Meet the Author Frank Newport is Editor in Chief at Gallup. Before joining Gallup, Newport taught sociology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, was news director and talk show host at KTRH Radio in Houston, and was a partner at a market research and public opinion research firm in Houston. He is the co-author of two books and the author of Polling Matters: Why Leaders Must Listen to the Wisdom of the People (2004) and God is Alive and Well: The Future of Read More …
Books
Top 10 Books of 2012 (#0961)
Over the course of the past year, I have reviewed nearly 50 books written in 2012. Today, I share my top ten: Bass, Diana Butler Christianity After Religion: The End of the Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening Borg, Marcus J. Evolution of the Word: The New Testament in the Order the Books Were Written Crossan, John Dominic The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction About Jesus Gyatso, Tenzin (the 14th Dalai Lama) Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole Read More …
Review of Digital_Humanities (#0958)
Meet the Authors Five authors participated in the highly collaborative venture of shared authorship over a multi-year period. Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunefeld, and Todd Presner teach at UCLA. Drucker is the Breslauer Professor of Bibliographic Studies in the Department of Information Studies, Lunefeld is Professor of Design Media Arts, and Presner is Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature as well as the chair of the Program in Digital Humanities. Anne Burdick teaches Read More …
175+ Book Reviews (#0955)
While this blog has undergone several significant changes since I launched it in 2009, book reviews have remained a vital component throughout its history. I have posted over 175 reviews of books published between 2007-2012. You can access these in several ways: Choose "Book Reviews" from the category menu to browse the reviews in reverse chronological order of their post dates Use the site search (top right on any page) to locate a specific author, title or subject Download Read More …
Review of Today We Are Rich (#0946)
Meet the Author Tim Sanders is a popular keynote speaker, consultant to Fortune 1000 companies, bestselling author, and CEO of the Los Angeles tech start-up Net Minds. Previously, he was the Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo, as well as its Leadership Coach. Sanders has written several previous books, including the New York Times best seller Love is the Killer App (2003). Book Basics Tim Sanders masterfully weaves together his own life lessons, the wisdom of his grandmother Billye, Read More …
Review of Red Letter Revolution (#0943)
Meet the Authors Shane Claiborne is a founder of The Simple Way, a New Monastic community in inner city Philadelphia that has helped to birth and connect radical faith communities around the world. He "writes and travels extensively speaking about peacemaking, social justice, and Jesus." Claiborne is the co-author of several previous books, including The Irresistible Revolution (2006 with Jim Wallis), Jesus for President (2008 with Chris Read More …
Review of When God Talks Back (#0939)
Meet the Author T. M. Luhrmann is a psychological anthropologist and the Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department. Her books include Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft (1989), The Good Parsi (1996), Of Two Minds (2000), and When God Talks Back (2012). Luhrmann was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003) and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2007). Book Basics T. M. Luhrmann grew up in an environment that Read More …
Review of Social Media for Educators (#0936)
Meet the Author Tanya Joosten is Interim Director of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Learning Technology Center (LTC) where almost 3000 instructors (faculty, academic staff, and TA's) are supported in their use of digital technologies to facilitate teaching and learning. She has over ten years experience teaching online and blended courses in communications, co-chairs the UWM Online Program Council, is the campus liaison for online and blended programming, is a mentor for the Read More …
Review of Help Thanks Wow (#0932)
Meet the Author Anne Lamott is the author of seven novels and five best-selling nonfiction books. She was honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has taught at the University of California - Davis. Lamott’s biweekly Salon Magazine “online diary,” Word by Word, was voted The Best of the Web by TIME magazine. Book Basics Help Wow Thanks: The Three Essential Prayers is simple, honest, and personal. Lamott shares her understanding of and Read More …
Review of Hidden America (#0928)
Meet the Author Jeanne Marie Laskas is an associate professor and the director of the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously (1994-2008), she was a syndicated columnist for The Washington Post Magazine, writing weekly essays: "Significant Others." She is the author of six books, including an award-winning trilogy of memoirs: Fifty Acres and a Poodle (2000), The Exact Same Moon (2003), and Growing Girls (2006). Book Basics Read More …