Book reviews written in 2011 by Brendan Tripp.
Titles covered in this volume are:
Switch
Chip & Dan Heath
The Seat of the Soul
Gary Zukav
Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems
Rudyard Kipling
Content Rules
Ann Handley & C.C. Chapman
The Imperial Cruise
James Bradley
Real-Time Marketing and PR
David Meerman Scott
Cracking the Hidden Job Market
Donald Asher
Realm of the Incas
Victor W. Von Hagen
Genesis of the Grail Kings
Laurence Gardner
WCIYP? Job-Hunter's Workbook
Richard N. Bolles
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
The Thank You Economy
Gary Vaynerchuk
The Invisible Touch
Harry Beckwith
Zen Buddhism
Peter Pauper Press
Purple Cow
Seth Godin
The Twelfth Insight
James Redfield
The NOW Revolution
Amber Naslund & Jay Baer
On the Hunt
Col. David Hunt
50 Jobs in 50 States
Daniel Seddiqui
An Open Heart
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
The Entrepreneur Equation
Carol Roth
Kahuna Magic
Brad Steiger
Synchronicity
C.G. Jung
How Companies Win
Rick Kash & David Calhoun
Sinagua Sunwatchers
Kenneth J. Zoll
Iran, The Green Movement and the USA
Hamid Dabashi
A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle
Courageous Dreaming
Alberto Villoldo
Jaguars Ripped My Flesh
Tim Cahill
Cities of the Maya
Steve Glassman & Armando Anaya
WCIYP? Guide to Job-Hunting Online
Mark Emery Bolles
The Moral Landscape
Sam Harris
A History of PI
Petr Beckmann
Huna
Serge Kahili King
The Plan of Chicago
Carl Smith
Secret of the Forest
Wolfgang Cordan
The Cluetrain Manifesto
Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, & David Weinberger
The Human Genome
John Quackenbush
The Celestine Vision
James Redfield
Demystifying Tibet
Lee Feigon
Surviving Your Serengeti
Stefan Swanepoel
What Sticks
Rex Briggs & Greg Stuart
The Seed
Jon Gordon
Keeper of Genesis
Robert Bauval & Graham Hancock
Marketing Shortcuts for the Self-Employed
Patrick Schwerdtfeger
W. B. Yeats: Selected Poems
William Butler Yeats
Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)
Dave Barry
Beyond the Da Vinci Code
Sangeet Duchane
101 Weird Ways to Make Money
Steve Gillman
Beyond the Stream of the World
Phra Acariya Thoon Khippapañño
The Pearl of Great Price
Joseph Smith
Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff
Thomas & Olga de Hartmann
Going Pro
Scott Bourne & Skip Cohen
Rhetoric and Kairos
Phillip Sipiora & James S. Baumlin
God, No!
Penn Jillette
The Man of Numbers
Keith Devlin
Japanese Religion, Unity and Diversity
H. Byron Earhart
The Master Key to Riches
Napoleon Hill
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters
Jay Conrad Levinson & David E. Perry
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
Grab More Market Share
Ross Shafer
(oops - not enough room here - see the full list at EschatonBooks.com)
About the Author: 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).
