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Sailing True North:Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character Admiral James Stavridis USN (Retired) Penguin Press (October 2019) Why “a constant process of self-examination is at the heart of improving our character” As I began to read James Stavridis’ latest…
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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World Maya Jasanoff Penguin Press (November 2017) “The horror! The horror!… is not so far under the surface as we think.” As I began to read Maya Jasanoff’s journey of personal discovery…
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According to John Brockman, Publisher & Editor, Edge.org, “With Big Data we can now begin to actually look at the details of social interaction and how those play out, and are no longer limited to averages like market indices or…
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Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells: The Best of Early VANITY FAIR Edited by Graydon Carter with David Friend Penguin Press (2014) Yes, Virginia, there really is a machine in which you can return in time to the United States: 1913-193…
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In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art Sue Roe Penguin Press (2-15) A lively story of unknown artists with “closely overlapping lives” who have since become household names Many years ago, there was a CBS Radio series…
Read MoreCaroline Arnold has been a technology leader on Wall Street for more than a decade, managing some of the financial world’s largest software development teams and leading some of the industry’s most visible and complex initiatives. A dynamic and engaging…
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The Shifts and the Shocks: What We’ve learned — and Have Still to Learn — from the Financial Crisis Martin Wolf Penguin Press (2014) How and why the financial and economic crises that hit the high-income countries after August 2007…
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World Order Henry Kissinger Penguin Press (2014) A brilliant response to so many compelling questions about balance of power then, now, and in years to come I have read most of Henry Kissinger’s previously published books and reviewed several of…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and featured by the website of Edge.org, a nonprofit private operating foundation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Copyright © 2012 By Edge Foundation, Inc. All…
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Toward Better Teachers
Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Frank Bruni to The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * More than halfway through Joel Klein’s…
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