Book Review: The Enchantress of Florence

You don’t get a more dazzling display of literature’s infinite capacity for playfulness than this. Salman Rushdie comes out firing on all cylinders - and a few extra boosters to boot - with his latest Mughal’n'Medici novel, The Enchantress of Florence. The flavour of the whole enterprise is Umberto Eco on speed. Read on» » » »

Book Review: This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me

This exuberant autobiography takes us through movie director Norman Jewison’s entire career, from the fluffy Doris Day comedies of his early years to his most powerful dramas. Over more than forty years, he has made films that are not only highly entertaining, but at times manage to make a valuable moral statement about the world. Read on» » » »

Book Review: Applied Software Project Management

It’s not often that a software project management book comes along that is practical, easy to read and stacked full of ready to use process scripts. Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene have done just that with recent book Applied Software Project Management.

There are too many books about software project management or software engineering which are dry, overly complex and boring, but this book is not one of them. It was a joy to read because their style of writing is clear without being simplistic and the authors describe things in just the right amount of detail. It seems they understand their audience and set out to write in an extremely helpful and practical way. They have certainly achieved this. Read on» » » »