Le livre de Decisions De Bourdieu au Swot, 50 modeles a appliquer pour mieux reflechir by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler translated by Amelie de Maupeou and adapted in french by Mathieu Jehanno

Le Livre de Decisions De Bourdieu au Swot, 50 modeles a appliquer pour mieux reflechir by Mikael Krogerus

and Roman Tschappeler translated by Amelie de Maupeou and adapted in french by Mathieu Jehanno is a great self-help book that wants, through many pshychologicals and not only models to trying to suggest to you the best way for taking decisions. Big decisions, but also little decisions.

We know all that most of us are procrastinators, that sometimes we don't launch ourselves in new adventures and decisions and that sometimes we are like trapped in a sort of multiples, different decisions that create confusion in our minds; because our interests, because our hobbies, we can't focus with attention on the important things of the existence.

Eisenhower, loved to saying that "les choses urgentes sont rarement importantes, et les choses importantes sont rarement urgentes", the urgent choices are rarely important, and the important choices are rarely urgents.

Men focus mainly on two kind of choices: urgent and importants.

Seeing and analyzing various methods and helped also by important tools in grade to clarify in your mind (this book contains pages where you will write down your priorities) choosing should become more simple and your mind more vivid and motivated.

Following the method of Warren Buffett you can write down a list of priorities that need to be done today trying to see how it works, starting from the first one. 

SWOT analyzes not just projects but also their Strenghts, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. 

Obviously when a person is close to a dilemma it's also important, remark the authors to trying to understand what is your most important quality. Knowing yourself is a great method for going on well in life, taking the best choices for you.

The example in the book the one of a marathon. A person not too much trained can't think of running a marathon.It's too long. Maybe it would be better to thinking of running for 30 minutes everyday. 

It's important to control our thughts. 

The Talmud says: 

Surveille tes pensées, car elles deviennent tes mots.

Surveille tes mots, car ils deviennent tes actions.

Surveille tes actions, car elles deviennent tes habitudes.

Surveille tes habitudes, car elles deviennent ton caractère.

Surveille ton caractère, car il devient ton destin.

When our choices are important and our expectations big there is the big risk that they won't work and so Barry Schwarts recommends to focus on a choice. When you go to a restaurant, tries to focus on a certain dish. It would be better and so on. 

Profusion when ideas not too clears, add the authors create a lot of confusion.

This book is pretty long, I received a long extract, but for every voice of the existence, from cars to trips and much much more you will receive tips, suggestions and how to take the best decision.

Surely a great book for chronicle unsecure people!

I thank Editions Leduc for the copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori 

Antidemocracy in America Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk edited by Eric Klinenberg, Caitlin Zaloom and Sharon Marcus

I start to be a fan of Public Books. The second book I just finished to read is Antidemocracy in America

Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk edited by Eric Klinenberg, Caitlin Zaloom and Sharon Marcus and published by Columbia University Press it is a great account of what it is going on these years in the USA.

Where to start? It's a beautiful book, and what I read created me a great sufferance. 

President Trump is the son of these times; populistic times. Citizens can't find answer in the establishment and the so-called "elite" and so they vote for a populist candidate. Because of wrong choices made in the past by other politicians. 

Trump wouldn't never been elected if times would have been different, more happy, cheerful and plenty of good answers. 

Three wives,so a divorced man, when in the past candidates couldn't run anymore for the Presidency if they had cheated their wife also once, strong opinions regarding women, sex and power, Trump received anyway wagons of votes also from women. 

Being business man, he acts as a business man also in office; and he has a a great ego. 

President Trump is a weird creature, in grade of capturing the votes of suprematists, white ones, people anti-semitic and racists.

Not only: his policy of anti-immigration has caused a lot of chaos and sufferance, let's think at all that children divided maybe forever by their families, or the ban established against some countries considered nests of terrorists.

His position regarding foreign policy remains embarassing, like also what he is creating everyday in the domesticity of his country.

Knowledge and education for Trump are not important and his opinion of public schools remain poor as remarked; Trump doesn't think that environment, climate change are priorities. He doesn't mind of scientists, he doesn't appreciate who, in various fields of knowledge try in a way or in another to bettering this world.

His lies, admit contributors in this book are many: media are constantly telling lies, everything is wrong; the truth just the one he tells to his electorate.

Twitter became with the time the most crucial instrument of communication of the President, more important than his briefings with reporters. 

The ObamaCare, a first temptative of a different health system, more human has been deleted. 

Teaching, remarks in a chapter a contributor is becoming always more difficult in the age of Trumpism, because it's difficult to explain rationally what it is going on at various levels.

The country wanted by President Trump is extremely divided; people voted him in search of answers, because too unsecure of their future. This one is the certainty but who knows if all these people found answers or their personal situation is the same one of three years ago. 

In the USA there is a heavy air. Old phantoms that people thought buried forever as anti-semitism, are re-starting to take some shape. You will read a vivid analysis of the situation starting from the 1930s.

Racism is incresead, thanks to the messages spread by the President and the anxiety regarding the wall he wants to build. 

The USA remains a country of immigrations. Realistically the only real citizens of the USA and entire America were the Native Americans ones. Killed and dilaniated by the arrival of Europeans.

A beautiful book this one divided in three sections: Part I. The crisis: where we are. Part II. The Collapse: How We Got Here. Part III. The Solutions: What We Can Do.

Written with extreme clarity, Antidemocracy in America is for everyone, for understanding the moment, but also the past; and for trying to see a different future where people will be more united.

I thank Columbia University Press for the physical copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori 

Shannon Eizenda New Executive Director of the Gubbio Project

Shannon Eizenda is the new

Executive Director of the Gubbio Project. Founded by Fr. Louie Vitale on 2004, the charity assist the homeless located in the area of Tenderloin, a place pretty poor of the city of San Francisco.

Eizenda has experience leading collaborative teams as director of academic programs of a progressive multi-religious, justice centered seminary; she has experience working with street-folks because she worked in a health center focusing in particular on mental problems. Third, she is an experienced fundraiser. Douglas Pierce from the Board Chair of the Gubbio admits that he is thrilled at the chance of working with her.

At the same time Shannon introducing herself to the community of the Gubbio Project remarks that "The Gubbio exists as a hope in a time of crisis - Hope in another way for us to be together." Eizenda adds that "We are living in unprecedent times pf dramatic inequity and injustice."

The final words are for donors and supporters: "There is much to be done as we work towards a more loving and inclusive world and we cannot do it without you."

To Shannon Eizenda, all the staff and guests of the Gubbio Project a big hug from Gubbio.

Anna Maria Polidori 

Questione di Chimica by Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim

Questione di Chimica

by Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim is an electrifying new book published by Marsilio. Have you ever seen The Big Bang Theory? Right: the approach of this young chemist is this one: absolutely wonderful and unique in the genre! This book can be read pretty quickly but at the same time will leave you more conscious of the world where we live in and what happen in our daily life. While I was reading it I thought at the big difference that there is when someone is prepared in the topic, and others are not. You can't never appreciate a topic like physics of chemistry if, at school you don't meet a "divulgative brain." Mai Thi is all this; starting from his daily life, her companion, her best friend Christine, analyzes in detail what happen in a day or more seen and read with the brain of a chemist.

Reading this book it was clear to me that this past summer I left my smartphone in areas of the house too much warm sometimes for example. Many years ago my private english teacher of the high school, I met her at the supermarket sounded pretty scared: "Oh no, not this one and neither the other one. I can't buy these toothpastes. Why, I replied? No sure you, I have some favorite brands and in general without too much thinking I put them in the basket.

"They contain a mortal substance. It causes cancer," she answered me back.

I was deadly scared at the idea. I clean my teeth, 5 times per day. Bloody hell, I thought I will die pretty soon. In this book I found a good explanation and I am reassured that I shouldn't die for any mortal illness caused by toothpaste.

Substantially Mai Thi's family 8s largely composed by chemists and Mai Thi  started to appreciating chemistry since she was little and her dad started to explaining her the world seen and read with his eyes. It's a creative world, where there are little little particles that can be seen just in lab.

Once completed her studies and a master at the Harvard University located in Cambridge, Massachusetts Mai Thi decided of opening a YouTube channel for speaking something about The Secret Life of Scientists. She thinks that it's important to let know to everyone how beauty chemistry is. According to her there are too many false myths that must be corrected regarding this job and people working in the field.

I always say that we live in a world populated by chemistry, physics, math and geometry.

With the eyes of a chemist, Mai Thi will guide you in a fascinating trip, with experiments that you can repeat at home, speaking about what happen everyday in our existence, and our interactions with the most common tools, substances of our daily life.

In a divulgative way Mai Thi teach to all of us chemistry, entering in details in the various segments she analyzes in the chapter taken in consideration, so she will introduce us atoms and the world surrounding them; or what happen in our mouth when we eat and at our teeth in particular; but she will also explain us what happen chemically to food and ingredients like coffee, chocolate, telling us what makes the difference in the various fats and why some of them are more nocive than other ones. Not only; water, smartphone, name a daily activity. It's here!

I would suggest this book to everyone but in particular at students and teachers as well. 

I thank Marsilio for the physical copy of this book composed by a lot of particles as my body, my keyboard and the entire world surrounding me.

Anna Maria Polidori 

Choose Kindness 3-Minutes Devotional Inspiration for Kids by Joanne Simmons

Choose Kindness 3-Minutes Devotional Inspiration for Kids by Joanne

Simmons is an original  new book by Barbour all dedicated to children. This time it's their time for reflecting, with devotionals clearly dedicated to them. Great profoundity these prayers are written for let understand to all children their role as christians in the world and how they can play a good job in the society, helping others, being kind with other people but also in their family and with themselves, praying, being grateful for good situations, and when things are hectic at home asking to being more patients for not altering much more the atmosphere  of pain and sufferance.

At the same time there are prayers for being kind to older people; for being there to them, for being helpful, for listening to them and their wise words. There are prayers for every occasions; schools, friends, for homeless and needy; but also thinking at funny moments, when children play at the park or in the kitchen; children can ask to being peacemakers, good people in the sociel tissue, but devotionals are absolutely many and all in their beauty, of great help to these children.

I found this book fresh, and absolutely a good reading for your children.

Highly recommended.

I thank NetGalley and Barbour for the physical copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori 

Praying your Way to Joy 200 Inspiring Prayers for a Woman's Heart by Donna K.Maltese

Praying your Way to Joy 200 Inspiring Prayers for a Woman's Heart by Donna K.Maltese is a book soon released by Barbour. It is about all that joy given by God and His wise words. Thanks to these prayers every woman can find inspiration for a day plenty of great promises. In periods of uncertainties, when you think that your faith is a bit gone, but also when you are experiencing some diff

iculties or just when you need extra help this book is here, waiting for you with its wise words.

We all need words of encouragement and as I say often God is a great resource for finding inspiration in a daily base and for not get lost.

Beautiful illustrations, delicate, as always another great reading from Barbour. I fall in love for the cover, romantic and tender at the same time.

Highly recommended.

I thank NetGalley for this ebook.

Anna Maria Polidori 

When did the Stature of Liberty Turn Green? 101 Other Questions About New York City written by the Staff of the New-York Society Library

It's a beautiful and sunny book When did the Stature of Liberty Turn Green?

101 Other Questions About New York City written by the Staff of the New-York Society Library. If you love New York, if you want to discover realitistically the story of New York in a light way, passing through characters, places, people and what and who made the story of NYC, this one will be a great reading. Published by Columbia University Press this book is divided in various sections: Firsts and Origins, History and Politics, Curiosities and Wonders, Buildings, Streets and Neighborhoods, Arts, Leisures and Diversities. New York: known for his Christmas, and his Christmas's Trees, the first one vendors started their commerce of Christmas's Trees in the city was on 1851. The first book printed thanks to William Bradford in 1685. Although the New York Times is famous internationally, there is to add that the New York Post was the first newsmagazine released in New York, and it was at the end of 1800s, beginning of 1900s that some locals started to being identified as gay-ones.

You will learn that the New York Historical Society was founded by John Pintard, who had previously also founded the Massachusetts Historical Society. At the moment the Historical Society continues to play an important role in the cultural and educational life of the city. You will learn when slavery was suppressed in New York City and an important voice will involve also the so-called "orphan trains" trains of orphans fostered by families in the mid-west or in the west of the USA. 

A club the Harmonie one was founded by a German Jews attracting all that people refused by the exclusive clubs of New York City.

The Club was opened to everyone, not just Jewish people of course. With the time some polemics. Bloomberg resigned from this club and other three ones because he thought that there wasn't too much diversity and Barack Obama gave up from hosting a fund-raising because there are still no blacks in the club. The Harmonie accepts all people and at the moment blacks often visit the club as members's guest.

It was a terrible winter-time that year in NYC.1888, Roscoe Conkling, a senator of 59, successful, great life, plenty of health had had a life still to be living at the fullest. A heavy snow was descending from the sky. When he left his office and took a taxi, considering the 50 dollars that the man pretended, Roscoe preferred to giving up, starting to walk. His end was terribly sad.

Madame C.J. Walker was famous because she was the first millionaire woman. She sold all her life products for improving the quality of hair and fought against discriminations.

John Purroy Mitchel was the youngest mayor of NYC, but his history dramatically sad.

Although Sept 11 2001 that let us see with terror what it meant the impact of two airplanes in two skycrapes, you will read that NYC's problems with airplanes and buildings "existed" also in the past.

The story of mail deliveries in NYC is tremendously interesting but also the story of the research of corpes will intrigue you a lot for sure.

Considering that there wasn't any kind of regulation on the matter, it was custom in the past in NYC at opening graves for searching  for corpses necessary for experiment in laboratories or just for research. If at first this activity was done with a certain discretion, later became morbid and obsessive. 

Let's just add that someone, pretty upset caused a lot of mess because of the disappearance of the bodies of his beloved ones from the cemetery. 

The story of premature babies and Coney Island is captivating like also the one of Topsy an elephant who killed several people. For this reason she was killed as well. 

Balto, differently was an heroic dog. He saved thanks to his work, the existence of many people, and so someone thought that it would have been great remembering this dog with a statue, giving to him and the rest of dogs, dignity when alive.

A voice is dedicated at New Year's Eve; how New Yorkers celebrated the festivity and the arrival of the choice of Times Square iconic place attracting every end of the year New Yorkers and tourists from the world.

There is a statue of Edwin Booth in New York; he was the brother of John Wilkes Booth the killer of Abraham Lincoln. Edwin was a great actor, and he played a crucial role for the city.

Many more voices, many more facts, events, people in this book, fresh, quick, but at the same time informative and very well done.

Highly recommended.

I thank Columbia University Press for the physical copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori