To be frank, I was never going to read another Scarpetta mystery after the last few disasters that Cornwell wrote. However, there the book was on the new releases shelf at the library staring down at me with a silent “read me” plea. Seemed like fate that I got to the library in time to [...]
This is no rehash of the earlier novels — Alex Berenson takes John Wells to new places, on a different kind of mission. And Berenson himself is going to new places as a writer. In my view, both he and his spy are well worth following.
A DIFFERENT SORT OF SPYIf you’re familiar with Berenson’s earlier [...]
This is my first experience with reading a book on near death experiences and the science behind it.I’ve read books before on personal accounts of the afterlife but these books mainly came from a New Age/Metaphysical perspective.Never before had I read anything coming from a scientific view.Dr. Long, a radiation oncologist, over the period of [...]
The drop is closer than you think.
A young man – Adam Kindred – through a misfortunate occurrence is forced to change his life and persona. He becomes another person entirely and enters a world previously unknown to him: living, for a time, as a down and out in London. He truly disappears, goes underground and [...]
Stiglitz believes that markets lie at the heart of every successful economy, but do not work well without government regulation. In “Freefall” he explains how flawed perspectives and incentives lead to the ‘Great Recession’ of 2008, and brought mistakes that will prolong the downturn.
Between 1996-2006, Americans used over $2 trillion in home equity to [...]
Few crime prevention experts emphasize intuition. Instead, they talk about staying alert to crime. Sometimes crime prevention experts generate more fear than they alleviate.Gavin deBecker, on the other hand, makesintuition and freedom from fear the focus of his philosophy. Instead ofimagining the bad things that could happen, he says, live without worry ofcrime. He also [...]