Confidential

L.A. Confidential [Blu-ray]
$28.99
This movie is a fascinating look into old Hollywood and yellow journalism. Danny Devito was at his best, playing a tabloid journalist that was willing to "get the scoop" at all cost. A classic!!!

Reviewed by Kardia Williams

Confidential
$7.99
'Confidential' is an easy listening album with nice guitar that can be listened to often.

Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)
$15.95
After working a few years in food service, and watching a bit of No Reservations I picked up this book, and I definitely wasn't dissapointed. Anthony tells a raw story of how the world of professional chefdom really works. It's all very intriguing and well written. One thing I really liked is that I could almost hear Anthony narrating it while I was reading it...meaning that it's written very much in the style that he talks and narrates on his show, and that the book wasn't heavily over-edited. Also, as someone with a pipe dream of possibly some day owning a restaurant or something of that sort, this definitely steered me away from it. Overall, it was great read cover to cover, and I'd definitely recommend.

Confidential: Business Secrets - Getting Theirs, Keeping Yours
$17.95
This book was a required text for Industrial Espionage - a course that I took at American Military University. It was quite informative on the tactics businesses have used in obtaining business secrets from their rivals - some legally and others, unfortunately, illegally. In our fast-paced and extremely competitive environment, every business leader that wants to protect his or her business secrets ought to expand the number of skills and talents that his or her business employs, by reading this book and understanding the sophisticated tools of the trade of obtaining vital business secrets. This book is a lot more than how spies operate. It doesn't teach one to be a spy. It teaches how to legitimately obtain competitive information that was kept in the vault. The legal side of acquiring such competitive business secrete is called Competitive Intelligence, and the umlawful side is Indistrial Espionage or Economic Espionage. The difference between the two is explicit in Nolan's book. [Nwankama W Nwankama]