http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:39:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif1945437http://www.feedburner.com http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/baltimorebookworm/~3/344758251/ http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/starbucks-store-closing-2/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:39:33 +0000 bookworm http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/?p=391 So I was misinformed. My favorite Starbucks store will be staying put after all. Though I realize I was unclear in my first post — there are probably six Starbucks within a three mile radius of my house (three within one mile) and I frequent all of them. There’s one store that I like to go to when [...] http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/starbucks-store-closing-2/feed/ bookworm http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/starbucks-store-closing-2/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/baltimorebookworm/~3/344463728/ http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/bottlemania-2/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:09:00 +0000 bookworm http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/?p=367 Yesterday I read Michiko Kakutani’s “Distilled From Water, Designer or Tap: High Anxiety,” yet another New York Times review of Bottlemania (this one published July 18, 2008) — last month I read and wrote about Lisa Margonelli’s “Tapped Out,” a review of Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It (by Elizabeth [...] http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/bottlemania-2/feed/ bookworm http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/bottlemania-2/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/baltimorebookworm/~3/343666676/ http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/gettingstartedinconsulting/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:24:56 +0000 bookworm http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/?p=386 I just read Getting Started in Consulting by Alan Weiss (Summing Consulting Group) and while I’m certainly no consultant, this book seems to have lots of useful information for budding independent consultants. Some topics discussed: importance of low overhead why working from a home office and without staff is just fine how to finance a consulting practice how to write [...] http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/gettingstartedinconsulting/feed/ bookworm http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/gettingstartedinconsulting/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/baltimorebookworm/~3/343516247/ http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/consultingbooks-2/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:11:49 +0000 bookworm http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/?p=333 I haven’t received any recommendations for Books for Artists or on Non-profit Management, but these books were championed for Consulting: The Business of Consulting: The Basics and Beyond by Elaine Biech The Consultant’s Toolkit: High-Impact Questionnaires, Activities and How-to Guides for Diagnosing and Solving Client Problems by Mel Silberman The Consultant’s Quick Start Guide: An Action Plan [...] http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/consultingbooks-2/feed/ bookworm http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/consultingbooks-2/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/baltimorebookworm/~3/342508745/ http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/vegetablegarden-6/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:01:45 +0000 bookworm http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/?p=295 As a consequence of reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben, I started my first — and fairly successful — attempt at fruit and vegetable [...] http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/vegetablegarden-6/feed/ bookworm http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/vegetablegarden-6/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/baltimorebookworm/~3/341565663/ http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/mindoftheraven-4/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:22:10 +0000 bookworm http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/?p=332 I finally finished Bernd Heinrich’s New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year in 1999 Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds (click here to read all my entries about this book) and wanted to share this humorous Eskimo tale that Heinrich used to end Chapter Twenty-One “Tulugaq“: The practice of following [...] http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/mindoftheraven-4/feed/ bookworm http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/mindoftheraven-4/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/baltimorebookworm/~3/340619081/ http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/nonprofitmanagementbooks/#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:20:16 +0000 bookworm http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/?p=299 I’m involved with many non-profit organization on a volunteer basis and would like to read a book or two on non-profit management. Any advice? Suggestions on books relevant to non-profits in general would be appreciated as well! http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/nonprofitmanagementbooks/feed/ bookworm http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/nonprofitmanagementbooks/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/baltimorebookworm/~3/339799994/ http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/modernlibrary/#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:03:37 +0000 bookworm http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/?p=315 Just came across Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels and 100 Best Nonfiction, first published in The New York Times on Monday, July 20, 1998, and the Radcliffe’s Rival 100 Best Novels List. I’ve read few from all three of the lists and wondered what folks think about these “best books” lists. Of the ones I’ve read, I [...] http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/modernlibrary/feed/ bookworm http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/modernlibrary/