Book Reviews

Beauty Pays in Career, Life According to New Book

Posted on 2011-11-14 01:02:21, by Nanette Hampton in WritingBook Reviews

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In Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People are More Successful, Hamermesh reveals results of several years of research into the beauty factor of career success. Research concluded that attractive people earn an average of three percent to four percent more than a person with below-average looks. While that may seem like a miniscule difference at first glance, consider that it racks up to some $230,000 extra over a lifetime - just for having a pretty face. Even an average-looking employee can make upwards of $140,000 more over a lifetime than someone considered unattractive. Study after study shows that attractive people have a competitive edge right from the start. They tend to get called for more interviews, make better impressions on interviewers and get hired faster. As employees, they tend to land ... Read More

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Sanchaita - The journey of a poet

Posted on 2011-04-29 13:20:11, by Swastik Roy in WritingBook Reviews

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Tagore himself wrote in the fore words of Sanchaita that “I myself have have taken the responsibility of arranging this anthology. I could have given this responsibility to someone else but the sublime significance and history of any verse is known only to the poet who has written it.” It not always possible for him to convincingly understand the explicit significance of the verses he himself has written. While going through this anthology we’ll find that starting with “The Stanzas of Bhanusingha” till “the last writing” there are 488 poems consisted in 56 anthologies, which is a journey starting from June 1881 and coming to an end at June 1941. Like a master a novelist Tagore has recreated the mental journey of his poetic self which is very clearly perceivable throughout this anthology. Rabindranath Tagore’s poetic output justifies Shelley’s prophetic dictum that “Poets are ... Read More

Book Reviews

Review (Inner Sound)

Posted on 2011-04-15 02:20:49, by Makhfour Islam in WritingBook Reviews

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This book invites simply to think about inner sound and about observation at every thing. This book will touch your heart and creates the real feelings in the reader. This book is about the pain, sad, sorrow. This book is about the real beloved. This book is provided by me that will show you an unknown way of thinking but some time you will consider it as simple and some time you will think that this is deeply book. Let us review at Inner Sound. Neither I am Patient nor Doctor, neither I am pain nor a medicine. As I am looking, not like that real. I am love for you every moment These lines are taken from Inner Sound. What is said by me? I want to remain Love. What is work of Love? I ... Read More