Don't read 'The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine,' by Michael Lewis, if you're trying to keep your blood pressure down, because what this book makes clear about the economic meltdown of 2007-2008 is that it was triggered by Wall Street insiders.
'Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition,' by Daniel Okrent, is one of those great books that's about so much more than its ostensible subject.
Even in the future, when a combination of dwindling natural resources and increasingly nimble technology creates a semi-dystopian world, there will be meetings and conferences.
Meetings and conferences are also part of the world of make-believe, including the new novel The Imperfectionists, by Tom Rachman, which is a wry look at an English-language international newspaper based in Rome.
A face-to-face meeting and an initiative to create national standards. Is there nothing new under the sun?
I’ve been meaning to read NYC restaurateur Danny Meyer’s 2006 book Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business for months. And now that I’ve finally picked it up, I can hardly put it back down.