The book is straight forward and presents the information in small, easy to swallow chunks
Nellie Bly is the pen name of Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, an accomplished journalist, inventor and adventurer.
The advice is mostly conservative and sensible.Avoid excess, budget, don’t take on too much, or any, debt and, of course, live within your means.
The book is really a battle of wits between The Great Houdini and Margery, who despite their competition came to like one another (for a time).
There is a lot of information in this book, very insightful and sometimes dramatic, goes back and forth between policies, institutionalize racism and stories
This book should be read by anyone who is interested in military history or is aspiring to leading troops.
Mr. Oren presents the history from the point of view of politicians, not the soldiers on the ground. He doesn’t deal much with military tactics but more with high level decisions and diplomatic chess games.
There are some good tips in this book, but it’s very redundant which is either to help the reader remember the tips or being used as filler to make the book thicker
Each graphic takes up two pages and shows one subject (solar eclipse, tallest mountains, biggest lakes and more).
A non-fiction book in which the authors debunk the idea of what an “American Millionaire” is. The authors did studies for corporations about targeting millionaires and they came up with some fascinating finds.