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Apple in China The subtitle of this book by Patrick McGee is The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company. This is an important book and one you should really consider reading. The book tells the untold story of how Apple used China as a manufacturing base and inadvertently made themselves completely dependent on an authoritarian […]

I’ve reviewed, I think, three books on Near Death Experiences (NDE) and related topics. In response to the last review, a couple of people suggested the book After by Dr. Bruce Greyson, noting it was better and more recent. They were right on both counts. This is the best book on the topic that I’ve […]

The Art of Dying is another book by Peter and Elizabeth Fenwick. A couple of weeks ago I reviewed their book, The Truth in the Light, which was about 300 investigations of near-death experiences. The Art of Dying takes the process to its obvious conclusion, death. Or, as the book’s subtitle puts it, A Journey […]

This book is written by Peter and Elizabeth Fenwick. Peter, a neuropsychologist, was the President of the British branch of the International  Association for Near-Death Studies. Published in 1995, the book’s subtitle is An Investigation of over 300 Near-Death Experiences. There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of books about Near-Death Experiences (NDE) and Out of Body […]

I think Michael Lewis is one of the best writers of non-fiction books. I’ve read a number of his books, including Liar’s Poker, The New New Thing, Going Infinite, The Premonition, and The Big Short. In this case, Lewis is the author of two of the eight chapters in this book and the editor of […]

Reid Hoffman, the author, was a supporter of OpenAI when it began as a non-profit organization in 2015. Before that he was a founding board member of PayPal, a founder of LinkedIn, and has been on the board of Microsoft since 2017. He defines Superagency this way: Superagency is the state of widespread empowerment that […]

The subtitle of this book is “unforgettable encounters during life’s final moments.” This is a big part of this book by first-time author Hadley Vlahos, a hospice nurse in Florida. She clearly has a talent for writing as the book is a very easy read.Each chapter is about one of her patients, and at the […]

I’m back on my octopus fascination. It is easy to be fascinated with octopuses. They are the closest thing to aliens that we will ever encounter on Earth. The author, Sy Montgomery, is a naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and author of over twenty nature books for both adults and children. This is the first book by […]

Michael Lewis first heard about Sam Bankman-Fried at the end of 2021. A friend had asked Lewis to figure out who he was. The friend was about to do a big deal with Sam that would bind their fates, by an exchange of shares in each other’s companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The […]