It’s that time to post my top books of 2011. I’ll confess – as this year witnessed my liberation from grad school after 9 years part-time, I hit a little more fiction…
Tag: Books
Another Brief Review – Breaking Through to Teens
I’ll continue getting back into the swing of things on the blogfront with another book review. I had to recently read Breaking Through to Teens: Psychotherapy for the New Adolescence by Ron…
Killer of Little Shepherds-Brief Review
I posted a little bit ago about humble doubt in the search for truth from the reading of Douglas Starr’s The Killer of Little Shepherds. I wanted to come back and offer…
Beav’s Favorite Books from 2010
As I continue my “Best of” from 2010 posts, I’m offering up the books I enjoyed and appreciated the most from 2010. Honorable mention goes to Servant Leadership by Robert Greenleaf, The…
Don’t Wait to Create!
I reviewed a book a while back called Orbiting the Giant Hairball that was given to me by a friend this past summer. Since then I’ve gotten no less that 20 people…
Retaining Cross-Cultural Talent
I referenced some quotes and thoughts from Michael Malone’s The Future Arrived Yesterday in the past week and wanted to highlight one more and make a slightly different application given my own…
Some Thoughts on the Percy Jackson Book Series
I’ve confessed elsewhere here that I benefit greatly from reading fun books because 90% of what I read is academic or heady stuff or is pretty reflective in nature. Here’s another expression…
Parting of the Ways
I’ve shared that one of my proactive ways this fall to manage my stress this fall has been my reading of the Harry Potter books. I’ve learned over time that just stopping…
Some Miscellaneous
Here are some quick random hits: My wife asked recently what I was reading. I answered with a one word, very caveman-esque response “book.” I’ve found that my emotional capacity at any…