Fun Book Reviews Samples For Students

O6 December 2014

Introduction
The book, ‘Barefoot Spirit’ reflects the story of two individuals regarding their journey from rags to riches and the journey of how they became successful in the wine industry. The book is written by the founders of one of the most successful wine brand of America- Barefoot Spirit. The founders and authors of the book are Bonnie Harvey and Michael Houlihan. With the third writer, Rick Kushman, the authors have published the book. It describes the journey of the brand in the wine industry when the founders were completely naive and how they made up a very successful ...

Fish

The four principles of Fish are a) Be There (being emotionally present), b) Play (be sure to have fun and be creative); c) Make Their Day (focus on customer service and altruism), and d) Choose Your Attitude (take responsibility for how you react to things in life) (Lundin, Paul & Christensen). I think Choose Your Attitude is the most important, as our way of going about our work informs everything else about the Fish! Philosophy – without the right attitude, it is impossible to Be There, Play and Make Someone’s Day.
Describe your favorite job (or class). What was fun ...

Summary

The book “Leading With the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business and Life” was published in 2001 by Mike Krzyzewski and Donald Phillips. Primarily, the book talks about various aspects of leadership, especially how one earns it, practices it, and how they use it to improve themselves and their organizations. The book gives a detailed account of Coach K’s background where he lived with parents who demanded integrity and honesty in all his undertakings always mentored him. Furthermore, the book recounts Coach K’s experiences at the U.S. Military playing under the tutelage of coach Bobby ...

Culture is one thing that we human beings all have. Conversely, different ethnic communities are associated with different cultures. This is in most cases an added advantage as diversity caused by the different cultures is usually one that contributes to the fun in life. In the case that we all had the same cultures, then there would be nothing to learn. We would be waking up in the same routine day in day out and, in the long run, life would be rather boring. However, with the diversity created by the vast number of ethnical groups, it becomes fun ...

Book Review: The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

Rating: 4.0/5
‘The Happiness Project’ discusses a systematic approach to make your life happy. The author presented the book in different stages. Preparation stage includes your identification of things that brings joy and satisfaction to you, and also why and how you develop anger and onus. The second stage, making the resolutions, is the important one which lets you to recognize certain elements that boost your happiness. Finally, ‘keeping your resolution’ depicts a very interesting part.
Gretchen Rubin presented this book as her own experience in changing her life. It is happiness project that reflects the understanding of the ...

Avenue Q is a beautiful depiction of the perception of young age and the reality of the same, when it goes through the practical life. The book is in two Acts and more an autobiography cum biography that fits into the experiences and life of everybody. The character by the name of Princeton is depicted to strive in his practical life after a bachelor and faces the hardships and apprehensions of real life. Money, job and living become his pursuit that left his imaginary supremacy run apart. Avenue Q is more of a satire that address the issues, concerns and apprehensions that ...

Summary- Thinking as a Nurse

Summary- Thinking as a Nurse
Bruce Austin Scott completed his B.S.N and M.S.N at University of Alabama in Huntsville and University of Texas in Austin respectively. He has over twenty-five years of teaching experience and over thirty-seven years’ experience of patient care. Before writing this book, Bruce Austin has written many articles for famous publications as well. All these statements prove Bruce’s expertise and wisdom. He has all the necessary skills, information, experience, and knowledge required to write a book.
Evaluating the expertise of an author is one of the most appropriate ways to judge the book content. ...

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‘Change by Design’ seems to be the perfect title for Tim Brown’s book owing to the transformational ideas presented to bring about changes in the real world using a human approach to suit many fields of life and not just in the design field. Tim Brown is the CEO and President of the IDEO (Innovation, Design Engineering Organization). An industrial engineer by qualification, Brown is amongst those handful people of the new century who believe in design thinking and that innovation is the solution to human demands. He has carried out a list of seminars on many platforms ...

In Sarah Dessen’s 2009 novel Along for the Ride, we follow Auden, a young girl just graduating high school, who, rather than making friends and going out, spent an inordinate amount of time studying and maintaining her good grades. While this has allowed her to be accepted to a very reputable university, it did cut her off from the normal childhood experiences that most kids go through. What’s more, a very bitter divorce has left her two parents in separate places, with people that Auden can’t stand, and she’s torn between her distant father and her hyper-strict, feminist ...