Book Review

Book Review: The Social Animal

Today’s Machining World Archives June 2011 Volume 07 Issue 05 By Jerry Levine David Brooks has spent 30 years studying the brain and how it functions both physically and emotionally. [...]

Book Review: Monsoon

By Jerry Levine Today’s Machining World Archives May 2011 Volume 07 Issue 04 Monsoon by Robert Kaplan is a superb book about India, another Third World country (not China) that [...]

Documentary Review: “The Tenth Inning”

Today’s Machining World Archives March 2011 Volume 07 Issue 02 By Jerry Levine Spring is coming, the time when young men’s hearts turn to what else—baseball. This magical game, invented [...]

Book Review: WAR

By Jerry Levine Today’s Machining World Archives January/February 2011 Volume 7 Issue 1 For 15 months, reporter Sebastian Junger followed a platoon based in a remote mountain outpost in eastern [...]

Book Review: In the Name of Honor

by Lloyd Graff Today’s Machining World Archives November/December 2010 Volume 06 Issue 09 Richard North Patterson is one of my favorite authors, though I often find his novels hard to [...]

Book Review : The Walk

by Lloyd Graff Today’s Machining World Archives October 2010 Volume 06 Issue 08 The Walk by Richard Paul Evans is a story of great emotional loss and one man’s step [...]

Book Review: Beyond Belief

By Jerry Levine Today’s Machining World Archives September 2010 Volume 06 Issue 07 I am a chemical engineer and spent my entire 36-year career working for the company formerly known [...]

Book Review: Physics for Future Presidents

By Jerry Levine Today’s Machining World Archives August 2010 Volume 06 Issue 06 I retired in April, 1998 from Amoco, about three months before BP bought them out and after [...]

Book Review: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Book Review: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

By Jerry Levine Today’s Machining World Archives June 2010 Volume 06 Issue 05 We all know the 2008 stock market collapse had something to do with sub-prime mortgages and credit [...]

Book Review: House Rules

Book Review: House Rules

By Lloyd Graff Today’s Machining World Archive: May 2010 Vol. 6, Issue 04 One person out of a hundred suffers from a form of autism, a brain dysfunction which robs [...]