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Sunday Book Review: November 5, 2023 The Just Because Edition

In the Sunday Book Review, I consider books that would interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone who might be curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest me. In today’s edition of the Sunday Book Review, Tom considers upcoming Fall 2023 non-fiction books to take a look at reading.

  • “The Woman in Me,” by Britney Spears.
  • “Tupac Shakur – The Authorized Biography,” by Staci Robinson
  • “Let Us Descend,” by Jesmyn Ward.
  • “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling,” by Marguerite Young.

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Sunday Book Review: April 30, 2023 – The New Mind Edition

In the Sunday Book Review, I consider books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest me. In today’s edition of the Sunday Book Review, I return to look at some new books which caught my eye in the New Mind edition.

Today, new books from the Yale University Press:

·      Roe by Mary Ziegler

·      Mixed Signals by Uri Gneezy

·      Life by Paul Ehrlich

·      Tragic Mind by Robert Kaplan

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Sunday Book Review – April 23, 2023 – The Ideas Edition

In the Sunday Book Review, I consider books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest me. In today’s edition of the Sunday Book Review, we begin a multipart blog post series considering books on ideas from university presses. Today it is the Princeton University Press:

  • Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes
  • The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University by Daniel A. Bell
  • The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World by Karl Schlögel
  • The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism by Lerone A. Martin
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Sunday Book Review – April 16, 2023 – The University of Chicago Press Travels Through Time and Space Edition

In the Sunday Book Review, I consider books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest me. In today’s edition of the Sunday Book Review, I look at some books focusing on storytelling and history through space and time.

  • Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race by Mary-Jane Rubenstein
  • The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Nicholas Dagen Bloom
  • Travels in the Americas Notes and Impressions of a New World by Albert Camus
  • Rome as a Guide to the Good Life A Philosophical Grand Tour by Scott Samuelson
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September 18, 2022 the Sports Cheating edition

In today’s edition of Sunday Book Review:

Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat: The science behind drugs in sport by Chris Cooper

Cheated: The UNC Scandal, the Education of Athletes, and the Future of Big-Time College Sports by Jay Smith

Cheating in E-Sports by Marcia Amidon Lusted

Intentional Balk: Baseball’s Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating by Dan Levitt and Mark Armour

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July 17, 2022 the University of Toronto Press edition


In today’s edition of Sunday Book Review:

  • Profits and Power by David Detomasi
  • Aiming to Explain by Timothy Heinmiller and Matthew Hennigar
  • The Human Paradox by Ralph Heinzman
  • Apostles of Inequality by Jim Handy