Book Reviews

It does not need a lot of intelligence to note that so many people and bodies are missing the findings of cutting-edge scholarships. Through reading recently published books, my efforts subscribe to the banalization of critical findings through the format of book reviews. I seek to facilitate the dissemination of learning, not for learning's sake, but for progressing with the material livelihood of millions of people worldwide. In other words, informed decision-making relies on and becomes possible only with extensive reading. Towards this end, the act of reading books for their own sake, that is, prizing a penchant for the bookish adventure, remains a pathology that humanity needs to dispense with. Unfortunately, so many bookhauls, booktubes, and even scholarly outlets subscribe to such a narcissist preoccupation or an infinite masturbation on a presupposed intrinsic benefits of and from reading. In the meanwhile, people stay confused and uncertain, unable to take action that radically subverts the status quo and dictates greater emancipation.

Still, not everything that has been published, even by a major university press or a renowned publisher, is worthy of the reader's time. Often, it is specifically these published materials framed credible, that readers must be alert to and take with a grain of salt! My readings are thus more aligned with to the French maxim: je ne veux pas mourir idiot, translated roughly into: I don't want to die an idiot. Referring to idiots, there are plenty around, including self-professed learnt scholars and authors.