by Aseem Gupta | Aug 11, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has become so deeply embedded in popular culture that many readers approach it already knowing its central secret. “Jekyll and Hyde” has become shorthand for a person with dramatically opposed sides, while...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 8, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Published in July 2005 as the sixth novel in J.K. Rowling’s seven-book series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince occupies a peculiar and important position in the larger story. Scholastic’s original publication announcement presented it as the penultimate Harry...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 6, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John C. Maxwell’s The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership has endured because it gives leadership a vocabulary that is unusually easy to remember. Instead of building an academic theory around specialized terminology, Maxwell organizes leadership into twenty-one...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 4, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth Harry Potter novel and the point at which the series changes its scale. The aftermath of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has destroyed the possibility that Harry can return to an ordinary school year: Cedric...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 2, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John C. Maxwell and Les Parrott’s 25 Ways to Win with People: How to Make Others Feel Like a Million Bucks sounds, from its title, like a book about influence. That description is accurate only if influence is understood in a particular way. Maxwell and Parrott are...
