Books – Page 28 – Everything Nonfiction

Review of Lost Paradise

This is a true life Lord of The Flies tale. It is a story of what can happen in a closed society where there is no law or social conscience. With a limited supply of women and no real risk of punishment, the men on the island took advantage of their dominance and routinely raped girls as young as nine. It all came to light when one of the victims revealed her story to an outsider who was visiting the island. Thus began a long multi-year process where a number of men were brought to trial for the alleged rapes.

Review of The Great Depression Ahead

The idea that you can predict future trends based on historical cycles has some merit. The author uses a myriad of cycles to explain his reasoning for his pessimistice outlook. Here are just a few: the terriosim cycle, innovation cycle, immigration cycle, geopolitical cycle, demograpic cycle, real estate cycle, various stock market cycles, commodities cycle, and the emerging markets cycle. The cycles range in time from as littles as eight or nine years, such as the terroisim cycle, to as long as 5,000 years for the civilization cycle.

Review of Out of Captivity

When I first heard about the dramatic rescue of some fifteen Colombian hostages last year, I knew that a book was soon to follow. This is that book. This books tells the story of the three American hostages who were held captive for nearly six years in the jungles of Columbia.

Review of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

There are as many theories about the person or persons responsible for the murder as there are suspects. The murder occurred in a house occupied by a large family along with a number of live in servants. There were also potential suspects outside the house. It is the job of Inspector Whicher to unravel the mystery.

Review of The Lost City of Z

The story told in The Lost City of Z is part adventure story and part biography of explorer Percy Fawcett. The book alternates between the story of Fawcett’s quest for the lost city of Z and the author’s quest to unravel the mystery behind Fawcett’s disappearance deep in the Amazon in 1925.

Review of The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld

Salim Hamdan was Osama Bin laden’s personal driver. That was the extent of his involvement in terrorist activities. Yet the government’s position was that he was one of the “worst of the worst” as Dick Cheney was so often quoted as saying when describing the prisoners at Guantanamo. The reality is that Salim was just a family man trying to scratch out a living. He was no more a terrorist than Osama Bin Laden’s food taster. Fortunately for Salim, though, he was assigned two lawyers who actually went to bat for him all the way to the Supreme Court.