I like to walk. My friends, family and other travel companions know they need to bring comfortable shoes when they go on trips with me. On visits to New York City I've gone on some epic journeys, some lasting more than 8 hours. I had a friend that lived in Dumbo (Down under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) [...]

Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles - A book review Carthage was where modern day Tunisia is now. The story of Carthage spans 800 years from around 950 B.C. to 146 B.C. when during the Third Punic War and the Battle of Carthage, the city was destroyed [...]

I've been behind on book reviews so excuse the numerous blog posts, Facebook and Twitter updates coming this weekend. I've actually been consuming books at a near record pace recently as I've fallen back in love with listening to audio books. With so little time to sit and read holding a book, audio books allow [...]

I've always wanted to know more about Winston Churchill. I've studied World War II enough that I felt I had a pretty strong background but it was nice to hear his story told by a British historian. I chose an audio book; Winston Churchill by John Keegan, read by Richard Mathews. As an audio book [...]

I never would have read The Greater Journey - Americans in Paris had it not been written by David McCullough. He's one of my favorite history writers and I've enjoyed all of his books. I suppose I also needed a break from the stories of misery, war, torture and murder that I had been reading [...]

I hated In the Garden of Beasts when I first started reading it. Mainly, I felt deceived. What I knew about the book was that it was the early days of Hitler's regime and life in Berlin was described through the eyes of an American family that was living there at the time. You expect [...]

Unbroken follows the life of American hero Louis Zamperini. I had been looking forward to this book coming. The book's author, Laura Hillenbrand is both a good writer as well as an inspirational story herself. She suffers from chronic fatigue and rarely leaves her own house. Yet, she writes inspirational books like Sea Biscuit and now [...]

I've made a lot of financial mistakes over the years which on hindsight, would have been avoided had I studied finance earlier in life. At Harvard I quickly learned how much I didn't know about the subject and since that time I've been devouring books volumes of works. The best of which, was actually given [...]

I just finished reading a Consise Guide to Macroeconomics by David A Moss. I had procrastinated on reading it for a while because, well frankly, I didn't feel like reading about economics. Once I started I actually read the whole thing in just two sittings. Besides being only 141 pages, the language is very clear [...]

I've just finished reading Corporate Information Strategy and Management by Lynda M Applegate, Robert D Austin and Deborah L Soule. In the book you can find many Harvard Business cases regarding IT (information technology) strategies deployed by companies. The book's stated goal is to give a broad overview on IT to high-level corporate managers and [...]