Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking (first published 1952) is less a tightly argued treatise than a rhetorically polished manual of moral encouragement. Its long-lived popularity — it has been read, recommended, parodied and debated for decades — rests on a simple, emotionally resonant premise: the orientation of mind shapes the course of … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wealthing Like Rabbits by Robert R. Brown
Robert R. Brown’s Wealthing Like Rabbits announces itself like a contrarian primer: modest in size, mischievous in tone, defiantly uninterested in the pieties of finance-speak. Its subtitle — “An Original and Occasionally Hilarious Introduction to the World of Personal Finance” — is not mere marketing flourish but programmatic: Brown wants to teach, to amuse, and … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wealthing Like Rabbits by Robert R. Brown
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
James Allen’s As a Man Thinketh is a short, aphoristic meditation on moral agency and the formative power of thought. First published in 1903 as a slim, pamphlet-like tract, it has since persisted as a staple of self-help and New Thought traditions. Read today through a literary-critical lens, the text is at once a rhetorical … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Metamorphoses by Ovid
Ovid’s Metamorphoses is less a single tale than an architecture of change: a vast, ebullient mosaic of transformations that proceeds from the universe’s primeval chaos to the deification of Julius Caesar. Composed in fluent dactylic hexameter and stretching across fifteen books, the poem is both encyclopaedia and incantation — an artful catalogue in which the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Metamorphoses by Ovid
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Taboo: The Art of Tiki, edited by Martin McIntosh with an introduction by Sven A. Kirsten
"Taboo: The Art of Tiki" is at once a curatorial flourish and a cultural document: a small, handsome volume that archives a particular late-20th-century fascination with Pacific iconography as refracted through the sensibilities of Lowbrow and pop-surrealist artists. Edited by Martin McIntosh with an introduction by Sven A. Kirsten, and credited with contributions from figures … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Taboo: The Art of Tiki, edited by Martin McIntosh with an introduction by Sven A. Kirsten
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Masters: Earthenware: Major Works by Leading Artists, Curated by Matthias Ostermann and edited by Ray Hemachandra
Masters: Earthenware arrives not as a dry handbook but as a museum catalogue written in the idiom of the studio. Curated by Matthias Ostermann and edited by Ray Hemachandra, the volume assembles compact, richly illustrated mini-retrospectives that together argue for earthenware as a lively, experimental, and emotionally capacious medium rather than a mere step on … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Masters: Earthenware: Major Works by Leading Artists, Curated by Matthias Ostermann and edited by Ray Hemachandra
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Sacred Balance, 25th Anniversary Edition, by David Suzuki
David Suzuki’s The Sacred Balance returns in a thoughtful 25th-anniversary edition that reads less like a retread and more like a conversation re-opened across decades. This edition—issued by Greystone with a new foreword by Robin Wall Kimmerer and an afterword by Bill McKibben—pairs Suzuki’s lucid synthesis of ecology and ethics with two contemporary interlocutors whose … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Sacred Balance, 25th Anniversary Edition, by David Suzuki
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – 1984 by George Orwell
George Orwell’s 1984 is one of those rare novels that wears its bleakness with cold, analytical clarity: a work of moral and imaginative pressure that compresses historical anxieties into a single, terrible hypothesis about political life. First published in 1949, the novel reads like a thought experiment about power’s capacity to remake reality itself — … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – 1984 by George Orwell
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Animal Farm by George Orwell
George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a short novel that functions as both a tight fable and a merciless piece of political argument. Compressed, crystalline, and spitefully comic, the book succeeds where many polemics fail: it turns abstract history into live, breathing characters and then performs a slow-motion moral sleight-of-hand so convincing you barely notice the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Servant Leadership by Oluwagbemiga Olowosoyo
Oluwagbemiga Olowosoyo’s Servant Leadership joins a growing conversation that stretches from Robert K. Greenleaf’s mid-twentieth-century formulation to contemporary debates about ethical authority, organizational stewardship, and leadership as moral formation. This compact volume is best read not as a polemic or a how-to manual but as a reflective and corrective intervention: it insists that leadership — … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Servant Leadership by Oluwagbemiga Olowosoyo
The New Renaissance Mindset 