by Aseem Gupta | Jan 14, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Nicholas Boothman’s How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less has the kind of title that invites two opposite reactions. One is hopeful: perhaps there really is a learnable way to become more comfortable with strangers, create rapport quickly, and stop leaving...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 12, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Inazo Nitobe’s Bushido: The Soul of Japan is one of the most influential attempts ever made to explain the moral ideals associated with Japan’s samurai to an English-speaking audience. First published in Philadelphia in 1900—the early edition carries an...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 8, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales can look deceptively simple from a distance: a group of pilgrims travel from London toward Canterbury and entertain themselves by telling stories along the road. What survives, however, is far stranger and more ambitious...
