January 2012 | Saw Wiki

The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Every student in economics is familiar with Robert Mundell's triangle of impossibility. Based on the model that the Canadian economist developed with Marcus Flemming in 1962, this trilemma states that it is impossible to have a sovereign monetary policy, free capital flows, and a fixed exchange rate...

Where She Went Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Why I Read this Book: This book is a must read for anyone who's read If I Stay. In fact, if you've already read If I Stay, chances are you been anxiously awaiting the release for the sequel. There was a pretty big cliffhanger at the end of If I Stay and if you're like me, you need to know what happens...

Child of Fire: A Twenty Palaces Novel Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The main thing I would say to potential readers is to judge this book on its own merits.A number of reviewers compare "Child of Fire" to Jim Butcher's "Dresden Files" novels. Yes, this is Urban Fantasy. Yes, this is Dark Fantasy. Aside from that, I didn't find a lot of similarities. Keep in mind, just...

Afraid Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)It may be the worst-kept secret in publishing that Jack Kilborn is the pseudonym of novelist J.A. Konrath. Fans of Konrath's Jack Daniel's serial killer novels know that he's not afraid to depict graphic violence. That knowledge is not going to prepare you for what you'll face in Afraid.The plot is high...

13 Gifts Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Wendy Mass seems to know that birthdays are really important to kids, especially their 13th birthday. This is her second book revolving around a deadline of turning 13, and it adds a layer of excitement and suspense.There is also a mystical aspect to the book. There is a mysterious old woman who loves...

"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Dr. Tatum explains beautifully many previously undiscussed aspects of race relations in America. But she also goes beyond what IS to explain WHY it is. Her explaination of how each of us develop our own sense of racial and ethnic 'self' provides great food for thought. Tatum's background, area of expertise,...

Enclave Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I've really got to hand it to Ann Aguirre for writing a fascinating post-apocalyptic YA that I was able to finish without rolling my eyes. To be honest, the amount of Dystopian YA's being published bores me. Every one of these YA's are being courted as the next Hunger Games just like a few years ago...

Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I read this book after reading the Pulitzer-Prize winning "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt", another excellent biography of TR. When I started "Mornings On Horseback", I felt that I was armed with more information about this President than I had going into "Rise"; however, once I completed "Mornings",...

Web Wisdom: How To Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web, Second Edition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The authors have done a great job of providing criteria, explanations and examples for web users who wish to evaluate information on the web. We all know there is a ton of stuff out there, much of it bad or biased. Now we know how to tell the wheat from the chaff. Individual web users will want to have...

Salt: A World History Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)It's become a party cliche to comment on our need for the results of combining a poisonous gas [chlorine] and a volatile metal [sodium]. Kurlansky passes quickly over such levity to seriously relate the role of sodium chloride in human society. While at first glance his account may seem overdone, a bit...

Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is full of practical, professional advice on how to swim with the sharks in the very weird world of Hollywood screenwriting. In many ways it's more about the business of writing and selling movies, than it is about how to write. But I've got lots of books on writing; this is the first one that's...

Bitter is the New Black : Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass,Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)My best friend, Sonja, (bless her generous heart) gave me this book after she read it and highly recommended it. I have to say it was even funnier than she said it was. Jen (NOT JENNY) is one of the most loveable, egocentric, witty characters I have ever read about. The fact that it's a memoir is even...

Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)All I can say about this book is "wow". Actually, that's a lie; I have a lot more to say. These kind of grim, ultra-harsh fantasies with anti-hero leads are really hard to write well. Getting the right mix of believability and twisted viciousness in the protagonist, while not making the reader totally...

All Things Under The Sun: How Modern Ideas Are Really Ancient Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is published at just the right time; when we are pondering so many issues. It's a one-of-a-kind book brim full of fresh perspectives on everyday life, and it surprises us with how much of what we do today, and the challenges we face, have their origins in the Ancient World. It's a fun read...

Before I Fall Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Friday, February 12th should be just another average day for popular, beautiful Samantha Kingston. But it's far from it--her ride home after a late-night party ends in a car accident, only when Sam wakes up, it's Friday, February 12th again. Forced to re-live the last day of her life seven times, Sam...

These Things Hidden Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)These Things Hidden is all about secrets. As the story progresses, the past is revealed piece by piece. The story falls into place easily while offering shocking things, long hidden, yet never expected.The book is written in alternating viewpoints between four different women all linked in some way to...

Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile (Book 2) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Day by Day Armageddon was one of the first books I read when I became interested in zombie literature, to go hand in hand with my fascination with zombie movies, almost exactly four years ago. As is the case with many people who enjoyed its personal approach to the apocalypse as told by an active officer...