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Review: Embracing the Wild in Your Dog by Bryan Bailey

★★★★½ Embracing the Wild in Your Dog by Bryan Bailey

Embracing the Wild in Your Dog by Bryan Bailey teaches the important and eye-opening lesson that dogs are, and will always be, part wolf. Though owners may anthropomorphize dogs and see them like little humans, they have inherent wild instincts at the core, and this knowledge will enhance every dog owner’s relationship with their dog, as well as how they approach training.

What makes Embracing the Wild such an engaging book is that it’s not only a book for dog owners. I’m not currently a dog owner myself, and the book is a fascinating look into dogs’ true nature, […]

Henry Baum2019-01-22T15:27:28+02:00January 12th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Home & Garden Book Reviews, Non-Fiction Book Reviews, Pets Book Reviews, Social Science Book Reviews|

Review: Studying Evolved by John Duckworth ★★★★★

Studying Evolved by John Duckworth John Duckworth brings his authorship to a new guide for studying, with a vengeance. Duckworth targets typical errors and easy “hacks” in studying methods not employed by the majority of exam-takers in an easy-to-digest guide for anyone else in the world who finds themselves using textbooks for self-percussive therapy over actual study in Studying Evolved: One peculiar British gentleman’s guide to accelerated learning as an adult student – the straight A habits, study skills and memory hacks you need to master any subject.

The first point to make about the book is perhaps unexpected: it’s hilarious. I don’t use […]

James Grimsby2019-01-22T15:22:38+02:00October 14th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Education, Non-Fiction Book Reviews, Social Science Book Reviews|

Review: How To Go From Couch Potato To English Teacher To Chinese Speaking Lawyer by Hastings Cavendish

★★★½

How To Go From Couch Potato To English Teacher To Chinese Speaking Lawyer is Hastings Cavendish’s tale of teaching English to Chinese people in the UK, and trying to learn to speak the demanding language of Mandarin. It’s at once an ode to the beauty of the Chinese language, food, and an exploration of the hardships and rewards of being an international English teacher.

Cavendish is a fun travel guide. He clearly loves language – learning it and teaching it. As he says, even boring small talk becomes interesting when you’re speaking another language. Cavendish immerses himself in all […]

Henry Baum2020-02-21T07:51:39+02:00August 28th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Social Science Book Reviews|

Review: A Crash Course In American Law by J. Ryan Jones ★★★★★

A Crash Course in American Law I was laughing—I mean snorting tea out through my nose and onto my Kindle screen laughing—before I even got to the first page. Please don’t let the title turn you off this book. Listen to the subtitle instead. This is not a dry law textbook; it’s not even a juicy law textbook. But still you will learn a lot about law in the most entertaining way. In each chapter of this delightful little book, author J.Ryan Jones discusses one legal case—everything from personal injury cases to criminal cases to employment discrimination cases — to, well, some even weirder things.

Many […]

Cate Baum2019-01-22T15:46:31+02:00May 27th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Non-Fiction Book Reviews, Social Science Book Reviews|

Review: The Bleaklisted Books by David M Brown & Donna Brown

The Bleaklisted Books is a sarcastic and original book that tells how one cat really feels about literary masterpieces.

Charlie, the cat, decides to become a book critic to determine which books should be bleaklisted. What does bleaklisted mean? According to the introduction, “Bleaklisting is simply an offshoot of the well-known word ‘blacklisting.’” Charlie, who thinks he’s as powerful as Napoleon Bonaparte, doesn’t really like books and he really dislikes books that don’t feature him. Nevertheless, he reads many of the “great” books and renders his verdict. This volume includes twenty-five books that Charlie has decided should be bleaklisted. David […]

T B Markinson2019-01-22T15:53:23+02:00December 22nd, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Humor, Non-Fiction Book Reviews, Pets Book Reviews, Social Science Book Reviews|

Review: The Unfinished Tower of Babel by Dr. Robert L. Bonn

The Unfinished Tower of Babel Today, the never-completed Tower of Babel remains a symbol of how a divine, otherworldly power can enter into and change the course of human history.

Dr. Robert L. Bonn, a sociologist, delves into how the biblical story of the Tower of Babel has influenced history in his fascinating book The Unfinished Tower of Babel. His work offers a non-conventional view of the biblical tale. He purports that the biblical account is actually a myth and symbolizes the Babylonian Empire. Using this theory he analyzes other empires and argues that history proves that empire building can only have one result: […]

T B Markinson2019-01-22T15:56:00+02:00August 22nd, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Non-Fiction Book Reviews, Religious Book Reviews, Social Science Book Reviews|

Review: Organize This! By Vali G. Heist

Comedian George Carlin pointed out that “A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.” In recent years it seems that the average American single-family house (a house that has grown from under a thousand square feet in 1950 to over 2000 square feet in recent decades) is no longer big enough keep all that stuff while we are out buying more. According to the Self Storage Association, there are currently over 50,000 self-storage facilities in the United States. Most of these rental units are used to store the overflow from […]

Avery Hurt2019-01-22T17:17:34+02:00September 23rd, 2013|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Environment, Home & Garden Book Reviews, Social Science Book Reviews|

Review: Tilogos: A Treatise on the Origins and Evolution of Language by Sherman P. Bastarache

This book is written by a Canadian mechanic with an interest in the origin of language. He has obviously spent a great amount of his life reading and thinking about this question, not just as a technical quandary but rather a personal one.

As a Christian with no other language knowledge past that of high school, and only English at that, he makes a grand statement with this work but sometimes he doesn’t seem to quite grasp the principle he tries to illustrate, maybe because he has not dedicated time and energy to formally studying the discipline in which he […]

Cate Baum2020-02-21T07:51:46+02:00October 23rd, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Social Science Book Reviews|