that does make me look at it more …
I started off really disliking this author's approach. The opening chapters are a diatribe against capitalism, and that almost always falls flat for me. Additionally, his early chapter describing a day in the life of some person on a bad day after the socialist revolution described a day of absolute hell, when I'm pretty sure he meant to describe something that wouldn't be too bad even on bad days. However, I was won over by his approach once he got to the chapters describing actual socialism. Unlike a lot of other writers that I've read and online socialists I've encountered, he actually engages with why some people are turned off by what is portrayed as socialism, and doesn't hand-wave away some of the things that give people pause.
This isn't the book that converts me to socialism, but it is a book that does make me look at it more favorably.
A sharp, funny, and engaging introduction to socialist ideas, movements, and solutions for a world in crisis.
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