Changes

Book Reviews From The Bookbag (view source)

Revision as of 13:36, 6 September 2014

36 bytes removed , 13:36, 6 September 2014

no edit summary

'''Read [[:Category:Features|the latest features]].'''

{{newreview

|author=Steve J Martin, Noah J Goldstein and Robert B Cialdini

|title=The small BIG: small changes that spark big influence

|rating=4

|genre=Business and Finance

|summary=It's a commonly-held belief that if you want to advance your business - bring in the extra money, get more customers and generally move up a step - then you're going to have to spend big money and bring in the experts. Martin, Goldstein and Cialdini tackle the problem from the other end: sometimes it's the smallest, least expensive and quick changes which can bring about the improvement that you need. In ''The small BIG'' they offer over fifty tips, hints, ideas which can make the difference. Sometimes they cost nothing, but bring in millions. Occasionally they require a small investment of your time, but it can be as little as five minutes.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252742</amazonuk>

}}

{{newreview

|author=Benedict Jacka

|summary=This is a simple, repetitive book with a circular tale: Betty wants something, she doesn’t get it and so she cries and kicks and screams until someone helps her. If that makes you think that tantrums are being rewarded, in a way you’d be right, but Mr Toucan, her repeated saviour, is keen to show her how to do things rather than just do them for her. Teach a man to fish and he’ll never go hungry, teach a chimp to peel a banana and she’ll be happy, for a while at least.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738151</amazonuk>

}}

~~{{newreview~~

~~|author=Rick Stein~~

~~|title=Under a Mackerel Sky~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=Autobiography~~

|summary=Rick Stein was born if not to wealth then certainly to privilege. He was raised on an Oxfordshire farm and spent holidays at the family's home in Cornwall. His parents were gregarious and intelligent and he was one of five children who led the sort of open-air life that country children did in those days before we worried about stranger danger. He enjoyed school and loved Cornwall, where he gained a reputation as he got older for giving riotous parties in a barn on the Cornish property. It was idyllic - until the day that his father (who was bi-polar) committed suicide. Stein's reaction to this was to head to the Australian outback where he worked in a variety of jobs (some more palatable than others) and finally came back to England, via America and Mexico.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091949912</amazonuk>~~

}}

Sue

Bureaucrats, Administrators

132,827

edits