BTRIPP Books - 2010 - Paperback

by Brendan Tripp (Author)

Book reviews written in 2010 by Brendan Tripp.
Titles covered in this volume are:

The Five-Minute Miracle
Tara Springett

Peace Kills
P.J. O'Rourke

Entangled Minds
Dean Radin

How to Self-Destruct
Jason Seiden

The Union of Their Dreams
Miriam Pawel

How to Thrive in Changing Times
Sandra Ingerman

A Chicago Tavern
Rick Kogan

Me 2.0
Dan Schawbel

1001 Things It Means to Be a Boomer Now
Harry H. Harrison Jr.

Crush It!
Gary Vaynerchuk

Super-Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

Songs of Milarepa
Milarepa

Trust Agents
Chris Brogan & Julien Smith

The Last Three Minutes
Paul Davies

CrazyBusy
Edward M. Hallowell M.D.

Get Seen
Steve Garfield

In the Dark Places of Wisdom
Peter Kingsley

Social Media 101
Chris Brogan

Viral Loop
Adam L. Penenberg

Fired!
Annabelle Gurwitch

Utopia
Sir Thomas More

The Writer's Voice
A. Alvarez

Ethical Ambition
Derrick Bell

Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door
Harvey Mackay

Cro-Magnon
Brian Fagan

Social Media Metrics
Jim Sterne

On Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Tse-tung

Get The Job You Want Even When No One's Hiring
Ford R. Myers

The 4-Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss

10 Make-or-Break Career Moments
Casey Hawley

The Roman Empire
Dr. Ray Laurence

Ancient Greece
Eric Chaline

Ancient Egypt
Charlotte Booth

Effective Immediately
Emily Bennington & Skip Lineberg

The Next Wave of Technologies
Phil Simon

Permission Marketing
Seth Godin

Riding Toward Everywhere
William T. Vollmann

Twitterville
Shel Israel

The Magic of Thinking Big
David J. Schwartz

Collider
Paul Halpern

The Maya
Michael D. Coe

KaChing
Joel Comm

Cash In A Flash
Mark Victor Hansen & Robert G. Allen

Rewired
Larry D. Rosen, Ph.D

Careers For Your Cat
Ann Dziemianowicz & Ann Boyajian

What Your Body Says
Sharon Sayler

Angkor
Dawn F. Rooney

What Bothers Me Most about Christianity
Ed Gungor

Rework
Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson & Mike Rohde

Glenn Beck's Common Sense
Glenn Beck

On Seeing
F. Gonzalez-Crussi

The Art of Business Seduction
Mark Jeffries

Mutant Message Down Under
Marlo Morgan

Well Connected
Gordon S. Curtis

Free Prize Inside
Seth Godin

The Secret of Shambhala
James Redfield

Whispers
Ronald K. Siegel

No One Left To Lie To
Christopher Hitchens

The Twitter Job Search Guide
Susan Britton Whitcomb, Chandlee Bryan, & Deb Dib

Snake and Other Poems
D.H. Lawrence

The Grand Design
Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow

UnMarketing
Scott Stratten

Vitamin Q
Roddy Lumsden

The Dragonfly Effect
Jennifer Aaker, Andy Smith & Carlye Adler

A World Without Islam
Graham E. Fuller

The Illustrated Timeline of Religion
Laura S. Smith

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).