BTRIPP Books - 2014 - Paperback

by Brendan Tripp (Author)

Book reviews written in 2014 by Brendan Tripp.
Titles covered in this volume are:

Everyday Book Marketing
Midge Raymond

Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense
Steve Hagen

Egyptomania
Bob Brier

Highly Recommended
Paul M. Rand

Quick and Nimble
Adam Bryant

Maximize Your Social
Neal Schaffer

Essence of the Dhammapada
Eknath Easwaran

Losing Our Religion
S.E. Cupp

Present at the Creation
Amir D. Aczel

One Simple Idea
Mitch Horowitz

The Demon Under the Microscope
Thomas Hager

The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth
Chris Brogan

Spin Sucks
Gini Dietrich

Biodiesel America
Josh Tickell

How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things
Neil Smith

The Icarus Deception
Seth Godin

Free Money "They" Don't Want You to Know About
Kevin Trudeau

Likeable Social Media
Dave Kerpen

An Enemy of the People
Henrik Ibsen

The Pirates' Code Guidelines
Joshamee Gibbs

Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull

Conscious Millionaire
J.V. Crum, III

Before the First Shots Are Fired
General Tony Zinni

The Conscious Universe
Dean Radin

Unleashing the Ideavirus
Seth Godin

Startup Mixology
Frank Gruber

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Jennifer 8. Lee

Shortcut
John Pollack

Free
Chris Anderson

The Social Employee
Cheryl & Mark Burgess

Riveted
Jim Davies

Border Insecurity
Sylvia Longmire

UnSelling
Scott Stratten

The Zen of Social Media Marketing
Shama Hyder Kabani

The Ancestral Mind
Dr. Gregg Jacobs

Impromptu Man
Jonathan D. Moreno

The Foremost Good Fortune
Susan Conley

Small Is the New Big
Seth Godin

The Nature of Reality
Aingeal Rose O'Grady

Spontaneous Happiness
Andrew Weil

Author Biography

Brendan Tripp began writing poetry in high school, continued into college, and expanded his writing in his years as a P.R. Executive and Publisher. He eventually settled into a pattern of writing 250 poems per year, and continued doing so for a dozen or so years in the 80's and 90's. Every year he'd produce a comb-bound collection of all of that year's output, and this new series of releases is replicating those collections, but in perfect-bound paperback editions. His better-known chapbooks were put out every couple of years, and were essentially "best of" collections featuring 10% of the 500 poems composed during a particular 2-year span. Eventually these will likely be pulled together into one volume and re-issued here as well. Brendan has been very active on-line from the very early years of the Web, and has published a good deal of his poetry on his blog, which he began in 2000. This, from time to time, included reading audios of various poems. Due to the large number of pieces involved, this has never been been systematically addressed, but that is an element that is being considered for future development, possibly through a Blog Talk Radio channel, or via YouTube videos. As is evident from even a cursory reading of Tripp's poetry, most of this is dark, brooding, anguished, and fraught with despair. Eventually the process of giving these sorts of inner states a physical form began to take a toll, creating something of a neuro-linguistic feedback loop of increasing morbidity, and around 2004 he took the dramatic step of no longer writing poetry on a regular basis. After having composed so much for so long, this came as quite a shock to Tripp's system, and the various publishing projects that he had in the works (including a web site with three decades' worth of poems) fell by the wayside. It was only in the past year, following his being hired to consult on a book project, that the idea of using one of the now easily-accessible on-demand publishing services (Amazon's "Create Space") came up, and he has begun the major process of developing new editions of these annual collections. While Brendan Tripp has no plans to resume writing poetry, he is quite interested in getting his "life's work" out there, both in print, and eventually in e-books and other media. Tripp lives in Chicago where he is a consulting Marketing Communications pro, and freelance writer. He can be found all over the Internet as "BTRIPP" (except for where he's not).