Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo The past few years have seen a number of popular books on the necessity and/or follies of development aid, and to Africa in particular. Think Jeffrey Sachs and Paul Collier. In the ongoing discussion about the [...]
Book Review: Socialnomics: How social media transforms the way we live and do business by Erik Qualman This book I highly recommend for anyone trying to figure out what to do with Twitter, Facebook and whatever social media is out there (after you realize that blogging is actually yesterday’s news). It is an eye-opening and [...]
Book Review: The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory by David Plouffe I always follow US presidential elections closely, but the most recent one was special, as it was for many people. The grassroots movement of the Obama campaign, for which the Howard Dean campaign of 2004 Buy [...]
A must read for those interested in politics around the world, but especially for those fascinated by the Kennedy’s. At the same time, however, this book reveals not very much about how Ted Kennedy became the Lion of the Senate. As he himself claims in the book, no children of Joseph P. Kennedy were taught [...]