Scott J. Pearson

The Incredible Value of Employee Power Unleashed

By Scott J. Pearson | February 14, 2021February 14, 2021 by Scott J. Pearson

The author of this book is someone who has spent most of his life in the hotel industry. He is passionate about the value of employee satisfaction and seemingly has made it to be the cornerstone of his professional philosophy. He shares that passion with readers in the context of this book. By supplying copious personal examples, he attempts to get the reader interested in his perspective on business and specifically management. However, his writing…

Designing Clinical Research

By Scott J. Pearson | February 8, 2021February 8, 2021 by Scott J. Pearson

Research methods are important to almost all graduate students in the sciences. Design in particular can make or break the funding of a project – not to mention the implementation of the project itself! The stakes are rarely higher than in clinical, biomedical research where large dollars, impactful results, and ethical aspects of live patients are constantly at play. This book, written by a collaboration of highly successful biomedical researchers, teaches how to design research…

Society

Tribe: Why Do All Our Friends Look Just Like Us?

By Scott J. Pearson | February 6, 2021February 6, 2021 by Scott J. Pearson

This work is spawn out of two entities: Unger’s life experiences while leading a diverse church in a diverse, urban neighborhood and her thirst for advanced education and stimulating reading. Using these two springboards, she shares lessons from her journey from a fundamentalist/evangelical background to where she is today. She describes how she believes that her life is now richer than it was before. She touches on issues of tribalism that plague pluralistic societies today…

Biography-Memoir Politics Society

Becoming by Michelle Obama

By Scott J. Pearson | February 4, 2021February 4, 2021 by Scott J. Pearson

In this brilliantly deliberate memoir, Obama reflects on the journey that is her life. She shares how an educationally-driven, middle-class, African-American girl from the south-side of Chicago could become First Lady of the United States. With the highest decency, she shares how she raised two girls while in the public eye and how she joined with her husband in carrying a difficult nation. Through her words, she courageously fights for the soul of a country,…

Healthcare Kids

Neurology for Babies

By Scott J. Pearson | January 30, 2021January 30, 2021 by Scott J. Pearson

This illustrated children’s book illuminates the basics of the human nervous system. It teaches kids about their bodies – specifically, about their brains and senses – in a way that intends to make such learning fun. The pictures are colorful and engaging for young learners. Even though the brain can seem like an abstract topic, this book centers on the very basics – in other words, high-yield material. This book can be helpful to just…

Fiction-Stories History

Gerta: A Novel by Kateřina Tučková

By Scott J. Pearson | January 30, 2021January 30, 2021 by Scott J. Pearson

This novel, translated from the Czech language, describes the life of Germans in the Czech region of Europe before, during, and after World War II. It does not paint a pretty picture. Some Germans supported the rise of Adolf Hitler and paid a moral price for the rest of their lives. Others – especially women and children – were not directly involved in the political and war efforts, but were still forced on a death…

History

The Death of Camus by Giovanni Catelli

By Scott J. Pearson | January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 by Scott J. Pearson

Albert Camus was a towering intellectual figure during and after the Second World War in France. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature and tried to stand for truth in an era of ideology. However, on January 4, 1960, he tragically died in his prime in a car wreck while traveling back to Paris. This book tries to make sense of this tragedy, approximately fifty years after. Catelli excels at setting up the circumstantial case…

Fiction-Stories

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

By Scott J. Pearson | January 16, 2021January 16, 2021 by Scott J. Pearson

Zora Neale Hurston was one of the pioneering authors during the Harlem Renaissance and is most well-known for the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. This work is a compilation of short stories published during her life. Many of these short stories are previously unavailable to a wider audience. Together, they open a tall and wide window to African American life in Eatonville, Florida, Hurston’s hometown, and Harlem, New York, in the early twentieth century.…

History Religion-Philosophy

The Rebel by Albert Camus

By Scott J. Pearson | January 16, 2021January 16, 2021 by Scott J. Pearson

Albert Camus is known mostly for his novels which investigate human existence – that is, existentialism as a philosophy. His characters question whether there is meaning in human life or not at all (nihilism). This work, however, is not a work of fiction but of non-fiction. In it, Camus expounds on the nature of human rebellion against the present state of affairs – that is, against the meaninglessness of life. He examines this rebellious act…

Fiction-Stories Society

Native Son by Richard Wright

By Scott J. Pearson | January 9, 2021January 9, 2021 by Scott J. Pearson

Historically, this work was written before the Civil Rights era (1940) and shed light on the terrible social circumstances that pervaded African-American life in the North. Set in Chicago shortly after the Great Migration, it portrays what we now would characterize as systemic racism – the realities of a dysfunctional society. A black everyman has his life cast away by a lack of opportunity to make his life count for something. It can remind today’s…