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Books To Feed Your Inner Player: Video Game Culture Reading

Amazon opened a brick and mortar store in the area where I live and originally, I had very little interest in checking out their set up. I didn’t see a reason to cheat on Barnes and Noble which is way closer to my home when lo and behold, one of my friends posted a link […]

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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, And The Art Of Battling Giants

Malcolm Gladwell explores the art of battling giants explaining the strengths of being an underdog and the weaknesses of not considering the limits of authority. To present a cohesive argument, he uses examples to argue both sides of each coin, using each part of the book to conduct in depth discussions of the psychology of […]

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An Astronaut’s Guide To Life On Earth

After reading and watching The Martian, I couldn’t help but pick up this item at my local Barnes and Noble store. It seems space travel and related subjects, like The Astronauts Wives Club book and series of the same name, are becoming popular again and can be found everywhere books are sold. Maybe recent proclamations […]

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The Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin

From organizational structures to everyday routines, most of us fail to create systems that will help us process, archive and retrieve the information we need to make decisions effectively. By exploring the techniques in his book, The Organized Mind, Daniel J. Levitin invites us to learn about our own cognitive limitations when processing information in […]

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Understanding the Introverts in Your Family

Growing up in a household of introverts I was blessed to have the support I needed to develop my soft and hard skills. Granted, as the most extroverted of the introverts the road ahead was going to be easy for me and inside my family circle, I became the nerd whisperer. For those of you […]

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Room

Lately, I have been playing horror and mystery video games that explore the dark side of humanity. What happens after death? Why are people cruel and mean to each other? How do humans cope with loss? Room, by Emma Donoghue, presented a rare opportunity to answer these and many other questions. Ma, trapped in an […]

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Math, Geometry and #LoveWins

Books tend to find me… I was at the airport waiting for my flight to San Francisco (June 2015) when a Hudson Booksellers caught my attention. They had a buy two get the third book free sale but because of the short flight ahead, my interest was on acquiring just one book. A quick read. […]