7 Book Reviews on Software Estimation

Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management: When Performance is Measured Performance Improves by Daniel D. Galorath and Michael W. Evans If you are looking to improve your return on investment, investing in this book is your first step.  This volume clearly outlines how to use tracking and estimation data to improve overall forecasting and investment identification.  For those who are focused... [Read more]

7 Book Reviews on Car Racing

Motor racing has been with us from the moment cars were invented; indeed a primary reason for the development of the automobile has not been to spread mass transportation to the masses but to enjoy the thrills of racing and the need for speed.  Every car manufacturer in the West can trace their origins to motor racing and relative newcomers have been quick to spot the marketing potential of associating... [Read more]

7 Book Reviews on Blood Diamonds

In 2006, Leonardo DiCaprio hit the movie screens with Blood Diamonds detailing the story of a diamond smuggler cum mercenary and that of a man who had lost his family to rebels who kidnapped his son for work in a conflict diamond mine.  Blood diamonds are not named for their color but rather the very real blood which is shed in order to mine them and more sinister, the arms for civil war for which... [Read more]

7 Book Reviews About Beating the Odds in Vegas

Cover via Amazon While we don’t advocate cheating in the form of counting cards, or any other sort of unsavory activity, we do like to win, so learning all about how to play games in the most educated way is something worth reading about for us. Maybe you want to read about it, too. So here we submit to you seven books about the venerable game of Blackjack. A good review of some of these books... [Read more]

7 book Reviews about Pearls

Pearl Buying Guide – 7 book Reviews about Pearls Pearls are one of the most precious jewelry items and how they are formed has fascinated people for as long as we have been fascinated by the pearls themselves. How they grow, how they are harvested and what they can be turned into has created more than a passing interest and the subject matter has been used for documentaries, academic works and... [Read more]

7 Books Every Child Should Read

Nothing can capture a child’s imagination better than a good book with great illustrations. Starting them off at an early age encourages and stimulates their mind and after they’ve read it, they’re full of questions and love to discuss the characters and plot line, especially when they’re young. As you encourage them along on this amazing journey that broadens their world, they will delight... [Read more]

7 Books About The Holocaust

The Holocaust is a blight on human history – an occurrence filled with so much pain, horror, and terror that it simply boggles the mind that it was allowed to happen.  The persecution and mass murder of nine million Jews during the 1930s and 1940s has been documented in many different books, in many different ways.  Here are 7 Books that shouldn’t be missed when studying this devastating... [Read more]

7 Books on F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you like learning about great American authors, or if you had to do a paper on F. Scott Fitzgerald, you’ve come to the right place.  Fitzgerald, author of The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise, The Love of the Last Tycoon, and numerous wonderful short stories, was born in 1896 and died of a heart attack in 1940.  His tortured relationship... [Read more]

7 Books About Vampires

Usually, we give you reference books or source books – books to read ABOUT something, so that you can learn.  Sometimes that gets kind of old, doesn’t it?  This edition of 7 Books is about fiction – the best stories about vampires.  They are listed here in order of publication, and there is a very wide span of years represented here.  Also – you won’t find any sparkly... [Read more]

7 Books on Lizzie Borden

Image via Wikipedia You know the rhyme.  “Lizzie Borden took an axe.  And gave her mother forty whacks.  When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.”  The trail of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and her stepmother took the United States by storm in 1892, when Borden was 32 years of age.  Despite the fact that there was a lot of suspicious activity surrounding... [Read more]