June 2012 | Saw Wiki

Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and unknowns in the dazzling world of derivatives Revised edition (Financial Times Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is not another journalist musing on the financial world. This is not an academic explanation of how financial instruments work. It's something else entirely -- a rare inside glimpse into the world of derivatives by a literate professional who's been a handshake away (or closer) from the major events...

Caro's Book of Poker Tells Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A classic, and one of the most well known books on poker, it's been published again and again under different publishers with very slight changes over the years.It's one of the only books on tells, or body language in poker - a bit surprising, considering the hundreds of poker books in print, and the...

Basic Writings of Existentialism (Modern Library Classics) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I read a good chunk of this text for my German Existentialism class and will absolutely be reading the rest of it on my own. Marino does an excellent job compiling a wide range of existentialist thought and adding short, concise introductions to each philosopher. Even more difficult philosophers like...

Aphrodite the Beauty (Goddess Girls) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Best goddess-girlfriends Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, and Persephone were all busy cracking the scrolls at the illustrious MOA, Mount Olympus Academy. With the exception of Beauty-ology, Aphrodite had little interest in scrolls, but when it came to godboys and love she was all eyes and ears. If you counted...

Grimspace (Sirantha Jax, Book 1) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I'm not usually a sci fi reader. Call me a wuss, but whenever I would try to read sci fi, I usually got too distracted by all the sciencey stuff to remain focused on the story. But I had seen Grimspace advertised on a website and the cover caught my eye. At that point my reaction was about as intellectual...

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I read this book two years ago and thought it was a great read. I just finished reading it again and have to say that I liked it even more the second time around. I should warn you however, that if you're looking for lighthearted summer reading that'll lull you into complacency and make you feel all...

Diseño, produccion e implementacion de E-Learning: Metodologia, herramientas y modelos (Spanish Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book cuts through the fog of on-line learning and gives practical and proven approaches to make sure that learning results in measurable performance. I have written on this topic and can only say that I wish I had written this book. Get it and use it.Click Here to see more reviews about: Diseño,...

Zapp The Lightning of Empowerment: How to Improve Productivity, Quality, and Employee Satisfaction Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Many people fail to focus on whether or not their message is received. More effective people focus on whether the message is received as they attempt to improve communications so their company can be more successful. ZAPP! also focuses on WHAT message is received. As the book shows, a perceived message...

Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets: A practical guide to building a complete corporate intranet with Liferay Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)English is not the author's native language, and in this case it definitely causes some readability issues. My biggest gripes, however, are with the content itself... or should I say lack of content. If you just stumbled into the concept of portals today and completely missed the documentation on the...

Asterios Polyp Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Reading Asterios Polyp is a daunting experience. Or maybe not so much the reading, which can be accomplished easily enough, but the being able to speak sensibly about it afterward. I feel kind of like how I did after finishing Bolaño's 2666: A Novel, only not quite so out of my depth. Like Bolaño, Mazzucchelli's...

Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I am only about 3/4s through this book, and I couldn't be more enthusiastic. I happen to love Kenny Werner's piano playing--always heard him and thought "Well, I'll never sound like THAT!"-- only to read his book and have him address this very attitude with unbelievable accuracy. I've already changed...

Live Free or Die (Troy Rising) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Live Free or Die starts as a First Contact story. An alien race visits our solar system and "builds" a Gate for interstellar travel to and from our system to other Gates in the galaxy. The captain of the ship informs us that alien races, both friendly and hostile, can now travel to and from Earth using...

The Templar Cross Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In this excellent sequel to The Sword of the Templars, Paul Christopher weaves past and present into a seamless whole. West Point professor John Holliday finds that he can't let his military skills go into retirement. When Holliday's only surviving relative and niece is kidnapped on an archaeological...

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book contains some valuable universal truths presented in an interesting way. I would classify it at as a "Leadership Lite" book worthy of downloading to your Kindle or stashed in your briefcase to be read on an airplane. I love "fun to read" leadership books versus the "utilitarian", "old fogy"...

The Thinker's Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The human mind is a fascinating thing. It creates a sense of self; it makes fast decisions; it interprets the past; it imagines the future; and yet it is a deceiver of the smartest kind.Let's face it: seeing is not believing. It is the other way around. People usually see only the things they believe...

This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)After turning the final page of This Dark Endeavor, I immediately wanted to go search out and re-read my battered copy of Frankenstein. If this book has the same effect on the young audience it targets, then it will indeed have served a noble purpose. While I wasn't immediately engaged by this story...

The Understudy: A Novel Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I'm a fan of British humor and enjoy comic romances, so I had high hopes for this book. It comes up a little bit -- but a decisive bit -- short.The book has a promising start, our hero, Stephen McQueen (with a ph), is a struggling actor whose specialty is playing dead bodies in television police dramas....