by bookadmin | Nov 29, 2017 | Africa, Author, Awards, Featured, News, USA
LOUISVILLE, Ky., November 2017 – Political science professor and author Scott Straus has won the 2018 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for his 2015 book, “Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide...
by bookadmin | Apr 13, 2014 | Business, Featured, USA
Easy Credit in an Age of Oversupply American investment banker Daniel Alpert argues in his new book* that there are only four solutions to an unsustainable debt problem: Strong economic growth can make debt sustainable; but growth in advanced economies will remain...
by bookadmin | Jun 3, 2013 | Articles, Business, Featured, News, USA
The latest book from Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the New York professor famous for dubbing large-scale, unpredictable and irregular events of massive consequences such as the astonishing success of Google, or 9/11, as Black Swans, is an advisory on how your behaviour,...
by bookadmin | Oct 20, 2012 | Detective, Featured, News, USA
Booklist, Starred Review, February, 2012 “Recommend this superb novel to fans of crime thrillers and police procedurals…” Ash Levine, the top detective in the LAPD’s elite Felony Special Squad, is called out to solve the murder of two young...
by bookadmin | Jun 7, 2012 | Fantasy, Featured, News, USA
With the death of Ray Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) , it would be great to share a letter he sent to the Fayetteville Public Library in 2006. Bradbury was the author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles. He was often inspirational and outspoken...
