I don’t usually associate ENCHANTMENT with commerce. For me, the word evokes thoughts of magic, childlike exhuberance, wholehearted faith… It is for those very reasons, it turns out, that Guy Kawasaki chose it as the title of his new book, “Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds and Actions.” The book goes on sale tomorrow; [...]
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Best 09: Day Four
What is the best book of 2009, the book – fiction or nonfiction – that touched you? Where were you when you read it? Have you bought and given away multiple copies? I must admit, I judge a book by its cover. If the picture isn’t aesthetically pleasing to me, if the typeface isn’t interesting, [...]
Posted by emmajames on December 4, 2009
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Lies
If you were drained of all political fervor in 2008, and you are currently living under a rock, you may not know of Rod Blagojevich. Since most of you do, however, I won’t bother providing his bio here. You may wonder, in fact, why the hell I would even utter his name given his ubiquitous [...]
Posted by emmajames on January 28, 2009
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Puritan Problems
As the nation recovers from what can be called our National Day of Sanctioned Bingeing or our National Day of Sanctioned Gratitude, depending upon your perspective and number of years spent in talk therapy, I must take this moment to confess that my knowledge of American History is woefully vague. I curse Sarah Vowell for [...]
Posted by emmajames on November 28, 2008
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