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Gerber +*The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb +*Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh +*Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson +*The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz +*The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande +*The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau +*Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Kenneth Cukier +*The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression by Debra Fine +*The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh +*The Thank You Economy - Buy The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk +*Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe +*Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson +*The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable by Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale +*Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John Wood +*The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding by Laura Ries and Al Ries +*Rich Dad Poor Dad : What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Don't by Robert T. Kiyosaki +*Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin +*How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell +*Outliers: Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell +*What the Dog Saw: and other adventures by Malcolm Gladwell +*The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich by Thomas Ferriss +*How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success by Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer +*How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie +*Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen +*Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How by Daniel Coyle +*How I Made My First Million on the Internet and How You Can Too!: The Complete Insider's Guide to Making Millions with Your Internet Business by Ewen Chia +*SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Litt +*Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs by Norm Brodsky +*Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto by Adam Werbach +*The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis +*Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change by Louis V., Jr. Gerstner +*The Ten Faces of Innovation (English) - Buy The Ten Faces of Innovation : IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization by Tom Kelley +*Too Big to Fail : The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System by Andrew Ross Sorkin +*The Innovator's Dilemma : The Revolutionary National Bestseller That Changed The Way We Do Business by clayton m. christensen +*The Paypal Wars : Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth by Eric M. Jackson +*Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker +*Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World by Tyler Cowen +*One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com by Richard Brandt +*Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely +*The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic by Dan Ariely +*Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky +*Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart by Ian Ayres by Ian Ayres +*The Curse of the Mogul: What's Wrong with the World's Leading Media Companies by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave + + +###Philosophy, Psychology and Spirituality + +*Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown +*Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain +*Any Book by Daniel Kahneman +*Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid by Robert J.. Sternberg +*Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher by Winifred Gallagher +*Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life by Shakti Gawain +*You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen +*Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene +*Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average by Joseph T. Hallinan +*Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle + Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi + The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku + Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt + Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Others by Sherry Turkle + Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities by Dean Radin + Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy by William Barrett + The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business by Charles Duhigg + The Concise 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene + Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone + Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average: Joseph T. Hallinan + The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas by Michael S. Gazzaniga + In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan + Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling by Sam Gosling + The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker + The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature: Steven Pinker + Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini + The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present by Eric Kandel + A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future: Daniel H. Pink + Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis: Eric Berne. + How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic: Madsen Pirie + Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick + The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch + Ecological Rationality: Intelligence in the World (Evolution and Cognition) by Peter M. Todd, Gerd Gigerenzer + This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series) by John Brockman + Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett + Amazon.com: Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy by Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone + The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell + The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations by Matthew Stewart + Bulfinch's Mythology - All Three Volumes - The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch + Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson + Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized by James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al + Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto): Nassim Nicholas Taleb + The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations by Matthew Stewart + Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern by Douglas Hofstadter + Education and the Significance of Life: Krishnamurti + Metaphors We Live By: George Lakoff, Mark Johnson + The Hero with a Thousand Faces: Joseph Campbell + Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen: Christopher McDougall + The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Penguin Press Science) by Tor Norretranders + Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence by David Perkins + Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior by Geoffrey Miller + The Social Contract (Penguin Classics)by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston + Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts + + +History + + The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James + The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson + The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet by David Kahn + The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.) by Matt Ridley + One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs + The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton + Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson by Niall Ferguson + The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin + From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present: Jacques Barzun + The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Vintage): Tim Wu + Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber + The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World: Steven Johnson + Guns, Germs, And Steel : The Fates Of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond + Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future: Ian Morrisage + A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World: A Brief Economic History of the World Gregory Clark + The Art of War by Sun Tzu + Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee + The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan + Sexual Politics in Modern Iran by Janet Afary + The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan's Lawless Frontier by Imtiaz Gul + Inside the Crosshairs: Snipers in Vietnam by Col. Michael Lee Lanning + God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History by Stephen Hawking + The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman + + +Design + + Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure): Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel + + +Health + + 8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power by Andrew Weil + + +Politics + + Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict by Michael Klare + The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier + The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies by Bryan Caplan + Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel + Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin + Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis by James Rickards + The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama + The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt + Economic Facts and Fallacies, 2nd edition by Thomas Sowell + + +Evolution, Science, and Medicine + + The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr + The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition by Thomas S. Kuhn + The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon + The 10, 000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending + Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity by Dean Keith + At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity by Stuart Kauffman + The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler + A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking + A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson + Asimov's New Guide to Science by Isaac Asimov + Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age by Bart Kosko + Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter + The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us by Noson S. Yanofsky + The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins + Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense by Jonathan D. Moreno + Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives: David Sloan Wilson + Darwin's Dangerous Idea : EVOLUTION AND THE MEANINGS OF LIFE: Daniel C. Dennett + Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach + The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World by Elkhonon Goldberg + Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham + The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex by Murray Gell-Mann + Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind by Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen + + +Sexuality + + The Sex Myth by Brooke Magnanti + Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships: Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha. + For balance: Sex at Dusk: Lifting the Shiny Wrapping from Sex at Dawn: Lynn Saxon + + +Education + + The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance: Josh Waitzkin + How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development): John Holt + Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture: Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer + Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood: A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb + Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas: Seymour A. Papert + Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist: John Brockman + Teaching as a Subversive Activity: Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner + + +Writing + + Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim: Stephen Sondheim + Clear and Simple as the Truth: Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner + + +Theater and Film + + In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing by Walter Murch + A Practical Handbook for the Actor: Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet + The Actor and the Target: Declan Donnellan + How to Stop Acting: Harold Guskin + Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh: Mike Alfreds + Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair: Frank Hauser, Russell Reich + Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre: Keith Johnstone + + +Shakespeare + + Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard by Barry Edelstein. + Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt + Hamlet and Revenge by Eleanor Prosser. + Shakespeare's Metrical Art: George T. Wright + + +Fiction + + The Book Thief by Markus Zusak + A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving + The Help by Kathryn Stockett + Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder, Paulette Moller + All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr + If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, William Weaver + The Eight by Katherine Neville + Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson + Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen + Steppenwolf: A Novel by Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton + The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel by Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston + The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories (New Directions Paperbook) by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander + The Brothers Karamazov: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky + Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen + Emma: Jane Austen + Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte + The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton + The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk + The Bone People: A Novel by Keri Hulme + Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima + The City & The City (Random House Reader's Circle) by China Mieville + Letters From The Earth by Mark Twain + One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.): Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa + One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Signet): Ken Kesey + Watership Down: A Novel: Richard Adams + Cat's Eye: Margaret Atwood + Bleak House (Penguin Classics): Charles Dickens + Lonesome Dove: A Novel: Larry McMurtry + The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger + The Queen's Gambit: A Novel: Walter Tevis + 1Q84: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip ­Gabriel. + War and Peace: Leo Tolstoy. + The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald + Deception Point: Dan Brown + + +Technical + + How to Find a Habitable Planet (Science Essentials) + Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science: Dean Keith Simonton + The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science): Richard Dawkins + Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe: Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee + Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence by Hans Moravec. + The Little Schemer - 4th Edition by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman + Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World by Kevin Kelly + + +Logic and Problem Solving + + What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math): by Raymond M. Smullyan + The Lady or the Tiger?: and Other Logic Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math) by Raymond M. Smullyan + How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library) by George Polya + Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge by William Poundstone + + +Humor + + I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max + + +Other / Not Yet Categorized + + (empty) \ No newline at end of file