Jane Austen alert! This month’s book, Jane on the Brain, was a New York Times “New and Notable Selection.” Wendy Jones’s fun and insightful book presents how Jane Austen’s characters model what we now understand to be mind/brain science. This book had Linda gushing about its smart and witty illustrations of psychological concepts using some of her favorite characters. Nancy loved the book, too — I mean its focus is Jane Austen! If you love to dissect why people do the things they do, or if you love Jane Austen, this episode is for you! If you like both, you need to buy this book!
Author Dr. Patrice McMahon joins us on the front porch to discuss her book, The NGO Game: Post-conflict Peacebuilding in the Balkans and Beyond. This book is a front row seat to the failure of Western interests to build strong civil societies after the Balkan wars. Through public/private partnerships, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) were tasked with rebuilding war-torn countries. Instead, countries were subjected to an ineffective boom of foreign capital, much of which didn’t address the needs of the citizens, and then were crippled by the inevitable bust when interests drifted to other international disasters.
The Front Porch reaches for our back-to-school backpacks as we review, The NGO Game, a scholarly critique of non-governmental organizations in post-conflict countries. The book examines the failure of peace-building efforts in the Balkans and examines the role these organizations played.
We have a blast on the front porch talking with Mark Snyder, Jr., author of the paranormal thriller, The Legacy. Linda and Mark go way back, and Linda asks Mark how such a wonderful, generous person could write such a disturbing book! Mark describes the genesis of the book and tells us how writing the book was a cathartic experience as he worries about adverse human impacts on the health of our planet.
The Legacy, by Mark Snyder, Jr., is a paranormal thriller that places humanity’s future in the hands of gods who will determine whether our race deserves to survive. The book prompts Linda and Nancy to discuss their thoughts on destiny, mission, and purpose. Find out what Linda hopes people will say at her funeral.
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