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My colleague Bob Lowery has posted his summer reading plans. His selections are largely recreational, with a couple of “work-related” titles as well. What’s on your list?
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What does Dan Pink, author of The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, a career guide in graphic novel format, have in common with the U.S. Navy and Stanford University?
Comic books.
Or, properly, manga.
Dan reports that the U.S. Navy will issue a Japanese-language graphic novel in Yokosuka, Japan, in advance of the arrival [...]
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"The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t."— Mark Twain
Brett over at The Art of Manliness has compiled a list of 100 Must-Read Books for manly men. Quickly browsing through the list, I’ve been through many of these over the years, including books by Machiavelli, George Orwell, [...]
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I’m planning to read 50 books from June 2008 through May 2009. The Prologue, Part 1, posted on May 12, 2008, introduces the project. You can find a list of the books on the 50 Books Project page.
June marks the beginning of the 50 Books Project. Here are the titles I’ll read in the [...]
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I’m planning to read 50 books from June 2008 through May 2009. The Prologue, Part 1, posted on May 12, 2008, introduces the project.
If you’ve looked at my reading list, you will have seen a column called "Source." I wanted a way to track the recommendations for the titles and this field captures that. A [...]
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us."–Thomas Carlyle
I recently finished my second graduate degree, an MBA. My first graduate degree, completed in 2000, was in contemporary theology. The professors are finished with me (for now) and so I’ve set a new goal: to read at [...]
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The semester is over. Summer is here and students will be off to jobs, internships, weddings, and who knows what else. It also means that they might have time to do something other than homework and textbook reading. How about investing time in a good book or two?
In my business communication class, I referenced several [...]
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I shared this with one of my classes today and decided to post it here as well.
Richard St. John tells the remarkable story of his encounter with a young girl who, though from an impoverished background, wanted to become successful. She asked him how; he said he wasn’t sure, but he’d find out. [...]
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"The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I [haven't] read."–Abraham Lincoln
My friend Bob Lowery has posted some thoughts (with more to come) on his reading habits this week. Here’s a quick summary:
Bob reads a book a week
Bob reads in [...]
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