by John Le Carre Instead of my own thoughts here is the plot summary from wikipedia, retrieved on Nov 17th 2013:The book tells the story of Ted Mundy, a Pakistani-born…
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by J. Keith Murnighan The lesson is rather: make the organization work. If you do not have to do anything, your processes work and you have good people as leaders.…
by Dan Ariely The book caught my attention in Tucson’s Barnes&Noble because I had seen Dan Ariely’s TED Talk. As entertaining as he is a orator as funny and equally…
by Julio Villanueva Chang Julio Villanueva Chang is a Peruvian journalist. The book is a collection of chronicles or essays on people the author is interested in. It is a…
by Philip Roth Since I forgot that I had read the book here a copy from amazon, retrieved Nov 17th 2013: “With the lover everyday life recedes,” Roth writes—and exhibiting…
by Dan and Chip Heath It is simply the best book on change management. It bases its conclusions on human behavior. The examples given in this book make you think…
by Rafael Chirbes The short summary: a book about the immobility bubble in Spain. But not about the political mechanisms behind it, it is more what effect had the attached…
by Salman Rushdie Even if Rushdie doesn’t want to call that fictitious land Pakistan – the similarities are too obvious. Moreover, the two main antagonists of the novel – Iskander…
by Christoffel von Grimmelshausen Most Germans know this book because it is mentioned in the history classes for its depiction of the atrocities during the Thirty Years War in Germany…
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez Already on the first pages I was drawn into the book – not into the story, but what the author said about life and how. The…