Ok, as usual, it was fun to read, very light, and it didn’t take me long to finish it. However, it was quite predictable. The author has managed to create a very interesting setting, and get a very interesting style, but she seems to be worried about exploring a little bit more variation ( Read more... )

This book - just like the title suggests - talks about NLP, or Neuro-Linguistic Programming. I have previously listened to an audio tape by the name of Introducing NLP, by the same authors. I thought I had written about it here, but it looks like I didn’t ( Read more... )

The Tipping Point is another great book by Malcom Gladwell. After reading Blink, I had high expectations for this book (Especially that everybody kept mentioning it is better), and it met these expectations. This book discusses how things that start small could suddenly spread to cause some sort of an epidemic. Knowing how to trigger such an ( Read more... )

From the author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, this book tries to follow a similar style to discuss manners, or the lack of them, in a light hearted manner. It claims to give you six reasons why you should stay home and bolt your door ( Read more... )

You Can’t Win a Fight with Your Boss & 55 Other Rules For Success provides 56 rules which the author believes are necessary for your success in an organization, especially if you wish to reach higher managerial positions. I found this book really interesting, and it had many interesting bits of advice ( Read more... )

As you probably have noticed, I do not often read Arabic books. However, the author of this book is a well known Saudi TV show host who has shown open mindedness and respect for other people’s opinions. Simply, he gained my respect ( Read more... )

How Would You Move Mount Fuji is centered on Microsoft-style puzzle interview questions and issues that relate to them. The book addresses many interesting issues relating to interviews, intelligence, and puzzle solving. It also provides a lot of interesting puzzles and their solutions ( Read more... )

Blink is a book about intuition; what it is, how it works, and how we can hone it to our benefit. The first moments of perception for anything, the first milliseconds, are very important; they decide on how the rest of our experience goes. This is sometimes the result of expertise, something positive that we want, but it can, at other times, result ( Read more... )

Every one of has these instances in our lives in which we need to tell someone something that we know they won’t be happy about, or have a problem with someone’s behavior that we want them to stop, and I doubt any of us like these situations. This book is there to help you with such situations. It gives you some guidelines which help make these ( Read more... )

Memory Boosters is a book that is supposed to help you improve your memory in 10 steps. Even though I do not believe any 10 steps can help you have a better memory, and that this is only to make the book more popular, I really found this book to be interesting. The book design is very neat and colorful, which makes it more appealing to the reader. ( Read more... )