Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore helped change the world, and now he wants to change it again through his highly enjoyable new book. Moore writes convincingly that the environmental movement has lost its way, and he outlines his vision for the way back to sanity.
In an engaging and entertaining style, Moore chronicles the exhilarating early days of Greenpeace, its roots in Vancouver, its improbable victories, its meagre budget, its brushes with disaster on the high seas, the media circus, and its meteoric rise to global celebrity. From stopping nukes to saving whales, the whole story is here.
But the book does not stop with tales of the Greenpeace glory days… Read more
Dr. Lim's introduction to the scrolls is a winner on many levels. First, it's a fascinating debunking of several myths that have arisen around the scrolls. Second, the reader gets a candid gimps into a highly specialized and misunderstood field of scholarship. Third, this "VSI" provides an authoritative and up-to-date snapshot of scroll research. I feel ready and motivated to dive into the more comprehensive readings in Dr. Lim's tidy bibliography.
Although the tone of the book is light-hearted, it is a serious look at the topic. Effort is made to in some sense bring the scrolls back down to earth from their much deserved exalted status. The profundity of the scrolls is not… Read more
Don Tapscott has done it again. He has beheld what we see happening all around us on the Internet and made sense of it from a business perspective. And he's again displayed his rare ability to distill a huge concept into a single word. (Buzzwords are with us for a reason: we need them as shorthand for new and complex ideas.)
Wikinomics is mainly about innovation and how web-based collaboration is driving it. Also, the book speaks to organizational dynamics and how the web is eating away at traditional hierarchies. This book should be a warning to companies that still think instant messaging is a nuisance and a threat to security. That's wrongheaded, according to the… Read more
