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Davina Morgan-Witts, BookBrowse editor
A few weeks ago a copy of
What You Should Know About Politics But Don't: A Nonpartisan Guide to
the Issues by Jessamyn Conrad turned up in the mail from Arcade Publishing.
In 13 snappy chapters Conrad covers it all. I read a chapter a day (give or
take) and at the end of the first week I was a whiz on Elections, the Economy,
Foreign Policy and the Military, not to mention Health Care, Energy and the Environment. By the end of the second week I'd got my head around Civil Liberties, the Culture Wars, Socioeconomic Policies, Homeland Security, Education and Trade.
Davina Morgan-Witts, BookBrowse editor
Looking for a dose of intelligent escapism to get you through the
financial crisis and election woes? Look no further than
The Heretic Queen, Michelle Moran's second novel following
Nefertiti.
Set in the 13th century BC, The Heretic Queen tells the rip-roaring story of the life of
Nefertari, wife to Ramesses II, who is remembered as one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs and, possibly, its longest reigning (an estimated 66 years, two years longer than Queen Victoria).
The Heretic Queen is the sort of book you can stay up late reading but not regret in the morning, it's a fun, fast read but also a very good and informative one - bringing to life a time and place that maybe more than 3000 years in the past but isn't really all that different to today. Fashions come and go, wars are won and lost, people starve while others live in splendor and so on.
Davina Morgan-Witts, BookBrowse editor
"There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don't know any of them." - Paul Newman in
Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good
Paul Newman, actor, philanthropist and businessman is dead, but his legacy will
live on - not just on supermarket shelves where his smiling face will hopefully
grace the bottles and jars of Newman's Own products for many years to come, and
in his more than 50 movies, and in the lives of the thousands of sick children he has
touched and will continue to touch through his
Hole in the Wall Gang camps - but also on bookshelves
through his witty,
inspirational and informative 'business' book,
Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good, coauthored
with fellow Newman's Own business partner, writer A.E. Hotchner.
Davina Morgan-Witts, BookBrowse editor
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