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# 5/5 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott has been labelled as a masterpiece with a very good reason. The book is captivating and memorable, and this is what every writer wants to accomplish with their work but not all writers do. I am giving this book a 5-star rating for the above reasons and…
Michelle Kenney, Harper Collins A few weeks ago, an email came through the Leeds Beckett’s University mailing list, one of many, announcing that our alumna has published a book and asking us to sign up for a raffle to get a free copy. Naturally, I once again thought how amazing our University is for always…
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS Editors: Martina Topic, Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom Sydney Heifler, The University of Oxford, United Kingdom Women in the Media: Who Creates the News? So far, the research has shown that women have less voice in the media than men do, both as the creators of news, the…
This is the final blog in the #SaveTheCulture series. The last book is a true story, “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight”, published by Picador in 2002. The book is written by Alexandra Fuller and it is about her life and growing up in Africa. Thus, we get to follow her life from childhood…
New book by a group of European scholars discusses what constitutes excellent communication. Communication Excellence: How to Develop, Manage and Lead Exceptional Communication has been published by Palgrave (see here) recently, and the authors are Ralph Tench, Dejan Vercic, Ansgar Zerfass, Angeles Moreno, and Piet Verhoeven The book is a result of 10 years of the…
The next book I just finished from lovely “SaveTheCulture Initiative is Jane Smiley’s “Ordinary Love and Good Will”. I read edition from 1998 only entitled “Ordinary Love”. It is not a novel that has one story line, but a combination of two books in one, both with a similar theme: family and everyday life. You…
I read the second book I received in #SaveTheCulture Initiative. This one was more interesting than the first one, I have to say. This was also the first time I got hooked up with a book I did not enjoy. In other words, this book is so dark that you hate it, but you can’t…
I received the book from the #SaveTheCulture initiative I saw on Facebook. I wrote about it already in my previous blog post (see here). The first book came from Nairn, and this was my first stage of learning something new, because I never heard of Nairn before so I had to google it. As it…
In times when some people go to elections to choose hate over hope and collaboration, a beautiful initiative emerged on Facebook. The initiative is a chain where we send one book we love to a stranger, and get some sent to us by other strangers. In this initiative people from all over the world send…