Reviews for Enterpreneurship and Small Business Management

The average rating for Enterpreneurship and Small Business Management based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-04-16 00:00:00 Chris Pate My favorite movie when I was a kid was "The Fearless Vampire Killers," the daffy satiric Polanski movie featuring the beautiful and ill-fated Sharon Tate, about a couple of hapless vampire hunters. Years later, I got into boxing and am a bonafide fanatic. While watching "Vampire Killers" recently and squinting closely at the character playing Koukol, the hunchbacked servant, I had an epiphany: "That's Terry Downes!" Terry Downes was a very good English middleweight at a time when the English boxing scene was considered a poor shadow of its American cousin (definitely not the case now). Mr. Downes was known (wrongly) as a pure puncher, and while there is something primal and savage about his performance in the footage available of him, there were more nuances to his game than the domestic press was willing to allow at the time. Sadly, the "Paddington Express" passed away recently, leaving Anthony DeMarco with the mantle of oldest living world champion. The good news is that the Terry Downes who comes through in the pages of this autobiography (written with a partner) is a cockney-speaking, tough-but-lovable chap who enjoyed boxing, had a successful career as an amateur and a pro, and got out of the ring with his wits and winnings intact. Most boxing tales, and most lives, have a dark side, but Downes comes across as that rare genuine article, a guileless and good-hearted man who lived clean, loved his family, and didn't betray his friends. The book is straightforward, with a couple of unexpected detours (he was in the American Marine Corps?!), and some tragedies along the way to the world title. Recommended, but good luck finding a reasonably-priced copy. I was lucky enough to scoop mine up from the local library on a blind lark.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-05-21 00:00:00 Andrew Chen Wei Wen Like the truth, this book has a good and a bad. First, the bad. This was the worst book I have ever read. I have never felt so sickened, so appalled, so filled with rage as I was when I first read this book. I couldn't make it through 5 pages at a time of a chapter without stopping to breathe and let my blood cool. This book exposes the most disgusting, despicable aspects of the human condition. It explains the business, economics, and nittygritty of human trafficking. His next book is more focused on human slavery in terms of slave labor, where this was an explanation of the global sex trade. This book made me realize that to call human beings animals is a great disgrace to the rest of the animal species, who don't exploit their young and defenseless to the rest of their species, and who don't make a profit on the exploitation of their own young. The stories he shares of former slaves will make you sick with anger and sadness. That said, this was one of the best books I have read. Siddharth Kara is honest, and his writing is based in data and research, not sensationalism, which I greatly admire. I think that he deserves great reward for the work he has done, and what use to which he has put his brilliant mind, and the risks he took to get first hand impressions of brothels in the most dangerous parts of the globe. I think everyone who can should read this book, then take it with them to lobby or effect change some other way.