What We Are Reading Today: The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking

What We Are Reading Today: The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
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Updated 23 October 2022

What We Are Reading Today: The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking

What We Are Reading Today: The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking

Edited by Edward B. Burger And Michael Starbird

The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking presents practical, lively, and inspiring ways for you to become more successful through better thinking.

The idea is simple: You can learn how to think far better by adopting specific strategies. Brilliant people aren’t a special breed—they just use their minds differently.

By using the straightforward and thought-provoking techniques in The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking, you will regularly find imaginative solutions to difficult challenges, and you will discover new ways of looking at your world and yourself—revealing previously hidden opportunities.


What We Are Reading Today: And Still the Waters Run by Angie Debo

What We Are Reading Today: And Still the Waters Run by Angie Debo
Updated 28 March 2023

What We Are Reading Today: And Still the Waters Run by Angie Debo

What We Are Reading Today: And Still the Waters Run by Angie Debo

“And Still the Waters Run” tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the Five Civilized Tribes.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the tribes owned the eastern half of what is now Oklahoma, a territory immensely wealthy in farmland, forests, coal, and oil. Their political and economic status was guaranteed by the federal government—until American settlers arrived. Congress abrogated treaties that it had promised would last “as long as the waters run,” and within a generation, the tribes were systematically stripped of their holdings, and were rescued from starvation only through public charity.


What We Are Reading Today: Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull

What We Are Reading Today: Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
Updated 28 March 2023

What We Are Reading Today: Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull

What We Are Reading Today: Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull

The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands his 2014 New York Times bestseller on creative leadership, reflecting on the management principles that built Pixar’s singularly successful culture and allowed it to retain its creative culture while continuing to evolve, says a review published on goodreads.com. “Creativity, Inc.” has been expanded to illuminate the continuing development of the unique culture at Pixar. This updated edition details how Ed Catmull built a culture that does not just pay lip service to the importance of things like honesty, communication, and originality but commits to them.


What We Are Reading Today: Plant Atlas 2020: Mapping Changes in the Distribution of the British and Irish Flora

What We Are Reading Today: Plant Atlas 2020: Mapping  Changes in the Distribution of the British and Irish Flora
Updated 28 March 2023

What We Are Reading Today: Plant Atlas 2020: Mapping Changes in the Distribution of the British and Irish Flora

What We Are Reading Today: Plant Atlas 2020: Mapping  Changes in the Distribution of the British and Irish Flora

Authors: P. A. Stroh, K. J. Walker, T. A. Humphrey, O. L. Pescott, & R. J. Burkmar

“Plant Atlas 2020” presents the results of field surveys by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, building on past atlas surveys undertaken by the Botanical Society in the early and late twentieth century.

Drawing on the work of thousands of botanists who covered the entirety of Britain and Ireland between 2000 and 2019, this two-volume book features introductory chapters that provide a detailed assessment of the changes to the region’s flora over the past hundred years.

Distribution maps and accompanying text and graphics display the phenology, altitudinal range, and time-series trends for 2,616 native and alien species and 247 hybrids.

With more than 30 million records gathered during the project, Plant Atlas 2020 will serve as an essential resource for the study and conservation of these wild plants and their vitally important habitats for decades to come.


What We Are Reading Today: The Man Who Caught the Storm

What We Are Reading Today: The Man Who Caught the Storm
Updated 27 March 2023

What We Are Reading Today: The Man Who Caught the Storm

What We Are Reading Today: The Man Who Caught the Storm

Author: Brantley Hargrove

“The Man Who Caught the Storm” offers insight into the life and death saga of one of history’s greatest storm chasers. It is a tale of obsession, ingenuity, and the race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon — the tornado.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last true mysteries of the modern world. It was a monster that ravaged the American heartland a thousand times each year, yet science’s every effort to divine its inner workings had ended in failure. Researchers all but gave up, until the arrival of an outsider.

Tim Samaras didn’t attend a day of college in his life.


What We Are Reading Today: Myanmar: Politics, Economy and Society

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Updated 26 March 2023

What We Are Reading Today: Myanmar: Politics, Economy and Society

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Author: Adam Simpson, Nicholas Farrelly (editors)

“Myanmar: Politics, Economy and Society” provides a sophisticated overview of the key political, economic and social challenges facing contemporary Myanmar and explains the complex historical and ethnic dynamics that have shaped the country.
The book provides a clear and incisive contribution from the world’s leading Myanmar scholars, assessing the policies and political reforms that have provoked contestation in the country’s recent history.
Questions of economic ownership and control and the distribution of natural resources are shown to be deeply informed by long-standing fractures among ethnic and civil-military relations.

The chapters analyse the key issues that constrain or expedite societal development in Myanmar and place recent events of national and international significance in the context of its complex history and social relations, according to a review on goodreads.com.

The book demonstrates that ethnic and cultural diversity is at the core of Myanmar’s society and heavily influences all aspects of life in the country.

This book will be of top interest to students, journalists and scholars of Southeast Asian politics, economics and societies.