The biggest lesson I took from this book was that you cannot lead through fear.
Yet the impression from this book is not of vulnerability, but of a salty independence.
Perhaps the most important takeaway from this book, however, is that in order to excel one must speak up both literally and figuratively.
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Ambrose borrowed two quotations from this book for his 1967 book Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945, and in this instance, Ambrose properly attributed the quotes to Ryan's book.
Rather, Lean In is essentially a book of productive suggestions on how to succeed in business if that is your goal, rendering attempts to extrapolate negativity of any kind towards women from this book as mere demonstrations of precisely the type of gender-focused barriers that Ms. Sandberg is fighting against.
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But this flaw in no way eclipses the bright beams of knowledge coming from this excellent book.
But we leave Mr Paxton's full answer as a final nudge to readers, if one is needed, to learn from this excellent book.
"The Glass Key" (1942), based on Dashiell Hammett's 1931 novel, was the second film made from this influential book, in which organized crime and big-city politics are cozy bedfellows.
But whereas the Americans licensed this from book wholesalers, China did not have a comparable nationwide database.
My son is a Hip Hop guy, and he is going to take this book from me, I know, as soon as he gets the chance.
Packed with data from dozens of academic studies, this book shows the hard facts about the failure of active management and the fund companies who profit from it despite the chronic underperformance.
Still, there is much to gain from this rich if overly detailed book.
All this Mr Starr relates in an erudite but lively style that happily stops this long book from becoming indigestible.
All in all, these are far from the only ideas within this book and insufficient to explore all the ideas within.
Well, if you know me at all by now, you know the answer comes from another book, in this case One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way.
The best quote in this book comes not from one of the 40 interviewees but from Ralph Waldo Emerson.
This newest electronic book from Amazon crazily improves on the original Kindle.
Note: This blog is adapted from my book Critical Decisions: How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right Medical Choices Together.
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Before long I'm surfing from book to book, discovering new authors and worrying how much all this is going to cost me.
This essay is adapted from their new book, "The Genius of Dogs, " published by Dutton.
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This essay is an excerpt from her book The Chinese Dream, available on Amazon and TheChineseDreamBook.com.
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"The post includes a sample two-page spread from an unidentified book to show how this important innovation can be actualized, " Portnoy explains.
This essay is adapted from his new book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, " published by Viking.
In 1993 she was shocked to receive the This Is Your Life book from Michael Aspel for her contribution to the dance world.
This post was excerpted from his new book, The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge, published by the Harvard Business Review Press.
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Every aspect of this book is precious, from the gold leaf that makes the pages glow to the image painted by Rogier van der Weyden.
This essay is adapted from his new book, "Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline and the Rise of a New Economy, " which will be published Tuesday by the Free Press.
This story is excerpted from Automate This, How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World, a book released on Aug. 30, 2012 by Portfolio-Penguin.
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