BTRIPP Books - 2015 - Paperback

by Brendan Tripp (Author)

Book reviews written in 2015 by Brendan Tripp.
Titles covered in this volume are:

Do More, Spend Less
Brad Wilson

Will the Real You Please Stand Up
Kim Garst

The Wizard of Ads
Roy H. Williams

Secret Formulas of the Wizard of Ads
Roy H. Williams

Magical Worlds of the Wizard of Ads
Roy H. Williams

The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Fran Lebowitz

Conquering the Electron
Derek Cheung & Eric Brach

Age of Conversation 3
Drew McLellan & Gavin Heaton

The Moral Arc
Michael Shermer

Bold
Peter Diamandis

Manifesto for the Noosphere
José Argüelles

Trust Me, I'm Lying
Ryan Holiday

Mugged
Ann Coulter

Win the Game of Googleopoly
Sean V. Bradley

A God That Could Be Real
Nancy Ellen Abrams

A Death on Diamond Mountain
Scott Carney

Everybody Writes
Ann Handley

Waking Up
Sam Harris

The Art of Work
Jeff Goins

Stand Out
Dorie Clark

Mind Wars
Jonathan D. Moreno

Headstrong
Rachel Swaby

The Divine Spark
Graham Hancock

The Only Woman in the Room
Eileen Pollack

The Upside of Stress
Kelly McGonigal

Twitter Power 3.0
Joel Comm & Dave Taylor

Highly Effective Networking
Orville Pierson

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde

One Spirit Medicine
Alberto Villoldo

ALL THINGS GO
Eric Durchholz

Motivation Manifesto
Brendon Burchard

Life on the Edge
Johnjoe McFadden & Jim Al-Khalili

Naples Declared
Benjamin Taylor

Our Last Best Chance
King Abdullah II of Jordan

The Zero Marginal Cost Society
Jeremy Rifkin

Forgotten Civilization
Robert M. Schoch

Real Skills, Real Income
Diana Schneidman

The Optimism Bias
Tali Sharot

Godless Grace
David Orenstein. & Linda Ford Blaikie

The Power of Relentless
Wayne Allyn Root

Spreading the Wealth
Stanley Kurtz

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
J.R.R. Tolkien

Dataclysm
Christian Rudder

The Happiness Project
Gretchen Rubin

A Simple Government
Mike Huckabee

Now, Discover Your Strengths
M. Buckingham & D.O. Clifton

Harness the Sun
Philip Warburg

Free for All
Wendy Kaminer

Q & A About Sleep Apnea
Sudhansu Chokroverty

The War of Art
Steven Pressfield

Public Apology
Dave Bry

Start-Up City
Gabe Klein

Street Smart
Samuel I. Schwartz

What If ...
Shirley McLaine

Our Grandchildren Redesigned
Michael Bess

An Improvised Life
Alan Arkin

Flipping Burgers to Flipping Millions
Bernard Kelly

Think Like a Freak
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

The Upward Spiral
Dr. Alex Korb

Leadership and Self-Deception
The Arbinger Institute

The Compound Effect
Darren Hardy

Where Mercy Is Shown, Mercy Is Given
Duane "Dog" Chapman

Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse

Meditations
Marcus Aurelius

Seven Events That Made America America
Larry Schweikart

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).