Non-Fiction Book

    Sunday 01 November 2009

  • Book Review: What the Dog Saw

    Book Review: What the Dog Saw
    This delightful body of work represents thirteen years of Gladwell’s favorite articles published by the New Yorker. Divided into three categories including obsessive or minor geniuses, theories and the predictions each of us make about other people, these thought provoking, often fun pieces poke into areas...

  • Book Review: Morbid Curiosity

    Book Review: Morbid Curiosity
    People have long been fascinated by the rich and famous, even more so by their demises untimely and otherwise. Petrucelli’s lifelong obsession with dead celebrities dates back to childhood visits to his grandparent’s grave which, as fate would have it, was close to...

  • Friday 23 October 2009

  • Book Review: Jane Wilson Horizons

    Book Review: Jane Wilson Horizons
    With a career spanning sixty years, Jane Wilson has amassed an enormous body of work ranging from abstracts to still lifes but it is her landscapes for which she is best known. Often the subject matter appears deceptively simple until the viewer begins taking in the subtle mastery of...

  • Sunday 18 October 2009

  • Book Review: Searching for Whitopia

    Book Review: Searching for Whitopia
    Benjamin, a Stanford educated NPR journalist spent three months living in three communities identified as whitopia, those places where whites make up a larger segment of the population then seen in the rest of the nation. The author did not disclose the exact nature of...

  • Monday 12 October 2009

  • Book Review: Gifted Hands

    Book Review: Gifted Hands
    Written to appeal to both the interested layperson and medical professional, Schwartz brings to light the often forgotten or overlooked role American doctors played in the development of surgical sciences. After touching briefly on medical practices of early...