diff --git a/README-new.md b/README-new.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8b19cc6..0000000 --- a/README-new.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,516 +0,0 @@ -# Mind Expanding Books - -[![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) [![project chat](https://img.shields.io/badge/zulip-join_chat-brightgreen.svg)](https://books.zulipchat.com) - - -> Curated list of mind expanding books. - - -## Table of Contents -* [Startups and Business](#startups-and-business) -* [Philosophy and Psychology](#philosophy-and-psychology) -* [Autobiographies and Biographies](#autobiographies-and-biographies) -* [History](#history) -* [Evolution, Science and Medicine](#science-and-medicine) -* [Logic and Problem Solving](#logic-and-problem-solving) -* [Politics](#politics) -* [Economics](#economics) -* [Gender](#gender) -* [Sexuality](#sexuality) -* [Education](#education) -* [Writing](#writing) -* [Theater and Film](#theater-and-film) -* [Fiction](#fiction) -* [Health](#health) -* [Design](#design) -* [Travel](#travel) -* [Language](#language) -* [Nature](#nature) - -# Books - -## Startups and Business -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike | Phil Knight | [4.46](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27220736-shoe-dog) | 2016 | -| The Compound Effect | Darren Hardy | [4.40](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9420697-the-compound-effect) | 2010 | -| High Output Management | Andy Grove | [4.38](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324750.High_Output_Management) | 1995 | -| Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success | Napoleon Hill | [4.38](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10713286-outwitting-the-devil) | 2011 | -| How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success | Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer | [4.26](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96593.The_Success_Principles) | 2007 | -| The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine | Michael Lewis | [4.26](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8032112-the-big-short) | 2015 | -| The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership | Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh | [4.21](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6342995-the-score-takes-care-of-itself) | 2009 | -| The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers | Ben Horowitz | [4.20](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-about-hard-things) | 2014 | -| Think and Grow Rich | Napoleon Hill | [4.17](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30186948-think-and-grow-rich) | 1937 | -| Outliers: Story of Success | Malcolm Gladwell | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3364437-outliers-the-story-of-success) | 2008 | -| The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable | Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale | [4.09](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99919.The_Strategy_and_Tactics_of_Pricing) | 2005 | -| Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action | Simon Sinek | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7108725-start-with-why) | 2009 | -| Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children | John Wood | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95429.Leaving_Microsoft_to_Change_the_World) | 2006 | -| Hackers and Painters | Paul Graham | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41793.Hackers_Painters) | 2004 | -| Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't | Jim Collins | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76865.Good_to_Great) | 2001 | -| The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses | Eric Ries | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10127019-the-lean-startup) | 2011 | -| The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal | Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz | [4.03](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68985.The_Power_of_Full_Engagement) | 2005 | -| The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right | Atul Gawande | [4.03](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-manifesto) | 2009 | -| Where Good Ideas Come From | Steven Johnson | [4.03](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8034188-where-good-ideas-come-from) | 2010 | -| Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose | Tony Hsieh | [4.01](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6828896-delivering-happiness) | 2010 | -| The Innovator's Dilemma | clayton m. christensen | [4.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_Innovator_s_Dilemma) | 1997 | -| Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change | Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson | [3.98](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/914211.Influencer) | 2007 | -| The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It | Michael E. Gerber | [3.98](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81948.The_E_Myth_Revisited) | 1995 | -| Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity | David Allen | [3.98](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633.Getting_Things_Done) | 2001 | -| Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way | Richard Branson | [3.97](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211099.Losing_My_Virginity) | 1998 | -| SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance | Steven D. Litt | [3.96](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6402364-superfreakonomics) | 2009 | -| The Ten Faces of Innovation | Tom Kelley | [3.96](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95656.The_Ten_Faces_of_Innovation) | 2005 | -| Rich Dad Poor Dad : What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Don't | Robert T. Kiyosaki | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69571.Rich_Dad_Poor_Dad) | 1997 | -| Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups Early Days | Jessica Livingston | [3.94](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98233.Founders_at_Work) | 2007 | -| The Paypal Wars | Eric M. Jackson | [3.94](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4052.The_PayPal_Wars) | 2010 | -| Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Lead | Sheryl Sandberg | [3.94](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071764-lean-in) | 2013 | -| ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever | David Heinemeier Hansson | [3.93](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6732019-rework) | 2010 | -| The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding | Laura Ries and Al Ries | [3.93](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1565533.The_22_Immutable_Laws_of_Branding) | 1998 | -| Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner | [3.93](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1202.Freakonomics) | 2006 | -| The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference | Malcolm Gladwell | [3.92](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2612.The_Tipping_Point) | 2002 | -| The Four Steps to the Epiphany | Steve Blank | [3.92](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762542.The_Four_Steps_to_the_Epiphany) | 2005 | -| The Curse of the Mogul | Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7162410-the-curse-of-the-mogul) | 2009 | -| David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants | Malcolm Gladwell | [3.90](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15751404-david-and-goliath) | 2013 | -| Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto | Adam Werbach | [3.89](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6553353-strategy-for-sustainability) | 2009 | -| The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | [3.88](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242472.The_Black_Swan) | 2007 | -| Contagious: Why Things Catch On | Jonah Berger | [3.88](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15801967-contagious) | 2013 | -| Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change | Louis V Gerstner, Jr | [3.88](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/603985.Who_Says_Elephants_Can_t_Dance_) | 2003 | -| Linchpin: Are You Indispensable | Seth Godin | [3.87](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7155145-linchpin) | 2010 | -| The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future | Chris Guillebeau | [3.85](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12605157-the-100-startup) | 2012 | -| Too Big to Fail | Andrew Ross Sorkin | [3.85](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6687247-too-big-to-fail) | 2011 | -| The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less | Barry Shwartz | [3.84](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10639.The_Paradox_of_Choice) | 2005 | -| The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything | Guy Kawasaki | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37875.The_Art_of_the_Start) | 2004 | -| Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business | Jeff Howe | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2601510-crowdsourcing) | 2008 | -| Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age | Clay Shirky | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7614793-cognitive-surplus) | 2010 | -| Zero to One | Peter Thiel, Blake Masters | [3.75](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050143-zero-to-one) | 2014 | -| One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com | Richard Brandt | [3.75](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11223478-one-click) | 2011 | -| Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think | Kenneth Cukier | [3.70](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15815598-big-data) | 2013 | -| The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich | Timothy Ferriss | [3.61](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368593.The_4_Hour_Workweek) | 2012 | -| The Accidental Billionaires : The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal | Ben Mezrich | [3.50](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6326920-the-accidental-billionaires) | 2009 | - -## Philosophy And Psychology -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion | Gregory Boyle | [4.41](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7090193-tattoos-on-the-heart) | 2010 | -| Education and the Significance of Life | Krishnamurti | [4.38](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/353435.Education_and_the_Significance_of_Life) | 2008 | -| Man's Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | [4.33](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning) | 2006 | -| Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear | [4.32](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121378-atomic-habits) | 2018 | -| The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size | Tor Norretranders | [4.30](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106732.The_User_Illusion) | 1999 | -| Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen | Christopher McDougall | [4.27](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6289283-born-to-run) | 2009 | -| Prometheus Rising | Robert Anton Wilson | [4.26](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28597.Prometheus_Rising) | 2010 | -| The Concise 48 Laws of Power | Robert Greene | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18224060-the-concise-48-laws-of-power) | 2011 | -| The Hero with a Thousand Faces | Joseph Campbell | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces) | 1972 | -| Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick | [4.23](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402843.Zen_Mind_Beginner_s_Mind) | | -| The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present | Eric Kandel | [4.22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12263681-the-age-of-insight) | 2012 | -| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | [4.21](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30659.Meditations) | | -| Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion | Robert B. Cialdini | [4.18](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate) | 2006 | -| Gifts of Imperfection | Brene Brown | [4.18](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7015403-the-gifts-of-imperfection) | | -| Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern | Douglas Hofstadter | [4.16](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181239.Metamagical_Themas) | 1996 | -| The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations | Matthew Stewart | [4.15](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18528861-the-truth-about-everything) | 1997 | -| Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah | Richard Bach | [4.15](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29946.Illusions) | 1977 | -| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | [4.14](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4865.How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People) | 1998 | -| Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life | Shakti Gawain | [4.13](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/582533.Creative_Visualization) | 2002 | -| Bulfinch's Mythology | Thomas Bulfinch | [4.13](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588147.Bulfinch_s_Mythology) | 1998 | -| Ego Is the Enemy | Ryan Holiday | [4.12](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27036528-ego-is-the-enemy) | 2016 | -| Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny! | Anthony Robbins | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180116.Awaken_the_Giant_Within) | | -| The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment | Eckhart Tolle | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6708.The_Power_of_Now) | 1997 | -| Predictably Irrational | Dan Ariely | [4.10](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1713426.Predictably_Irrational) | 2008 | -| Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | [4.10](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow) | 1990 | -| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | [4.09](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow) | 2011 | -| Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy | William Barrett | [4.09](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83321.Irrational_Man) | | -| Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine | Derren Brown | [4.08](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30142270-happy) | 2016 | -| The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World | David Deutsch | [4.08](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10483171-the-beginning-of-infinity) | | -| Metaphors We Live By | George Lakoff, Mark Johnson | [4.08](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34459.Metaphors_We_Live_By) | 2003 | -| Grit | Angela Duckworth | [4.08](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213329-grit) | 2016 | -| In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto | Michael Pollan | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315425.In_Defense_of_Food) | 2008 | -| The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature | Steven Pinker | [4.07](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate) | 2003 | -| The History of Western Philosophy | Bertrand Russell | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243685.A_History_of_Western_Philosophy) | 2008 | -| Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them | Joshua Greene | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707599-moral-tribes) | 2013 | -| Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking | Susan Cain | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8520610-quiet) | 2012 | -| The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind | Michio Kaku | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17978489-the-future-of-the-mind) | 2014 | -| Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized | James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/757403.Every_Thing_Must_Go) | 2007 | -| Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530973-antifragile) | 2012 | -| Mindset: The new psychology of success | Carol S. Dweck,Ph.D. | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40745.Mindset) | 2006 | -| The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business | Charles Duhigg | [4.03](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-habit) | 2012 | -| The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic | Dan Ariely | [4.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7815744-the-upside-of-irrationality) | | -| Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence | David Perkins | [4.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1008488.Outsmarting_Iq) | 1995 | -| The Art of War | Sun Tzu | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10534.The_Art_of_War) | 2005 | -| Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength | Ron P. Baumeister, John Tierney | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11104933-willpower) | 2011 | -| A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future | Daniel H. Pink | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99315.A_Whole_New_Mind) | | -| Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel | Rolf Potts | [3.92](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100247.Vagabonding) | | -| Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities | Dean Radin | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together) | 2013 | -| Prisoner's Dilemma | William Poundstone | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29506.Prisoner_s_Dilemma) | 1993 | -| The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature | Steven Pinker | [3.90](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373969.The_Stuff_of_Thought) | 2007 | -| Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge | Edward O. Wilson | [3.90](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55981.Consilience) | 1999 | -| 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 | [3.87](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5040579-why-we-make-mistakes) | 2009 | -| You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation | Deborah Tannen | [3.86](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147222.You_Just_Don_t_Understand) | 2007 | -| Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy | Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone | [3.85](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12838972-just-the-arguments) | 2011 | -| What the Dog Saw: and other adventures | Malcolm Gladwell | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6516450-what-the-dog-saw-and-other-adventures) | 2009 | -| Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior | Geoffrey Miller | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6283340-spent) | | -| Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis | Eric Berne. | [3.81](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49176.Games_People_Play) | | -| This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking | John Brockman | [3.81](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13035774-this-will-make-you-smarter) | 2012 | -| Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking | Daniel C. Dennett | [3.80](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18378002-intuition-pumps-and-other-tools-for-thinking) | 2014 | -| Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach | [3.80](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71728.Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull) | | -| Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story | Jim Holt | [3.77](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8854815-why-does-the-world-exist) | 2012 | -| The Social Contract | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston | [3.75](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12651.The_Social_Contract) | | -| The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas | Michael S. Gazzaniga | [3.70](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328734.The_Ethical_Brain) | 2006 | -| Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid | Robert J Sternberg | [3.68](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300300.Why_Smart_People_Can_Be_So_Stupid) | 2003 | -| Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Others | Sherry Turkle | [3.62](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together) | 2011 | -| How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic | Madsen Pirie | [3.55](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112731.How_to_Win_Every_Argument) | 2006 | -| Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher | Winifred Gallagher | [3.54](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6262510-rapt) | | -| The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression | Debra Fine | [3.36](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93409.The_Fine_Art_of_Small_Talk) | 2005 | -| Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling | Sam Gosling | [3.33](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1581330.Snoop) | | - -## Autobiographies and Biographies -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Laura Hillenbrand | [4.39](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8664353-unbroken) | 2010 | -| Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela | [4.31](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318431.Long_Walk_to_Freedom) | 1995 | -| My Life and My Work | Henry Ford | [4.29](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1122054.My_Life_And_Work) | | -| Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character | Richard Feynman | [4.29](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5544.Surely_You_re_Joking_Mr_Feynman_) | 1997 | -| The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X, Alex Haley | [4.29](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92057.The_Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X) | | -| The Third Door:The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers | Alex banayan | [4.28](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36739769-the-third-door) | 2018 | -| Elon Musk: Inventing the Future | Ashlee Vance | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22543496-elon-musk) | 2015 | -| The Last Lecture | Randy Pausch | [4.25](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2318271.The_Last_Lecture) | 2008 | -| Freedom in Exile | Dalai Lama XIV | [4.24](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567720.Freedom_in_Exile) | 1991 | -| Madame Curie: A Biography | Marie Curie | [4.22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341166.Madame_Curie) | 2001 | -| Wings of Fire | A.P.J. Abdul Kalam | [4.20](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634583.Wings_of_Fire) | 2011 | -| The Man Who Knew Infinity : A Life of the Genius Ramanujan | Robert Kanigel | [4.15](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106139.The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity) | 1991 | -| An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth | Chris Hadfield | [4.14](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18170143-an-astronaut-s-guide-to-life-on-earth) | 2013 | -| The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | [4.10](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48855.The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl) | 1993 | -| Einstein: His Life and Universe | Walter Isaacson | [4.09](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10884.Einstein) | 2007 | -| Steve Jobs | Walter Issacson | [4.09](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11084145-steve-jobs) | 2011 | -| My Experiments with Truth | Mahatma Gandhi | [4.07](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112803.The_Story_of_My_Experiments_With_Truth) | 1993 | -| The Story of My Life | Helen Keller | [4.07](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821611.The_Story_of_My_Life) | 1990 | -| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6493208-the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks?ac=1&from_search=true) | 2010 | -| Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography | Richard Branson | [3.97](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9533705-losing-my-virginity) | 1999 | -| Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker | Kevin Mitnick | [3.95](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10256723-ghost-in-the-wires) | 2011 | -| An Autobiography: Toward Freedom | Jawaharlal Nehru | [3.85](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/322939.An_Autobiography) | 1989 | -| iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It | Steve Wozniak | [3.82](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/798635.iWoz) | 2007 | - -## History -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah Harari | [4.42](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23692271-sapiens) | 2014 | -| How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone | Brian McCullough | [4.36](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/38212134-how-the-internet-happened) | 2018 | -| The Discoverers | Daniel J. Boorstin | [4.34](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714380.The_Discoverers) | 2012 | -| Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow | Yuval Noah Harari | [4.27](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31138556-homo-deus) | 2017 | -| One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War | Michael Dobbs | [4.20](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2606779-one-minute-to-midnight) | 2008 | -| The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet | David Kahn | [4.18](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29608.The_Codebreakers) | 1996 | -| From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present | Jacques Barzun | [4.12](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58233.From_Dawn_to_Decadence) | 2001 | -| Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future | Ian Morris | [4.09](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9491855-why-the-west-rules-for-now) | 2010 | -| The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide | Robert Jay Lifton | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/173187.The_Nazi_Doctors) | 1986 | -| God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History | Stephen Hawking | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2096.God_Created_The_Integers) | | -| Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II | Madhusree Mukerjee | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8890989-churchill-s-secret-war) | 2010 | -| El Tiempo Entre Costuras | María Dueñas | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7502166-el-tiempo-entre-costuras) | 2009 | -| Guns, Germs, And Steel : The Fates Of Human Societies | Jared M. Diamond | [4.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1842.Guns_Germs_and_Steel) | 2005 | -| Discovery of India | Jawaharlal Nehru | [3.98](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154126.The_Discovery_of_India) | | -| The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.) | Matt Ridley | [3.98](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7776209-the-rational-optimist) | 2010 | -| Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground | Kevin Poulson | [3.96](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9319468-kingpin) | 2011 | -| The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World | Steven Johnson | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map) | | -| The Rise and Fall of the British Empire | Lawrence James | [3.89](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143980.The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_British_Empire) | 1997 | -| The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires | Tim Wu | [3.89](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8201080-the-master-switch) | 2010 | -| Spycraft | Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger | [3.81](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/971936.Spycraft) | | -| Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson | Niall Ferguson | [3.78](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10475421-civilization) | 2011 | -| The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate | Robert D. Kaplan | [3.68](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330422-the-revenge-of-geography) | 2012 | -| The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century | Thomas L. Friedman | [3.66](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1911.The_World_Is_Flat) | 2006 | - -## Science and Medicine -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst | Robert M. Sapolsky | [4.42](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31170723-behave) | 2017 | -| Asimov's New Guide to Science | Isaac Asimov | [4.36](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/977262.Asimov_s_New_Guide_To_Science) | 1985 | -| Origins of Form: The Shape of Natural and Man-Made Things | Christopher Williams | [4.31](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16255011-origins-of-form) | 2013 | -| Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas R. Hofstadter | [4.30](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24113.G_del_Escher_Bach) | 1979 | -| The Little Schemer | Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman | [4.27](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/548914.The_Little_Schemer) | 1995 | -| Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science | Dean Keith Simonton | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1752295.Scientific_Genius) | 1988 | -| Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World | Kevin Kelly | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16080353-out-of-control) | 1995 | -| The Brain: The Story of You | David Eagleman | [4.20](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25776132.the-brain) | 2015 | -| A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | [4.19](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21.A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything) | | -| The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain | Terrence W. Deacon | [4.17](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/733691.The_Symbolic_Species) | 1998 | -| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | [4.12](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3869.A_Brief_History_of_Time) | 1998 | -| The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins | [4.11](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61535.The_Selfish_Gene) | | -| Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind | Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164560.Figments_of_Reality) | 2009 | -| The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World | Elkhonon Goldberg | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6745893-the-new-executive-brain) | | -| The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene | Richard Dawkins | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61538.The_Extended_Phenotype) | 1999 | -| Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe | Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88552.Rare_Earth) | 2003 | -| Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers | Mary Roach | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32145.Stiff) | 2004 | -| The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat and Other Clinical Tales | Oliver Sacks | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63697.The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_for_a_Hat_and_Other_Clinical_Tales) | 1998 | -| Darwin's Dangerous Idea | Daniel C. Dennett | [4.03](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2068.Darwin_s_Dangerous_Idea) | | -| The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future | Kevin Kelly | [4.02](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27209431-the-inevitable) | 2016 | -| The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us | Noson S. Yanofsky | [4.00](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841838-the-outer-limits-of-reason) | 2013 | -| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition | Thomas S. Kuhn | [3.99](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61539.The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions) | 1996 | -| At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity | Stuart Kauffman | [3.97](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/319006.At_Home_in_the_Universe) | 1996 | -| The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom | Yochai Benkler | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14721.The_Wealth_of_Networks) | 2006 | -| Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence | Hans Moravec. | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/648195.Mind_Children) | 1990 | -| How to Find a Habitable Planet | James Kasting | [3.93](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7551498-how-to-find-a-habitable-planet) | 2010 | -| The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution | Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6033964-the-10-000-year-explosion) | | -| Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives | David Sloan Wilson | [3.90](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159062.Evolution_for_Everyone) | 2007 | -| Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life | J. Craig Venter | [3.87](www.goodreads.com/book/show/17674969-life-at-the-speed-of-light) | 2013 | -| The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains | Nicholas Carr | [3.85](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9778945-the-shallows) | 2011 | -| Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human | Richard Wrangham | [3.83](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11148989-catching-fire) | 2009 | -| Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age | Bart Kosko | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172645.Heaven_in_a_Chip) | 2000 | -| The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex | Murray Gell-Mann | [3.81](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270881.The_Quark_and_the_Jaguar) | | -| Tomorrowland: Our Staggering Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact | Steven Kotler | [3.80](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25060233-tomorrowland) | 2015 | -| Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity | Dean Keith | [3.74](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254489.Origins_of_Genius) | 1999 | -| Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense | Jonathan D. Moreno | [3.45](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/599321.Mind_Wars) | 2007 | - -## Logic and Problem Solving -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles | Raymond M. Smullyan | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493576.What_Is_the_Name_of_This_Book_) | 2011 | -| A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science even If You Flunked Algebra | Barbara Oakley | [4.22](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693655-a-mind-for-numbers) | 2014 | -| How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method | George Polya | [4.16](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192221.How_to_Solve_It) | 2015 | -| Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge | William Poundstone | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55436.Labyrinths_of_Reason) | 1989 | -| Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected | Clifford A. Pickover | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1986400.Mazes_for_the_Mind) | 1992 | - -## Politics -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander | [4.49](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6792458-the-new-jim-crow) | 2010 | -| Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? | Michael J. Sandel | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452731-justice) | | -| The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion | Jonathan Haidt | [4.16](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind) | 2012 | -| Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right | Arlie Russell Hochschild | [4.15](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28695425-strangers-in-their-own-land) | 2016 | -| Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime | John Heilemann, Mark Halperin | [4.10](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6694937-game-change) | 2010 | -| Bolo'bolo | P.M. | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12395170-bolo-bolo) | 1984 | -| The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies | Bryan Caplan | [3.96](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698866.The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter) | 2007 | -| The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security | Kevin D. Mitnick | [3.76](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18160.The_Art_of_Deception) | 2003 | -| Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict | Michael Klare | [3.73](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149206.Resource_Wars) | | -| The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream | Barack Obama | [3.70](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9742.The_Audacity_of_Hope) | 2006 | - -## Economics -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| Origin of Wealth | Eric D. Beinhocker | [4.23](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22456.The_Origin_of_Wealth) | 2006 | -| Every Shot Counts: Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy | Mark Broadie | [4.23](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17674971-every-shot-counts) | 2014 | -| Economic Facts and Fallacies | Thomas Sowell | [4.18](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2064279.Economic_Facts_and_Fallacies) | 2008 | -| Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years | David Graeber | [4.17](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617037-debt) | 2011 | -| Capital in the Twenty-First Century | Thomas Piketty | [4.01](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18736925-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century) | 2014 | -| 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism | Ha-Joon Chang | [3.97](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8913542-23-things-they-don-t-tell-you-about-capitalism) | | -| The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't | Nate Silver | [3.96](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13588394-the-signal-and-the-noise) | | -| Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis | James Rickards | [3.96](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11515298-currency-wars) | 2011 | -| The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World | Niall Ferguson | [3.88](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2714607-the-ascent-of-money) | | -| The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It | Paul Collier | [3.85](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493371.The_Bottom_Billion) | 2007 | -| The Thank You Economy | Gary Vaynerchuk | [3.83](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9203287-the-thank-you-economy) | 2011 | -| Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart | Ian Ayres | [3.70](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1081413.Super_Crunchers) | | -| A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World | Gregory Clark | [3.67](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150437.A_Farewell_to_Alms) | 2007 | - -## Gender -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference | Cordelia Fine | [4.15](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8031168-delusions-of-gender) | 2010 | - -## Sexuality -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern | Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha | [4.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7640261-sex-at-dawn) | 2010 | -| The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities | Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt. | [3.90](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54944.The_Ethical_Slut?from_search=true) | 2004 | -| The Sex Myth | Brooke Magnanti | [3.51](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13569582-the-sex-myth) | 2015 | - -## Education -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas | Seymour A. Papert | [4.32](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703532.Mindstorms) | 1993 | -| How Children Fail | John Holt | [4.22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/573009.How_Children_Fail) | 1995 | -| Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning | Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel | [4.20](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18770267.make-it-stick) | 2014 | -| Teaching as a Subversive Activity | Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner | [4.19](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79681.Teaching_as_a_Subversive_Activity) | 1971 | -| Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood | A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb | [4.09](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178734.Summerhill) | 1995 | -| The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance | Josh Waitzkin | [4.08](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/857333.The_Art_of_Learning) | 2016 | -| Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture | Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer | [3.92](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6425208-wounded-by-school) | 2009 | -| Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist | John Brockman | [3.72](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/409588.Curious_Minds) | 2005 | - -## Writing -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim | Stephen Sondheim | [4.77](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12909101-hat-box) | | -| On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Stephen King | [4.31](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10569.On_Writing) | 2002 | -| Clear and Simple as the Truth | Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120549.Clear_and_Simple_as_the_Truth) | 1996 | -| The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century | Steven Pinker | [4.03](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821371-the-sense-of-style) | 2014 | - -## Theater and Film -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh | Mike Alfreds | [4.69](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3493241-different-every-night) | 2008 | -| Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre | Keith Johnstone | [4.27](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306940.Impro) | | -| The Actor and the Target | Declan Donnellan | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/611466.The_Actor_and_the_Target) | 2006 | -| In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing | Walter Murch | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2141.In_the_Blink_of_an_Eye) | 1995 | -| Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair | Frank Hauser, Russell Reich | [4.21](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254808.Notes_on_Directing) | | -| How to Stop Acting | Harold Guskin | [4.17](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/808735.How_to_Stop_Acting) | 2003 | -| A Practical Handbook for the Actor | Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet | [3.87](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166207.A_Practical_Handbook_for_the_Actor) | 1986 | - -## Shakespeare -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard | Barry Edelstein. | [4.62](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1334872.Thinking_Shakespeare) | | -| Hamlet and Revenge | Eleanor Prosser | [4.50](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625956.Hamlet_Revenge_) | 1971 | -| Shakespeare's Metrical Art | George T. Wright | [4.39](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428615.Shakespeare_s_Metrical_Art) | 1991 | -| Hamlet in Purgatory | Stephen Greenblatt | [3.98](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33179.Hamlet_in_Purgatory) | 2002 | - -## Fiction - -### Classics -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | [4.32](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117833.The_Master_and_Margarita) | 1996 | -| Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | [4.31](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6759.Infinite_Jest) | 1995 | -| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky | [4.30](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934.The_Brothers_Karamazov) | 2002 | -| Pride And Prejudice | Jane Austen | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1885.Pride_and_Prejudice) | 2000 | -| A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | [4.22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4473.A_Prayer_for_Owen_Meany) | 1990 | -| Letters From The Earth | Mark Twain | [4.22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37813.Letters_from_the_Earth) | 2004 | -| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | [4.18](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332613.One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo_s_Nest) | 1963 | -| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | [4.18](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7144.Crime_and_Punishment) | 2002 | -| 1984 | George Orwell | [4.17](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40961427-1984) | 1949 | -| Steppenwolf: A Novel | Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16631.Steppenwolf) | 1999 | -| The Glass Bead Game | Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16634.The_Glass_Bead_Game) | 2002 | -| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace) | 1998 | -| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | [4.10](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10210.Jane_Eyre) | 1847 | -| Germinal | Emile Zola | [4.10](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28407.Germinal) | 2004 | -| If on a Winter's Night a Traveler | Italo Calvino and William Weaver | [4.08](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374233.If_on_a_Winter_s_Night_a_Traveler) | 1982 | -| The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories | Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10031.The_Wall) | 2010 | -| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14935.Sense_and_Sensibility) | 2003 | -| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray) | 1998 | -| Watership Down: A Novel | Richard Adams | [4.05 ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76620.Watership_Down) | 1975 | -| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320.One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude) | 2003 | -| The Death of Ivan Ilych | Leo Tolstoy | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18386.The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilych) | | -| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | [4.02](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15823480-anna-karenina) | 2012 | -| Bleak House | Charles Dickens | [4.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31242.Bleak_House) | 2006 | -| J'accuse | Emile Zola | [3.99](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816964.J_accuse) | 1998 | -| Catch 22 | Joseph Heller | [3.98](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4610.Catch_22) | 2004 | -| The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton | [3.94](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17728.The_House_of_Mirth) | 2006 | -| Confessions of a Mask | Yukio Mishima | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62794.Confessions_of_a_Mask) | 1998 | -| De L'esprit Des Lois | Montesquieu | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29854007-de-l-esprit-des-lois-nouvelle-edition) | 1995 | -| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Marquéz | [3.9](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9712.Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera) | 1985 | -| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | [3.85](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3836.Don_Quixote) | 2003 | -| Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | [3.84](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45032) | 2003 | -| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6185.Wuthering_Heights) | 2002 | -| Père Goriot | Honoré de Balzac | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59145.P_re_Goriot) | 1997 | -| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | [3.80](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2956.The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn) | 2002 | -| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | [3.79](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye) | 2001 | -| Eugénie Grandet | Honoré de Balzac | [3.79](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eug_nie_Grandet) | 2003 | -| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values | Robert M. Pirsig | [3.76](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/629.Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance) | 1974 | -| Candide | Voltaire | [3.76](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19380.Candide) | 1991 | -| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | [3.68](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9365.Atlas_Shrugged) | 1957 | -| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | [3.65](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2175.Madame_Bovary) | 2004 | -| Confessions | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | [3.61](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12649.Confessions) | 2003 | -| Lettres persanes | Montesquieu | [3.54](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509686.Persian_Letters) | | -| The Director | David Ignatius | [3.43](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23316525-the-director) | 2015 | - -### Fantasy -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| The Kingkiller Chronicle | Patrick Rothfuss | [4.55](https://www.goodreads.com/series/45262-the-kingkiller-chronicle) | 2007 | -| The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | [4.47](https://www.goodreads.com/series/66175-the-lord-of-the-rings) | 1954 | -| A Song of Ice and Fire | George R.R. Martin | [4.45](https://www.goodreads.com/series/43790-a-song-of-ice-and-fire) | 2005 | -| Harry Potter | J.K. Rowling | [4.44](https://www.goodreads.com/series/45175-harry-potter) | 1997 | -| Mistborn | Brandon Sanderson | [4.43](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40910-mistborn) | 2006 | -| Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality | Eliezer Yudkowsky | [4.38](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10016013-harry-potter-and-the-methods-of-rationality) | 2015 | -| Discworld | Terry Pratchett | [4.32](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40650-discworld) | 2001 | -| The Dark Tower | Stephen King | [4.27](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40750-the-dark-tower) | | -| His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18116.His_Dark_Materials) | | -| The Chronicles of Narnia | Clive Staples Lewis | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11127.The_Chronicles_of_Narnia) | 2002 | -| The Last Wish - Saga | Andrzej Sapkowski | [4.2](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1128434.The_Last_Wish) | 1993 | -| The Wheel of Time | Robert Jordan | [4.19](https://www.goodreads.com/series/41526-the-wheel-of-time) | 1990 | -| The City & The City | China Mieville | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4703581-the-city-the-city) | 2009 | -| The Broken Empire | Mark Lawrence | [3.87](https://www.goodreads.com/series/64473-the-broken-empire) | 2011 | - -### Historical Fiction -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry | [4.47](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256008.Lonesome_Dove) | 1999 | -| The Help | Kathryn Stockett | [4.45](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4667024-the-help) | | -| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | [4.36](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19063.The_Book_Thief) | | -| All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | [4.31](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see) | 2014 | -| The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett | [4.29](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5043.The_Pillars_of_the_Earth?from_search=true) | 2002 | -| Kane and Abel | Jeffrey Archer | [4.27](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78983.Kane_and_Abel) | 2004 | -| Emma | Jane Austen | [3.99](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6969.Emma) | 2003 | -| Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy | Jostein Gaarder and Paulette Moller | [3.88](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959.Sophie_s_World) | 1996 | - -### Humor -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell | Tucker Max | [3.51](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9010.I_Hope_They_Serve_Beer_in_Hell) | 2006 | - -### Mystery -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | [4.30](https://www.goodreads.com/series/49996-sherlock-holmes) | 1998 | -| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Agatha Christie | [4.20](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16328.The_Murder_of_Roger_Ackroyd) | 2006 | -| The Eight | Katherine Neville | [4.17](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113310.The_Eight) | | -| Memory Man | David Baldacci | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23153154-memory-man) | 2015 | -| The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | [3.88](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22557272-the-girl-on-the-train) | 2015 | -| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | [3.79](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968.The_Da_Vinci_Code) | 2006 | - -### Science Fiction -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| The Martian | Andy Weir | [4.40](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18007564-the-martian) | 2012 | -| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | [4.38](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11.The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy) | 1979 | -| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | [4.31](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9969571-ready-player-one) | 2011 | -| Ender's Game - Saga | Orson Scott Card | [4.30](https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ender%27s+saga&search_type=books&search%5Bfield%5D=on) | 1994 | -| The Player of Games | Iain M. Banks | [4.26](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630.The_Player_of_Games) | 1997 | -| The Fifth Sacred Thing | Starhawk | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80689.The_Fifth_Sacred_Thing) | 1994 | -| Hyperion | Dan Simmons | [4.21](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77566.Hyperion) | 1989 | -| Cosmicomics | Italo Calvino | [4.2](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59780.Cosmicomics) | 1965 | -| The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | [4.19](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age) | 2000 | -| Dune Chronicles | Frank Herbert | [4.19](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=dune) | 2006 | -| Foundation | Isaac Asimov | [4.13](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29579.Foundation) | 2004 | -| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | [4.02](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash) | 2000 | -| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | [3.97](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17470674-fahrenheit-451) | 2006 | -| Little Brother | Cory Doctorow | [3.94](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/954674.Little_Brother) | 2008 | - -### Horror -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | [4.13](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves) | 2000 | -| Dracula | Bram Stoker | [3.98](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17245.Dracula) | 1986 | -| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley, Maurice Hindle | [3.75](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490.Frankenstein) | 2003 | - -### Miscellaneous -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| The Queen's Gambit | Walter Tevis | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62022.The_Queen_s_Gambit) | | -| The Bone People | Keri Hulme | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/460635.The_Bone_People) | 1986 | -| Cat's Eye | Margaret Atwood | [3.92](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51019.Cat_s_Eye) | 1998 | -| Xeelee Sequence | Stephen Baxter | [3.69](http://www.goodreads.com/series/49784-xeelee-sequence) | 1992 | -| Ghost Fleet | P.W. Singer and August Cole | [3.62](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22749719-ghost-fleet?from_search=true) | 2015 | -| Future Crimes | Marc Goodman | [3.42](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22318398-future-crimes?from_search=true) | 1990 | - -## Health -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease | Michael Greger, M.D. | [4.54](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25663961-how-not-to-die) | 2015 | -| Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength (2nd edition) | Steven Low | [4.3](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33293328-overcoming-gravity) | 2016 | -| Convict Conditioning | Paul Wade | [4.13](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7305111-convict-conditioning) | 2012 | -| Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness | Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13202092-eat-and-run) | 2012 | -| 8 Weeks to Optimum Health | Andrew Weil | [3.86](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37124.8_Weeks_to_Optimum_Health) | | - -## Design -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction | Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel | [4.38](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79766.A_Pattern_Language) | 1977 | -| How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built | Stewart Brand | [4.32](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38310.How_Buildings_Learn) | 1995 | -| Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability | Steve Krug | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18197267-don-t-make-me-think-revisited) | 2014 | -| The Design of Everyday Things | Donald Norman | [4.18](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/840.The_Design_of_Everyday_Things) | 2002 | -| The Art of Looking Sideways | Alan Fletcher | [4.10](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15778.The_Art_of_Looking_Sideways) | 2001 | - -## Travel -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders | Joshua Foer | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28110891-atlas-obscura) | 2016 | - -## Language -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language | Douglas R. Hofstadter | [4.22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248193.Le_Ton_beau_de_Marot) | 1997 | - -## Nature -| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | -|------|--------|------------------|----------------| -| Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Annie Dillard | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12527.Pilgrim_at_Tinker_Creek) | 1974 | - -## Credits - - -## License -[![CC0](http://i.creativecommons.org/p/zero/1.0/88x31.png)](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) - -To the extent possible under law, [Vishnu Ks](https://github.com/hackerkid) has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work. diff --git a/app/README.md b/app/README.md index a73b703..329c1df 100644 --- a/app/README.md +++ b/app/README.md @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +This directory contains the source code of the Mind Expanding Books [website](https://books.vishnuks.com) + ## How to setup development environment ```bash @@ -6,3 +8,16 @@ cd app/ npm install gatsby develop ``` + +## High level overview of the website + +- The website is made using Gatsby, which is a React based static site generator. +- The website is deployed in Netlify automatically whenever a commit is pushed to GitHub. +- When you create a pull request with changes to the source code, Netlify will automatically + create a website for previewing the changes. You can click on "Details" in the "Deploy preview ready!" + message in the pull request page for seeing the website. + +## From where does the website fetches the data of the books? + +Website fetches the data of the books from `app/src/book.json` file. See [README in utils directory](../utils/README.MD) +for details on how this file is generated. diff --git a/app/src/images/goodreads.png b/app/src/images/goodreads.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..00a6ca4 Binary files /dev/null and b/app/src/images/goodreads.png differ diff --git a/utils/HOUSEKEEPING.md b/utils/HOUSEKEEPING.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1cbc792 --- /dev/null +++ b/utils/HOUSEKEEPING.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +This contains documentation on `housekeep.py` which was a command developed for converting from legacy README +format to the new format. This is not used anymore. + + +## Getting started + +### Setup +1) Copy ```config-sample.py``` to ```config.py``` + +```bash + cp config-sample.py config.py +``` +2) Get a GoodReads API key [here](https://www.goodreads.com/api/keys) +3) Copy your public key to the ```config.py``` file + +### Converting + +Run + +```bash + python3 housekeep.py --file_type='old' +``` + +The ``--file_type='old'`` flag is needed if the books are displayed in the old format (in a list). New format is the default (when the records are displayed in tables). + +This will convert to the new format and save it to ``README-new.md``. + +**Note!** the first conversion can take some time, we wait 1 second between each request to GoodReads to not abuse the API. +After the first generation only missing records will be tried to be retrieved. + +Run to see the available arguments +```bash + python3 housekeep.py --help +``` diff --git a/utils/README.MD b/utils/README.MD index 93a90c6..d0f5f57 100644 --- a/utils/README.MD +++ b/utils/README.MD @@ -1,34 +1,21 @@ -# Utils for Mind-Expanding-Books +`utils/` mainly contains scripts for generating `app/src/books.json` file from `README.md` -Simple command line interface to extend and order the Mind-Expanding-Books list. +## Generating `app/src/books.json` -## Getting started +The website shows name of the book, year, rating, cover, amazon link, etc in book card. Some of the +data like name, year, rating etc is present in the [main README.md](../README.md). Other details +like cover photo, amazon link etc is fetched from various APIs. -### Setup -1) Copy ```config-sample.py``` to ```config.py``` +The script that fetches all these extra data lives in `utils/update_json_files.py` (utils is present in the parent directory of `app/`) -```bash - cp config-sample.py config.py -``` -2) Get a GoodReads API key [here](https://www.goodreads.com/api/keys) -3) Copy your public key to the ```config.py``` file +The script goes through all the books in [main README.md](../README.md) and starts fetching the extra details +from `Goodreads` and `Google Search` API. And the result is stored in `utils/books.json` and `utils/book_name_to_details.json` +(used for caching only). -### Converting +Once the script completes the run, the `utils/books.json` file is copied to `app/src/books.json` -Run +And the website uses the data from `app/src/books.json` for generating the pages. -```bash - python3 housekeep.py --file_type='old' -``` - -The ``--file_type='old'`` flag is needed if the books are displayed in the old format (in a list). New format is the default (when the records are displayed in tables). - -This will convert to the new format and save it to ``README-new.md``. - -**Note!** the first conversion can take some time, we wait 1 second between each request to GoodReads to not abuse the API. -After the first generation only missing records will be tried to be retrieved. - -Run to see the available arguments -```bash - python3 housekeep.py --help -``` +In most cases, you don't want to run the `utils/update_json_files.py` or make changes to it while working on the website. +The only time you want to mess with the script is when you want to fetch some extra data from `API` or want to update +the `book.json` file to include a newly added book or category. diff --git a/utils/books_list.json b/utils/book_name_to_details.json similarity index 96% rename from utils/books_list.json rename to utils/book_name_to_details.json index e8fa62f..a36fdb3 100644 --- a/utils/books_list.json +++ b/utils/book_name_to_details.json @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -[ - { +{ + "1984": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/1984-Signet-Classics-George-Orwell/dp/0451524934", "author": "George Orwell", "category": "Classics", @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40961427-1984", "year": "2013" }, - { + "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Things-They-Dont-About-Capitalism/dp/1608193381", "author": "Ha-Joon Chang", "category": "Economics", @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8913542-23-things-they-don-t-tell-you-about-capitalism", "year": "2011" }, - { + "8 Weeks to Optimum Health": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Weeks-Optimum-Health-Program-Advantage/dp/034549802X", "author": "Andrew Weil", "category": "Health", @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37124.8_Weeks_to_Optimum_Health", "year": "" }, - { + "A Brief History of Time": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Time-Stephen-Hawking/dp/0553380168", "author": "Stephen Hawking", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3869.A_Brief_History_of_Time", "year": "1998" }, - { + "A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Alms-Economic-History-Princeton/dp/0691141282", "author": "Gregory Clark", "category": "Economics", @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150437.A_Farewell_to_Alms", "year": "2007" }, - { + "A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science even If You Flunked Algebra": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Numbers-Science-Flunked-Algebra/dp/039916524X", "author": "Barbara Oakley", "category": "Logic and Problem Solving", @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693655-a-mind-for-numbers", "year": "2014" }, - { + "A Practical Handbook for the Actor": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Handbook-Actor-Melissa-Bruder/dp/0394744128", "author": "Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet", "category": "Theater and Film", @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166207.A_Practical_Handbook_for_the_Actor", "year": "1986" }, - { + "A Prayer for Owen Meany": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Prayer-Owen-Meany-John-Irving/dp/006220422X", "author": "John Irving", "category": "Classics", @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4473.A_Prayer_for_Owen_Meany", "year": "1990" }, - { + "A Short History of Nearly Everything": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/076790818X", "author": "Bill Bryson", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21.A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything", "year": "2004" }, - { + "A Song of Ice and Fire": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Song-Ice-Fire-Volumes/dp/0007477155", "author": "George R.R. Martin", "category": "Fantasy", @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/43790-a-song-of-ice-and-fire", "year": "2005" }, - { + "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Whole-New-Mind-Right-Brainers-Future/dp/1594481717", "author": "Daniel H. Pink", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99315.A_Whole_New_Mind", "year": "2006" }, - { + "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Huckleberry-Finn-Mark-Twain/dp/0486280616", "author": "Mark Twain", "category": "Classics", @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2956.The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn", "year": "2002" }, - { + "All the Light We Cannot See": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/All-Light-We-Cannot-See/dp/1501173219", "author": "Anthony Doerr", "category": "Historical Fiction", @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see", "year": "2014" }, - { + "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Others": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Alone-Together-Expect-Technology-Other/dp/0465031463", "author": "Sherry Turkle", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together", "year": "2011" }, - { + "An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Astronauts-Guide-Life-Earth-Determination/dp/0316253030", "author": "Chris Hadfield", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18170143-an-astronaut-s-guide-to-life-on-earth", "year": "2013" }, - { + "An Autobiography: Toward Freedom": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Toward-Freedom-Autobiography-Jawaharlal-Nehru/dp/1508835411", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/322939.An_Autobiography", "year": "1989" }, - { + "Anna Karenina": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Anna-Karenina-Leo-Tolstoy/dp/0143035002", "author": "Leo Tolstoy", "category": "Classics", @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15823480-anna-karenina", "year": "2012" }, - { + "Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Incerto/dp/0812979680", "author": "Nassim Nicholas Taleb", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530973-antifragile", "year": "" }, - { + "Asimov's New Guide to Science": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Asimovs-Guide-Science-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0465004733", "author": "Isaac Asimov", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/977262.Asimov_s_New_Guide_To_Science", "year": "1985" }, - { + "At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/At-Home-Universe-Self-Organization-Complexity/dp/0195111303", "author": "Stuart Kauffman", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/319006.At_Home_in_the_Universe", "year": "1996" }, - { + "Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Obscura-Explorers-Worlds-Wonders/dp/0761169083", "author": "Joshua Foer", "category": "Travel", @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28110891-atlas-obscura", "year": "2016" }, - { + "Atlas Shrugged": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451191145", "author": "Ayn Rand", "category": "Classics", @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9365.Atlas_Shrugged", "year": "1999" }, - { + "Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/0735211299", "author": "James Clear", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121378-atomic-habits", "year": "" }, - { + "Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Awaken-Giant-Within-Immediate-Emotional/dp/0671791540", "author": "Anthony Robbins", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180116.Awaken_the_Giant_Within", "year": "1992" }, - { + "Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Behave-Biology-Humans-Best-Worst/dp/1594205078", "author": "Robert M. Sapolsky", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31170723-behave", "year": "2017" }, - { + "Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Big-Data-Revolution-Transform-Think/dp/0544227751", "author": "Kenneth Cukier", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15815598-big-data", "year": "2013" }, - { + "Bleak House": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Bleak-House-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486812464", "author": "Charles Dickens", "category": "Classics", @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31242.Bleak_House", "year": "2006" }, - { + "Bolo'bolo": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/bolobolo-p-m/dp/1570272417", "author": "P.M.", "category": "Politics", @@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12395170-bolo-bolo", "year": "" }, - { + "Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-Hidden-Superathletes-Greatest/dp/0307279189", "author": "Christopher McDougall", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6289283-born-to-run", "year": "2009" }, - { + "Bulfinch's Mythology": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Bulfinchs-Mythology-Volumes-Chivalry-Charlemagne/dp/1440426309", "author": "Thomas Bulfinch", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588147.Bulfinch_s_Mythology", "year": "1998" }, - { + "Candide": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Candide-Voltaire/dp/1503253791", "author": "Voltaire", "category": "Classics", @@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19380.Candide", "year": "1991" }, - { + "Capital in the Twenty-First Century": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/0674979850", "author": "Thomas Piketty", "category": "Economics", @@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18736925-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century", "year": "2014" }, - { + "Cat's Eye": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Cats-Eye-Margaret-Atwood/dp/0385491026", "author": "Margaret Atwood", "category": "Miscellaneous", @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51019.Cat_s_Eye", "year": "1998" }, - { + "Catch 22": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Catch-22-50th-Anniversary-Joseph-Heller/dp/1451626657", "author": "Joseph Heller", "category": "Classics", @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4610.Catch_22", "year": "2004" }, - { + "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Catching-Fire-Cooking-Made-Human/dp/0465013627", "author": "Richard Wrangham", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11148989-catching-fire", "year": "2009" }, - { + "Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Secret-War-British-Ravaging/dp/0465024815", "author": "Madhusree Mukerjee", "category": "History", @@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8890989-churchill-s-secret-war", "year": "2010" }, - { + "Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Civilization-West-Rest-Niall-Ferguson/dp/0143122061", "author": "Niall Ferguson", "category": "History", @@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10475421-civilization", "year": "2011" }, - { + "Clear and Simple as the Truth": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Clear-Simple-Truth-Writing-Princeton/dp/0691602999", "author": "Francis-No\u00ebl Thomas, Mark Turner", "category": "Writing", @@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120549.Clear_and_Simple_as_the_Truth", "year": "1996" }, - { + "Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Surplus-Creativity-Generosity-Collaborators-ebook/dp/B003NX75HC", "author": "Clay Shirky", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7614793-cognitive-surplus", "year": "2010" }, - { + "Confessions": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Oxford-Classics-Jean-Jacques-Rousseau/dp/0192822756", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "category": "Classics", @@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12649.Confessions", "year": "2003" }, - { + "Confessions of a Mask": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Mask-Yukio-Mishima/dp/081120118X", "author": "Yukio Mishima", "category": "Classics", @@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62794.Confessions_of_a_Mask", "year": "1998" }, - { + "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Consilience-Knowledge-Edward-Osborne-Wilson/dp/067976867X", "author": "Edward O. Wilson", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55981.Consilience", "year": "1999" }, - { + "Contagious: Why Things Catch On": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Contagious-Things-Catch-Jonah-Berger/dp/1451686587", "author": "Jonah Berger", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15801967-contagious", "year": "2013" }, - { + "Convict Conditioning": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Convict-Conditioning-Weakness-Using-Survival-Strength-ebook/dp/B004XIZN5M", "author": "Paul Wade", "category": "Health", @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7305111-convict-conditioning", "year": "2012" }, - { + "Cosmicomics": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Cosmicomics-Italo-Calvino/dp/0156226006", "author": "Italo Calvino", "category": "Science Fiction", @@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59780.Cosmicomics", "year": "1976" }, - { + "Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Visualization-Power-Imagination-Create/dp/1577312295", "author": "Shakti Gawain", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/582533.Creative_Visualization", "year": "2002" }, - { + "Crime and Punishment": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Crime-Punishment-Fyodor-Dostoyevsky/dp/0486415872", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "category": "Classics", @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7144.Crime_and_Punishment", "year": "2002" }, - { + "Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Crowdsourcing-Power-Driving-Future-Business/dp/0307396215", "author": "Jeff Howe", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2601510-crowdsourcing", "year": "" }, - { + "Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Curious-Minds-Child-Becomes-Scientist/dp/1400076862", "author": "John Brockman", "category": "Education", @@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/409588.Curious_Minds", "year": "2005" }, - { + "Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Currency-Wars-Making-Global-Crisis/dp/1591845564", "author": "James Rickards", "category": "Economics", @@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11515298-currency-wars", "year": "2011" }, - { + "Darwin's Dangerous Idea": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/DARWINS-DANGEROUS-IDEA-EVOLUTION-MEANINGS/dp/068482471X", "author": "Daniel C. Dennett", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2068.Darwin_s_Dangerous_Idea", "year": "1996" }, - { + "David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/David-Goliath-Underdogs-Misfits-Battling/dp/0316204374", "author": "Malcolm Gladwell", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15751404-david-and-goliath", "year": "2013" }, - { + "De L'esprit Des Lois": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/lesprit-lois-French-Montesquieu-ebook/dp/B005R5D7JE", "author": "Montesquieu", "category": "Classics", @@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29854007-de-l-esprit-des-lois-nouvelle-edition", "year": "1995" }, - { + "Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Debt-Updated-Expanded-First-Years/dp/1612194192", "author": "David Graeber", "category": "Economics", @@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617037-debt", "year": "" }, - { + "Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/0446576220", "author": "Tony Hsieh", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6828896-delivering-happiness", "year": "2010" }, - { + "Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Delusions-Gender-Society-Neurosexism-Difference/dp/0393340244", "author": "Cordelia Fine", "category": "Gender", @@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8031168-delusions-of-gender", "year": "2010" }, - { + "Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Different-Every-Night-Putting-keeping/dp/1854599674", "author": "Mike Alfreds", "category": "Theater and Film", @@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3493241-different-every-night", "year": "2008" }, - { + "Discovery of India": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Discovery-India-Jawaharlal-Nehru/dp/1508631573", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "category": "History", @@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154126.The_Discovery_of_India", "year": "2004" }, - { + "Discworld": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Terry-pratchett-Discworld-novels-collection/dp/9123684453", "author": "Terry Pratchett", "category": "Fantasy", @@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/40650-discworld", "year": "2005" }, - { + "Don Quixote": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Quixote-Penguin-Classics-Cervantes-Saavedra/dp/0142437239", "author": "Miguel de Cervantes", "category": "Classics", @@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3836.Don_Quixote", "year": "2003" }, - { + "Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/dp/0321965515", "author": "Steve Krug", "category": "Design", @@ -853,7 +853,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18197267-don-t-make-me-think-revisited", "year": "2013" }, - { + "Dracula": { "amazon_url": "https://imdb-webservice.amazon.com/title/tt0103874/", "author": "Bram Stoker", "category": "Horror", @@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17245.Dracula", "year": "1986" }, - { + "Dune Chronicles": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074CG2XFV", "author": "Frank Herbert", "category": "Science Fiction", @@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=dune", "year": "2006" }, - { + "Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Run-Unlikely-Ultramarathon-Greatness/dp/0544002318", "author": "Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman", "category": "Health", @@ -895,7 +895,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13202092-eat-and-run", "year": "2012" }, - { + "Economic Facts and Fallacies": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Facts-Fallacies-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0465022030", "author": "Thomas Sowell", "category": "Economics", @@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2064279.Economic_Facts_and_Fallacies", "year": "2008" }, - { + "Education and the Significance of Life": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Education-Significance-Life-Krishnamurti/dp/0060648767", "author": "Krishnamurti", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/353435.Education_and_the_Significance_of_Life", "year": "2008" }, - { + "Ego Is the Enemy": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Ego-Enemy-Ryan-Holiday/dp/1591847818", "author": "Ryan Holiday", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27036528-ego-is-the-enemy", "year": "2016" }, - { + "Einstein: His Life and Universe": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Life-Universe-Walter-Isaacson/dp/0743264746", "author": "Walter Isaacson", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -951,7 +951,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10884.Einstein", "year": "2007" }, - { + "El Tiempo Entre Costuras": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/tiempo-entre-costuras-Mar%C3%ADa-Due%C3%B1as-ebook/dp/B0064T07IQ", "author": "Mar\u00eda Due\u00f1as", "category": "History", @@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7502166-el-tiempo-entre-costuras", "year": "2009" }, - { + "Elon Musk: Inventing the Future": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-Inventing-Billionaire-Shaping/product-reviews/075355562X", "author": "Ashlee Vance", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -979,7 +979,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22543496-elon-musk", "year": "2015" }, - { + "Emma": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Emma-Jane-Austen/dp/1503261964", "author": "Jane Austen", "category": "Historical Fiction", @@ -993,7 +993,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6969.Emma", "year": "2003" }, - { + "Ender's Game - Saga": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Enders-Ender-Quintet-Orson-Scott/dp/0812550706", "author": "Orson Scott Card", "category": "Science Fiction", @@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ender%27s+saga&search_type=books&search%5Bfield%5D=on", "year": "2004" }, - { + "Eug\u00e9nie Grandet": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Eugenie-Grandet-Comedy-Honor%C3%A9-Balzac/dp/014044050X", "author": "Honor\u00e9 de Balzac", "category": "Classics", @@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eug_nie_Grandet", "year": "2003" }, - { + "Every Shot Counts: Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Every-Shot-Counts-Revolutionary-Performance/dp/1592407501", "author": "Mark Broadie", "category": "Economics", @@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17674971-every-shot-counts", "year": "2014" }, - { + "Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Every-Thing-Must-Metaphysics-Naturalized/dp/0199573093", "author": "James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -1049,7 +1049,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/757403.Every_Thing_Must_Go", "year": "2007" }, - { + "Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Everyone-Darwins-Theory-Change/dp/0385340923", "author": "David Sloan Wilson", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -1063,7 +1063,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159062.Evolution_for_Everyone", "year": "2007" }, - 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{ + "Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups Early Days": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/dp/1430210788", "author": "Jessica Livingston", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -1133,7 +1133,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98233.Founders_at_Work", "year": "2007" }, - { + "Frankenstein": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Frankenstein-Penguin-classics-Mary-Shelley/dp/014043237X", "author": "Mary Shelley, Maurice Hindle", "category": "Horror", @@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490.Frankenstein", "year": "2018" }, - { + "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Freakonomics-Economist-Explores-Hidden-Everything/dp/0060731338", "author": "Steven D. 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Dubner", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -1161,7 +1161,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1202.Freakonomics", "year": "2006" }, - { + "Freedom in Exile": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Exile-Autobiography-Holiness-Transaction/dp/1850895317", "author": "Dalai Lama XIV", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -1175,7 +1175,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567720.Freedom_in_Exile", "year": "1991" }, - { + "From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Decadence-Present-Western-Cultural/dp/0060928832", "author": "Jacques Barzun", "category": "History", @@ -1189,7 +1189,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58233.From_Dawn_to_Decadence", "year": "2001" }, - { + "Future Crimes": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Future-Crimes-Digital-Underground-Connected/dp/0804171459", "author": "Marc Goodman", "category": "Miscellaneous", @@ -1203,7 +1203,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22318398-future-crimes?from_search=true", "year": "2015" }, - { + "Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Game-Change-Clintons-McCain-Lifetime/dp/0061733644", "author": "John Heilemann, Mark Halperin", "category": "Politics", @@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6694937-game-change", "year": "2010" }, - { + "Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Games-People-Play-Transactional-Analysis/dp/0345410033", "author": "Eric Berne.", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -1231,7 +1231,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49176.Games_People_Play", "year": "" }, - { + "Germinal": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Germinal-Penguin-Classics-%C3%89mile-Zola/dp/0140447423", "author": "Emile Zola", "category": "Classics", @@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28407.Germinal", "year": "2004" }, - { + "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0142000280", "author": "David Allen", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -1259,7 +1259,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633.Getting_Things_Done", "year": "2002" }, - { + "Ghost Fleet": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Fleet-Novel-Next-World/dp/054470505X", "author": "P.W. 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Rowling", "category": "Fantasy", @@ -1441,7 +1441,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/45175-harry-potter", "year": "2003" }, - { + "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Methods-Rationality-Chapters/dp/B00E640ZAG", "author": "Eliezer Yudkowsky", "category": "Fantasy", @@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10016013-harry-potter-and-the-methods-of-rationality", "year": "2015" }, - { + "Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim": { "author": "Stephen Sondheim", "category": "Writing", "rating": "4.77", @@ -1463,7 +1463,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12909101-hat-box", "year": "" }, - { + "Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Chip-Visions-Society-Science/dp/0609805673", "author": "Bart Kosko", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -1477,7 +1477,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172645.Heaven_in_a_Chip", "year": "2000" }, - { + "High Output Management": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove/dp/0679762884", "author": "Andy Grove", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -1491,7 +1491,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324750.High_Output_Management", "year": "1995" }, - { + "His Dark Materials": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Materials-Yearling-3-book-Boxed/dp/0440419514", "author": "Philip Pullman", "category": "Fantasy", @@ -1505,7 +1505,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18116.His_Dark_Materials", "year": "1996" }, - { + "Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Homo-Deus-Brief-History-Tomorrow/dp/0062464310", "author": "Yuval Noah Harari", "category": "History", @@ -1519,7 +1519,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31138556-homo-deus", "year": "" }, - { + "House of Leaves": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/House-Leaves-Mark-Z-Danielewski/dp/0375703764", "author": "Mark Z. Danielewski", "category": "Horror", @@ -1533,7 +1533,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves", "year": "2000" }, - { + "How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/How-Buildings-Learn-Happens-Theyre/dp/0140139966", "author": "Stewart Brand", "category": "Design", @@ -1547,7 +1547,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38310.How_Buildings_Learn", "year": "1995" }, - { + "How Children Fail": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Children-Fail-Classics-Child-Development/dp/0201484021", "author": "John Holt", "category": "Education", @@ -1561,7 +1561,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/573009.How_Children_Fail", "year": "1995" }, - { + "How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Die-Discover-Scientifically/dp/1250066115", "author": "Michael Greger, M.D.", "category": "Health", @@ -1575,7 +1575,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25663961-how-not-to-die", "year": "2015" }, - 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{ + "Hyperion": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Hyperion-Cantos-Dan-Simmons/dp/0553283685", "author": "Dan Simmons", "category": "Science Fiction", @@ -1687,7 +1687,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77566.Hyperion", "year": "1990" }, - { + "I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Hope-They-Serve-Beer-Hell/dp/0806532254", "author": "Tucker Max", "category": "Humor", @@ -1701,7 +1701,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9010.I_Hope_They_Serve_Beer_in_Hell", "year": "2006" }, - { + "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Winters-Night-Traveler-Italo-Calvino/dp/0156439611", "author": "Italo Calvino and William Weaver", "category": "Classics", @@ -1715,7 +1715,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374233.If_on_a_Winter_s_Night_a_Traveler", "year": "1982" }, - { + "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Illusions-Adventures-Reluctant-Richard-Bach/dp/0440204887", "author": "Richard Bach", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -1729,7 +1729,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29946.Illusions", "year": "2001" }, - { + "Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Impro-Improvisation-Theatre-Keith-Johnstone/dp/0878301178", "author": "Keith Johnstone", "category": "Theater and Film", @@ -1743,7 +1743,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306940.Impro", "year": "" }, - { + "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Defense-Food-Eaters-Manifesto/dp/1594201455", "author": "Michael Pollan", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -1757,7 +1757,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315425.In_Defense_of_Food", "year": "2008" }, - { + "In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Blink-Eye-Perspective-Film-Editing/dp/1879505622", "author": "Walter Murch", "category": "Theater and Film", @@ -1771,7 +1771,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2141.In_the_Blink_of_an_Eye", "year": "" }, - { + "Infinite Jest": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Jest-David-Foster-Wallace/dp/0316066524", "author": "David Foster Wallace", "category": "Classics", @@ -1785,7 +1785,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6759.Infinite_Jest", "year": "2005" }, - { + "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Robert-Cialdini/dp/006124189X", "author": "Robert B. Cialdini", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -1799,7 +1799,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate", "year": "2006" }, - { + "Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Influencer-Science-Leading-Change-Second/dp/0071808868", "author": "Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -1813,7 +1813,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/914211.Influencer", "year": "" }, - { + "Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Intuition-Pumps-Other-Tools-Thinking/dp/1491518871", "author": "Daniel C. Dennett", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -1827,7 +1827,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18378002-intuition-pumps-and-other-tools-for-thinking", "year": "2014" }, - { + "Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Irrational-Man-Study-Existential-Philosophy/dp/0385031386", "author": "William Barrett", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -1841,7 +1841,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83321.Irrational_Man", "year": "1962" }, - { + "J'accuse": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/J-accuse-Emile-Zola-French/dp/1654172154", "author": "Emile Zola", "category": "Classics", @@ -1855,7 +1855,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816964.J_accuse", "year": "1998" }, - { + "Jane Eyre": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Jane-Eyre-Charlotte-Bronte/dp/1503278190", "author": "Charlotte Bront\u00eb", "category": "Classics", @@ -1869,7 +1869,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10210.Jane_Eyre", "year": "2003" }, - { + "Jonathan Livingston Seagull": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Livingston-Seagull-Richard-Bach/dp/0743278909", "author": "Richard Bach", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -1883,7 +1883,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71728.Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull", "year": "2006" }, - { + "Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Just-Arguments-Important-Western-Philosophy/dp/1444336371", "author": "Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -1897,7 +1897,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12838972-just-the-arguments", "year": "2011" }, - { + "Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Whats-Right-Thing-Do/dp/0374532508", "author": "Michael J. Sandel", "category": "Politics", @@ -1911,7 +1911,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452731-justice", "year": "2009" }, - { + "Kane and Abel": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Kane-Abel-Jeffrey-Archer/dp/0312942729", "author": "Jeffrey Archer", "category": "Historical Fiction", @@ -1925,7 +1925,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78983.Kane_and_Abel", "year": "2004" }, - { + "Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Underground/dp/0307588696", "author": "Kevin Poulson", "category": "History", @@ -1939,7 +1939,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9319468-kingpin", "year": "2011" }, - { + "Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Labyrinths-Reason-Paradox-Puzzles-Knowledge/dp/0385242719", "author": "William Poundstone", "category": "Logic and Problem Solving", @@ -1953,7 +1953,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55436.Labyrinths_of_Reason", "year": "1989" }, - { + "Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Ton-Beau-Marot-Praise-Language/dp/0465086454", "author": "Douglas R. Hofstadter", "category": "Language", @@ -1967,7 +1967,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248193.Le_Ton_beau_de_Marot", "year": "1998" }, - { + "Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Lead": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Women-Work-Will-Lead/dp/0385349947", "author": "Sheryl Sandberg", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -1981,7 +1981,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071764-lean-in", "year": "2013" }, - { + "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Leaving-Microsoft-Change-World-Entrepreneurs-ebook/dp/B000UOJU16", "author": "John Wood", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -1995,7 +1995,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95429.Leaving_Microsoft_to_Change_the_World", "year": "2006" }, - { + "Letters From The Earth": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Earth-Uncensored-Writings-Perennial/dp/0060518650", "author": "Mark Twain", "category": "Classics", @@ -2009,7 +2009,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37813.Letters_from_the_Earth", "year": "2004" }, - { + "Lettres persanes": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Lettres-Persanes-French-Montesquieu/dp/2253082228", "author": "Montesquieu", "category": "Classics", @@ -2023,7 +2023,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509686.Persian_Letters", "year": "2006" }, - { + "Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Life-Speed-Light-Double-Digital-ebook/dp/B00C1N5WRK", "author": "J. Craig Venter", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -2037,7 +2037,7 @@ "url": "www.goodreads.com/book/show/17674969-life-at-the-speed-of-light", "year": "" }, - { + "Linchpin: Are You Indispensable": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Linchpin-Are-Indispensable-Seth-Godin/dp/1591844096", "author": "Seth Godin", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -2051,7 +2051,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7155145-linchpin", "year": "2010" }, - { + "Little Brother": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Little-Brother-Cory-Doctorow/dp/0765323117", "author": "Cory Doctorow", "category": "Science Fiction", @@ -2065,7 +2065,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/954674.Little_Brother", "year": "2008" }, - { + "Lonesome Dove": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Lonesome-Dove-Novel-Larry-McMurtry/dp/1439195269", "author": "Larry McMurtry", "category": "Historical Fiction", @@ -2079,7 +2079,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256008.Lonesome_Dove", "year": "1999" }, - { + "Long Walk to Freedom": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Long-Walk-Freedom-Autobiography-Mandela/dp/0316548189", "author": "Nelson Mandela", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -2093,7 +2093,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318431.Long_Walk_to_Freedom", "year": "1995" }, - { + "Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Losing-My-Virginity-Survived-Business/dp/0307720748", "author": "Richard Branson", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -2107,7 +2107,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211099.Losing_My_Virginity", "year": "" }, - { + "Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Losing-My-Virginity-Survived-Business/dp/0307720748", "author": "Richard Branson", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -2121,7 +2121,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9533705-losing-my-virginity", "year": "1999" }, - { + "Love in the Time of Cholera": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Love-Time-Cholera-Oprahs-Book/dp/0307389731", "author": "Gabriel Garc\u00eda Marqu\u00e9z", "category": "Classics", @@ -2135,7 +2135,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9712.Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera", "year": "2003" }, - { + "Madame Bovary": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Madame-Bovary-Classics-Gustave-Flaubert/dp/0553213415", "author": "Gustave Flaubert", "category": "Classics", @@ -2149,7 +2149,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2175.Madame_Bovary", "year": "2004" }, - { + "Madame Curie: A Biography": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Madame-Curie-Biography-Eve-Illustrated/dp/B001CXRG24", "author": "Marie Curie", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -2163,7 +2163,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341166.Madame_Curie", "year": "2001" }, - { + "Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Make-Stick-Science-Successful-Learning/dp/0674729013", "author": "Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel", "category": "Education", @@ -2177,7 +2177,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18770267.make-it-stick", "year": "2014" }, - { + "Man's Search for Meaning": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/080701429X", "author": "Viktor E. Frankl", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2191,7 +2191,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning", "year": "2006" }, - { + "Mansfield Park": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mansfield-Park-French-Jane-Austen-ebook/dp/B00XJRDG0C", "author": "Jane Austen", "category": "Classics", @@ -2205,7 +2205,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45032", "year": "2003" }, - { + "Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mazes-Mind-Unexpected-Clifford-Pickover/dp/0312103530", "author": "Clifford A. Pickover", "category": "Logic and Problem Solving", @@ -2219,7 +2219,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1986400.Mazes_for_the_Mind", "year": "1992" }, - { + "Meditations": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Marcus-Aurelius/dp/1503280462", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2233,7 +2233,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30659.Meditations", "year": "2006" }, - { + "Memory Man": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Man-Book-ebook/dp/B00N7TDP8K", "author": "David Baldacci", "category": "Mystery", @@ -2247,7 +2247,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23153154-memory-man", "year": "2015" }, - { + "Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Metamagical-Themas-Questing-Essence-Pattern/dp/0465045669", "author": "Douglas Hofstadter", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2261,7 +2261,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181239.Metamagical_Themas", "year": "1996" }, - { + "Metaphors We Live By": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Metaphors-We-Live-George-Lakoff/dp/0226468011", "author": "George Lakoff, Mark Johnson", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2275,7 +2275,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34459.Metaphors_We_Live_By", "year": "2003" }, - { + "Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Children-Future-Robot-Intelligence/dp/0674576187", "author": "Hans Moravec.", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -2289,7 +2289,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/648195.Mind_Children", "year": "1990" }, - { + "Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Wars-Research-National-Defense/dp/1932594167", "author": "Jonathan D. Moreno", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -2303,7 +2303,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/599321.Mind_Wars", "year": "2007" }, - { + "Mindset: The new psychology of success": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322", "author": "Carol S. Dweck,Ph.D.", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2317,7 +2317,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40745.Mindset", "year": "2006" }, - { + "Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful-Ideas/dp/0465046746", "author": "Seymour A. Papert", "category": "Education", @@ -2331,7 +2331,21 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703532.Mindstorms", "year": "1993" }, - { + "Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mismatch-Inclusion-Simplicity-Technology-Business/dp/0262038889", + "author": "Kat Holmes, John Maeda", + "category": "Design", + "description": "How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. Something as simple as color choices can render a product unusable for millions. These mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion. In Mismatch, Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion. Inclusive design methods--designing objects with rather than for excluded users--can create elegant solutions that work well and benefit all.Holmes tells stories of pioneers of inclusive design, many of whom were drawn to work on inclusion because of their own experiences of exclusion. A gamer and designer who depends on voice recognition shows Holmes his \"Wall of Exclusion,\" which displays dozens of game controllers that require two hands to operate; an architect shares her firsthand knowledge of how design can fail communities, gleaned from growing up in Detroit's housing projects; an astronomer who began to lose her eyesight adapts a technique called \"sonification\" so she can \"listen\" to the stars.Designing for inclusion is not a feel-good sideline. Holmes shows how inclusion can be a source of innovation and growth, especially for digital technologies. It can be a catalyst for creativity and a boost for the bottom line as a customer base expands. And each time we remedy a mismatched interaction, we create an opportunity for more people to contribute to society in meaningful ways.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1538365830l/39644200._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0262038889", + "lang": null, + "pages": "176", + "rating": "4.14", + "title": "Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39644200-mismatch", + "year": "2018" + }, + "Mistborn": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mistborn-Final-Empire-Book-No/dp/0765350386", "author": "Brandon Sanderson", "category": "Fantasy", @@ -2345,7 +2359,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/40910-mistborn", "year": "2006" }, - { + "Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Tribes-Emotion-Reason-Between/dp/1594202605", "author": "Joshua Greene", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2359,7 +2373,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707599-moral-tribes", "year": "2013" }, - { + "My Experiments with Truth": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mohandas-K-Gandhi-Autobiography-Experiments/dp/0486245934", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -2373,7 +2387,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112803.The_Story_of_My_Experiments_With_Truth", "year": "" }, - { + "My Life and My Work": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Work-Henry-Ford/dp/1497432251", "author": "Henry Ford", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -2387,7 +2401,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1122054.My_Life_And_Work", "year": "2007" }, - { + "Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Notes-Directing-Leadership-Directors-Performance/dp/080271708X", "author": "Frank Hauser, Russell Reich", "category": "Theater and Film", @@ -2401,7 +2415,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254808.Notes_on_Directing", "year": "2008" }, - { + "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Writing-10th-Anniversary-Memoir-Craft/dp/1439156816", "author": "Stephen King", "category": "Writing", @@ -2415,7 +2429,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10569.On_Writing", "year": "2002" }, - { + "One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/One-Click-Jeff-Bezos-Amazon-com/dp/1591845858", "author": "Richard Brandt", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -2429,7 +2443,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11223478-one-click", "year": "" }, - { + "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/One-Flew-Over-Cuckoos-Nest/dp/0451163966", "author": "Ken Kesey", "category": "Classics", @@ -2443,7 +2457,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332613.One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo_s_Nest", "year": "1963" }, - { + "One Hundred Years of Solitude": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Solitude-Harper-Perennial-Classics/dp/0060883286", "author": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa", "category": "Classics", @@ -2457,7 +2471,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320.One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude", "year": "2003" }, - { + "One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/One-Minute-Midnight-Kennedy-Khrushchev/dp/1400078911", "author": "Michael Dobbs", "category": "History", @@ -2471,7 +2485,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2606779-one-minute-to-midnight", "year": "2008" }, - { + "Origin of Wealth": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Origin-Wealth-Remaking-Economics-Business/dp/1422121038", "author": "Eric D. Beinhocker", "category": "Economics", @@ -2485,7 +2499,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22456.The_Origin_of_Wealth", "year": "2006" }, - { + "Origins of Form: The Shape of Natural and Man-Made Things": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Form-Natural-Man-made-Things_Why/dp/1589798082", "author": "Christopher Williams", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -2499,7 +2513,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16255011-origins-of-form", "year": "" }, - { + "Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Genius-Darwinian-Perspectives-Creativity/dp/0195128796", "author": "Dean Keith", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -2513,7 +2527,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254489.Origins_of_Genius", "year": "1999" }, - { + "Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Out-Control-Biology-Machines-Economic/dp/0201483408", "author": "Kevin Kelly", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -2527,7 +2541,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16080353-out-of-control", "year": "1995" }, - 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{ + "Predictably Irrational": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expanded-Decisions/dp/0061353248", "author": "Dan Ariely", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2625,7 +2639,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1713426.Predictably_Irrational", "year": "2008" }, - { + "Pride And Prejudice": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Japanese-Jane-Austen/dp/4309462642", "author": "Jane Austen", "category": "Classics", @@ -2639,7 +2653,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1885.Pride_and_Prejudice", "year": "2000" }, - { + "Prisoner's Dilemma": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Dilemma-Neumann-Theory-Puzzle/dp/038541580X", "author": "William Poundstone", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2653,7 +2667,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29506.Prisoner_s_Dilemma", "year": "2009" }, - { + "Prometheus Rising": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Prometheus-Rising-Robert-Anton-Wilson/dp/0692710604", "author": "Robert Anton Wilson", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2667,7 +2681,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28597.Prometheus_Rising", "year": "2010" }, - 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S. Neill, Albert Lamb", "category": "Education", @@ -3045,7 +3059,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178734.Summerhill", "year": "1995" }, - { + "Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Super-Crunchers-Thinking-Numbers-Smart/dp/0553384732", "author": "Ian Ayres", "category": "Economics", @@ -3059,7 +3073,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1081413.Super_Crunchers", "year": "2007" }, - { + "SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Freakonomics-Economist-Explores-Hidden-Everything/dp/0060731338", "author": "Steven D. 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Mitnick", "category": "Politics", @@ -3241,7 +3255,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18160.The_Art_of_Deception", "year": "2003" }, - { + "The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Art-Learning-Journey-Optimal-Performance/dp/0743277465", "author": "Josh Waitzkin", "category": "Education", @@ -3255,7 +3269,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/857333.The_Art_of_Learning", "year": "2008" }, - { + "The Art of Looking Sideways": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Art-Looking-Sideways-Alan-Fletcher/dp/0714834491", "author": "Alan Fletcher", "category": "Design", @@ -3269,7 +3283,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15778.The_Art_of_Looking_Sideways", "year": "2001" }, - { + "The Art of War": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Art-War-Sun-Tzu/dp/1599869772", "author": "Sun Tzu", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -3283,7 +3297,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10534.The_Art_of_War", "year": "2005" }, - { + "The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Art-Start-Time-Tested-Battle-Hardened-Starting/dp/1591840562", "author": "Guy Kawasaki", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -3297,7 +3311,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37875.The_Art_of_the_Start", "year": "2004" }, - { + "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Money-Financial-History-World/dp/0143116177", "author": "Niall Ferguson", "category": "Economics", @@ -3311,7 +3325,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2714607-the-ascent-of-money", "year": "2008" }, - { + "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Audacity-Hope-Thoughts-Reclaiming-American/dp/0307455874", "author": "Barack Obama", "category": "Politics", @@ -3325,7 +3339,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9742.The_Audacity_of_Hope", "year": "2006" }, - { + "The Autobiography of Malcolm X": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Malcolm-Told-Alex-Haley/dp/0345350685", "author": "Malcolm X, Alex Haley", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -3339,7 +3353,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92057.The_Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X", "year": "2015" }, - { + "The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Infinity-Explanations-Transform-World/dp/0143121359", "author": "David Deutsch", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -3353,7 +3367,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10483171-the-beginning-of-infinity", "year": "" }, - { + "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Big-Short-Inside-Doomsday-Machine/dp/0393338827", "author": "Michael Lewis", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -3367,7 +3381,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8032112-the-big-short", "year": "2015" }, - { + "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Improbable-Robustness-Fragility/dp/081297381X", "author": "Nassim Nicholas Taleb", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -3381,7 +3395,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242472.The_Black_Swan", "year": "2007" }, - { + "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Blank-Slate-Modern-Denial-Nature/dp/0142003344", "author": "Steven Pinker", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -3395,7 +3409,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate", "year": "2003" }, - { + "The Bone People": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Bone-People-Novel-Keri-Hulme/dp/0140089225", "author": "Keri Hulme", "category": "Miscellaneous", @@ -3409,7 +3423,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/460635.The_Bone_People", "year": "1986" }, - { + "The Book Thief": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Book-Thief-Markus-Zusak/dp/0375842209", "author": "Markus Zusak", "category": "Historical Fiction", @@ -3423,7 +3437,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19063.The_Book_Thief", "year": "2006" }, - { + "The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Bottom-Billion-Poorest-Countries-Failing/dp/0195373383", "author": "Paul Collier", "category": "Economics", @@ -3437,7 +3451,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493371.The_Bottom_Billion", "year": "2007" }, - { + "The Brain: The Story of You": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Story-You-David-Eagleman/dp/0525433449", "author": "David Eagleman", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -3451,7 +3465,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25776132.the-brain", "year": "2015" }, - { + "The Broken Empire": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Prince-Thorns-Broken-Empire-Lawrence/dp/1937007685", "author": "Mark Lawrence", "category": "Fantasy", @@ -3465,7 +3479,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/64473-the-broken-empire", "year": "2011" }, - { + "The Brothers Karamazov": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Karamazov-Fyodor-Dostoevsky/dp/0374528373", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky", "category": "Classics", @@ -3479,7 +3493,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934.The_Brothers_Karamazov", "year": "2002" }, - { + "The Catcher in the Rye": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Catcher-Rye-J-D-Salinger/dp/0316769487", "author": "J.D. Salinger", "category": "Classics", @@ -3493,7 +3507,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye", "year": "2001" }, - { + "The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/dp/0312430000", "author": "Atul Gawande", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -3507,7 +3521,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-manifesto", "year": "2009" }, - { + "The Chronicles of Narnia": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Narnia-C-S-Lewis/dp/0066238501", "author": "Clive Staples Lewis", "category": "Fantasy", @@ -3521,7 +3535,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11127.The_Chronicles_of_Narnia", "year": "2005" }, - { + "The City & The City": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/City-Novel-Random-Readers-Circle/dp/034549752X", "author": "China Mieville", "category": "Fantasy", @@ -3535,7 +3549,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4703581-the-city-the-city", "year": "2009" }, - { + "The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Codebreakers-Comprehensive-History-Communication-Internet/dp/0684831309", "author": "David Kahn", "category": "History", @@ -3549,7 +3563,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29608.The_Codebreakers", "year": "1996" }, - { + "The Compound Effect": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Compound-Effect-Darren-Hardy/dp/159315724X", "author": "Darren Hardy", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -3563,7 +3577,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9420697-the-compound-effect", "year": "" }, - { + "The Concise 48 Laws of Power": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Concise-Laws-Power-Robert-Greene/dp/1861974043", "author": "Robert Greene", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -3577,7 +3591,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18224060-the-concise-48-laws-of-power", "year": "2011" }, - { + "The Curse of the Mogul": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Curse-Mogul-Worlds-Leading-Companies/dp/1591843901", "author": "Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -3591,7 +3605,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7162410-the-curse-of-the-mogul", "year": "2009" }, - { + "The Da Vinci Code": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Vinci-Code-Robert-Langdon/dp/0307474275", "author": "Dan Brown", "category": "Mystery", @@ -3605,7 +3619,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968.The_Da_Vinci_Code", "year": "2006" }, - { + "The Dark Tower": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Tower-8-Book-Boxed-Set/dp/1501163566", "author": "Stephen King", "category": "Fantasy", @@ -3619,7 +3633,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/40750-the-dark-tower", "year": "2003" }, - { + "The Death of Ivan Ilych": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Death-Ivan-Ilyich-Bantam-Classics/dp/0553210351", "author": "Leo Tolstoy", "category": "Classics", @@ -3633,7 +3647,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18386.The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilych", "year": "" }, - { + "The Design of Everyday Things": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Revised-Expanded/dp/0465050654", "author": "Donald Norman", "category": "Design", @@ -3647,7 +3661,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/840.The_Design_of_Everyday_Things", "year": "2002" }, - { + "The Diamond Age": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Age-Neal-Stephenson/dp/1491543388", "author": "Neal Stephenson", "category": "Science Fiction", @@ -3661,7 +3675,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age", "year": "2000" }, - { + "The Diary of a Young Girl": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Anne-Frank-Diary-Young-Girl/dp/B007Z332A0", "author": "Anne Frank", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -3675,7 +3689,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48855.The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl", "year": "1993" }, - { + "The Director": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Director-Novel-David-Ignatius/dp/0393350592", "author": "David Ignatius", "category": "Classics", @@ -3689,7 +3703,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23316525-the-director", "year": "2009" }, - { + "The Discoverers": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Discoverers-History-Search-World-Himself/dp/0394726251", "author": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "category": "History", @@ -3703,7 +3717,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714380.The_Discoverers", "year": "2012" }, - { + "The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-About/dp/0887307280", "author": "Michael E. Gerber", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -3717,7 +3731,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81948.The_E_Myth_Revisited", "year": "1995" }, - { + "The Eight": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Eight-Katherine-Neville/dp/0345366239", "author": "Katherine Neville", "category": "Mystery", @@ -3731,7 +3745,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113310.The_Eight", "year": "2000" }, - { + "The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Ethical-Brain-Science-Moral-Dilemmas/dp/0060884738", "author": "Michael S. Gazzaniga", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -3745,7 +3759,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328734.The_Ethical_Brain", "year": "2006" }, - { + "The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Ethical-Slut-Infinite-Sexual-Possibilities/dp/1890159018", "author": "Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt.", "category": "Sexuality", @@ -3759,7 +3773,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54944.The_Ethical_Slut?from_search=true", "year": "2004" }, - { + "The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Extended-Phenotype-Reach-Popular-Science/dp/0192880519", "author": "Richard Dawkins", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -3773,7 +3787,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61538.The_Extended_Phenotype", "year": "1999" }, - { + "The Fifth Sacred Thing": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Sacred-Thing-Maya-Greenwood/dp/0553373803", "author": "Starhawk", "category": "Science Fiction", @@ -3787,7 +3801,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80689.The_Fifth_Sacred_Thing", "year": "1994" }, - { + "The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Art-Small-Talk-Conversation/dp/1401302262", "author": "Debra Fine", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -3801,1359 +3815,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93409.The_Fine_Art_of_Small_Talk", "year": "2005" }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank/dp/0989200507", - "author": "Steve Blank", - "category": "Startups and Business", - "description": "The essential book for anyone bringing a product to market, writing a business plan, marketing plan or sales plan. Step-by-step strategy of how to successfully organize sales, marketing and business development for a new product or company. The book offers insight into what makes some startups successful and leaves others selling off their furniture. Packed with concrete examples, the book will leave you with new skills to organize sales, marketing and your business for success.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0976470705", - "lang": null, - "pages": "281", - "rating": "3.93", - "title": "The Four Steps to the Epiphany", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762542.The_Four_Steps_to_the_Epiphany", - "year": "2005" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Future-Mind-Scientific-Understand-Enhance/dp/038553082X", - "author": "Michio Kaku", - "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", - "description": "The New York Times best-selling author of Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future and Hyperspace tackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human brain. For the first time in history, the secrets of the living brain are being revealed by a battery of high tech brain scans devised by physicists. Now what was once solely the province of science fiction has become a startling reality. Recording memories, telepathy, videotaping our dreams, mind control, avatars, and telekinesis are not only possible; they already exist. The Future of the Mind gives us an authoritative and compelling look at the astonishing research being done in top laboratories around the world\u2014all based on the latest advancements in neuroscience and physics. One day we might have a \"smart pill\" that can enhance our cognition; be able to upload our brain to a computer, neuron for neuron; send thoughts and emotions around the world on a \"brain-net\"; control computers and robots with our mind; push the very limits of immortality; and perhaps even send our consciousness across the universe. Dr. Kaku takes us on a grand tour of what the future might hold, giving us not only a solid sense of how the brain functions but also how these technologies will change our daily lives. He even presents a radically new way to think about \"consciousness\" and applies it to provide fresh insight into mental illness, artificial intelligence and alien consciousness. With Dr. Kaku's deep understanding of modern science and keen eye for future developments, The Future of the Mind is a scientific tour de force--an extraordinary, mind-boggling exploration of the frontiers of neuroscience.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1371428466l/17978489._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "038553082X", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "377", - "rating": "4.08", - "title": "The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17978489-the-future-of-the-mind", - "year": "2014" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Map-Londons-Terrifying-Epidemic/dp/1594482691", - "author": "Steven Johnson", - "category": "History", - "description": "From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcolm Gladwell, The Ghost Map is a riveting page-turner about a real-life historical hero, Dr. John Snow. It's the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure\u2014garbage removal, clean water, sewers\u2014necessary to support its rapidly expanding population, the city has become the perfect breeding ground for a terrifying disease no one knows how to cure. As the cholera outbreak takes hold, a physician and a local curate are spurred to action\u2014and ultimately solve the most pressing medical riddle of their time. In a triumph of multidisciplinary thinking, Johnson illuminates the intertwined histories and inter-connectedness of the spread of disease, contagion theory, the rise of cities, and the nature of scientific inquiry, offering both a riveting history and a powerful explanation of how it has shaped the world we live in.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "1594489254", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "299", - "rating": "3.90", - "title": "The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map", - "year": "2006" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Train-Novel-Paula-Hawkins-ebook/dp/B00L9B7IKE", - "author": "Paula Hawkins", - "category": "Mystery", - "description": "An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She\u2019s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. \u201cJess and Jason,\u201d she calls them. Their life\u2014as she sees it\u2014is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It\u2019s only a minute until the train moves on, but it\u2019s enough. Now everything\u2019s changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she\u2019s only watched from afar. Now they\u2019ll see; she\u2019s much more than just the girl on the train...", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1574805682l/22557272._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "1594633665", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "325", - "rating": "3.93", - "title": "The Girl on the Train", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22557272-the-girl-on-the-train", - "year": "2015" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Glass-Bead-Game-Magister-Novel-ebook/dp/B00ANI9G0O", - "author": "Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston", - "category": "Classics", - "description": "The final novel of Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature.Set in the twenty-third century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game).", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0312278497", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "578", - "rating": "4.12", - "title": "The Glass Bead Game", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16634.The_Glass_Bead_Game", - "year": "2002" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp/0062273205", - "author": "Ben Horowitz", - "category": "Startups and Business", - "description": "A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one.In The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, draws on his own story of founding, running, selling, buying, managing, and investing in technology companies to offer essential advice and practical wisdom for navigating the toughest problems business schools don't cover. His blog has garnered a devoted following of millions of readers who have come to rely on him to help them run their businesses. A lifelong rap fan, Horowitz amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs and tells it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, from cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.His advice is grounded in anecdotes from his own hard-earned rise\u2014from cofounding the early cloud service provider Loudcloud to building the phenomenally successful Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm, both with fellow tech superstar Marc Andreessen (inventor of Mosaic, the Internet's first popular Web browser). This is no polished victory lap; he analyzes issues with no easy answers through his trials, includingdemoting (or firing) a loyal friend;whether you should incorporate titles and promotions, and how to handle them;if it's OK to hire people from your friend's company;how to manage your own psychology, while the whole company is relying on you;what to do when smart people are bad employees;why Andreessen Horowitz prefers founder CEOs, and how to become one;whether you should sell your company, and how to do it.Filled with Horowitz's trademark humor and straight talk, and drawing from his personal and often humbling experiences, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1386609333l/18176747._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0062273205", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "304", - "rating": "4.24", - "title": "The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-about-hard-things", - "year": "2014" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Help-Kathryn-Stockett/dp/0425232204", - "author": "Kathryn Stockett", - "category": "Historical Fiction", - "description": "Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereThree ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women, mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends, view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't. 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Examining heroic myths in the light of modern psychology, it considers not only the patterns and stages of mythology but also its relevance to our lives today--and to the life of any person seeking a fully realized existence.Myth, according to Campbell, is the projection of a culture's dreams onto a large screen; Campbell's book, like Star Wars, the film it helped inspire, is an exploration of the big-picture moments from the stage that is our world. 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But as she nears thirty, her foothold becomes precarious; a poor girl with expensive tastes, she needs a husband to preserve her social standing, and to maintain her in the luxury she has come to expect. Whilst many have sought her, something - fastidiousness or integrity- prevents her from making a 'suitable' match.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328729186l/17728._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "1844082938", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "351", - "rating": "3.95", - "title": "The House of Mirth", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17728.The_House_of_Mirth", - "year": "2006" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Life-Henrietta-Lacks/dp/1400052181", - "author": "Rebecca Skloot", - "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", - "description": "Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells\u2014taken without her knowledge\u2014became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first \u201cimmortal\u201d human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they\u2019d weigh more than 50 million metric tons\u2014as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb\u2019s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the \u201ccolored\u201d ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta\u2019s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia \u2014 a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo \u2014 to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.Henrietta\u2019s family did not learn of her \u201cimmortality\u201d until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family \u2014 past and present \u2014 is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family\u2014especially Henrietta\u2019s daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother\u2019s cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister, Elsie, who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn\u2019t her children afford health insurance?Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327878144l/6493208._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "1400052173", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "370", - "rating": "4.07", - "title": "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6493208-the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks?ac=1&from_search=true", - "year": "2010" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0143110373", - "author": "Kevin Kelly", - "category": "Science and Medicine", - "description": "From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our livesMuch of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Kelly provides an optimistic road map for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives\u2014from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture\u2014can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces. Kelly both describes these deep trends\u2014flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning\u2014and demonstrates how they overlap and are codependent on one another. These larger forces will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate with each other. By understanding and embracing them, says Kelly, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits. Kelly\u2019s bright, hopeful book will be indispensable to anyone who seeks guidance on where their business, industry, or life is heading\u2014what to invent, where to work, in what to invest, how to better reach customers, and what to begin to put into place\u2014as this new world emerges.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1453057334l/27209431._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": null, - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "336", - "rating": "3.94", - "title": "The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27209431-the-inevitable", - "year": "2016" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Change-Business/dp/0062060244", - "author": "clayton m. christensen", - "category": "Startups and Business", - "description": "Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership -- or worse, disappear completely. And he not only proves what he says, he tells others how to avoid a similar fate.Focusing on \"disruptive technology\" -- the Honda Super Cub, Intel's 8088 processor, or the hydraulic excavator, for example -- Christensen shows why most companies miss \"the next great wave.\" Whether in electronics or retailing, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know when to abandon traditional business practices. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, \"The Innovator's Dilemma\" presents a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0060521996", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "286", - "rating": "4.01", - "title": "The Innovator's Dilemma", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_Innovator_s_Dilemma", - "year": "2003" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Wise-Mans-Fear-Kingkiller-Chronicle/dp/0756407915", - "author": "Patrick Rothfuss", - "category": "Fantasy", - "description": "Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature. A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1515589515l/186074._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "075640407X", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "662", - "rating": "4.53", - "title": "The Kingkiller Chronicle", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/45262-the-kingkiller-chronicle", - "year": "2007" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Last-Lecture-Randy-Pausch/dp/1401323251", - "author": "Randy Pausch", - "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", - "description": "A lot of professors give talks titled 'The Last Lecture'. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave, 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams', wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humour, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. 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It is changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.The Lean Startup is about learning what your customers really want. It's about testing your vision continuously, adapting and adjusting before it's too late.Now is the time to think Lean.The Lean Startup changes everything - Harvard Business Review ", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1333960993l/12969025._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0670921602", - "lang": "en-US", - "pages": "320", - "rating": "4.09", - "title": "The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10127019-the-lean-startup", - "year": "2011" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/0262560992", - "author": "Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. 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The Seasoned Schemer informs the reader about additional dimensions of computing: functions as values, change of state, and exceptional cases. The Little LISPer has been a popular introduction to LISP for many years. It had appeared in French and Japanese. The Little Schemer and The Seasoned Schemer are worthy successors and will prove equally popular as textbooks for Scheme courses as well as companion texts for any complete introductory course in Computer Science.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0262560992", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "210", - "rating": "4.28", - "title": "The Little Schemer", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/548914.The_Little_Schemer", - "year": "1995" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-J-R-R-Tolkien/dp/0544003411", - "author": "J.R.R. 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Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1486871542l/3263607._SY160_.jpg", - "isbn": null, - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "527", - "rating": "4.36", - "title": "The Lord of the Rings", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/66175-the-lord-of-the-rings", - "year": "1973" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Infinity-Ramanujan/dp/1476763496", - "author": "Robert Kanigel", - "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", - "description": "The tale of a relationship between a young Indian mathematics genius, Ramanujan, and his tutor at Cambridge University, G.H. Hardy, in the years before World War I. Through their eyes the reader is taken on a journey through numbers theory. Ramanujan would regularly telescope 12 steps of logic into two - the effect is said to be like Dr Watson in the train of some argument by Sherlock Holmes. The language of symbols and infinitely large (and small) regions of mathematics should be rendered with clarity for the general reader.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0349104522", - "lang": "en-GB", - "pages": "438", - "rating": "4.10", - "title": "The Man Who Knew Infinity : A Life of the Genius Ramanujan", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106139.The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity", - "year": "1992" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Mistook-His-Wife/dp/1491514078", - "author": "Oliver Sacks", - "category": "Science and Medicine", - "description": "If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self\u2014himself\u2014he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it. Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to adapt to often bizarre worlds of neurological disorder. Here are people who can no longer recognize everyday objects or those they love; who are stricken with violent tics or shout involuntary obscenities; who have been dismissed as autistic or retarded, yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales illuminate what it means to be human.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1447047702l/63697._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0684853949", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "243", - "rating": "4.06", - "title": "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat and Other Clinical Tales", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63697.The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_for_a_Hat_and_Other_Clinical_Tales", - "year": "1998" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Martian-Andy-Weir/dp/0553418025", - "author": "Andy Weir", - "category": "Science Fiction", - "description": "Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he\u2019s sure he\u2019ll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he\u2019s alive\u2014and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won\u2019t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old \u201chuman error\u201d are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn\u2019t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills \u2014 and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit \u2014 he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1413706054l/18007564._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0804139024", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "384", - "rating": "4.40", - "title": "The Martian", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18007564-the-martian", - "year": "2014" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993", - "author": "Tim Wu", - "category": "History", - "description": "In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over what Americans see and hear. Could history repeat itself with the next industrial consolidation? Could the Internet\u2014the entire flow of American information\u2014come to be ruled by one corporate leviathan in possession of \u201cthe master switch\u201d? That is the big question of Tim Wu\u2019s pathbreaking book.As Wu\u2019s sweeping history shows, each of the new media of the twentieth century\u2014radio, telephone, television, and film\u2014was born free and open. Each invited unrestricted use and enterprising experiment until some would-be mogul battled his way to total domination. Here are stories of an uncommon will to power, the power over information: Adolph Zukor, who took a technology once used as commonly as YouTube is today and made it the exclusive prerogative of a kingdom called Hollywood . . . NBC\u2019s founder, David Sarnoff, who, to save his broadcast empire from disruptive visionaries, bullied one inventor (of electronic television) into alcoholic despair and another (this one of FM radio, and his boyhood friend) into suicide . . . And foremost, Theodore Vail, founder of the Bell System, the greatest information empire of all time, and a capitalist whose faith in Soviet-style central planning set the course of every information industry thereafter.Explaining how invention begets industry and industry begets empire\u2014a progress often blessed by government, typically with stifling consequences for free expression and technical innovation alike\u2014Wu identifies a time-honored pattern in the maneuvers of today\u2019s great information powers: Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T. A battle royal looms for the Internet\u2019s future, and with almost every aspect of our lives now dependent on that network, this is one war we dare not tune out.Part industrial expos\u00e9, part meditation on what freedom requires in the information age, The Master Switch is a stirring illumination of a drama that has played out over decades in the shadows of our national life and now culminates with terrifying implications for our future.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320518400l/8201080._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0307269930", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "384", - "rating": "3.86", - "title": "The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8201080-the-master-switch", - "year": "2010" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Master-Margarita-Mikhail-Bulgakov/dp/0679760806", - "author": "Mikhail Bulgakov", - "category": "Classics", - "description": "The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.(back cover)", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327867963l/117833._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0679760806", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "335", - "rating": "4.29", - "title": "The Master and Margarita", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117833.The_Master_and_Margarita", - "year": "1996" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Roger-Ackroyd-Hercule-Mysteries/dp/0062073567", - "author": "Agatha Christie", - "category": "Mystery", - "description": "Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's most controversial mysteries, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing. The peaceful English village of King\u2019s Abbot is stunned. First, the attractive widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of veronal. Not twenty-four hours later, Roger Ackroyd\u2014the man she had planned to marry\u2014is murdered. It is a baffling, complex case involving blackmail, suicide, and violent death, a cast that taxes Hercule Poirot\u2019s \u201clittle grey cells\u201d before he reaches one of the most startling conclusions of his fabled career.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "1579126278", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "288", - "rating": "4.24", - "title": "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", - "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16328.The_Murder_of_Roger_Ackroyd", - "year": "2006" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies-Policies/dp/0691138737", - "author": "Bryan Caplan", - "category": "Politics", - "description": "The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else pretend to, resulting in bad policies winning again and again by popular demand.Boldly calling into question our most basic assumptions about American politics, Caplan contends that democracy fails precisely because it does what voters want. Through an analysis of Americans' voting behavior and opinions on a range of economic issues, he makes the convincing case that noneconomists suffer from four prevailing biases: they underestimate the wisdom of the market mechanism, distrust foreigners, undervalue the benefits of conserving labor, and pessimistically believe the economy is going from bad to worse. Caplan lays out several bold ways to make democratic government work better--for example, urging economic educators to focus on correcting popular misconceptions and recommending that democracies do less and let markets take up the slack.The Myth of the Rational Voter takes an unflinching look at how people who vote under the influence of false beliefs ultimately end up with government that delivers lousy results. With the upcoming presidential election season drawing nearer, this thought-provoking book is sure to spark a long-overdue reappraisal of our elective system.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0691129428", - "lang": null, - "pages": "276", - "rating": "3.93", - "title": "The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698866.The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter", - "year": "2007" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Doctors-Medical-Psychology-Genocide/dp/0465049052", - "author": "Robert Jay Lifton", - "category": "History", - "description": "Nazi doctors did more than conduct bizarre experiments on concentration-camp inmates; they supervised the entire process of medical mass murder, from selecting those who were to be exterminated to disposing of corpses. Lifton (The Broken Connection; The Life of the Self shows that this medically supervised killing was done in the name of \"healing,\" as part of a racist program to cleanse the Aryan body politic. After the German eugenics campaign of the 1920s for forced sterilization of the \"unfit,\" it was but one step to \"euthanasia,\" which in the Nazi context meant systematic murder of Jews. Building on interviews with former Nazi physicians and their prisoners, Lifton presents a disturbing portrait of careerists who killed to overcome feelings of powerlessness. He includes a chapter on Josef Mengele and one on Eduard Wirths, the \"kind, decent\" doctor (as some inmates described him) who set up the Auschwitz death machinery. Lifton also psychoanalyzes the German people, scarred by the devastation of World War I and mystically seeking regeneration. This profound study ranks with the most insightful books on the Holocaust.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1333754345l/173187._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0465049052", - "lang": null, - "pages": "561", - "rating": "4.10", - "title": "The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/173187.The_Nazi_Doctors", - "year": "1986" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/New-Executive-Brain-Frontal-Complex/dp/0195329406", - "author": "Elkhonon Goldberg", - "category": "Science and Medicine", - "description": "Elkhonon Goldberg's groundbreaking The Executive Brain was a classic of scientific writing, revealing how the frontal lobes command the most human parts of the mind. Now he offers a completely new book, providing fresh, iconoclastic ideas about the relationship between the brain and the mind. In The New Executive Brain, Goldberg paints a sweeping panorama of cutting-edge thinking in cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology, one that ranges far beyond the frontal lobes. Drawing on the latest discoveries, and developing complex scientific ideas and relating them to real life through many fascinating case studies and anecdotes, the author explores how the brain engages in complex decision-making; how it deals with novelty and ambiguity; and how it addresses moral choices. At every step, Goldberg challenges entrenched assumptions. For example, we know that the left hemisphere of the brain is the seat of language--but Goldberg argues that language may not be the central adaptation of the left hemisphere. Apes lack language, yet many also show evidence of asymmetric hemispheric development. Goldberg also finds that a complex interaction between the frontal lobes and the amygdale--between a recently evolved and a much older part of the brain--controls emotion, as conscious thoughts meet automatic impulses. The author illustrates this observation with a personal example: the difficulty he experienced when trying to pick up a baby alligator he knew to be harmless, as his amygdala battled his effort to extend his hand. In the years since the original Executive Brain, Goldberg has remained at the front of his field, constantly challenging orthodoxy. In this revised and expanded edition, he affirms his place as one of our most creative and insightful scientists, offering lucid writing and bold, paradigm-shifting ideas.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0195329406", - "lang": null, - "pages": "334", - "rating": "4.12", - "title": "The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6745893-the-new-executive-brain", - "year": "2009" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431", - "author": "Michelle Alexander", - "category": "Politics", - "description": "\"Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole.\"As the United States celebrates the nation's \"triumph over race\" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status--much like their grandparents before them.In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community--and all of us--to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328751532l/6792458._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "1595581030", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "290", - "rating": "4.48", - "title": "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6792458-the-new-jim-crow", - "year": "2010" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Outer-Limits-Reason-Science-Mathematics/dp/026252984X", - "author": "Noson S. Yanofsky", - "category": "Science and Medicine", - "description": "An exploration of the scientific limits of knowledge that challenges our deep-seated beliefs about our universe, our rationality, and ourselves.Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science, mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer Limits of Reason, Noson Yanofsky considers what cannot be predicted, described, or known, and what will never be understood. He discusses the limitations of computers, physics, logic, and our own thought processes.Yanofsky describes simple tasks that would take computers trillions of centuries to complete and other problems that computers can never solve; perfectly formed English sentences that make no sense; different levels of infinity; the bizarre world of the quantum; the relevance of relativity theory; the causes of chaos theory; math problems that cannot be solved by normal means; and statements that are true but cannot be proven. He explains the limitations of our intuitions about the world -- our ideas about space, time, and motion, and the complex relationship between the knower and the known.Moving from the concrete to the abstract, from problems of everyday language to straightforward philosophical questions to the formalities of physics and mathematics, Yanofsky demonstrates a myriad of unsolvable problems and paradoxes. Exploring the various limitations of our knowledge, he shows that many of these limitations have a similar pattern and that by investigating these patterns, we can better understand the structure and limitations of reason itself. Yanofsky even attempts to look beyond the borders of reason to see what, if anything, is out there.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1381287623l/17841838._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0262019353", - "lang": null, - "pages": "403", - "rating": "4.02", - "title": "The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us", - "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841838-the-outer-limits-of-reason", - "year": "2013" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Paradox-Choice-More-Less-Revised-ebook/dp/B000TDGGVU", - "author": "Barry Shwartz", - "category": "Startups and Business", - "description": "About the Book: The Paradox of Choice. In the spirit of Alvin Tofflers Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401K, everyday decisions have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains why too much of a good thing has proven detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz explains how a culture that thrives on the availability of constantly evolving options can also foster profound dissatisfaction and self-blame in individuals, which can lead to a paralysis in decision making and, in some cases, depression. With the latest studies on how we make choices in our personal and professional lives, Schwartz offers practical advice on how to focus on the right choices, and how to derive greater satisfaction from choices that we do make. About the Author: Barry Schwartz Barry Schwartz is the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College. He is the author of several books, including The Battle for Human Nature: Science, Morality and Modern Life and The Costs of Living: How Market Freedom Erodes the Best Things in Life. His articles have appeared in many of the leading journals in his field, including the American Psychologist. He lives in Philadelphia, PA.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1410138134l/10639._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0060005696", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "265", - "rating": "3.86", - "title": "The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10639.The_Paradox_of_Choice", - "year": "2005" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/PayPal-Wars-Battles-Media-Planet/dp/1936488590", - "author": "Eric M. Jackson", - "category": "Startups and Business", - "description": "When Peter Thiel and Max Levchin launched an online payment website in 1999, they hoped their service could improve the lives of millions around the globe. But when their start-up, PayPal, survived the dot.com crash only to find itself besieged by unimaginable challenges, that dream threatened to become a nightmare. PayPal's history - as told by former insider Eric Jackson - is an engrossing study of human struggle and perseverance against overwhelming odds. The entrepreneurs that Thiel and Levchin recruited to overhaul world currency markets first had to face some of the greatest trials ever thrown at a Silicon Valley company before they could make internet history. Business guru Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence, called the hardcover edition of The PayPal Wars a real page turner that featured what he called the best description of business strategy unfolding in a world changing at warp speed. The new paperback edition will feature updated material and even more insights on the state of internet commerce.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0977898431", - "lang": null, - "pages": "270", - "rating": "3.96", - "title": "The Paypal Wars", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4052.The_PayPal_Wars", - "year": "2010" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Picture-Dorian-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486278077", - "author": "Oscar Wilde", - "category": "Classics", - "description": "Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde\u2019s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author\u2019s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray\u2019s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it \ufb01rst appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel\u2019s corrupting in\ufb02uence, he responded that there is, in fact, \u201ca terrible moral in Dorian Gray.\u201d Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde\u2019s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray\u2019s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, \u201cBasil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be\u2014in other ages, perhaps.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1546103428l/5297._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": null, - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "272", - "rating": "4.08", - "title": "The Picture of Dorian Gray", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray", - "year": "2004" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Pillars-Earth-Novel-Kingsbridge/dp/0451166892", - "author": "Ken Follett", - "category": "Historical Fiction", - "description": "Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known.Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes The Pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time the twelfth century; the place feudal England; and the subject the building of a glorious cathedral. Follett has re-created the crude, flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every detail. The vast forests, the walled towns, the castles, and the monasteries become a familiar landscape. Against this richly imagined and intricately interwoven backdrop, filled with the ravages of war and the rhythms of daily life, the master storyteller draws the reader irresistibly into the intertwined lives of his characters into their dreams, their labors, and their loves: Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the ravishingly beautiful noblewoman; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone; and Ellen, the woman of the forest who casts a terrifying curse. From humble stonemason to imperious monarch, each character is brought vividly to life.The building of the cathedral, with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons, is the center of the drama. Around the site of the construction, Follett weaves a story of betrayal, revenge, and love, which begins with the public hanging of an innocent man and ends with the humiliation of a king.For the Movie tie-in edition with the same ISBN go to this Alternate Cover Edition", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1576956100l/5043._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": null, - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "976", - "rating": "4.32", - "title": "The Pillars of the Earth", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5043.The_Pillars_of_the_Earth?from_search=true", - "year": "2002" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Player-Games-Culture-Iain-Banks/dp/0316005401", - "author": "Iain M. Banks", - "category": "Science Fiction", - "description": "The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of the best is Jernau Morat Gurgeh, Player of Games, master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel & incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game, a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game and with it the challenge of his life, and very possibly his death.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0061053562", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "293", - "rating": "4.27", - "title": "The Player of Games", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630.The_Player_of_Games", - "year": "1997" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Power-Full-Engagement-Managing-Performance/dp/0743226755", - "author": "Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz", - "category": "Startups and Business", - "description": "\u201cCombines the gritty toughmindedness of the best coaches with the gentle-but-insistent inspiration of the most effective spiritual advisers\u201d (Fast Company). This groundbreaking New York Times bestseller has helped hundreds of thousands of people at work and at home balance stress and recovery and sustain high performance despite crushing workloads and 24/7 demands on their time. We live in digital time. Our pace is rushed, rapid-fire, and relentless. Facing crushing workloads, we try to cram as much as possible into every day. We're wired up, but we're melting down. Time management is no longer a viable solution. As bestselling authors Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz demonstrate in this groundbreaking book, managing energy, not time, is the key to enduring high performance as well as to health, happiness, and life balance. The Power of Full Engagement is a highly practical, scientifically based approach to managing your energy more skillfully both on and off the job by laying out the key training principles and provides a powerful, step-by-step program that will help you to: * Mobilize four key sources of energy * Balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal * Expand capacity in the same systematic way that elite athletes do * Create highly specific, positive energy management rituals to make lasting changes Above all, this book provides a life-changing road map to becoming more fully engaged on and off the job, meaning physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0743226755", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "222", - "rating": "4.04", - "title": "The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal", - "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68985.The_Power_of_Full_Engagement", - "year": "2005" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business/dp/081298160X", - "author": "Charles Duhigg", - "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", - "description": "A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed.Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the biggest flops in company history. Suddenly, one of them detects a nearly imperceptible pattern\u2014and with a slight shift in advertising, Febreze goes on to earn a billion dollars a year.An untested CEO takes over one of the largest companies in America. His first order of business is attacking a single pattern among his employees\u2014how they approach worker safety\u2014and soon the firm, Alcoa, becomes the top performer in the Dow Jones.What do all these people have in common? They achieved success by focusing on the patterns that shape every aspect of our lives. They succeeded by transforming habits.In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation. Along the way we learn why some people and companies struggle to change, despite years of trying, while others seem to remake themselves overnight. We visit laboratories where neuroscientists explore how habits work and where, exactly, they reside in our brains. We discover how the right habits were crucial to the success of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and civil-rights hero Martin Luther King, Jr. We go inside Procter & Gamble, Target superstores, Rick Warren\u2019s Saddleback Church, NFL locker rooms, and the nation\u2019s largest hospitals and see how implementing so-called keystone habits can earn billions and mean the difference between failure and success, life and death.At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and achieving success is understanding how habits work. Habits aren\u2019t destiny. As Charles Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1545854312l/12609433._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "1400069289", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "375", - "rating": "4.10", - "title": "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-habit", - "year": "2012" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment/dp/1577314808", - "author": "Eckhart Tolle", - "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", - "description": "Eckhart Tolle's message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. And while this message may not seem stunningly original or fresh, Tolle's clear writing, supportive voice and enthusiasm make this an excellent manual for anyone who's ever wondered what exactly \"living in the now\" means. Foremost, Tolle is a world-class teacher, able to explain complicated concepts in concrete language. More importantly, within a chapter of reading this book, readers are already holding the world in a different container--more conscious of how thoughts and emotions get in the way of their ability to live in genuine peace and happiness.Tolle packs a lot of information and inspirational ideas into The Power of Now. (Topics include the source of Chi, enlightened relationships, creative use of the mind, impermanence and the cycle of life.) Thankfully, he's added markers that symbolise \"break time\". This is when readers should close the book and mull over what they just read. As a result, The Power of Now reads like the highly acclaimed A Course in Miracles--a spiritual guidebook that has the potential to inspire just as many study groups and change just as many lives for the better. --Gail Hudson", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "1577314808", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "229", - "rating": "4.13", - "title": "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6708.The_Power_of_Now", - "year": "2004" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Quark-Jaguar-Adventures-Simple-Complex/dp/0805072535", - "author": "Murray Gell-Mann", - "category": "Science and Medicine", - "description": "From one of the architects of the new science of simplicity and complexity comes an explanation of the connections between nature at its most basic level and natural selection, archaeology, linguistics, child development, computers, and other complex adaptive systems. Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann offers a uniquely personal and unifying vision of the relationship between the fundamental laws of physics and the complexity and diversity of the natural world.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0805072535", - "lang": null, - "pages": "392", - "rating": "3.85", - "title": "The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270881.The_Quark_and_the_Jaguar", - "year": "2000" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Queens-Gambit-Novel-Walter-Tevis/dp/1400030609", - "author": "Walter Tevis", - "category": "Miscellaneous", - "description": "Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as she hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting. Engaging and fast-paced, The Queen's Gambit speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "1400030609", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "243", - "rating": "4.15", - "title": "The Queen's Gambit", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62022.The_Queen_s_Gambit", - "year": "2003" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Rational-Optimist-Prosperity-Evolves-P-s/dp/0061452068", - "author": "Matt Ridley", - "category": "History", - "description": "Life is getting better\u2014and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down \u2014 all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people\u2019s lives as never before. The pessimists who dominate public discourse insist that we will soon reach a turning point and things will start to get worse. But they have been saying this for two hundred years.Yet Matt Ridley does more than describe how things are getting better. He explains why. Prosperity comes from everybody working for everybody else. The habit of exchange and specialization\u2014which started more than 100,000 years ago\u2014has created a collective brain that sets human living standards on a rising trend. The mutual dependence, trust, and sharing that result are causes for hope, not despair.This bold book covers the entire sweep of human history, from the Stone Age to the Internet, from the stagnation of the Ming empire to the invention of the steam engine, from the population explosion to the likely consequences of climate change. It ends with a confident assertion that thanks to the ceaseless capacity of the human race for innovative change, and despite inevitable disasters along the way, the twenty-first century will see both human prosperity and natural biodiversity enhanced. Acute, refreshing, and revelatory, The Rational Optimist will change your way of thinking about the world for the better.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "006145205X", - "lang": "en-CA", - "pages": "448", - "rating": "3.97", - "title": "The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7776209-the-rational-optimist", - "year": "2010" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Revenge-Geography-Coming-Conflicts-Against/dp/0812982223", - "author": "Robert D. Kaplan", - "category": "History", - "description": "In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world. \u00a0 In The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world\u2019s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppe\u2019s pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland. \u00a0 Kaplan then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia. Remarkably, the future can be understood in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties: China, able to feed only 23 percent of its people from land that is only 7 percent arable, has sought energy, minerals, and metals from such brutal regimes as Burma, Iran, and Zimbabwe, putting it in moral conflict with the United States. Afghanistan\u2019s porous borders will keep it the principal invasion route into India, and a vital rear base for Pakistan, India\u2019s main enemy. Iran will exploit the advantage of being the only country that straddles both energy-producing areas of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Finally, Kaplan posits that the United States might rue engaging in far-flung conflicts with Iraq and Afghanistan rather than tending to its direct neighbor Mexico, which is on the verge of becoming a semifailed state due to drug cartel carnage. \u00a0 A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century\u2019s looming cataclysms.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1386541369l/13330422._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "1400069831", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "432", - "rating": "3.75", - "title": "The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330422-the-revenge-of-geography", - "year": "2012" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/0307455777", - "author": "Jonathan Haidt", - "category": "Politics", - "description": "Why can\u2019t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. \u00a0His starting point is moral intuition\u2014the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right. He blends his own research findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists to draw a map of the moral domain. He then examines the origins of morality, overturning the view that evolution made us fundamentally selfish creatures. But rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic, he makes a more subtle claim\u2014that we are fundamentally groupish. It is our groupishness, he explains, that leads to our greatest joys, our religious divisions, and our political affiliations. In a stunning final chapter on ideology and civility, Haidt shows what each side is right about, and why we need the insights of liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to flourish as a nation.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1534528902l/11324722._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0307377903", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "419", - "rating": "4.21", - "title": "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind", - "year": "2012" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-British-Empire/dp/031216985X", - "author": "Lawrence James", - "category": "History", - "description": "Great Britain's geopolitical role has undergone many changes over the last four centuries. Once a maritime superpower and ruler of half the world, Britain now occupies an isolated position as an economically fragile island often at odds with her European neighbors. Lawrence James has written a comprehensive, perceptive and insighful history of the British Empire. Spanning the years from 1600 to the present day, this critically acclaimed book combines detailed scholarship with readable popular history.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1354898847l/143980._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "031216985X", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "744", - "rating": "3.91", - "title": "The Rise and Fall of the British Empire", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143980.The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_British_Empire", - "year": "1997" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Score-Takes-Care-Itself-Philosophy/dp/1591843472", - "author": "Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh", - "category": "Startups and Business", - "description": " \"Even when you have an organization brimming with talent, victory is not always under your control. There is no guarantee, no ultimate formula for success. It all comes down to intelligently and relentlessly seeking solutions that will increase your chance of prevailing. When you do that, the score will take care of itself.\" (Bill Walsh) Bill Walsh is a towering figure in the history of the NFL. His advanced leadership transformed the San Francisco 49ers from the worst franchise in sports to a legendary dynasty that won three Super Bowls. In the process, he changed the way football is played-pushing it into the twenty-first century. Walsh is famous for his strategic brilliance and innovations, such as the West Coast Offense, but his enlightened philosophy of leadership was just as crucial, if not more so, to the unprecedented success of his teams. And that philosophy of leadership is just as powerful and productive in business or any other endeavor as it was for him on the football field. Prior to his death, Walsh granted exclusive interviews to bestselling author Steve Jamison. They became his ultimate lecture on leadership-illustrated by dramatic and apt anecdotes from throughout Walsh's career. A small sample of what you'll learn from one of America's greatest coaches: *\tBelieve in People: Push them hard to be their very best. No one will ever come back later and thank you for expecting too little of them. *\tProfessionalism Matters: There was no showboating allowed after touchdowns, no taunting of opponents, no demonstration to attract attention to oneself: \"Champions act like champions before they're champions.\" *\tKeep a Short Enemies List: One enemy can do more damage than the good done by a hundred friends. *\tProtect Your Blind Side: Prompt yourself to aggressively analyze not only your organization's strengths, but also its unseen vulnerabilities. *\tSometimes You Can't Have he Last Word. A leader cannot escape harsh criticism. Ignore the undeserving; learn from the deserving. Lick your wounds and move on. Your bruised ego will get over it. Additional insights and perspective are provided by his son Craig Walsh, by legendary quarterback Joe Montana, and by other important figures who knew Bill well. Bill Walsh taught that the requirements of successful leadership are the same whether you run an NFL franchise, a Fortune 500 company, or a hardware store with twelve employees. His final words of wisdom will inspire and enlighten readers in all walks of life.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "1591842662", - "lang": "en-US", - "pages": "288", - "rating": "4.25", - "title": "The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6342995-the-score-takes-care-of-itself", - "year": "2009" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Gene-Popular-Science/dp/0192860925", - "author": "Richard Dawkins", - "category": "Science and Medicine", - "description": "The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition\u2014with a new Introduction by the AuthorInheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that \"our\" genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes. That simple reversal seems to answer many puzzlers which had stumped scientists for years, and we haven't thought of evolution in the same way since.Why are there miles and miles of \"unused\" DNA within each of our bodies? Why should a bee give up its own chance to reproduce to help raise her sisters and brothers? With a prophet's clarity, Dawkins told us the answers from the perspective of molecules competing for limited space and resources to produce more of their own kind. Drawing fascinating examples from every field of biology, he paved the way for a serious re-evaluation of evolution. He also introduced the concept of self-reproducing ideas, or memes, which (seemingly) use humans exclusively for their propagation. If we are puppets, he says, at least we can try to understand our strings. \u2014Rob Lightner", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1366758096l/61535._SY160_.jpg", - "isbn": "0199291152", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "360", - "rating": "4.14", - "title": "The Selfish Gene", - "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61535.The_Selfish_Gene", - "year": "2006" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Sense-Style-Thinking-Persons-Writing/dp/0143127799", - "author": "Steven Pinker", - "category": "Writing", - "description": "A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven PinkerWhy is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care?In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the twenty-first century, Pinker doesn\u2019t carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose. In this short, cheerful, and eminently practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer the good prose of others. He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to apply the guidelines judiciously, rather than robotically, being mindful of what they are designed to accomplish. Filled with examples of great and gruesome prose, Pinker shows us how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right. ", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1396671354l/20821371._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0670025852", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "368", - "rating": "4.06", - "title": "The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century", - "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821371-the-sense-of-style", - "year": "2014" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Myth-Everything-Were-Wrong/dp/0297866397", - "author": "Brooke Magnanti", - "category": "Sexuality", - "description": "From a bold new feminist voice, a book that will change the way you think about your sex life. Fifty years after the sexual revolution, we are told that we live in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom; that if anything, we are too free now. But beneath the veneer of glossy hedonism, millennial journalist Rachel Hills argues that we are controlled by a new brand of sexual convention: one which influences all of us\u2014woman or man, straight or gay, liberal or conservative. At the root of this silent code lies The Sex Myth\u2014the defining significance we invest in sexuality that once meant we were dirty if we did have sex, and now means we are defective if we don\u2019t do it enough. Equal parts social commentary, pop culture, and powerful personal anecdotes from people across the English-speaking world, The Sex Myth exposes the invisible norms and unspoken assumptions that shape the way we think about sex today.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1438581520l/23492818._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "1451685785", - "lang": null, - "pages": "288", - "rating": "3.51", - "title": "The Sex Myth", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13569582-the-sex-myth", - "year": "2015" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750", - "author": "Nicholas Carr", - "category": "Science and Medicine", - "description": "\u201cIs Google making us stupid?\u201d When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net\u2019s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply?Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet\u2019s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by \u201ctools of the mind\u201d\u2014from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer\u2014Carr interweaves a fascinating account of recent discoveries in neuroscience by such pioneers as Michael Merzenich and Eric Kandel. Our brains, the historical and scientific evidence reveals, change in response to our experiences. The technologies we use to find, store, and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways.Building on the insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan, Carr makes a convincing case that every information technology carries an intellectual ethic\u2014a set of assumptions about the nature of knowledge and intelligence. He explains how the printed book served to focus our attention, promoting deep and creative thought. In stark contrast, the Internet encourages the rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Its ethic is that of the industrialist, an ethic of speed and efficiency, of optimized production and consumption\u2014and now the Net is remaking us in its own image. We are becoming ever more adept at scanning and skimming, but what we are losing is our capacity for concentration, contemplation, and reflection.Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes\u2014Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive\u2014even as it plumbs profound questions about the state of our modern psyche. This is a book that will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0393339750", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "280", - "rating": "3.88", - "title": "The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9778945-the-shallows", - "year": "2011" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Many-Predictions-Fail-but/dp/0143125087", - "author": "Nate Silver", - "category": "Economics", - "description": "One of Wall Street Journal's Best Ten Works of Nonfiction in 2012 New York Times Bestseller\"Not so different in spirit from the way public intellectuals like John Kenneth Galbraith once shaped discussions of economic policy and public figures like Walter Cronkite helped sway opinion on the Vietnam War\u2026could turn out to be one of the more momentous books of the decade.\"-New York Times Book Review \"Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise is The Soul of a New Machine for the 21st century.\"-Rachel Maddow, author of Drift\"A serious treatise about the craft of prediction-without academic mathematics-cheerily aimed at lay readers. Silver's coverage is polymathic, ranging from poker and earthquakes to climate change and terrorism.\"-New York Review of BooksNate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair's breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger-all by the time he was thirty. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster with his near perfect prediction of the 2012 election. Silver is the founder and editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight.com. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data. Most predictions fail, often at great cost to society, because most of us have a poor understanding of probability and uncertainty. Both experts and laypeople mistake more confident predictions for more accurate ones. But overconfidence is often the reason for failure. If our appreciation of uncertainty improves, our predictions can get better too. This is the \"prediction paradox\": The more humility we have about our ability to make predictions, the more successful we can be in planning for the future.In keeping with his own aim to seek truth from data, Silver visits the most successful forecasters in a range of areas, from hurricanes to baseball, from the poker table to the stock market, from Capitol Hill to the NBA. He explains and evaluates how these forecasters think and what bonds they share. What lies behind their success? Are they good-or just lucky? What patterns have they unraveled? And are their forecasts really right? He explores unanticipated commonalities and exposes unexpected juxtapositions. And sometimes, it is not so much how good a prediction is in an absolute sense that matters but how good it is relative to the competition. In other cases, prediction is still a very rudimentary-and dangerous-science.Silver observes that the most accurate forecasters tend to have a superior command of probability, and they tend to be both humble and hardworking. They distinguish the predictable from the unpredictable, and they notice a thousand little details that lead them closer to the truth. Because of their appreciation of probability, they can distinguish the signal from the noise.With everything from the health of the global economy to our ability to fight terrorism dependent on the quality of our predictions, Nate Silver's insights are an essential read.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1355058876l/13588394._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "159420411X", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "534", - "rating": "3.98", - "title": "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13588394-the-signal-and-the-noise", - "year": "2012" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Social-Contract-Transl-Maurice-Cranston/dp/B00YO41TWQ", - "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston", - "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", - "description": "\"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.\"These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or \u2018social contract\u2019, that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0143037498", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "168", - "rating": "3.78", - "title": "The Social Contract", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12651.The_Social_Contract", - "year": "2006" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Story-My-Life-Helen-Keller/dp/1512092975", - "author": "Helen Keller", - "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", - "description": "When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880\u20131968) suffered a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Not long after, she also became mute. Her tenacious struggle to overcome these handicaps-with the help of her inspired teacher, Anne Sullivan-is one of the great stories of human courage and dedication. In this classic autobiography, first published in 1903, Miss Keller recounts the first 22 years of her life, including the magical moment at the water pump when, recognizing the connection between the word \"water\" and the cold liquid flowing over her hand, she realized that objects had names. Subsequent experiences were equally noteworthy: her joy at eventually learning to speak, her friendships with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edward Everett Hale and other notables, her education at Radcliffe (from which she graduated cum laude), and-underlying all-her extraordinary relationship with Miss Sullivan, who showed a remarkable genius for communicating with her eager and quick-to-learn pupil.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320429331l/821611._SY160_.jpg", - "isbn": "0553213873", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "240", - "rating": "4.08", - "title": "The Story of My Life", - "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821611.The_Story_of_My_Life", - "year": "1990" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Tactics-Pricing-New-International/dp/1292023236", - "author": "Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale", - "category": "Startups and Business", - "description": "", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "9332536546", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": null, - "rating": "4.08", - "title": "The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99919.The_Strategy_and_Tactics_of_Pricing", - "year": "" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-50th-Anniversary/dp/0226458121", - "author": "Thomas S. 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Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed man's newfound access to other people's thoughts and emotions.Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. 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It allows individuals to step outside themselves and raise questions and concerns that effectively kill new projects and ideas, while claiming no personal responsibility. Nothing is more potent in stifling innovation. Drawing on nearly 20 years of experience managing IDEO, Kelley identifies ten roles people can play in an organization to foster innovation and new ideas while offering an effective counter to naysayers. Among these approaches are the Anthropologist\u2014the person who goes into the field to see how customers use and respond to products, to come up with new innovations; the Cross-pollinator who mixes and matches ideas, people, and technology to create new ideas that can drive growth; and the Hurdler, who instantly looks for ways to overcome the limits and challenges to any situation. 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In this groundbreaking follow-up to the bestselling Crush It!, Vaynerchuk\u2014one of Bloomberg Businessweek\u2019s \u201c20 People Every Entrepreneur Should Follow\u201d\u2014looks beyond a numbers-based analysis to explore the value of social interactions in building our economy.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1284715332l/9203287._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0061914185", - "lang": "en-US", - "pages": "256", - "rating": "3.85", - "title": "The Thank You Economy", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9203287-the-thank-you-economy", - "year": "2011" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Third-Door-Uncover-Successful-Launched/dp/0804136661", - "author": "Alex banayan", - "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", - "description": "The larger-than-life journey of an 18-year-old college freshman who set out from his dorm room to track down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, and dozens more of the world's most successful people to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers.The Third Door takes readers on an unprecedented adventure--from hacking Warren Buffett's shareholders meeting to chasing Larry King through a grocery store to celebrating in a nightclub with Lady Gaga--as Alex Banayan travels from icon to icon, decoding their success. After remarkable one-on-one interviews with Bill Gates, Maya Angelou, Steve Wozniak, Jane Goodall, Larry King, Jessica Alba, Pitbull, Tim Ferriss, Quincy Jones, and many more, Alex discovered the one key they have in common: they all took the Third Door.Life, business, success... it's just like a nightclub. There are always three ways in. There's the First Door: the main entrance, where ninety-nine percent of people wait in line, hoping to get in. The Second Door: the VIP entrance, where the billionaires and celebrities slip through. But what no one tells you is that there is always, always... the Third Door. It's the entrance where you have to jump out of line, run down the alley, bang on the door a hundred times, climb over the dumpster, crack open the window, sneak through the kitchen--there's always a way in. Whether it's how Bill Gates sold his first piece of software or how Steven Spielberg became the youngest studio director in Hollywood history, they all took the Third Door.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1527724477l/36739769._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0804136661", - "lang": null, - "pages": "320", - "rating": "4.25", - "title": "The Third Door:The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36739769-the-third-door", - "year": "2018" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Tipping-Point-Little-Things-Difference/dp/0316346624", - "author": "Malcolm Gladwell", - "category": "Startups and Business", - "description": "An alternate cover edition exists here.The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.Gladwell introduces us to the particular personality types who are natural pollinators of new ideas and trends, the people who create the phenomenon of word of mouth. He analyzes fashion trends, smoking, children's television, direct mail, and the early days of the American Revolution for clues about making ideas infectious, and visits a religious commune, a successful high-tech company, and one of the world's greatest salesmen to show how to start and sustain social epidemics.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1473396980l/2612._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0316346624", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "301", - "rating": "3.97", - "title": "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2612.The_Tipping_Point", - "year": "2002" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Everything-Irreverent-Illustrations/dp/1573921106", - "author": "Matthew Stewart", - "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", - "description": "Throughout history, well-known theories of reality, knowledge, mind, and most particularly the \"professional\" philosophers who rely on them for their intellectual existence, have sought to isolate universal truths and structure the history of philosophy to distinguish schools and movements that seek a comprehensive understanding of our world. 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In his groundbreaking book Predictably Irrational, social scientist Dan Ariely revealed the multiple biases that lead us into making unwise decisions. Now, in The Upside of Irrationality, he exposes the surprising negative and positive effects irrationality can have on our lives. Focusing on our behaviors at work and in relationships, he offers new insights and eye-opening truths about what really motivates us on the job, how one unwise action can become a long-term habit, how we learn to love the ones we're with, and more. Drawing on the same experimental methods that made Predictably Irrational one of the most talked-about bestsellers of the past few years, Ariely uses data from his own original and entertaining experiments to draw arresting conclusions about how\u0097and why\u0097we behave the way we do. From our office attitudes, to our romantic relationships, to our search for purpose in life, Ariely explains how to break through our negative patterns of thought and behavior to make better decisions. 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Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.When The Two Rivers is attacked by Trollocs-a savage tribe of half-men, half-beasts- five villagers flee that night into a world they barely imagined, with new dangers waiting in the shadows and in the light.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1337818095l/228665._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0812511816", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "814", - "rating": "4.17", - "title": "The Wheel of Time", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/41526-the-wheel-of-time", - "year": "1990" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/World-Flat-History-Twenty-first-Century/dp/0374292884", - "author": "Thomas L. 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System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities\u2014and also the faults and biases\u2014of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation\u2014each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives\u2014and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about thinking.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1317793965l/11468377._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0374275637", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "499", - "rating": "4.16", - "title": "Thinking, Fast and Slow", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow", - "year": "2011" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/This-Will-Make-You-Smarter-ebook/dp/B005LC1OR0", - "author": "John Brockman", - "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", - "description": "Featuring a foreword by David Brooks,\u00a0This Will Make You Smarter\u00a0presents brilliant\u2014but accessible\u2014ideas to expand every mind.What scientific concept would improve everybody\u2019s cognitive toolkit?\u00a0This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world\u2019s most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and enlightening, these insights will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the world.Contributors include:Daniel Kahneman on the \u201cfocusing illusion\u201dJonah Lehrer on controlling attentionRichard Dawkins on experimentationAubrey De Grey on conquering our fear of the unknownMartin Seligman on the ingredients of well-beingNicholas Carr on managing \u201ccognitive load\u201dSteven Pinker on win-win negotiatingDaniel Goleman on understanding our connection to the natural worldMatt Ridley on tapping collective intelligenceLisa Randall on effective theorizingBrian Eno on \u201cecological vision\u201dJ. Craig Venter on the multiple possible origins of life \u00a0Helen Fisher on temperamentSam Harris on the flow of thoughtLawrence Krauss on living with uncertainty", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0062109391", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "399", - "rating": "3.80", - "title": "This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13035774-this-will-make-you-smarter", - "year": "2012" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Tomorrowland-Journey-Science-Fiction-Fact-ebook/dp/B00O4IA82E", - "author": "Steven Kotler", - "category": "Science and Medicine", - "description": "New York Times, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, Discover bestselling author Steven Kotler has written extensively about those pivotal moments when science fiction became science fact\u2026and fundamentally reshaped the world. Now he gathers the best of his best, updated and expanded upon, to guide readers on a mind-bending tour of the far frontier, and how these advances are radically transforming our lives. From the ways science and technology are fundamentally altering our bodies and our world (the world\u2019s first bionic soldier, the future of evolution) to those explosive collisions between science and culture (life extension and bioweapons), we\u2019re crossing moral and ethical lines we\u2019ve never faced before.As Kotler writes, \u201cLife is tricky sport\u2014and that's the emotional core of this story, the real reason we can\u2019t put Pandora back in the box. When you strip everything else away, technology is nothing more than the promise of an easier tomorrow. It\u2019s the promise of hope. And how do you stop hope?\u201dJoin Kotler in this fascinating exploration of our incredible next: a deep dive into those future technologies happening now\u2014and what it means to be a part of this brave new world.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1425370438l/25060233._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": null, - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "288", - "rating": "3.75", - "title": "Tomorrowland: Our Staggering Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact", - "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25060233-tomorrowland", - "year": "2015" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Too-Big-Fail-Washington-System/dp/0143118242", - "author": "Andrew Ross Sorkin", - "category": "Startups and Business", - "description": "Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world\u2019s economy. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to get some foam down on the runway!\u201d a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York, would tell Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the world\u2019s financial system would experience. Through unprecedented access to the players involved, Too Big to Fail re-creates all the drama and turmoil, revealing neverdisclosed details and elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the debacle. This true story is not just a look at banks that were \u201ctoo big to fail,\u201d it is a real-life thriller with a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were too big to fail.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0670021253", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "600", - "rating": "4.13", - "title": "Too Big to Fail", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6687247-too-big-to-fail", - "year": "2009" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Unbroken-World-Survival-Resilience-Redemption/dp/0812974492", - "author": "Laura Hillenbrand", - "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", - "description": "\nIn her long-awaited new book, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit. Telling an unforgettable story of a man's journey into extremity, Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit.\nOn a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.The lieutenant\u2019s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he'd been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327861115l/8664353._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "1400064163", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "492", - "rating": "4.37", - "title": "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8664353-unbroken", - "year": "2010" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Utilitarianism-Problems-Philosophy-Geoffrey-Scarre/dp/0415121973", - "author": "Geoffrey Scarre", - "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", - "description": "This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder. The speech is significant both because its topic remains timely and because its arguments illustrate the applicability of the principle of utility to questions of large-scale social policy.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1405624617l/584637._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "087220605X", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "71", - "rating": "3.66", - "title": "Utilitarianism", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3807762-utilitarianism", - "year": "2002" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Vagabonding-Uncommon-Guide-Long-Term-Travel/dp/0812992180", - "author": "Rolf Potts", - "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", - "description": "Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life - from six weeks to four months to two years - to discover and experience the world on your own terms. Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. Potts gives the necessary information on:- financing your travel time - determining your destination - adjusting to life on the road- working and volunteering overseas - handling travel adversity - re-assimilating back into ordinary lifeNot just a plan of action, vagabonding is an outlook on life that emphasizes creativity, discovery, and the growth of the spirit. Visit the vagabonding community's hub at www.vagabonding.net.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320532720l/100247._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0812992180", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "205", - "rating": "3.94", - "title": "Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100247.Vagabonding", - "year": "2002" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Vintage-Classics-Tolstoy/dp/1400079985", - "author": "Leo Tolstoy", - "category": "Classics", - "description": "In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `a complete picture', as a contemporary reviewer put it, `of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation'. Tolstoy gave his personal approval to this translation, published here in a new single volume edition, which includes an introduction by Henry Gifford, and Tolstoy's important essay `Some Words about War and Peace'.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1413215930l/656._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": null, - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "1392", - "rating": "4.12", - "title": "War and Peace", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace", - "year": "1998" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Watership-Down-Novel-Richard-Adams/dp/0743277708", - "author": "Richard Adams", - "category": "Classics", - "description": "Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 29. Chapters: Watership Down, Bunnies & Burrows, List of Watership Down characters, Shardik, Maia, The Plague Dogs, Traveller, Bright Eyes, Tales from Watership Down, Lapine language, The Girl in a Swing. Excerpt: Watership Down is a heroic fantasy novel about a small group of rabbits, written by English author Richard Adams. Although the animals in the story live in their natural environment, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language (Lapine), proverbs, poetry, and mythology. Evoking epic themes, the novel recounts the rabbits' odyssey as they escape the destruction of their warren to seek a place in which to establish a new home, encountering perils and temptations along the way. The novel takes its name from the rabbits' destination, Watership Down, a hill in the north of Hampshire, England, near the area where Adams grew up. The story is based on a collection of tales that Adams told to his young children to pass the time on trips to the countryside. Published in 1972, Watership Down was Richard Adams' first novel, and is by far his most successful to date. Although it was initially rejected by thirteen publishers before eventually being accepted by Rex Collings Ltd, Watership Down has never been out of print, and was the recipient of several prestigious awards. Adapted into an acclaimed classic film and a television series, it is Penguin Books' best-selling novel of all time. In 1996, Adams published Tales from Watership Down, a follow-up collection of 19 short stories about El-ahrairah and the rabbits of the Watership Down warren. Watership Down began as a story Richard Adams told to his two daughters, Juliet and Rosamond, on a long car journey; in an interview, Adams said he \"began telling the story of the rabbits ... improvised off the top of my head, as we were d...", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "1156855411", - "lang": null, - "pages": null, - "rating": "4.33", - "title": "Watership Down: A Novel", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76620.Watership_Down", - "year": "2011" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/What-Name-This-Book-Recreational/dp/0486481980", - "author": "Raymond M. Smullyan", - "category": "Logic and Problem Solving", - "description": "\"The most original, most profound, and most humorous collection of recreational logic and math problems ever written.\" \u2014 Martin Gardner, Scientific American\"The value of the book lies in the wealth of ingenious puzzles. They afford amusement, vigorous exercise, and instruction.\" \u2014 Willard Van Orman Quine, The New York Times Book ReviewIf you're intrigued by puzzles and paradoxes, these 200 mind-bending logic puzzles, riddles, and diversions will thrill you with challenges to your powers of reason and common sense. Raymond M. Smullyan \u2014 a celebrated mathematician, logician, magician, and author \u2014 presents a logical labyrinth of more than 200 increasingly complex problems. The puzzles delve into G\u00f6del's undecidability theorem and other examples of the deepest paradoxes of logic and set theory. Detailed solutions follow each puzzle.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328862003l/10380491._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0486481980", - "lang": "en-GB", - "pages": "256", - "rating": "4.24", - "title": "What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493576.What_Is_the_Name_of_This_Book_", - "year": "2011" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/What-Dog-Saw-Other-Adventures/dp/0316076201", - "author": "Malcolm Gladwell", - "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", - "description": "What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw, he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from The New Yorker over the same period. Here you'll find the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling creations of pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen, as he sells rotisserie ovens, and divines the secrets of Cesar Millan, the \"dog whisperer\" who can calm savage animals with the touch of his hand. He explores intelligence tests and ethnic profiling and why it was that employers in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1344263875l/6516450._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0316078573", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "444", - "rating": "3.85", - "title": "What the Dog Saw: and other adventures", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6516450-what-the-dog-saw-and-other-adventures", - "year": "2009" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Where-Good-Ideas-Come-Innovation/dp/1594485380", - "author": "Steven Johnson", - "category": "Startups and Business", - "description": "The printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery--these are all great ideas. But where do they come from? What kind of environment breeds them? What sparks the flash of brilliance? How do we generate the breakthrough technologies that push forward our lives, our society, our culture? Steven Johnson's answers are revelatory as he identifies the seven key patterns behind genuine innovation, and traces them across time and disciplines. 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Ranging from strategy to public relations, from finance to organization, Gerstner reveals the lessons of a lifetime running highly successful companies.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0060523808", - "lang": "en-US", - "pages": "304", - "rating": "3.92", - "title": "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/603985.Who_Says_Elephants_Can_t_Dance_", - "year": "2003" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Why-Does-World-Exist-Existential/dp/0871403595", - "author": "Jim Holt", - "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", - "description": "\"Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?\" remains the darkest and most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Following in the footsteps of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose, and even Stephen Hawking, Jim Holt now enters this fractious debate with his lively and deeply informed narrative that traces the latest efforts to grasp the origins of the universe. The slyly humorous Holt takes on the role of cosmological detective, suggesting that we might have been too narrow in limiting our suspects to Yahweh vs. the Big Bang. Tracking down an eccentric Oxford philosopher, a Physics Nobel Laureate, a French Buddhist monk who lived with the Dalai Lama, and John Updike just before he died, Holt pursues unexplored angles to this cosmic puzzle. As he pieces together a solution--one that sheds new light on the question of God and the meaning of existence--he offers brisk philosophical asides on time and eternity, consciousness, and the arithmetic of nothingness.\u201cThe pleasure of this book is watching the match: the staggeringly inventive human mind slamming its fantastic conjectures over the net, the universe coolly returning every serve.... Holt traffics in wonder, a word whose dual meanings\u2014the absence of answers; the experience of awe\u2014strike me as profoundly related. His book is not utilitarian. You can\u2019t profit from it, at least not in the narrow sense.... And yet it does what real science writing should: It helps us feel the fullness of the problem.\u201d (Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine)\" Jim Holt leaves us with the question Stephen Hawking once asked but couldn't answer, \u2018Why does the universe go through all the bother of existing?\u2019\u201d (Ron Rosenbaum, Slate )", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1343924778l/8854815._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0871404095", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "279", - "rating": "3.79", - "title": "Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story", - "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8854815-why-does-the-world-exist", - "year": "2012" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Why-Smart-People-Can-Stupid/dp/0300101708", - "author": "Robert J Sternberg", - "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", - "description": "One need not look far to find breathtaking acts of stupidity committed by people who are smart, or even brilliant. The behavior of smart individuals\u2014from presidents to prosecutors to professors\u2014is at times so amazingly stupid as to seem inexplicable. Why do otherwise intelligent people think and behave in ways so stupid that they sometimes destroy their livelihoods or even their lives?This book is the first devoted to investigating what the most current psychological research can tell us about stupidity in everyday life. The contributors to the volume, renowned scholars in various areas of human intelligence, present fascinating examples of people messing up their lives, and they offer insights into the reasons for such behavior. From a variety of perspectives, the contributors discuss:\u2022 The nature and theory of stupidity\u2022 How stupidity contributes to stupid behavior\u2022 Whether stupidity is measurableWhile many millions of dollars are spent each year on intelligence research and testing to determine who has the ability to succeed, next to nothing is spent to determine who will make use of their intelligence and not squander it by behaving stupidly. Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid focuses on the neglected side of this discussion, reviewing the full range of theory and research on stupid behavior and analyzing what it tells us about how people can avoid stupidity and its devastating consequences.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0300101708", - "lang": null, - "pages": "272", - "rating": "3.62", - "title": "Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300300.Why_Smart_People_Can_Be_So_Stupid", - "year": "2003" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Make-Mistakes-Without/dp/0767928067", - "author": "Joseph T. Hallinan", - "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", - "description": "We forget our passwords. We pay too much to go to the gym. We think we'd be happier if we lived in California (we wouldn't), and we think we should stick with our first answer on tests (we shouldn't). Why do we make mistakes? And could we do a little better?We human beings have design flaws. Our eyes play tricks on us; our stories change in the retelling; and most of us are fairly sure we\u2019re way above average. In Why We Make Mistakes, journalist Joseph T. Hallinan sets out to explore the captivating science of human error\u2014how we think, see, remember, and forget, and how this sets us up for wholly irresistible mistakes.In his quest to understand our imperfections, Hallinan delves into psychology, neuroscience, and economics, with forays into aviation, consumer behavior, geography, football, stock picking, and more. He discovers that some of the same qualities that make us efficient also make us error prone. Why We Make Mistakes is enlivened by real-life stories--of weathermen whose predictions are uncannily accurate and a witness who sent an innocent man to jail--and offers valuable advice, such as how to remember where you\u2019ve hidden something important. He explains why multitasking is a bad idea, why men make errors women don\u2019t, and why most people mistakenly believe San Diego is west of Reno. Why We Make Mistakes will open your eyes to the reasons behind your mistakes and have you vowing to do better the next time.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1412952226l/5040579._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0767928059", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "221", - "rating": "3.91", - "title": "Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5040579-why-we-make-mistakes", - "year": "2009" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Why-West-Rules-Now-Patterns/dp/0312611692", - "author": "Ian Morris", - "category": "History", - "description": "A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West\u2019s rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of China and India spells the end of the West as a superpower. In order to understand this possibility, we need to look back in time. Why has the West dominated the globe for the past two hundred years, and will its power last?Describing the patterns of human history, the archaeologist and historian Ian Morris offers surprising new answers to both questions. It is not, he reveals, differences of race or culture, or even the strivings of great individuals, that explain Western dominance. It is the effects of geography on the everyday efforts of ordinary people as they deal with crises of resources, disease, migration, and climate. As geography and human ingenuity continue to interact, the world will change in astonishing ways, transforming Western rule in the process.Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, Why the West Rules\u2014for Now spans fifty thousand years of history and offers fresh insights on nearly every page. The book brings together the latest findings across disciplines\u2014from ancient history to neuroscience\u2014not only to explain why the West came to rule the world but also to predict what the future will bring in the next hundred years.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1363862405l/9491855._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "1429977043", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "768", - "rating": "4.11", - "title": "Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9491855-why-the-west-rules-for-now", - "year": "2010" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Rediscovering-Greatest-Human-Strength/dp/0143122231", - "author": "Ron P. Baumeister, John Tierney", - "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", - "description": " One of the world's most esteemed and influential psychologists, Roy F. Baumeister, teams with New York Times science writer John Tierney to reveal the secrets of self-control and how to master it. In Willpower, the pioneering researcher Roy F. Baumeister collaborates with renowned New York Times science writer John Tierney to revolutionize our understanding of the most coveted human virtue: self-control.In what became one of the most cited papers in social science literature, Baumeister discovered that willpower actually operates like a muscle: it can be strengthened with practice and fatigued by overuse. Willpower is fueled by glucose, and it can be bolstered simply by replenishing the brain's store of fuel. That's why eating and sleeping- and especially failing to do either of those-have such dramatic effects on self-control (and why dieters have such a hard time resisting temptation).Baumeister's latest research shows that we typically spend four hours every day resisting temptation. No wonder people around the world rank a lack of self-control as their biggest weakness. Willpower looks to the lives of entrepreneurs, parents, entertainers, and artists-including David Blaine, Eric Clapton, and others-who have flourished by improving their self-control.The lessons from their stories and psychologists' experiments can help anyone. You learn not only how to build willpower but also how to conserve it for crucial moments by setting the right goals and using the best new techniques for monitoring your progress. Once you master these techniques and establish the right habits, willpower gets easier: you'll need less conscious mental energy to avoid temptation. That's neither magic nor empty self-help sloganeering, but rather a solid path to a better life.Combining the best of modern social science with practical wisdom, Baumeister and Tierney here share the definitive compendium of modern lessons in willpower. As our society has moved away from the virtues of thrift and self-denial, it often feels helpless because we face more temptations than ever. But we also have more knowledge and better tools for taking control of our lives. However we define happiness-a close- knit family, a satisfying career, financial security-we won't reach it without mastering self-control.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "1594203075", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "291", - "rating": "3.97", - "title": "Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11104933-willpower", - "year": "2011" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Wings-Fire-Autobiography-Abdul-Kalam/dp/8173711461", - "author": "A.P.J. 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This is also the saga of independent India's struggle for technological self-sufficiency and defensive autonomy-a story as much about politics, domestic and international, as it is about science.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1588286863l/634583._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "8173711461", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": null, - "rating": "4.25", - "title": "Wings of Fire", - "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634583.Wings_of_Fire", - "year": "2011" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Wounded-School-Recapturing-Learning-Standing/dp/0807749559", - "author": "Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer", - "category": "Education", - "description": "While reformers and policymakers focus on achievement gaps, testing, and accountability, millions of students mentally and emotionally disengage from learning and many gifted teachers leave the field. Ironically, today's schooling is damaging the single most essential component to education--the joy of learningHow do we recognize the wounds caused by outdated schooling policies? How do we heal them? In her controversial new book, education writer and critic Kirsten Olson brings to light the devastating consequences of an educational approach that values conformity over creativity, flattens students' interests, and dampens down differences among learners. Drawing on deeply emotional stories, Olson shows that current institutional structures do not produce the kinds of minds and thinking that society really needs. Instead, the system tends to shame, disable, and bore many learners. Most importantly, she presents the experiences of wounded learners who have healed and shows what teachers, parents, and students can do right now to help themselves stay healthy.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0807749559", - "lang": null, - "pages": "222", - "rating": "3.98", - "title": "Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6425208-wounded-by-school", - "year": "2009" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Wuthering-Heights-Wordsworth-Classics-Bronte/dp/1853260010", - "author": "Emily Bronte", - "category": "Classics", - "description": "You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE.This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.New to the fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of Wuthering Heights as well as the evolution of the 1850 edition, prose and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and Edward Chitham's insightful and informative chronology of the creative process behind the beloved work.Five major critical interpretations of Wuthering Heights are included, three of them new to the Fourth Edition. A Stuart Daley considers the importance of chronology in the novel. J. Hillis Miller examines Wuthering Heights's problems of genre and critical reputation. Sandra M. Gilbert assesses the role of Victorian Christianity plays in the novel, while Martha Nussbaum traces the novel's romanticism. Finally, Lin Haire-Sargeant scrutinizes the role of Heathcliff in film adaptations of Wuthering Heights. A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1587655304l/6185._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0393978893", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "464", - "rating": "3.86", - "title": "Wuthering Heights", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6185.Wuthering_Heights", - "year": "2002" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Xeelee-Stephen-Baxter/dp/0575090413", - "author": "Stephen Baxter", - "category": "Miscellaneous", - "description": "Alternate-cover edition can be found here Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence. A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as strong as the gravity we know. Somehow the crew survived, aided by the fact that they emerged into a cloud of gas surrounding a black hole, which provided a breathable atmosphere. Five hundred years later, their descendants still struggle for existence, divided into two main groups. The Miners live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star, which they excavate for raw materials. These can be traded for food from the Raft, a structure built from the wreckage of the ship, on which a small group of scientists preserve the ancient knowledge which makes survival possible. Rees is a Miner whose curiosity about his world makes him stow away on a flying tree\u2014just one of the many strange local lifeforms\u2014carrying trade between the Belt and the Raft.", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0586210911", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "251", - "rating": "3.71", - "title": "Xeelee Sequence", - "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/series/49784-xeelee-sequence", - "year": "1992" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/You-Just-Dont-Understand-Conversation/dp/0060959622", - "author": "Deborah Tannen", - "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", - "description": "From the author of\u00a0New York Times bestseller\u00a0You're Wearing That?\u00a0this bestselling classic work draws upon groundbreaking research by an acclaimed sociolinguist to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words.Women and men live in different worlds...made of different words.Spending nearly four years on the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestseller list, including eight months at number one,\u00a0You Just Don't Understand\u00a0is a true cultural and intellectual phenomenon. This is the book that brought gender differences in ways of speaking to the forefront of public awareness. With a rare combination of scientific insight and delightful, humorous writing, Tannen shows why women and men can walk away from the same conversation with completely different impressions of what was said.Studded with lively and entertaining examples of real conversations, this book gives you the tools to understand what went wrong -- and to find a common language in which to strengthen relationships at work and at home. A classic in the field of interpersonal relations, this book will change forever the way you approach conversations.\u00a0", - "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", - "isbn": "0060959622", - "lang": "en-US", - "pages": "352", - "rating": "3.87", - "title": "You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147222.You_Just_Don_t_Understand", - "year": "2007" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Mind-Beginners-Informal-Meditation-ebook/dp/B00I8USOM0", - "author": "Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick", - "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", - "description": "\u201cIn the beginner\u2019s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert\u2019s there are few.\u201d So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what it\u2019s all about. An instant teaching on the first page. And that\u2019s just the beginning.In the forty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner\u2019s Mind has become one of the great modern Zen classics, much beloved, much reread, and much recommended as the best first book to read on Zen. Suzuki Roshi presents the basics\u2014from the details of posture and breathing in zazen to the perception of nonduality\u2014in a way that is not only remarkably clear, but that also resonates with the joy of insight from the first to the last page. It\u2019s a book to come back to time and time again as an inspiration to practice, and it is now available to a new generation of seekers in this fortieth anniversary edition, with a new afterword by Shunryu Suzuki\u2019s biographer, David Chadwick.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1392992935l/402843._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0834800799", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "138", - "rating": "4.22", - "title": "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402843.Zen_Mind_Beginner_s_Mind", - "year": "1973" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry/dp/0060589469", - "author": "Robert M. Pirsig", - "category": "Classics", - "description": "Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a meditation on how to live better set around the narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest, undertaken by a father & his young son.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1410136019l/629._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0060589469", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "540", - "rating": "3.77", - "title": "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/629.Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance", - "year": "2006" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296", - "author": "Peter Thiel, Blake Masters", - "category": "Startups and Business", - "description": "If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we\u2019re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won\u2019t make a search engine. Tomorrow\u2019s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today\u2019s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique. Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1414347376l/18050143._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0804139296", - "lang": "eng", - "pages": "195", - "rating": "4.17", - "title": "Zero to One", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050143-zero-to-one", - "year": "2014" - }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/iWoz-Computer-Invented-Personal-Co-Founded/dp/0393330435", - "author": "Steve Wozniak", - "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", - "description": "\"iWoz traces the life and times of a brilliant, gifted... individual whose contributions to the scientific, business and cultural realms are extensive.\"\u2014BookpageBefore slim laptops that fit into briefcases, computers looked like strange, alien vending machines. But in \"the most staggering burst of technical invention by a single person in high-tech history\" (BusinessWeek\u200b) Steve Wozniak invented the first true personal computer. Wozniak teamed up with Steve Jobs, and Apple Computer was born, igniting the computer revolution and transforming the world. Here, thirty years later, the mischievous genius with the low profile treats readers to a rollicking, no-holds-barred account of his life\u2014for once, in the voice of the wizard himself.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1463005799l/798635._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0393330435", - "lang": "en-US", - "pages": "313", - "rating": "3.85", - "title": "iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It", - "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/798635.iWoz", - "year": "2007" - }, - { + "The Forever War": { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Forever-War-Joe-Haldeman/dp/0312536631", "author": "Joe Haldemann", "category": "Science Fiction", @@ -5167,18 +3829,1356 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21611.The_Forever_War", "year": "2003" }, - { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mismatch-Inclusion-Simplicity-Technology-Business/dp/0262038889", - "author": "Kat Holmes, John Maeda", - "category": "Design", - "description": "How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. Something as simple as color choices can render a product unusable for millions. These mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion. In Mismatch, Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion. Inclusive design methods--designing objects with rather than for excluded users--can create elegant solutions that work well and benefit all.Holmes tells stories of pioneers of inclusive design, many of whom were drawn to work on inclusion because of their own experiences of exclusion. A gamer and designer who depends on voice recognition shows Holmes his \"Wall of Exclusion,\" which displays dozens of game controllers that require two hands to operate; an architect shares her firsthand knowledge of how design can fail communities, gleaned from growing up in Detroit's housing projects; an astronomer who began to lose her eyesight adapts a technique called \"sonification\" so she can \"listen\" to the stars.Designing for inclusion is not a feel-good sideline. Holmes shows how inclusion can be a source of innovation and growth, especially for digital technologies. It can be a catalyst for creativity and a boost for the bottom line as a customer base expands. And each time we remedy a mismatched interaction, we create an opportunity for more people to contribute to society in meaningful ways.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1538365830l/39644200._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0262038889", + "The Four Steps to the Epiphany": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank/dp/0989200507", + "author": "Steve Blank", + "category": "Startups and Business", + "description": "The essential book for anyone bringing a product to market, writing a business plan, marketing plan or sales plan. Step-by-step strategy of how to successfully organize sales, marketing and business development for a new product or company. The book offers insight into what makes some startups successful and leaves others selling off their furniture. Packed with concrete examples, the book will leave you with new skills to organize sales, marketing and your business for success.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0976470705", "lang": null, - "pages": "176", + "pages": "281", + "rating": "3.93", + "title": "The Four Steps to the Epiphany", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762542.The_Four_Steps_to_the_Epiphany", + "year": "2005" + }, + "The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Future-Mind-Scientific-Understand-Enhance/dp/038553082X", + "author": "Michio Kaku", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "The New York Times best-selling author of Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future and Hyperspace tackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human brain. For the first time in history, the secrets of the living brain are being revealed by a battery of high tech brain scans devised by physicists. Now what was once solely the province of science fiction has become a startling reality. Recording memories, telepathy, videotaping our dreams, mind control, avatars, and telekinesis are not only possible; they already exist. The Future of the Mind gives us an authoritative and compelling look at the astonishing research being done in top laboratories around the world\u2014all based on the latest advancements in neuroscience and physics. One day we might have a \"smart pill\" that can enhance our cognition; be able to upload our brain to a computer, neuron for neuron; send thoughts and emotions around the world on a \"brain-net\"; control computers and robots with our mind; push the very limits of immortality; and perhaps even send our consciousness across the universe. Dr. Kaku takes us on a grand tour of what the future might hold, giving us not only a solid sense of how the brain functions but also how these technologies will change our daily lives. He even presents a radically new way to think about \"consciousness\" and applies it to provide fresh insight into mental illness, artificial intelligence and alien consciousness. With Dr. Kaku's deep understanding of modern science and keen eye for future developments, The Future of the Mind is a scientific tour de force--an extraordinary, mind-boggling exploration of the frontiers of neuroscience.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1371428466l/17978489._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "038553082X", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "377", + "rating": "4.08", + "title": "The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17978489-the-future-of-the-mind", + "year": "2014" + }, + "The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Map-Londons-Terrifying-Epidemic/dp/1594482691", + "author": "Steven Johnson", + "category": "History", + "description": "From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcolm Gladwell, The Ghost Map is a riveting page-turner about a real-life historical hero, Dr. John Snow. It's the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure\u2014garbage removal, clean water, sewers\u2014necessary to support its rapidly expanding population, the city has become the perfect breeding ground for a terrifying disease no one knows how to cure. As the cholera outbreak takes hold, a physician and a local curate are spurred to action\u2014and ultimately solve the most pressing medical riddle of their time. In a triumph of multidisciplinary thinking, Johnson illuminates the intertwined histories and inter-connectedness of the spread of disease, contagion theory, the rise of cities, and the nature of scientific inquiry, offering both a riveting history and a powerful explanation of how it has shaped the world we live in.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "1594489254", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "299", + "rating": "3.90", + "title": "The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map", + "year": "2006" + }, + "The Girl on the Train": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Train-Novel-Paula-Hawkins-ebook/dp/B00L9B7IKE", + "author": "Paula Hawkins", + "category": "Mystery", + "description": "An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She\u2019s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. \u201cJess and Jason,\u201d she calls them. Their life\u2014as she sees it\u2014is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It\u2019s only a minute until the train moves on, but it\u2019s enough. Now everything\u2019s changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she\u2019s only watched from afar. Now they\u2019ll see; she\u2019s much more than just the girl on the train...", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1574805682l/22557272._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "1594633665", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "325", + "rating": "3.93", + "title": "The Girl on the Train", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22557272-the-girl-on-the-train", + "year": "2015" + }, + "The Glass Bead Game": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Glass-Bead-Game-Magister-Novel-ebook/dp/B00ANI9G0O", + "author": "Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston", + "category": "Classics", + "description": "The final novel of Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature.Set in the twenty-third century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game).", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0312278497", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "578", + "rating": "4.12", + "title": "The Glass Bead Game", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16634.The_Glass_Bead_Game", + "year": "2002" + }, + "The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp/0062273205", + "author": "Ben Horowitz", + "category": "Startups and Business", + "description": "A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one.In The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, draws on his own story of founding, running, selling, buying, managing, and investing in technology companies to offer essential advice and practical wisdom for navigating the toughest problems business schools don't cover. His blog has garnered a devoted following of millions of readers who have come to rely on him to help them run their businesses. A lifelong rap fan, Horowitz amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs and tells it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, from cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.His advice is grounded in anecdotes from his own hard-earned rise\u2014from cofounding the early cloud service provider Loudcloud to building the phenomenally successful Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm, both with fellow tech superstar Marc Andreessen (inventor of Mosaic, the Internet's first popular Web browser). This is no polished victory lap; he analyzes issues with no easy answers through his trials, includingdemoting (or firing) a loyal friend;whether you should incorporate titles and promotions, and how to handle them;if it's OK to hire people from your friend's company;how to manage your own psychology, while the whole company is relying on you;what to do when smart people are bad employees;why Andreessen Horowitz prefers founder CEOs, and how to become one;whether you should sell your company, and how to do it.Filled with Horowitz's trademark humor and straight talk, and drawing from his personal and often humbling experiences, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1386609333l/18176747._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0062273205", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "304", + "rating": "4.24", + "title": "The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-about-hard-things", + "year": "2014" + }, + "The Help": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Help-Kathryn-Stockett/dp/0425232204", + "author": "Kathryn Stockett", + "category": "Historical Fiction", + "description": "Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereThree ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women, mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends, view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't. (jacket flap)", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1572940430l/4667024._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": null, + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "451", + "rating": "4.47", + "title": "The Help", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4667024-the-help", + "year": "2009" + }, + "The Hero with a Thousand Faces": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Faces-Collected-Joseph-Campbell/dp/1577315936", + "author": "Joseph Campbell", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis with the archetypes of world mythology, the book creates a roadmap for navigating the frustrating path of contemporary life. Examining heroic myths in the light of modern psychology, it considers not only the patterns and stages of mythology but also its relevance to our lives today--and to the life of any person seeking a fully realized existence.Myth, according to Campbell, is the projection of a culture's dreams onto a large screen; Campbell's book, like Star Wars, the film it helped inspire, is an exploration of the big-picture moments from the stage that is our world. It is a must-have resource for both experienced students of mythology and the explorer just beginning to approach myth as a source of knowledge.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0691017840", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "416", + "rating": "4.17", + "title": "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces", + "year": "1972" + }, + "The History of Western Philosophy": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/History-Western-Philosophy-Bertrand-Russell/dp/0671201581", + "author": "Bertrand Russell", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject\u2014unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century. Among the philosophers considered are: Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the Atomists, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Cynics, the Sceptics, the Epicureans, the Stoics, Plotinus, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Benedict, Gregory the Great, John the Scot, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Occam, Machiavelli, Erasmus, More, Bacon, Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, the Utilitarians, Marx, Bergson, James, Dewey, and lastly the philosophers with whom Lord Russell himself is most closely associated -- Cantor, Frege, and Whitehead, co-author with Russell of the monumental Principia Mathematica.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": null, + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "895", + "rating": "4.09", + "title": "The History of Western Philosophy", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243685.A_History_of_Western_Philosophy", + "year": "1972" + }, + "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Douglas-Adams/dp/0345391802", + "author": "Douglas Adams", + "category": "Science Fiction", + "description": "Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide (\"A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have\") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox\u2014the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1559986152l/386162._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": null, + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "193", + "rating": "4.22", + "title": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11.The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy", + "year": "2007" + }, + "The House of Mirth": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/House-Mirth-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486420493", + "author": "Edith Wharton", + "category": "Classics", + "description": "First published in 1905, The House of Mirth shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities.Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated, is accepted by 'old money' and courted by the growing tribe of nouveaux riches. But as she nears thirty, her foothold becomes precarious; a poor girl with expensive tastes, she needs a husband to preserve her social standing, and to maintain her in the luxury she has come to expect. Whilst many have sought her, something - fastidiousness or integrity- prevents her from making a 'suitable' match.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328729186l/17728._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "1844082938", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "351", + "rating": "3.95", + "title": "The House of Mirth", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17728.The_House_of_Mirth", + "year": "2006" + }, + "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Life-Henrietta-Lacks/dp/1400052181", + "author": "Rebecca Skloot", + "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", + "description": "Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells\u2014taken without her knowledge\u2014became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first \u201cimmortal\u201d human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they\u2019d weigh more than 50 million metric tons\u2014as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb\u2019s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the \u201ccolored\u201d ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta\u2019s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia \u2014 a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo \u2014 to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.Henrietta\u2019s family did not learn of her \u201cimmortality\u201d until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family \u2014 past and present \u2014 is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family\u2014especially Henrietta\u2019s daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother\u2019s cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister, Elsie, who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn\u2019t her children afford health insurance?Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327878144l/6493208._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "1400052173", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "370", + "rating": "4.07", + "title": "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6493208-the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks?ac=1&from_search=true", + "year": "2010" + }, + "The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0143110373", + "author": "Kevin Kelly", + "category": "Science and Medicine", + "description": "From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our livesMuch of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Kelly provides an optimistic road map for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives\u2014from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture\u2014can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces. Kelly both describes these deep trends\u2014flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning\u2014and demonstrates how they overlap and are codependent on one another. These larger forces will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate with each other. By understanding and embracing them, says Kelly, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits. Kelly\u2019s bright, hopeful book will be indispensable to anyone who seeks guidance on where their business, industry, or life is heading\u2014what to invent, where to work, in what to invest, how to better reach customers, and what to begin to put into place\u2014as this new world emerges.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1453057334l/27209431._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": null, + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "336", + "rating": "3.94", + "title": "The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27209431-the-inevitable", + "year": "2016" + }, + "The Innovator's Dilemma": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Change-Business/dp/0062060244", + "author": "clayton m. christensen", + "category": "Startups and Business", + "description": "Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership -- or worse, disappear completely. And he not only proves what he says, he tells others how to avoid a similar fate.Focusing on \"disruptive technology\" -- the Honda Super Cub, Intel's 8088 processor, or the hydraulic excavator, for example -- Christensen shows why most companies miss \"the next great wave.\" Whether in electronics or retailing, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know when to abandon traditional business practices. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, \"The Innovator's Dilemma\" presents a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0060521996", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "286", + "rating": "4.01", + "title": "The Innovator's Dilemma", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_Innovator_s_Dilemma", + "year": "2003" + }, + "The Kingkiller Chronicle": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Wise-Mans-Fear-Kingkiller-Chronicle/dp/0756407915", + "author": "Patrick Rothfuss", + "category": "Fantasy", + "description": "Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature. A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1515589515l/186074._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "075640407X", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "662", + "rating": "4.53", + "title": "The Kingkiller Chronicle", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/45262-the-kingkiller-chronicle", + "year": "2007" + }, + "The Last Lecture": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Last-Lecture-Randy-Pausch/dp/1401323251", + "author": "Randy Pausch", + "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", + "description": "A lot of professors give talks titled 'The Last Lecture'. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave, 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams', wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humour, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1529682044l/40611510._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": null, + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "217", + "rating": "4.26", + "title": "The Last Lecture", + "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2318271.The_Last_Lecture", + "year": "2008" + }, + "The Last Wish - Saga": { + "author": "Andrzej Sapkowski", + "category": "Fantasy", + "rating": "4.2", + "title": "The Last Wish - Saga", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1128434.The_Last_Wish", + "year": "1993" + }, + "The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898", + "author": "Eric Ries", + "category": "Startups and Business", + "description": "THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION Most new businesses fail. But most of those failures are preventable.The Lean Startup is the approach to business that's being adopted around the world. It is changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.The Lean Startup is about learning what your customers really want. It's about testing your vision continuously, adapting and adjusting before it's too late.Now is the time to think Lean.The Lean Startup changes everything - Harvard Business Review ", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1333960993l/12969025._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0670921602", + "lang": "en-US", + "pages": "320", + "rating": "4.09", + "title": "The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10127019-the-lean-startup", + "year": "2011" + }, + "The Little Schemer": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/0262560992", + "author": "Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman", + "category": "Science and Medicine", + "description": "The notion that \u201cthinking about computing is one of the most exciting things the human mind can do\u201d sets both The Little Schemer (formerly known as The Little LISPer) and its new companion volume, The Seasoned Schemer, apart from other books on LISP. The authors' enthusiasm for their subject is compelling as they present abstract concepts in a humorous and easy-to-grasp fashion. Together, these books will open new doors of thought to anyone who wants to find out what computing is really about. The Little Schemer introduces computing as an extension of arithmetic and algebra; things that everyone studies in grade school and high school. It introduces programs as recursive functions and briefly discusses the limits of what computers can do. The authors use the programming language Scheme, and interesting foods to illustrate these abstract ideas. The Seasoned Schemer informs the reader about additional dimensions of computing: functions as values, change of state, and exceptional cases. The Little LISPer has been a popular introduction to LISP for many years. It had appeared in French and Japanese. The Little Schemer and The Seasoned Schemer are worthy successors and will prove equally popular as textbooks for Scheme courses as well as companion texts for any complete introductory course in Computer Science.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0262560992", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "210", + "rating": "4.28", + "title": "The Little Schemer", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/548914.The_Little_Schemer", + "year": "1995" + }, + "The Lord of the Rings": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-J-R-R-Tolkien/dp/0544003411", + "author": "J.R.R. 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Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1486871542l/3263607._SY160_.jpg", + "isbn": null, + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "527", + "rating": "4.36", + "title": "The Lord of the Rings", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/66175-the-lord-of-the-rings", + "year": "1973" + }, + "The Man Who Knew Infinity : A Life of the Genius Ramanujan": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Infinity-Ramanujan/dp/1476763496", + "author": "Robert Kanigel", + "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", + "description": "The tale of a relationship between a young Indian mathematics genius, Ramanujan, and his tutor at Cambridge University, G.H. Hardy, in the years before World War I. Through their eyes the reader is taken on a journey through numbers theory. Ramanujan would regularly telescope 12 steps of logic into two - the effect is said to be like Dr Watson in the train of some argument by Sherlock Holmes. The language of symbols and infinitely large (and small) regions of mathematics should be rendered with clarity for the general reader.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0349104522", + "lang": "en-GB", + "pages": "438", + "rating": "4.10", + "title": "The Man Who Knew Infinity : A Life of the Genius Ramanujan", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106139.The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity", + "year": "1992" + }, + "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat and Other Clinical Tales": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Mistook-His-Wife/dp/1491514078", + "author": "Oliver Sacks", + "category": "Science and Medicine", + "description": "If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self\u2014himself\u2014he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it. Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to adapt to often bizarre worlds of neurological disorder. Here are people who can no longer recognize everyday objects or those they love; who are stricken with violent tics or shout involuntary obscenities; who have been dismissed as autistic or retarded, yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales illuminate what it means to be human.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1447047702l/63697._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0684853949", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "243", + "rating": "4.06", + "title": "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat and Other Clinical Tales", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63697.The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_for_a_Hat_and_Other_Clinical_Tales", + "year": "1998" + }, + "The Martian": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Martian-Andy-Weir/dp/0553418025", + "author": "Andy Weir", + "category": "Science Fiction", + "description": "Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he\u2019s sure he\u2019ll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he\u2019s alive\u2014and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won\u2019t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old \u201chuman error\u201d are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn\u2019t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills \u2014 and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit \u2014 he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1413706054l/18007564._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0804139024", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "384", + "rating": "4.40", + "title": "The Martian", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18007564-the-martian", + "year": "2014" + }, + "The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993", + "author": "Tim Wu", + "category": "History", + "description": "In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over what Americans see and hear. Could history repeat itself with the next industrial consolidation? Could the Internet\u2014the entire flow of American information\u2014come to be ruled by one corporate leviathan in possession of \u201cthe master switch\u201d? That is the big question of Tim Wu\u2019s pathbreaking book.As Wu\u2019s sweeping history shows, each of the new media of the twentieth century\u2014radio, telephone, television, and film\u2014was born free and open. Each invited unrestricted use and enterprising experiment until some would-be mogul battled his way to total domination. Here are stories of an uncommon will to power, the power over information: Adolph Zukor, who took a technology once used as commonly as YouTube is today and made it the exclusive prerogative of a kingdom called Hollywood . . . NBC\u2019s founder, David Sarnoff, who, to save his broadcast empire from disruptive visionaries, bullied one inventor (of electronic television) into alcoholic despair and another (this one of FM radio, and his boyhood friend) into suicide . . . And foremost, Theodore Vail, founder of the Bell System, the greatest information empire of all time, and a capitalist whose faith in Soviet-style central planning set the course of every information industry thereafter.Explaining how invention begets industry and industry begets empire\u2014a progress often blessed by government, typically with stifling consequences for free expression and technical innovation alike\u2014Wu identifies a time-honored pattern in the maneuvers of today\u2019s great information powers: Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T. A battle royal looms for the Internet\u2019s future, and with almost every aspect of our lives now dependent on that network, this is one war we dare not tune out.Part industrial expos\u00e9, part meditation on what freedom requires in the information age, The Master Switch is a stirring illumination of a drama that has played out over decades in the shadows of our national life and now culminates with terrifying implications for our future.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320518400l/8201080._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0307269930", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "384", + "rating": "3.86", + "title": "The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8201080-the-master-switch", + "year": "2010" + }, + "The Master and Margarita": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Master-Margarita-Mikhail-Bulgakov/dp/0679760806", + "author": "Mikhail Bulgakov", + "category": "Classics", + "description": "The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.(back cover)", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327867963l/117833._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0679760806", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "335", + "rating": "4.29", + "title": "The Master and Margarita", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117833.The_Master_and_Margarita", + "year": "1996" + }, + "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Roger-Ackroyd-Hercule-Mysteries/dp/0062073567", + "author": "Agatha Christie", + "category": "Mystery", + "description": "Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's most controversial mysteries, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing. The peaceful English village of King\u2019s Abbot is stunned. First, the attractive widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of veronal. Not twenty-four hours later, Roger Ackroyd\u2014the man she had planned to marry\u2014is murdered. It is a baffling, complex case involving blackmail, suicide, and violent death, a cast that taxes Hercule Poirot\u2019s \u201clittle grey cells\u201d before he reaches one of the most startling conclusions of his fabled career.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "1579126278", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "288", + "rating": "4.24", + "title": "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", + "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16328.The_Murder_of_Roger_Ackroyd", + "year": "2006" + }, + "The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies-Policies/dp/0691138737", + "author": "Bryan Caplan", + "category": "Politics", + "description": "The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else pretend to, resulting in bad policies winning again and again by popular demand.Boldly calling into question our most basic assumptions about American politics, Caplan contends that democracy fails precisely because it does what voters want. Through an analysis of Americans' voting behavior and opinions on a range of economic issues, he makes the convincing case that noneconomists suffer from four prevailing biases: they underestimate the wisdom of the market mechanism, distrust foreigners, undervalue the benefits of conserving labor, and pessimistically believe the economy is going from bad to worse. Caplan lays out several bold ways to make democratic government work better--for example, urging economic educators to focus on correcting popular misconceptions and recommending that democracies do less and let markets take up the slack.The Myth of the Rational Voter takes an unflinching look at how people who vote under the influence of false beliefs ultimately end up with government that delivers lousy results. With the upcoming presidential election season drawing nearer, this thought-provoking book is sure to spark a long-overdue reappraisal of our elective system.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0691129428", + "lang": null, + "pages": "276", + "rating": "3.93", + "title": "The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698866.The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter", + "year": "2007" + }, + "The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Doctors-Medical-Psychology-Genocide/dp/0465049052", + "author": "Robert Jay Lifton", + "category": "History", + "description": "Nazi doctors did more than conduct bizarre experiments on concentration-camp inmates; they supervised the entire process of medical mass murder, from selecting those who were to be exterminated to disposing of corpses. Lifton (The Broken Connection; The Life of the Self shows that this medically supervised killing was done in the name of \"healing,\" as part of a racist program to cleanse the Aryan body politic. After the German eugenics campaign of the 1920s for forced sterilization of the \"unfit,\" it was but one step to \"euthanasia,\" which in the Nazi context meant systematic murder of Jews. Building on interviews with former Nazi physicians and their prisoners, Lifton presents a disturbing portrait of careerists who killed to overcome feelings of powerlessness. He includes a chapter on Josef Mengele and one on Eduard Wirths, the \"kind, decent\" doctor (as some inmates described him) who set up the Auschwitz death machinery. Lifton also psychoanalyzes the German people, scarred by the devastation of World War I and mystically seeking regeneration. This profound study ranks with the most insightful books on the Holocaust.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1333754345l/173187._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0465049052", + "lang": null, + "pages": "561", + "rating": "4.10", + "title": "The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/173187.The_Nazi_Doctors", + "year": "1986" + }, + "The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/New-Executive-Brain-Frontal-Complex/dp/0195329406", + "author": "Elkhonon Goldberg", + "category": "Science and Medicine", + "description": "Elkhonon Goldberg's groundbreaking The Executive Brain was a classic of scientific writing, revealing how the frontal lobes command the most human parts of the mind. Now he offers a completely new book, providing fresh, iconoclastic ideas about the relationship between the brain and the mind. In The New Executive Brain, Goldberg paints a sweeping panorama of cutting-edge thinking in cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology, one that ranges far beyond the frontal lobes. Drawing on the latest discoveries, and developing complex scientific ideas and relating them to real life through many fascinating case studies and anecdotes, the author explores how the brain engages in complex decision-making; how it deals with novelty and ambiguity; and how it addresses moral choices. At every step, Goldberg challenges entrenched assumptions. For example, we know that the left hemisphere of the brain is the seat of language--but Goldberg argues that language may not be the central adaptation of the left hemisphere. Apes lack language, yet many also show evidence of asymmetric hemispheric development. Goldberg also finds that a complex interaction between the frontal lobes and the amygdale--between a recently evolved and a much older part of the brain--controls emotion, as conscious thoughts meet automatic impulses. The author illustrates this observation with a personal example: the difficulty he experienced when trying to pick up a baby alligator he knew to be harmless, as his amygdala battled his effort to extend his hand. In the years since the original Executive Brain, Goldberg has remained at the front of his field, constantly challenging orthodoxy. In this revised and expanded edition, he affirms his place as one of our most creative and insightful scientists, offering lucid writing and bold, paradigm-shifting ideas.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0195329406", + "lang": null, + "pages": "334", + "rating": "4.12", + "title": "The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6745893-the-new-executive-brain", + "year": "2009" + }, + "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431", + "author": "Michelle Alexander", + "category": "Politics", + "description": "\"Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole.\"As the United States celebrates the nation's \"triumph over race\" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status--much like their grandparents before them.In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community--and all of us--to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328751532l/6792458._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "1595581030", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "290", + "rating": "4.48", + "title": "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6792458-the-new-jim-crow", + "year": "2010" + }, + "The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Outer-Limits-Reason-Science-Mathematics/dp/026252984X", + "author": "Noson S. Yanofsky", + "category": "Science and Medicine", + "description": "An exploration of the scientific limits of knowledge that challenges our deep-seated beliefs about our universe, our rationality, and ourselves.Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science, mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer Limits of Reason, Noson Yanofsky considers what cannot be predicted, described, or known, and what will never be understood. He discusses the limitations of computers, physics, logic, and our own thought processes.Yanofsky describes simple tasks that would take computers trillions of centuries to complete and other problems that computers can never solve; perfectly formed English sentences that make no sense; different levels of infinity; the bizarre world of the quantum; the relevance of relativity theory; the causes of chaos theory; math problems that cannot be solved by normal means; and statements that are true but cannot be proven. He explains the limitations of our intuitions about the world -- our ideas about space, time, and motion, and the complex relationship between the knower and the known.Moving from the concrete to the abstract, from problems of everyday language to straightforward philosophical questions to the formalities of physics and mathematics, Yanofsky demonstrates a myriad of unsolvable problems and paradoxes. Exploring the various limitations of our knowledge, he shows that many of these limitations have a similar pattern and that by investigating these patterns, we can better understand the structure and limitations of reason itself. Yanofsky even attempts to look beyond the borders of reason to see what, if anything, is out there.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1381287623l/17841838._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0262019353", + "lang": null, + "pages": "403", + "rating": "4.02", + "title": "The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us", + "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841838-the-outer-limits-of-reason", + "year": "2013" + }, + "The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Paradox-Choice-More-Less-Revised-ebook/dp/B000TDGGVU", + "author": "Barry Shwartz", + "category": "Startups and Business", + "description": "About the Book: The Paradox of Choice. In the spirit of Alvin Tofflers Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401K, everyday decisions have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains why too much of a good thing has proven detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz explains how a culture that thrives on the availability of constantly evolving options can also foster profound dissatisfaction and self-blame in individuals, which can lead to a paralysis in decision making and, in some cases, depression. With the latest studies on how we make choices in our personal and professional lives, Schwartz offers practical advice on how to focus on the right choices, and how to derive greater satisfaction from choices that we do make. About the Author: Barry Schwartz Barry Schwartz is the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College. He is the author of several books, including The Battle for Human Nature: Science, Morality and Modern Life and The Costs of Living: How Market Freedom Erodes the Best Things in Life. His articles have appeared in many of the leading journals in his field, including the American Psychologist. He lives in Philadelphia, PA.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1410138134l/10639._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0060005696", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "265", + "rating": "3.86", + "title": "The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10639.The_Paradox_of_Choice", + "year": "2005" + }, + "The Paypal Wars": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/PayPal-Wars-Battles-Media-Planet/dp/1936488590", + "author": "Eric M. Jackson", + "category": "Startups and Business", + "description": "When Peter Thiel and Max Levchin launched an online payment website in 1999, they hoped their service could improve the lives of millions around the globe. But when their start-up, PayPal, survived the dot.com crash only to find itself besieged by unimaginable challenges, that dream threatened to become a nightmare. PayPal's history - as told by former insider Eric Jackson - is an engrossing study of human struggle and perseverance against overwhelming odds. The entrepreneurs that Thiel and Levchin recruited to overhaul world currency markets first had to face some of the greatest trials ever thrown at a Silicon Valley company before they could make internet history. Business guru Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence, called the hardcover edition of The PayPal Wars a real page turner that featured what he called the best description of business strategy unfolding in a world changing at warp speed. The new paperback edition will feature updated material and even more insights on the state of internet commerce.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0977898431", + "lang": null, + "pages": "270", + "rating": "3.96", + "title": "The Paypal Wars", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4052.The_PayPal_Wars", + "year": "2010" + }, + "The Picture of Dorian Gray": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Picture-Dorian-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486278077", + "author": "Oscar Wilde", + "category": "Classics", + "description": "Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde\u2019s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author\u2019s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray\u2019s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it \ufb01rst appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel\u2019s corrupting in\ufb02uence, he responded that there is, in fact, \u201ca terrible moral in Dorian Gray.\u201d Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde\u2019s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray\u2019s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, \u201cBasil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be\u2014in other ages, perhaps.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1546103428l/5297._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": null, + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "272", + "rating": "4.08", + "title": "The Picture of Dorian Gray", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray", + "year": "2004" + }, + "The Pillars of the Earth": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Pillars-Earth-Novel-Kingsbridge/dp/0451166892", + "author": "Ken Follett", + "category": "Historical Fiction", + "description": "Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known.Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes The Pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time the twelfth century; the place feudal England; and the subject the building of a glorious cathedral. Follett has re-created the crude, flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every detail. The vast forests, the walled towns, the castles, and the monasteries become a familiar landscape. Against this richly imagined and intricately interwoven backdrop, filled with the ravages of war and the rhythms of daily life, the master storyteller draws the reader irresistibly into the intertwined lives of his characters into their dreams, their labors, and their loves: Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the ravishingly beautiful noblewoman; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone; and Ellen, the woman of the forest who casts a terrifying curse. From humble stonemason to imperious monarch, each character is brought vividly to life.The building of the cathedral, with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons, is the center of the drama. Around the site of the construction, Follett weaves a story of betrayal, revenge, and love, which begins with the public hanging of an innocent man and ends with the humiliation of a king.For the Movie tie-in edition with the same ISBN go to this Alternate Cover Edition", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1576956100l/5043._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": null, + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "976", + "rating": "4.32", + "title": "The Pillars of the Earth", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5043.The_Pillars_of_the_Earth?from_search=true", + "year": "2002" + }, + "The Player of Games": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Player-Games-Culture-Iain-Banks/dp/0316005401", + "author": "Iain M. Banks", + "category": "Science Fiction", + "description": "The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of the best is Jernau Morat Gurgeh, Player of Games, master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel & incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game, a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game and with it the challenge of his life, and very possibly his death.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0061053562", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "293", + "rating": "4.27", + "title": "The Player of Games", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630.The_Player_of_Games", + "year": "1997" + }, + "The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Power-Full-Engagement-Managing-Performance/dp/0743226755", + "author": "Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz", + "category": "Startups and Business", + "description": "\u201cCombines the gritty toughmindedness of the best coaches with the gentle-but-insistent inspiration of the most effective spiritual advisers\u201d (Fast Company). This groundbreaking New York Times bestseller has helped hundreds of thousands of people at work and at home balance stress and recovery and sustain high performance despite crushing workloads and 24/7 demands on their time. We live in digital time. Our pace is rushed, rapid-fire, and relentless. Facing crushing workloads, we try to cram as much as possible into every day. We're wired up, but we're melting down. Time management is no longer a viable solution. As bestselling authors Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz demonstrate in this groundbreaking book, managing energy, not time, is the key to enduring high performance as well as to health, happiness, and life balance. The Power of Full Engagement is a highly practical, scientifically based approach to managing your energy more skillfully both on and off the job by laying out the key training principles and provides a powerful, step-by-step program that will help you to: * Mobilize four key sources of energy * Balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal * Expand capacity in the same systematic way that elite athletes do * Create highly specific, positive energy management rituals to make lasting changes Above all, this book provides a life-changing road map to becoming more fully engaged on and off the job, meaning physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0743226755", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "222", + "rating": "4.04", + "title": "The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal", + "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68985.The_Power_of_Full_Engagement", + "year": "2005" + }, + "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business/dp/081298160X", + "author": "Charles Duhigg", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed.Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the biggest flops in company history. Suddenly, one of them detects a nearly imperceptible pattern\u2014and with a slight shift in advertising, Febreze goes on to earn a billion dollars a year.An untested CEO takes over one of the largest companies in America. His first order of business is attacking a single pattern among his employees\u2014how they approach worker safety\u2014and soon the firm, Alcoa, becomes the top performer in the Dow Jones.What do all these people have in common? They achieved success by focusing on the patterns that shape every aspect of our lives. They succeeded by transforming habits.In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation. Along the way we learn why some people and companies struggle to change, despite years of trying, while others seem to remake themselves overnight. We visit laboratories where neuroscientists explore how habits work and where, exactly, they reside in our brains. We discover how the right habits were crucial to the success of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and civil-rights hero Martin Luther King, Jr. We go inside Procter & Gamble, Target superstores, Rick Warren\u2019s Saddleback Church, NFL locker rooms, and the nation\u2019s largest hospitals and see how implementing so-called keystone habits can earn billions and mean the difference between failure and success, life and death.At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and achieving success is understanding how habits work. Habits aren\u2019t destiny. As Charles Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1545854312l/12609433._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "1400069289", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "375", + "rating": "4.10", + "title": "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-habit", + "year": "2012" + }, + "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment/dp/1577314808", + "author": "Eckhart Tolle", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "Eckhart Tolle's message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. And while this message may not seem stunningly original or fresh, Tolle's clear writing, supportive voice and enthusiasm make this an excellent manual for anyone who's ever wondered what exactly \"living in the now\" means. Foremost, Tolle is a world-class teacher, able to explain complicated concepts in concrete language. More importantly, within a chapter of reading this book, readers are already holding the world in a different container--more conscious of how thoughts and emotions get in the way of their ability to live in genuine peace and happiness.Tolle packs a lot of information and inspirational ideas into The Power of Now. (Topics include the source of Chi, enlightened relationships, creative use of the mind, impermanence and the cycle of life.) Thankfully, he's added markers that symbolise \"break time\". This is when readers should close the book and mull over what they just read. As a result, The Power of Now reads like the highly acclaimed A Course in Miracles--a spiritual guidebook that has the potential to inspire just as many study groups and change just as many lives for the better. --Gail Hudson", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "1577314808", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "229", + "rating": "4.13", + "title": "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6708.The_Power_of_Now", + "year": "2004" + }, + "The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Quark-Jaguar-Adventures-Simple-Complex/dp/0805072535", + "author": "Murray Gell-Mann", + "category": "Science and Medicine", + "description": "From one of the architects of the new science of simplicity and complexity comes an explanation of the connections between nature at its most basic level and natural selection, archaeology, linguistics, child development, computers, and other complex adaptive systems. Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann offers a uniquely personal and unifying vision of the relationship between the fundamental laws of physics and the complexity and diversity of the natural world.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0805072535", + "lang": null, + "pages": "392", + "rating": "3.85", + "title": "The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270881.The_Quark_and_the_Jaguar", + "year": "2000" + }, + "The Queen's Gambit": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Queens-Gambit-Novel-Walter-Tevis/dp/1400030609", + "author": "Walter Tevis", + "category": "Miscellaneous", + "description": "Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as she hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting. Engaging and fast-paced, The Queen's Gambit speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "1400030609", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "243", + "rating": "4.15", + "title": "The Queen's Gambit", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62022.The_Queen_s_Gambit", + "year": "2003" + }, + "The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Rational-Optimist-Prosperity-Evolves-P-s/dp/0061452068", + "author": "Matt Ridley", + "category": "History", + "description": "Life is getting better\u2014and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down \u2014 all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people\u2019s lives as never before. The pessimists who dominate public discourse insist that we will soon reach a turning point and things will start to get worse. But they have been saying this for two hundred years.Yet Matt Ridley does more than describe how things are getting better. He explains why. Prosperity comes from everybody working for everybody else. The habit of exchange and specialization\u2014which started more than 100,000 years ago\u2014has created a collective brain that sets human living standards on a rising trend. The mutual dependence, trust, and sharing that result are causes for hope, not despair.This bold book covers the entire sweep of human history, from the Stone Age to the Internet, from the stagnation of the Ming empire to the invention of the steam engine, from the population explosion to the likely consequences of climate change. It ends with a confident assertion that thanks to the ceaseless capacity of the human race for innovative change, and despite inevitable disasters along the way, the twenty-first century will see both human prosperity and natural biodiversity enhanced. Acute, refreshing, and revelatory, The Rational Optimist will change your way of thinking about the world for the better.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "006145205X", + "lang": "en-CA", + "pages": "448", + "rating": "3.97", + "title": "The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7776209-the-rational-optimist", + "year": "2010" + }, + "The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Revenge-Geography-Coming-Conflicts-Against/dp/0812982223", + "author": "Robert D. Kaplan", + "category": "History", + "description": "In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world. \u00a0 In The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world\u2019s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppe\u2019s pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland. \u00a0 Kaplan then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia. Remarkably, the future can be understood in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties: China, able to feed only 23 percent of its people from land that is only 7 percent arable, has sought energy, minerals, and metals from such brutal regimes as Burma, Iran, and Zimbabwe, putting it in moral conflict with the United States. Afghanistan\u2019s porous borders will keep it the principal invasion route into India, and a vital rear base for Pakistan, India\u2019s main enemy. Iran will exploit the advantage of being the only country that straddles both energy-producing areas of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Finally, Kaplan posits that the United States might rue engaging in far-flung conflicts with Iraq and Afghanistan rather than tending to its direct neighbor Mexico, which is on the verge of becoming a semifailed state due to drug cartel carnage. \u00a0 A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century\u2019s looming cataclysms.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1386541369l/13330422._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "1400069831", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "432", + "rating": "3.75", + "title": "The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330422-the-revenge-of-geography", + "year": "2012" + }, + "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/0307455777", + "author": "Jonathan Haidt", + "category": "Politics", + "description": "Why can\u2019t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. \u00a0His starting point is moral intuition\u2014the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right. He blends his own research findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists to draw a map of the moral domain. He then examines the origins of morality, overturning the view that evolution made us fundamentally selfish creatures. But rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic, he makes a more subtle claim\u2014that we are fundamentally groupish. It is our groupishness, he explains, that leads to our greatest joys, our religious divisions, and our political affiliations. In a stunning final chapter on ideology and civility, Haidt shows what each side is right about, and why we need the insights of liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to flourish as a nation.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1534528902l/11324722._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0307377903", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "419", + "rating": "4.21", + "title": "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind", + "year": "2012" + }, + "The Rise and Fall of the British Empire": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-British-Empire/dp/031216985X", + "author": "Lawrence James", + "category": "History", + "description": "Great Britain's geopolitical role has undergone many changes over the last four centuries. Once a maritime superpower and ruler of half the world, Britain now occupies an isolated position as an economically fragile island often at odds with her European neighbors. Lawrence James has written a comprehensive, perceptive and insighful history of the British Empire. Spanning the years from 1600 to the present day, this critically acclaimed book combines detailed scholarship with readable popular history.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1354898847l/143980._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "031216985X", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "744", + "rating": "3.91", + "title": "The Rise and Fall of the British Empire", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143980.The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_British_Empire", + "year": "1997" + }, + "The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Score-Takes-Care-Itself-Philosophy/dp/1591843472", + "author": "Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh", + "category": "Startups and Business", + "description": " \"Even when you have an organization brimming with talent, victory is not always under your control. There is no guarantee, no ultimate formula for success. It all comes down to intelligently and relentlessly seeking solutions that will increase your chance of prevailing. When you do that, the score will take care of itself.\" (Bill Walsh) Bill Walsh is a towering figure in the history of the NFL. His advanced leadership transformed the San Francisco 49ers from the worst franchise in sports to a legendary dynasty that won three Super Bowls. In the process, he changed the way football is played-pushing it into the twenty-first century. Walsh is famous for his strategic brilliance and innovations, such as the West Coast Offense, but his enlightened philosophy of leadership was just as crucial, if not more so, to the unprecedented success of his teams. And that philosophy of leadership is just as powerful and productive in business or any other endeavor as it was for him on the football field. Prior to his death, Walsh granted exclusive interviews to bestselling author Steve Jamison. They became his ultimate lecture on leadership-illustrated by dramatic and apt anecdotes from throughout Walsh's career. A small sample of what you'll learn from one of America's greatest coaches: *\tBelieve in People: Push them hard to be their very best. No one will ever come back later and thank you for expecting too little of them. *\tProfessionalism Matters: There was no showboating allowed after touchdowns, no taunting of opponents, no demonstration to attract attention to oneself: \"Champions act like champions before they're champions.\" *\tKeep a Short Enemies List: One enemy can do more damage than the good done by a hundred friends. *\tProtect Your Blind Side: Prompt yourself to aggressively analyze not only your organization's strengths, but also its unseen vulnerabilities. *\tSometimes You Can't Have he Last Word. A leader cannot escape harsh criticism. Ignore the undeserving; learn from the deserving. Lick your wounds and move on. Your bruised ego will get over it. Additional insights and perspective are provided by his son Craig Walsh, by legendary quarterback Joe Montana, and by other important figures who knew Bill well. Bill Walsh taught that the requirements of successful leadership are the same whether you run an NFL franchise, a Fortune 500 company, or a hardware store with twelve employees. His final words of wisdom will inspire and enlighten readers in all walks of life.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "1591842662", + "lang": "en-US", + "pages": "288", + "rating": "4.25", + "title": "The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6342995-the-score-takes-care-of-itself", + "year": "2009" + }, + "The Selfish Gene": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Gene-Popular-Science/dp/0192860925", + "author": "Richard Dawkins", + "category": "Science and Medicine", + "description": "The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition\u2014with a new Introduction by the AuthorInheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that \"our\" genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes. That simple reversal seems to answer many puzzlers which had stumped scientists for years, and we haven't thought of evolution in the same way since.Why are there miles and miles of \"unused\" DNA within each of our bodies? Why should a bee give up its own chance to reproduce to help raise her sisters and brothers? With a prophet's clarity, Dawkins told us the answers from the perspective of molecules competing for limited space and resources to produce more of their own kind. Drawing fascinating examples from every field of biology, he paved the way for a serious re-evaluation of evolution. He also introduced the concept of self-reproducing ideas, or memes, which (seemingly) use humans exclusively for their propagation. If we are puppets, he says, at least we can try to understand our strings. \u2014Rob Lightner", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1366758096l/61535._SY160_.jpg", + "isbn": "0199291152", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "360", "rating": "4.14", - "title": "Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39644200-mismatch", + "title": "The Selfish Gene", + "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61535.The_Selfish_Gene", + "year": "2006" + }, + "The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Sense-Style-Thinking-Persons-Writing/dp/0143127799", + "author": "Steven Pinker", + "category": "Writing", + "description": "A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven PinkerWhy is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care?In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the twenty-first century, Pinker doesn\u2019t carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose. In this short, cheerful, and eminently practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer the good prose of others. He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to apply the guidelines judiciously, rather than robotically, being mindful of what they are designed to accomplish. Filled with examples of great and gruesome prose, Pinker shows us how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right. ", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1396671354l/20821371._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0670025852", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "368", + "rating": "4.06", + "title": "The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century", + "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821371-the-sense-of-style", + "year": "2014" + }, + "The Sex Myth": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Myth-Everything-Were-Wrong/dp/0297866397", + "author": "Brooke Magnanti", + "category": "Sexuality", + "description": "From a bold new feminist voice, a book that will change the way you think about your sex life. Fifty years after the sexual revolution, we are told that we live in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom; that if anything, we are too free now. But beneath the veneer of glossy hedonism, millennial journalist Rachel Hills argues that we are controlled by a new brand of sexual convention: one which influences all of us\u2014woman or man, straight or gay, liberal or conservative. At the root of this silent code lies The Sex Myth\u2014the defining significance we invest in sexuality that once meant we were dirty if we did have sex, and now means we are defective if we don\u2019t do it enough. Equal parts social commentary, pop culture, and powerful personal anecdotes from people across the English-speaking world, The Sex Myth exposes the invisible norms and unspoken assumptions that shape the way we think about sex today.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1438581520l/23492818._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "1451685785", + "lang": null, + "pages": "288", + "rating": "3.51", + "title": "The Sex Myth", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13569582-the-sex-myth", + "year": "2015" + }, + "The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750", + "author": "Nicholas Carr", + "category": "Science and Medicine", + "description": "\u201cIs Google making us stupid?\u201d When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net\u2019s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply?Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet\u2019s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by \u201ctools of the mind\u201d\u2014from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer\u2014Carr interweaves a fascinating account of recent discoveries in neuroscience by such pioneers as Michael Merzenich and Eric Kandel. Our brains, the historical and scientific evidence reveals, change in response to our experiences. The technologies we use to find, store, and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways.Building on the insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan, Carr makes a convincing case that every information technology carries an intellectual ethic\u2014a set of assumptions about the nature of knowledge and intelligence. He explains how the printed book served to focus our attention, promoting deep and creative thought. In stark contrast, the Internet encourages the rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Its ethic is that of the industrialist, an ethic of speed and efficiency, of optimized production and consumption\u2014and now the Net is remaking us in its own image. We are becoming ever more adept at scanning and skimming, but what we are losing is our capacity for concentration, contemplation, and reflection.Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes\u2014Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive\u2014even as it plumbs profound questions about the state of our modern psyche. This is a book that will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0393339750", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "280", + "rating": "3.88", + "title": "The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9778945-the-shallows", + "year": "2011" + }, + "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Many-Predictions-Fail-but/dp/0143125087", + "author": "Nate Silver", + "category": "Economics", + "description": "One of Wall Street Journal's Best Ten Works of Nonfiction in 2012 New York Times Bestseller\"Not so different in spirit from the way public intellectuals like John Kenneth Galbraith once shaped discussions of economic policy and public figures like Walter Cronkite helped sway opinion on the Vietnam War\u2026could turn out to be one of the more momentous books of the decade.\"-New York Times Book Review \"Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise is The Soul of a New Machine for the 21st century.\"-Rachel Maddow, author of Drift\"A serious treatise about the craft of prediction-without academic mathematics-cheerily aimed at lay readers. Silver's coverage is polymathic, ranging from poker and earthquakes to climate change and terrorism.\"-New York Review of BooksNate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair's breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger-all by the time he was thirty. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster with his near perfect prediction of the 2012 election. Silver is the founder and editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight.com. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data. Most predictions fail, often at great cost to society, because most of us have a poor understanding of probability and uncertainty. Both experts and laypeople mistake more confident predictions for more accurate ones. But overconfidence is often the reason for failure. If our appreciation of uncertainty improves, our predictions can get better too. This is the \"prediction paradox\": The more humility we have about our ability to make predictions, the more successful we can be in planning for the future.In keeping with his own aim to seek truth from data, Silver visits the most successful forecasters in a range of areas, from hurricanes to baseball, from the poker table to the stock market, from Capitol Hill to the NBA. He explains and evaluates how these forecasters think and what bonds they share. What lies behind their success? Are they good-or just lucky? What patterns have they unraveled? And are their forecasts really right? He explores unanticipated commonalities and exposes unexpected juxtapositions. And sometimes, it is not so much how good a prediction is in an absolute sense that matters but how good it is relative to the competition. In other cases, prediction is still a very rudimentary-and dangerous-science.Silver observes that the most accurate forecasters tend to have a superior command of probability, and they tend to be both humble and hardworking. They distinguish the predictable from the unpredictable, and they notice a thousand little details that lead them closer to the truth. Because of their appreciation of probability, they can distinguish the signal from the noise.With everything from the health of the global economy to our ability to fight terrorism dependent on the quality of our predictions, Nate Silver's insights are an essential read.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1355058876l/13588394._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "159420411X", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "534", + "rating": "3.98", + "title": "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13588394-the-signal-and-the-noise", + "year": "2012" + }, + "The Social Contract": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Social-Contract-Transl-Maurice-Cranston/dp/B00YO41TWQ", + "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "\"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.\"These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or \u2018social contract\u2019, that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0143037498", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "168", + "rating": "3.78", + "title": "The Social Contract", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12651.The_Social_Contract", + "year": "2006" + }, + "The Story of My Life": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Story-My-Life-Helen-Keller/dp/1512092975", + "author": "Helen Keller", + "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", + "description": "When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880\u20131968) suffered a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Not long after, she also became mute. Her tenacious struggle to overcome these handicaps-with the help of her inspired teacher, Anne Sullivan-is one of the great stories of human courage and dedication. In this classic autobiography, first published in 1903, Miss Keller recounts the first 22 years of her life, including the magical moment at the water pump when, recognizing the connection between the word \"water\" and the cold liquid flowing over her hand, she realized that objects had names. Subsequent experiences were equally noteworthy: her joy at eventually learning to speak, her friendships with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edward Everett Hale and other notables, her education at Radcliffe (from which she graduated cum laude), and-underlying all-her extraordinary relationship with Miss Sullivan, who showed a remarkable genius for communicating with her eager and quick-to-learn pupil.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320429331l/821611._SY160_.jpg", + "isbn": "0553213873", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "240", + "rating": "4.08", + "title": "The Story of My Life", + "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821611.The_Story_of_My_Life", + "year": "1990" + }, + "The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Tactics-Pricing-New-International/dp/1292023236", + "author": "Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale", + "category": "Startups and Business", + "description": "", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "9332536546", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": null, + "rating": "4.08", + "title": "The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99919.The_Strategy_and_Tactics_of_Pricing", + "year": "" + }, + "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-50th-Anniversary/dp/0226458121", + "author": "Thomas S. 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Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . . . has clearly emerged as just such a work.\" \u0097Ron Johnston, Times Higher Education Supplement\u00a0\"Among the most influential academic books in this century.\" \u0097Choice\u00a0One of \"The Hundred Most Influential Books Since the Second World War,\" Times Literary Supplement\u00a0", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1396422530l/61539._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0226458083", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "226", + "rating": "4.01", + "title": "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61539.The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions", + "year": "1996" + }, + "The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Stuff-Thought-Language-Window-Nature/dp/0143114247", + "author": "Steven Pinker", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. 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The Stuff of Thought is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable work that will appeal to fans of readers of everything from The Selfish Gene and Blink to Eats, Shoots & Leaves.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327928557l/373969._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0670063274", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "499", + "rating": "3.90", + "title": "The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373969.The_Stuff_of_Thought", + "year": "2007" + }, + "The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Symbolic-Species-Co-evolution-Language-Brain/dp/0393317544", + "author": "Terrence W. Deacon", + "category": "Science and Medicine", + "description": "This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed man's newfound access to other people's thoughts and emotions.Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. 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It allows individuals to step outside themselves and raise questions and concerns that effectively kill new projects and ideas, while claiming no personal responsibility. Nothing is more potent in stifling innovation. Drawing on nearly 20 years of experience managing IDEO, Kelley identifies ten roles people can play in an organization to foster innovation and new ideas while offering an effective counter to naysayers. Among these approaches are the Anthropologist\u2014the person who goes into the field to see how customers use and respond to products, to come up with new innovations; the Cross-pollinator who mixes and matches ideas, people, and technology to create new ideas that can drive growth; and the Hurdler, who instantly looks for ways to overcome the limits and challenges to any situation. Filled with engaging stories of how companies like Kraft, Procter and Gamble, Cargill and Samsung have incorporated IDEO's thinking to transform the customer experience, THE TEN FACES OF INNOVATION is an extraordinary guide to nurturing and sustaining a culture of continuous innovation and renewal.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320437810l/95656._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0385512074", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "288", + "rating": "3.99", + "title": "The Ten Faces of Innovation", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95656.The_Ten_Faces_of_Innovation", + "year": "2005" + }, + "The Thank You Economy": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Thank-You-Economy-Gary-Vaynerchuk/dp/0061914185", + "author": "Gary Vaynerchuk", + "category": "Economics", + "description": "Gary Vaynerchuk, the New York Times bestselling author and creator of Wine Library TV, is back with a bold and expansive look at the evolution of today's marketplace, revealing the essential factors defining and driving successful relationships between businesses and consumers. 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After remarkable one-on-one interviews with Bill Gates, Maya Angelou, Steve Wozniak, Jane Goodall, Larry King, Jessica Alba, Pitbull, Tim Ferriss, Quincy Jones, and many more, Alex discovered the one key they have in common: they all took the Third Door.Life, business, success... it's just like a nightclub. There are always three ways in. There's the First Door: the main entrance, where ninety-nine percent of people wait in line, hoping to get in. The Second Door: the VIP entrance, where the billionaires and celebrities slip through. But what no one tells you is that there is always, always... the Third Door. It's the entrance where you have to jump out of line, run down the alley, bang on the door a hundred times, climb over the dumpster, crack open the window, sneak through the kitchen--there's always a way in. 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Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.Gladwell introduces us to the particular personality types who are natural pollinators of new ideas and trends, the people who create the phenomenon of word of mouth. He analyzes fashion trends, smoking, children's television, direct mail, and the early days of the American Revolution for clues about making ideas infectious, and visits a religious commune, a successful high-tech company, and one of the world's greatest salesmen to show how to start and sustain social epidemics.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1473396980l/2612._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0316346624", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "301", + "rating": "3.97", + "title": "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2612.The_Tipping_Point", + "year": "2002" + }, + "The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Everything-Irreverent-Illustrations/dp/1573921106", + "author": "Matthew Stewart", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "Throughout history, well-known theories of reality, knowledge, mind, and most particularly the \"professional\" philosophers who rely on them for their intellectual existence, have sought to isolate universal truths and structure the history of philosophy to distinguish schools and movements that seek a comprehensive understanding of our world. But in this well-intended pursuit of truth, have we lost sight of what philosophy is? Matthew Stewart believes we have.His rowdy guided tour of the search for truth romps through traditional histories of philosophy using parables, imaginary dialogues, and illustrations to demonstrate that knowing theories, recognizing revered schools, and distinguishing the views of the great philosophers isn't what philosophy should be about. Once removed from the clutches of historicism, the compulsion for universal answers, and the perception that reason is a peculiarly Western possession, the nature of philosophy can be seen as a genuine human disposition to love and respect knowledge coupled with a desire for critical thinking.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1365463669l/432775._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "1573921106", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "482", + "rating": "4.15", + "title": "The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18528861-the-truth-about-everything", + "year": "1997" + }, + "The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Upside-Irrationality-Unexpected-Benefits-Defying-ebook/dp/B003JBHVZY", + "author": "Dan Ariely", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "The provocative follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Predictably Irrational Why can large bonuses make CEOs less productive?How can confusing directions actually help us?Why is revenge so important to us?Why is there such a big difference between what we think will make us happy and what really makes us happy? In his groundbreaking book Predictably Irrational, social scientist Dan Ariely revealed the multiple biases that lead us into making unwise decisions. Now, in The Upside of Irrationality, he exposes the surprising negative and positive effects irrationality can have on our lives. Focusing on our behaviors at work and in relationships, he offers new insights and eye-opening truths about what really motivates us on the job, how one unwise action can become a long-term habit, how we learn to love the ones we're with, and more. Drawing on the same experimental methods that made Predictably Irrational one of the most talked-about bestsellers of the past few years, Ariely uses data from his own original and entertaining experiments to draw arresting conclusions about how\u0097and why\u0097we behave the way we do. From our office attitudes, to our romantic relationships, to our search for purpose in life, Ariely explains how to break through our negative patterns of thought and behavior to make better decisions. 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Although we are unaware of it, our brains sift through and discard billions of pieces of data in order to allow us to understand the world around us. In fact, most of what we call thought is actually the unconscious discarding of information. What our consciousness rejects constitutes the most valuable part of ourselves, the \"Me\" that the \"I\" draws on for most of our actions--fluent speech, riding a bicycle, anything involving expertise. No wonder that, in this age of information, so many of us feel empty and dissatisfied. As engaging as it is insightful, this important book encourages us to rely more on what our instincts and our senses tell us so that we can better appreciate the richness of human life.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0140230122", + "lang": null, + "pages": "480", + "rating": "4.31", + "title": "The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106732.The_User_Illusion", + "year": "1999" + }, + "The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Intimacy-Stories-Directions-Paperbook/dp/0811201902", + "author": "Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander", + "category": "Classics", + "description": "'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctor--seemingly there for the men's solace--their mental descent is charted in exquisite, often harrowing detail. And as the morning draws inexorably closer, the men cross the psychological wall between life and death, long before the first shot rings out.This brilliant snapshot of life in anguish is the perfect introduction to a collection of stories where the neurosis of the modern world is mirrored in the lives of the people that inhabit it.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1355866238l/16175417._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": null, + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "144", + "rating": "4.08", + "title": "The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10031.The_Wall", + "year": "2010" + }, + "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Networks-Production-Transforms-Markets/dp/0300125771", + "author": "Yochai Benkler", + "category": "Science and Medicine", + "description": "With the radical changes in information production that the Internet has introduced, we stand at an important moment of transition, says Yochai Benkler in this thought-provoking book. 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He describes the range of legal and policy choices that confront us and maintains that there is much to be gained\u2014or lost\u2014by the decisions we make today.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0300110561", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "528", + "rating": "3.96", + "title": "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14721.The_Wealth_of_Networks", + "year": "2006" + }, + "The Wheel of Time": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Wheel-Time-Boxed-Set-Books/dp/0812538366", + "author": "Robert Jordan", + "category": "Fantasy", + "description": "The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.When The Two Rivers is attacked by Trollocs-a savage tribe of half-men, half-beasts- five villagers flee that night into a world they barely imagined, with new dangers waiting in the shadows and in the light.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1337818095l/228665._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0812511816", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "814", + "rating": "4.17", + "title": "The Wheel of Time", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/41526-the-wheel-of-time", + "year": "1990" + }, + "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/World-Flat-History-Twenty-first-Century/dp/0374292884", + "author": "Thomas L. 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And with this flattening' of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in one place, has the world got too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?In this brilliant new book, the award-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the 21st century; what it means to countries, companies, communities and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0374292795", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "593", + "rating": "3.69", + "title": "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1911.The_World_Is_Flat", + "year": "2006" + }, + "Think and Grow Rich": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Landmark-Bestseller/dp/1585424331", + "author": "Napoleon Hill", + "category": "Startups and Business", + "description": "This is the original 1937 version of Napoleon Hill's Classic Book: Think and Grow Rich. To the greatest extent possible, the text and formatting have been kept exactly the same as in the original release with the exception of some minor formatting changes.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1463241782l/30186948._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": null, + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "233", + "rating": "4.18", + "title": "Think and Grow Rich", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30186948-think-and-grow-rich", + "year": "2016" + }, + "Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Shakespeare-How-Directors-Comfortable/dp/1411498720", + "author": "Barry Edelstein.", + "category": "Shakespeare", + "description": "", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1356462494l/1334872._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "1411498720", + "lang": null, + "pages": "455", + "rating": "4.60", + "title": "Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1334872.Thinking_Shakespeare", + "year": "2007" + }, + "Thinking, Fast and Slow": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555", + "author": "Daniel Kahneman", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities\u2014and also the faults and biases\u2014of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation\u2014each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives\u2014and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about thinking.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1317793965l/11468377._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0374275637", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "499", + "rating": "4.16", + "title": "Thinking, Fast and Slow", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow", + "year": "2011" + }, + "This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/This-Will-Make-You-Smarter-ebook/dp/B005LC1OR0", + "author": "John Brockman", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "Featuring a foreword by David Brooks,\u00a0This Will Make You Smarter\u00a0presents brilliant\u2014but accessible\u2014ideas to expand every mind.What scientific concept would improve everybody\u2019s cognitive toolkit?\u00a0This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world\u2019s most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and enlightening, these insights will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the world.Contributors include:Daniel Kahneman on the \u201cfocusing illusion\u201dJonah Lehrer on controlling attentionRichard Dawkins on experimentationAubrey De Grey on conquering our fear of the unknownMartin Seligman on the ingredients of well-beingNicholas Carr on managing \u201ccognitive load\u201dSteven Pinker on win-win negotiatingDaniel Goleman on understanding our connection to the natural worldMatt Ridley on tapping collective intelligenceLisa Randall on effective theorizingBrian Eno on \u201cecological vision\u201dJ. Craig Venter on the multiple possible origins of life \u00a0Helen Fisher on temperamentSam Harris on the flow of thoughtLawrence Krauss on living with uncertainty", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0062109391", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "399", + "rating": "3.80", + "title": "This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13035774-this-will-make-you-smarter", + "year": "2012" + }, + "Tomorrowland: Our Staggering Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Tomorrowland-Journey-Science-Fiction-Fact-ebook/dp/B00O4IA82E", + "author": "Steven Kotler", + "category": "Science and Medicine", + "description": "New York Times, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, Discover bestselling author Steven Kotler has written extensively about those pivotal moments when science fiction became science fact\u2026and fundamentally reshaped the world. Now he gathers the best of his best, updated and expanded upon, to guide readers on a mind-bending tour of the far frontier, and how these advances are radically transforming our lives. From the ways science and technology are fundamentally altering our bodies and our world (the world\u2019s first bionic soldier, the future of evolution) to those explosive collisions between science and culture (life extension and bioweapons), we\u2019re crossing moral and ethical lines we\u2019ve never faced before.As Kotler writes, \u201cLife is tricky sport\u2014and that's the emotional core of this story, the real reason we can\u2019t put Pandora back in the box. When you strip everything else away, technology is nothing more than the promise of an easier tomorrow. It\u2019s the promise of hope. And how do you stop hope?\u201dJoin Kotler in this fascinating exploration of our incredible next: a deep dive into those future technologies happening now\u2014and what it means to be a part of this brave new world.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1425370438l/25060233._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": null, + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "288", + "rating": "3.75", + "title": "Tomorrowland: Our Staggering Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact", + "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25060233-tomorrowland", + "year": "2015" + }, + "Too Big to Fail": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Too-Big-Fail-Washington-System/dp/0143118242", + "author": "Andrew Ross Sorkin", + "category": "Startups and Business", + "description": "Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world\u2019s economy. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to get some foam down on the runway!\u201d a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York, would tell Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the world\u2019s financial system would experience. Through unprecedented access to the players involved, Too Big to Fail re-creates all the drama and turmoil, revealing neverdisclosed details and elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the debacle. This true story is not just a look at banks that were \u201ctoo big to fail,\u201d it is a real-life thriller with a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were too big to fail.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0670021253", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "600", + "rating": "4.13", + "title": "Too Big to Fail", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6687247-too-big-to-fail", + "year": "2009" + }, + "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Unbroken-World-Survival-Resilience-Redemption/dp/0812974492", + "author": "Laura Hillenbrand", + "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", + "description": "\nIn her long-awaited new book, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit. Telling an unforgettable story of a man's journey into extremity, Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit.\nOn a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.The lieutenant\u2019s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he'd been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327861115l/8664353._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "1400064163", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "492", + "rating": "4.37", + "title": "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8664353-unbroken", + "year": "2010" + }, + "Utilitarianism": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Utilitarianism-Problems-Philosophy-Geoffrey-Scarre/dp/0415121973", + "author": "Geoffrey Scarre", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder. The speech is significant both because its topic remains timely and because its arguments illustrate the applicability of the principle of utility to questions of large-scale social policy.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1405624617l/584637._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "087220605X", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "71", + "rating": "3.66", + "title": "Utilitarianism", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3807762-utilitarianism", + "year": "2002" + }, + "Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Vagabonding-Uncommon-Guide-Long-Term-Travel/dp/0812992180", + "author": "Rolf Potts", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life - from six weeks to four months to two years - to discover and experience the world on your own terms. Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. Potts gives the necessary information on:- financing your travel time - determining your destination - adjusting to life on the road- working and volunteering overseas - handling travel adversity - re-assimilating back into ordinary lifeNot just a plan of action, vagabonding is an outlook on life that emphasizes creativity, discovery, and the growth of the spirit. Visit the vagabonding community's hub at www.vagabonding.net.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320532720l/100247._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0812992180", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "205", + "rating": "3.94", + "title": "Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100247.Vagabonding", + "year": "2002" + }, + "War and Peace": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Vintage-Classics-Tolstoy/dp/1400079985", + "author": "Leo Tolstoy", + "category": "Classics", + "description": "In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `a complete picture', as a contemporary reviewer put it, `of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation'. Tolstoy gave his personal approval to this translation, published here in a new single volume edition, which includes an introduction by Henry Gifford, and Tolstoy's important essay `Some Words about War and Peace'.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1413215930l/656._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": null, + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "1392", + "rating": "4.12", + "title": "War and Peace", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace", + "year": "1998" + }, + "Watership Down: A Novel": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Watership-Down-Novel-Richard-Adams/dp/0743277708", + "author": "Richard Adams", + "category": "Classics", + "description": "Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 29. Chapters: Watership Down, Bunnies & Burrows, List of Watership Down characters, Shardik, Maia, The Plague Dogs, Traveller, Bright Eyes, Tales from Watership Down, Lapine language, The Girl in a Swing. Excerpt: Watership Down is a heroic fantasy novel about a small group of rabbits, written by English author Richard Adams. Although the animals in the story live in their natural environment, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language (Lapine), proverbs, poetry, and mythology. Evoking epic themes, the novel recounts the rabbits' odyssey as they escape the destruction of their warren to seek a place in which to establish a new home, encountering perils and temptations along the way. The novel takes its name from the rabbits' destination, Watership Down, a hill in the north of Hampshire, England, near the area where Adams grew up. The story is based on a collection of tales that Adams told to his young children to pass the time on trips to the countryside. Published in 1972, Watership Down was Richard Adams' first novel, and is by far his most successful to date. Although it was initially rejected by thirteen publishers before eventually being accepted by Rex Collings Ltd, Watership Down has never been out of print, and was the recipient of several prestigious awards. Adapted into an acclaimed classic film and a television series, it is Penguin Books' best-selling novel of all time. In 1996, Adams published Tales from Watership Down, a follow-up collection of 19 short stories about El-ahrairah and the rabbits of the Watership Down warren. Watership Down began as a story Richard Adams told to his two daughters, Juliet and Rosamond, on a long car journey; in an interview, Adams said he \"began telling the story of the rabbits ... improvised off the top of my head, as we were d...", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "1156855411", + "lang": null, + "pages": null, + "rating": "4.33", + "title": "Watership Down: A Novel", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76620.Watership_Down", + "year": "2011" + }, + "What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/What-Name-This-Book-Recreational/dp/0486481980", + "author": "Raymond M. Smullyan", + "category": "Logic and Problem Solving", + "description": "\"The most original, most profound, and most humorous collection of recreational logic and math problems ever written.\" \u2014 Martin Gardner, Scientific American\"The value of the book lies in the wealth of ingenious puzzles. They afford amusement, vigorous exercise, and instruction.\" \u2014 Willard Van Orman Quine, The New York Times Book ReviewIf you're intrigued by puzzles and paradoxes, these 200 mind-bending logic puzzles, riddles, and diversions will thrill you with challenges to your powers of reason and common sense. Raymond M. Smullyan \u2014 a celebrated mathematician, logician, magician, and author \u2014 presents a logical labyrinth of more than 200 increasingly complex problems. The puzzles delve into G\u00f6del's undecidability theorem and other examples of the deepest paradoxes of logic and set theory. Detailed solutions follow each puzzle.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328862003l/10380491._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0486481980", + "lang": "en-GB", + "pages": "256", + "rating": "4.24", + "title": "What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493576.What_Is_the_Name_of_This_Book_", + "year": "2011" + }, + "What the Dog Saw: and other adventures": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/What-Dog-Saw-Other-Adventures/dp/0316076201", + "author": "Malcolm Gladwell", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw, he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from The New Yorker over the same period. Here you'll find the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling creations of pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen, as he sells rotisserie ovens, and divines the secrets of Cesar Millan, the \"dog whisperer\" who can calm savage animals with the touch of his hand. He explores intelligence tests and ethnic profiling and why it was that employers in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1344263875l/6516450._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0316078573", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "444", + "rating": "3.85", + "title": "What the Dog Saw: and other adventures", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6516450-what-the-dog-saw-and-other-adventures", + "year": "2009" + }, + "Where Good Ideas Come From": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Where-Good-Ideas-Come-Innovation/dp/1594485380", + "author": "Steven Johnson", + "category": "Startups and Business", + "description": "The printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery--these are all great ideas. But where do they come from? What kind of environment breeds them? What sparks the flash of brilliance? How do we generate the breakthrough technologies that push forward our lives, our society, our culture? Steven Johnson's answers are revelatory as he identifies the seven key patterns behind genuine innovation, and traces them across time and disciplines. From Darwin and Freud to the halls of Google and Apple, Johnson investigates the innovation hubs throughout modern time and pulls out the approaches and commonalities that seem to appear at moments of originality.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1311705993l/8034188._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "1594487715", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "326", + "rating": "4.03", + "title": "Where Good Ideas Come From", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8034188-where-good-ideas-come-from", + "year": "2010" + }, + "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Who-Says-Elephants-Cant-Dance/dp/B001MZKXVI", + "author": "Louis V Gerstner, Jr", + "category": "Startups and Business", + "description": "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? sums up Lou Gerstner's historic business achievement, bringing IBM back from the brink of insolvency to lead the computer business once again.Offering a unique case study drawn from decades of experience at some of America's top companies -- McKinsey, American Express, RJR Nabisco -- Gerstner's insights into management and leadership are applicable to any business, at any level. Ranging from strategy to public relations, from finance to organization, Gerstner reveals the lessons of a lifetime running highly successful companies.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0060523808", + "lang": "en-US", + "pages": "304", + "rating": "3.92", + "title": "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/603985.Who_Says_Elephants_Can_t_Dance_", + "year": "2003" + }, + "Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Why-Does-World-Exist-Existential/dp/0871403595", + "author": "Jim Holt", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "\"Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?\" remains the darkest and most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Following in the footsteps of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose, and even Stephen Hawking, Jim Holt now enters this fractious debate with his lively and deeply informed narrative that traces the latest efforts to grasp the origins of the universe. The slyly humorous Holt takes on the role of cosmological detective, suggesting that we might have been too narrow in limiting our suspects to Yahweh vs. the Big Bang. Tracking down an eccentric Oxford philosopher, a Physics Nobel Laureate, a French Buddhist monk who lived with the Dalai Lama, and John Updike just before he died, Holt pursues unexplored angles to this cosmic puzzle. As he pieces together a solution--one that sheds new light on the question of God and the meaning of existence--he offers brisk philosophical asides on time and eternity, consciousness, and the arithmetic of nothingness.\u201cThe pleasure of this book is watching the match: the staggeringly inventive human mind slamming its fantastic conjectures over the net, the universe coolly returning every serve.... Holt traffics in wonder, a word whose dual meanings\u2014the absence of answers; the experience of awe\u2014strike me as profoundly related. His book is not utilitarian. You can\u2019t profit from it, at least not in the narrow sense.... And yet it does what real science writing should: It helps us feel the fullness of the problem.\u201d (Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine)\" Jim Holt leaves us with the question Stephen Hawking once asked but couldn't answer, \u2018Why does the universe go through all the bother of existing?\u2019\u201d (Ron Rosenbaum, Slate )", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1343924778l/8854815._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0871404095", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "279", + "rating": "3.79", + "title": "Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story", + "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8854815-why-does-the-world-exist", + "year": "2012" + }, + "Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Why-Smart-People-Can-Stupid/dp/0300101708", + "author": "Robert J Sternberg", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "One need not look far to find breathtaking acts of stupidity committed by people who are smart, or even brilliant. The behavior of smart individuals\u2014from presidents to prosecutors to professors\u2014is at times so amazingly stupid as to seem inexplicable. Why do otherwise intelligent people think and behave in ways so stupid that they sometimes destroy their livelihoods or even their lives?This book is the first devoted to investigating what the most current psychological research can tell us about stupidity in everyday life. The contributors to the volume, renowned scholars in various areas of human intelligence, present fascinating examples of people messing up their lives, and they offer insights into the reasons for such behavior. From a variety of perspectives, the contributors discuss:\u2022 The nature and theory of stupidity\u2022 How stupidity contributes to stupid behavior\u2022 Whether stupidity is measurableWhile many millions of dollars are spent each year on intelligence research and testing to determine who has the ability to succeed, next to nothing is spent to determine who will make use of their intelligence and not squander it by behaving stupidly. Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid focuses on the neglected side of this discussion, reviewing the full range of theory and research on stupid behavior and analyzing what it tells us about how people can avoid stupidity and its devastating consequences.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0300101708", + "lang": null, + "pages": "272", + "rating": "3.62", + "title": "Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300300.Why_Smart_People_Can_Be_So_Stupid", + "year": "2003" + }, + "Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Make-Mistakes-Without/dp/0767928067", + "author": "Joseph T. Hallinan", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "We forget our passwords. We pay too much to go to the gym. We think we'd be happier if we lived in California (we wouldn't), and we think we should stick with our first answer on tests (we shouldn't). Why do we make mistakes? And could we do a little better?We human beings have design flaws. Our eyes play tricks on us; our stories change in the retelling; and most of us are fairly sure we\u2019re way above average. In Why We Make Mistakes, journalist Joseph T. Hallinan sets out to explore the captivating science of human error\u2014how we think, see, remember, and forget, and how this sets us up for wholly irresistible mistakes.In his quest to understand our imperfections, Hallinan delves into psychology, neuroscience, and economics, with forays into aviation, consumer behavior, geography, football, stock picking, and more. He discovers that some of the same qualities that make us efficient also make us error prone. Why We Make Mistakes is enlivened by real-life stories--of weathermen whose predictions are uncannily accurate and a witness who sent an innocent man to jail--and offers valuable advice, such as how to remember where you\u2019ve hidden something important. He explains why multitasking is a bad idea, why men make errors women don\u2019t, and why most people mistakenly believe San Diego is west of Reno. Why We Make Mistakes will open your eyes to the reasons behind your mistakes and have you vowing to do better the next time.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1412952226l/5040579._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0767928059", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "221", + "rating": "3.91", + "title": "Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5040579-why-we-make-mistakes", + "year": "2009" + }, + "Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Why-West-Rules-Now-Patterns/dp/0312611692", + "author": "Ian Morris", + "category": "History", + "description": "A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West\u2019s rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of China and India spells the end of the West as a superpower. In order to understand this possibility, we need to look back in time. Why has the West dominated the globe for the past two hundred years, and will its power last?Describing the patterns of human history, the archaeologist and historian Ian Morris offers surprising new answers to both questions. It is not, he reveals, differences of race or culture, or even the strivings of great individuals, that explain Western dominance. It is the effects of geography on the everyday efforts of ordinary people as they deal with crises of resources, disease, migration, and climate. As geography and human ingenuity continue to interact, the world will change in astonishing ways, transforming Western rule in the process.Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, Why the West Rules\u2014for Now spans fifty thousand years of history and offers fresh insights on nearly every page. The book brings together the latest findings across disciplines\u2014from ancient history to neuroscience\u2014not only to explain why the West came to rule the world but also to predict what the future will bring in the next hundred years.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1363862405l/9491855._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "1429977043", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "768", + "rating": "4.11", + "title": "Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9491855-why-the-west-rules-for-now", + "year": "2010" + }, + "Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Rediscovering-Greatest-Human-Strength/dp/0143122231", + "author": "Ron P. Baumeister, John Tierney", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": " One of the world's most esteemed and influential psychologists, Roy F. Baumeister, teams with New York Times science writer John Tierney to reveal the secrets of self-control and how to master it. In Willpower, the pioneering researcher Roy F. Baumeister collaborates with renowned New York Times science writer John Tierney to revolutionize our understanding of the most coveted human virtue: self-control.In what became one of the most cited papers in social science literature, Baumeister discovered that willpower actually operates like a muscle: it can be strengthened with practice and fatigued by overuse. Willpower is fueled by glucose, and it can be bolstered simply by replenishing the brain's store of fuel. That's why eating and sleeping- and especially failing to do either of those-have such dramatic effects on self-control (and why dieters have such a hard time resisting temptation).Baumeister's latest research shows that we typically spend four hours every day resisting temptation. No wonder people around the world rank a lack of self-control as their biggest weakness. Willpower looks to the lives of entrepreneurs, parents, entertainers, and artists-including David Blaine, Eric Clapton, and others-who have flourished by improving their self-control.The lessons from their stories and psychologists' experiments can help anyone. You learn not only how to build willpower but also how to conserve it for crucial moments by setting the right goals and using the best new techniques for monitoring your progress. Once you master these techniques and establish the right habits, willpower gets easier: you'll need less conscious mental energy to avoid temptation. That's neither magic nor empty self-help sloganeering, but rather a solid path to a better life.Combining the best of modern social science with practical wisdom, Baumeister and Tierney here share the definitive compendium of modern lessons in willpower. As our society has moved away from the virtues of thrift and self-denial, it often feels helpless because we face more temptations than ever. But we also have more knowledge and better tools for taking control of our lives. However we define happiness-a close- knit family, a satisfying career, financial security-we won't reach it without mastering self-control.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "1594203075", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "291", + "rating": "3.97", + "title": "Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11104933-willpower", + "year": "2011" + }, + "Wings of Fire": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Wings-Fire-Autobiography-Abdul-Kalam/dp/8173711461", + "author": "A.P.J. Abdul Kalam", + "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", + "description": "Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, the son of a little-educated boat-owner in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, had an unparalleled career as a defence scientist, culminating in the highest civilian award of India, the Bharat Ratna. As chief of the country's defence research and development programme, Kalam demonstrated the great potential for dynamism and innovation that existed in seemingly moribund research establishments. This is the story of Kalam's rise from obscurity and his personal and professional struggles, as well as the story of Agni, Prithvi, Akash, Trishul and Nag-missiles that have become household names in India and that have raised the nation to the level of a missile power of international reckoning. This is also the saga of independent India's struggle for technological self-sufficiency and defensive autonomy-a story as much about politics, domestic and international, as it is about science.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1588286863l/634583._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "8173711461", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": null, + "rating": "4.25", + "title": "Wings of Fire", + "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634583.Wings_of_Fire", + "year": "2011" + }, + "Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Wounded-School-Recapturing-Learning-Standing/dp/0807749559", + "author": "Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer", + "category": "Education", + "description": "While reformers and policymakers focus on achievement gaps, testing, and accountability, millions of students mentally and emotionally disengage from learning and many gifted teachers leave the field. Ironically, today's schooling is damaging the single most essential component to education--the joy of learningHow do we recognize the wounds caused by outdated schooling policies? How do we heal them? In her controversial new book, education writer and critic Kirsten Olson brings to light the devastating consequences of an educational approach that values conformity over creativity, flattens students' interests, and dampens down differences among learners. Drawing on deeply emotional stories, Olson shows that current institutional structures do not produce the kinds of minds and thinking that society really needs. Instead, the system tends to shame, disable, and bore many learners. Most importantly, she presents the experiences of wounded learners who have healed and shows what teachers, parents, and students can do right now to help themselves stay healthy.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0807749559", + "lang": null, + "pages": "222", + "rating": "3.98", + "title": "Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6425208-wounded-by-school", + "year": "2009" + }, + "Wuthering Heights": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Wuthering-Heights-Wordsworth-Classics-Bronte/dp/1853260010", + "author": "Emily Bronte", + "category": "Classics", + "description": "You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE.This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.New to the fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of Wuthering Heights as well as the evolution of the 1850 edition, prose and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and Edward Chitham's insightful and informative chronology of the creative process behind the beloved work.Five major critical interpretations of Wuthering Heights are included, three of them new to the Fourth Edition. A Stuart Daley considers the importance of chronology in the novel. J. Hillis Miller examines Wuthering Heights's problems of genre and critical reputation. Sandra M. Gilbert assesses the role of Victorian Christianity plays in the novel, while Martha Nussbaum traces the novel's romanticism. Finally, Lin Haire-Sargeant scrutinizes the role of Heathcliff in film adaptations of Wuthering Heights. A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1587655304l/6185._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0393978893", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "464", + "rating": "3.86", + "title": "Wuthering Heights", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6185.Wuthering_Heights", + "year": "2002" + }, + "Xeelee Sequence": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Xeelee-Stephen-Baxter/dp/0575090413", + "author": "Stephen Baxter", + "category": "Miscellaneous", + "description": "Alternate-cover edition can be found here Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence. A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as strong as the gravity we know. Somehow the crew survived, aided by the fact that they emerged into a cloud of gas surrounding a black hole, which provided a breathable atmosphere. Five hundred years later, their descendants still struggle for existence, divided into two main groups. The Miners live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star, which they excavate for raw materials. These can be traded for food from the Raft, a structure built from the wreckage of the ship, on which a small group of scientists preserve the ancient knowledge which makes survival possible. Rees is a Miner whose curiosity about his world makes him stow away on a flying tree\u2014just one of the many strange local lifeforms\u2014carrying trade between the Belt and the Raft.", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0586210911", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "251", + "rating": "3.71", + "title": "Xeelee Sequence", + "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/series/49784-xeelee-sequence", + "year": "1992" + }, + "You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/You-Just-Dont-Understand-Conversation/dp/0060959622", + "author": "Deborah Tannen", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "From the author of\u00a0New York Times bestseller\u00a0You're Wearing That?\u00a0this bestselling classic work draws upon groundbreaking research by an acclaimed sociolinguist to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words.Women and men live in different worlds...made of different words.Spending nearly four years on the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestseller list, including eight months at number one,\u00a0You Just Don't Understand\u00a0is a true cultural and intellectual phenomenon. This is the book that brought gender differences in ways of speaking to the forefront of public awareness. With a rare combination of scientific insight and delightful, humorous writing, Tannen shows why women and men can walk away from the same conversation with completely different impressions of what was said.Studded with lively and entertaining examples of real conversations, this book gives you the tools to understand what went wrong -- and to find a common language in which to strengthen relationships at work and at home. A classic in the field of interpersonal relations, this book will change forever the way you approach conversations.\u00a0", + "image_url": "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png", + "isbn": "0060959622", + "lang": "en-US", + "pages": "352", + "rating": "3.87", + "title": "You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147222.You_Just_Don_t_Understand", + "year": "2007" + }, + "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Mind-Beginners-Informal-Meditation-ebook/dp/B00I8USOM0", + "author": "Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick", + "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", + "description": "\u201cIn the beginner\u2019s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert\u2019s there are few.\u201d So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what it\u2019s all about. An instant teaching on the first page. And that\u2019s just the beginning.In the forty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner\u2019s Mind has become one of the great modern Zen classics, much beloved, much reread, and much recommended as the best first book to read on Zen. Suzuki Roshi presents the basics\u2014from the details of posture and breathing in zazen to the perception of nonduality\u2014in a way that is not only remarkably clear, but that also resonates with the joy of insight from the first to the last page. It\u2019s a book to come back to time and time again as an inspiration to practice, and it is now available to a new generation of seekers in this fortieth anniversary edition, with a new afterword by Shunryu Suzuki\u2019s biographer, David Chadwick.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1392992935l/402843._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0834800799", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "138", + "rating": "4.22", + "title": "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402843.Zen_Mind_Beginner_s_Mind", + "year": "1973" + }, + "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry/dp/0060589469", + "author": "Robert M. Pirsig", + "category": "Classics", + "description": "Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a meditation on how to live better set around the narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest, undertaken by a father & his young son.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1410136019l/629._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0060589469", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "540", + "rating": "3.77", + "title": "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/629.Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance", + "year": "2006" + }, + "Zero to One": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296", + "author": "Peter Thiel, Blake Masters", + "category": "Startups and Business", + "description": "If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we\u2019re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won\u2019t make a search engine. Tomorrow\u2019s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today\u2019s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique. Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1414347376l/18050143._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0804139296", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "195", + "rating": "4.17", + "title": "Zero to One", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050143-zero-to-one", + "year": "2014" + }, + "iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It": { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/iWoz-Computer-Invented-Personal-Co-Founded/dp/0393330435", + "author": "Steve Wozniak", + "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", + "description": "\"iWoz traces the life and times of a brilliant, gifted... individual whose contributions to the scientific, business and cultural realms are extensive.\"\u2014BookpageBefore slim laptops that fit into briefcases, computers looked like strange, alien vending machines. But in \"the most staggering burst of technical invention by a single person in high-tech history\" (BusinessWeek\u200b) Steve Wozniak invented the first true personal computer. Wozniak teamed up with Steve Jobs, and Apple Computer was born, igniting the computer revolution and transforming the world. Here, thirty years later, the mischievous genius with the low profile treats readers to a rollicking, no-holds-barred account of his life\u2014for once, in the voice of the wizard himself.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1463005799l/798635._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0393330435", + "lang": "en-US", + "pages": "313", + "rating": "3.85", + "title": "iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It", + "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/798635.iWoz", + "year": "2007" } -] \ No newline at end of file +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/utils/books.json b/utils/books.json index a36fdb3..e8fa62f 100644 --- a/utils/books.json +++ b/utils/books.json @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -{ - "1984": { +[ + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/1984-Signet-Classics-George-Orwell/dp/0451524934", "author": "George Orwell", "category": "Classics", @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40961427-1984", "year": "2013" }, - "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Things-They-Dont-About-Capitalism/dp/1608193381", "author": "Ha-Joon Chang", "category": "Economics", @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8913542-23-things-they-don-t-tell-you-about-capitalism", "year": "2011" }, - "8 Weeks to Optimum Health": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Weeks-Optimum-Health-Program-Advantage/dp/034549802X", "author": "Andrew Weil", "category": "Health", @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37124.8_Weeks_to_Optimum_Health", "year": "" }, - "A Brief History of Time": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Time-Stephen-Hawking/dp/0553380168", "author": "Stephen Hawking", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3869.A_Brief_History_of_Time", "year": "1998" }, - "A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Alms-Economic-History-Princeton/dp/0691141282", "author": "Gregory Clark", "category": "Economics", @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150437.A_Farewell_to_Alms", "year": "2007" }, - "A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science even If You Flunked Algebra": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Numbers-Science-Flunked-Algebra/dp/039916524X", "author": "Barbara Oakley", "category": "Logic and Problem Solving", @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693655-a-mind-for-numbers", "year": "2014" }, - "A Practical Handbook for the Actor": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Handbook-Actor-Melissa-Bruder/dp/0394744128", "author": "Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet", "category": "Theater and Film", @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166207.A_Practical_Handbook_for_the_Actor", "year": "1986" }, - "A Prayer for Owen Meany": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Prayer-Owen-Meany-John-Irving/dp/006220422X", "author": "John Irving", "category": "Classics", @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4473.A_Prayer_for_Owen_Meany", "year": "1990" }, - "A Short History of Nearly Everything": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/076790818X", "author": "Bill Bryson", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21.A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything", "year": "2004" }, - "A Song of Ice and Fire": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Song-Ice-Fire-Volumes/dp/0007477155", "author": "George R.R. 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"Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups Early Days": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/dp/1430210788", "author": "Jessica Livingston", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -1133,7 +1133,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98233.Founders_at_Work", "year": "2007" }, - "Frankenstein": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Frankenstein-Penguin-classics-Mary-Shelley/dp/014043237X", "author": "Mary Shelley, Maurice Hindle", "category": "Horror", @@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490.Frankenstein", "year": "2018" }, - "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Freakonomics-Economist-Explores-Hidden-Everything/dp/0060731338", "author": "Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -1161,7 +1161,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1202.Freakonomics", "year": "2006" }, - "Freedom in Exile": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Exile-Autobiography-Holiness-Transaction/dp/1850895317", "author": "Dalai Lama XIV", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -1175,7 +1175,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567720.Freedom_in_Exile", "year": "1991" }, - "From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Decadence-Present-Western-Cultural/dp/0060928832", "author": "Jacques Barzun", "category": "History", @@ -1189,7 +1189,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58233.From_Dawn_to_Decadence", "year": "2001" }, - "Future Crimes": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Future-Crimes-Digital-Underground-Connected/dp/0804171459", "author": "Marc Goodman", "category": "Miscellaneous", @@ -1203,7 +1203,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22318398-future-crimes?from_search=true", "year": "2015" }, - "Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Game-Change-Clintons-McCain-Lifetime/dp/0061733644", "author": "John Heilemann, Mark Halperin", "category": "Politics", @@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6694937-game-change", "year": "2010" }, - "Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Games-People-Play-Transactional-Analysis/dp/0345410033", "author": "Eric Berne.", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -1231,7 +1231,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49176.Games_People_Play", "year": "" }, - "Germinal": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Germinal-Penguin-Classics-%C3%89mile-Zola/dp/0140447423", "author": "Emile Zola", "category": "Classics", @@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28407.Germinal", "year": "2004" }, - "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0142000280", "author": "David Allen", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -1259,7 +1259,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633.Getting_Things_Done", "year": "2002" }, - "Ghost Fleet": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Fleet-Novel-Next-World/dp/054470505X", "author": "P.W. 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"How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-Mathematical-Princeton-Science/dp/069111966X", "author": "George Polya", "category": "Logic and Problem Solving", @@ -1631,7 +1631,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192221.How_to_Solve_It", "year": "2015" }, - "How to Stop Acting": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/How-Stop-Acting-Revolutionary-Developing/dp/0571199992", "author": "Harold Guskin", "category": "Theater and Film", @@ -1645,7 +1645,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/808735.How_to_Stop_Acting", "year": "2003" }, - "How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Every-Argument-Abuse/dp/147252912X", "author": "Madsen Pirie", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -1659,7 +1659,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112731.How_to_Win_Every_Argument", "year": "2006" }, - "How to Win Friends and Influence People": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671027034", "author": "Dale Carnegie", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -1673,7 +1673,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4865.How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People", "year": "1998" }, - 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Dennett", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -1827,7 +1827,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18378002-intuition-pumps-and-other-tools-for-thinking", "year": "2014" }, - "Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Irrational-Man-Study-Existential-Philosophy/dp/0385031386", "author": "William Barrett", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -1841,7 +1841,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83321.Irrational_Man", "year": "1962" }, - "J'accuse": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/J-accuse-Emile-Zola-French/dp/1654172154", "author": "Emile Zola", "category": "Classics", @@ -1855,7 +1855,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816964.J_accuse", "year": "1998" }, - "Jane Eyre": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Jane-Eyre-Charlotte-Bronte/dp/1503278190", "author": "Charlotte Bront\u00eb", "category": "Classics", @@ -1869,7 +1869,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10210.Jane_Eyre", "year": "2003" }, - "Jonathan Livingston Seagull": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Livingston-Seagull-Richard-Bach/dp/0743278909", "author": "Richard Bach", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -1883,7 +1883,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71728.Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull", "year": "2006" }, - "Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Just-Arguments-Important-Western-Philosophy/dp/1444336371", "author": "Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -1897,7 +1897,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12838972-just-the-arguments", "year": "2011" }, - "Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Whats-Right-Thing-Do/dp/0374532508", "author": "Michael J. Sandel", "category": "Politics", @@ -1911,7 +1911,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452731-justice", "year": "2009" }, - "Kane and Abel": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Kane-Abel-Jeffrey-Archer/dp/0312942729", "author": "Jeffrey Archer", "category": "Historical Fiction", @@ -1925,7 +1925,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78983.Kane_and_Abel", "year": "2004" }, - "Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Underground/dp/0307588696", "author": "Kevin Poulson", "category": "History", @@ -1939,7 +1939,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9319468-kingpin", "year": "2011" }, - "Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Labyrinths-Reason-Paradox-Puzzles-Knowledge/dp/0385242719", "author": "William Poundstone", "category": "Logic and Problem Solving", @@ -1953,7 +1953,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55436.Labyrinths_of_Reason", "year": "1989" }, - "Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Ton-Beau-Marot-Praise-Language/dp/0465086454", "author": "Douglas R. Hofstadter", "category": "Language", @@ -1967,7 +1967,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248193.Le_Ton_beau_de_Marot", "year": "1998" }, - "Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Lead": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Women-Work-Will-Lead/dp/0385349947", "author": "Sheryl Sandberg", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -1981,7 +1981,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071764-lean-in", "year": "2013" }, - "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Leaving-Microsoft-Change-World-Entrepreneurs-ebook/dp/B000UOJU16", "author": "John Wood", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -1995,7 +1995,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95429.Leaving_Microsoft_to_Change_the_World", "year": "2006" }, - "Letters From The Earth": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Earth-Uncensored-Writings-Perennial/dp/0060518650", "author": "Mark Twain", "category": "Classics", @@ -2009,7 +2009,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37813.Letters_from_the_Earth", "year": "2004" }, - "Lettres persanes": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Lettres-Persanes-French-Montesquieu/dp/2253082228", "author": "Montesquieu", "category": "Classics", @@ -2023,7 +2023,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509686.Persian_Letters", "year": "2006" }, - "Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Life-Speed-Light-Double-Digital-ebook/dp/B00C1N5WRK", "author": "J. Craig Venter", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -2037,7 +2037,7 @@ "url": "www.goodreads.com/book/show/17674969-life-at-the-speed-of-light", "year": "" }, - "Linchpin: Are You Indispensable": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Linchpin-Are-Indispensable-Seth-Godin/dp/1591844096", "author": "Seth Godin", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -2051,7 +2051,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7155145-linchpin", "year": "2010" }, - "Little Brother": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Little-Brother-Cory-Doctorow/dp/0765323117", "author": "Cory Doctorow", "category": "Science Fiction", @@ -2065,7 +2065,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/954674.Little_Brother", "year": "2008" }, - "Lonesome Dove": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Lonesome-Dove-Novel-Larry-McMurtry/dp/1439195269", "author": "Larry McMurtry", "category": "Historical Fiction", @@ -2079,7 +2079,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256008.Lonesome_Dove", "year": "1999" }, - "Long Walk to Freedom": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Long-Walk-Freedom-Autobiography-Mandela/dp/0316548189", "author": "Nelson Mandela", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -2093,7 +2093,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318431.Long_Walk_to_Freedom", "year": "1995" }, - "Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Losing-My-Virginity-Survived-Business/dp/0307720748", "author": "Richard Branson", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -2107,7 +2107,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211099.Losing_My_Virginity", "year": "" }, - "Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Losing-My-Virginity-Survived-Business/dp/0307720748", "author": "Richard Branson", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -2121,7 +2121,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9533705-losing-my-virginity", "year": "1999" }, - "Love in the Time of Cholera": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Love-Time-Cholera-Oprahs-Book/dp/0307389731", "author": "Gabriel Garc\u00eda Marqu\u00e9z", "category": "Classics", @@ -2135,7 +2135,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9712.Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera", "year": "2003" }, - "Madame Bovary": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Madame-Bovary-Classics-Gustave-Flaubert/dp/0553213415", "author": "Gustave Flaubert", "category": "Classics", @@ -2149,7 +2149,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2175.Madame_Bovary", "year": "2004" }, - "Madame Curie: A Biography": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Madame-Curie-Biography-Eve-Illustrated/dp/B001CXRG24", "author": "Marie Curie", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -2163,7 +2163,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341166.Madame_Curie", "year": "2001" }, - "Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Make-Stick-Science-Successful-Learning/dp/0674729013", "author": "Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel", "category": "Education", @@ -2177,7 +2177,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18770267.make-it-stick", "year": "2014" }, - "Man's Search for Meaning": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/080701429X", "author": "Viktor E. Frankl", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2191,7 +2191,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning", "year": "2006" }, - "Mansfield Park": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mansfield-Park-French-Jane-Austen-ebook/dp/B00XJRDG0C", "author": "Jane Austen", "category": "Classics", @@ -2205,7 +2205,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45032", "year": "2003" }, - "Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mazes-Mind-Unexpected-Clifford-Pickover/dp/0312103530", "author": "Clifford A. Pickover", "category": "Logic and Problem Solving", @@ -2219,7 +2219,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1986400.Mazes_for_the_Mind", "year": "1992" }, - "Meditations": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Marcus-Aurelius/dp/1503280462", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2233,7 +2233,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30659.Meditations", "year": "2006" }, - "Memory Man": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Man-Book-ebook/dp/B00N7TDP8K", "author": "David Baldacci", "category": "Mystery", @@ -2247,7 +2247,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23153154-memory-man", "year": "2015" }, - "Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Metamagical-Themas-Questing-Essence-Pattern/dp/0465045669", "author": "Douglas Hofstadter", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2261,7 +2261,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181239.Metamagical_Themas", "year": "1996" }, - "Metaphors We Live By": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Metaphors-We-Live-George-Lakoff/dp/0226468011", "author": "George Lakoff, Mark Johnson", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2275,7 +2275,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34459.Metaphors_We_Live_By", "year": "2003" }, - "Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Children-Future-Robot-Intelligence/dp/0674576187", "author": "Hans Moravec.", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -2289,7 +2289,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/648195.Mind_Children", "year": "1990" }, - "Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Wars-Research-National-Defense/dp/1932594167", "author": "Jonathan D. Moreno", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -2303,7 +2303,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/599321.Mind_Wars", "year": "2007" }, - "Mindset: The new psychology of success": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322", "author": "Carol S. Dweck,Ph.D.", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2317,7 +2317,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40745.Mindset", "year": "2006" }, - "Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful-Ideas/dp/0465046746", "author": "Seymour A. Papert", "category": "Education", @@ -2331,21 +2331,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703532.Mindstorms", "year": "1993" }, - "Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design": { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mismatch-Inclusion-Simplicity-Technology-Business/dp/0262038889", - "author": "Kat Holmes, John Maeda", - "category": "Design", - "description": "How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. Something as simple as color choices can render a product unusable for millions. These mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion. In Mismatch, Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion. Inclusive design methods--designing objects with rather than for excluded users--can create elegant solutions that work well and benefit all.Holmes tells stories of pioneers of inclusive design, many of whom were drawn to work on inclusion because of their own experiences of exclusion. A gamer and designer who depends on voice recognition shows Holmes his \"Wall of Exclusion,\" which displays dozens of game controllers that require two hands to operate; an architect shares her firsthand knowledge of how design can fail communities, gleaned from growing up in Detroit's housing projects; an astronomer who began to lose her eyesight adapts a technique called \"sonification\" so she can \"listen\" to the stars.Designing for inclusion is not a feel-good sideline. Holmes shows how inclusion can be a source of innovation and growth, especially for digital technologies. It can be a catalyst for creativity and a boost for the bottom line as a customer base expands. And each time we remedy a mismatched interaction, we create an opportunity for more people to contribute to society in meaningful ways.", - "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1538365830l/39644200._SX98_.jpg", - "isbn": "0262038889", - "lang": null, - "pages": "176", - "rating": "4.14", - "title": "Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design", - "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39644200-mismatch", - "year": "2018" - }, - "Mistborn": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mistborn-Final-Empire-Book-No/dp/0765350386", "author": "Brandon Sanderson", "category": "Fantasy", @@ -2359,7 +2345,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/40910-mistborn", "year": "2006" }, - "Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Tribes-Emotion-Reason-Between/dp/1594202605", "author": "Joshua Greene", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2373,7 +2359,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707599-moral-tribes", "year": "2013" }, - "My Experiments with Truth": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mohandas-K-Gandhi-Autobiography-Experiments/dp/0486245934", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -2387,7 +2373,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112803.The_Story_of_My_Experiments_With_Truth", "year": "" }, - "My Life and My Work": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Work-Henry-Ford/dp/1497432251", "author": "Henry Ford", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -2401,7 +2387,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1122054.My_Life_And_Work", "year": "2007" }, - "Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Notes-Directing-Leadership-Directors-Performance/dp/080271708X", "author": "Frank Hauser, Russell Reich", "category": "Theater and Film", @@ -2415,7 +2401,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254808.Notes_on_Directing", "year": "2008" }, - "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Writing-10th-Anniversary-Memoir-Craft/dp/1439156816", "author": "Stephen King", "category": "Writing", @@ -2429,7 +2415,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10569.On_Writing", "year": "2002" }, - "One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/One-Click-Jeff-Bezos-Amazon-com/dp/1591845858", "author": "Richard Brandt", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -2443,7 +2429,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11223478-one-click", "year": "" }, - "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/One-Flew-Over-Cuckoos-Nest/dp/0451163966", "author": "Ken Kesey", "category": "Classics", @@ -2457,7 +2443,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332613.One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo_s_Nest", "year": "1963" }, - "One Hundred Years of Solitude": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Solitude-Harper-Perennial-Classics/dp/0060883286", "author": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa", "category": "Classics", @@ -2471,7 +2457,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320.One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude", "year": "2003" }, - "One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/One-Minute-Midnight-Kennedy-Khrushchev/dp/1400078911", "author": "Michael Dobbs", "category": "History", @@ -2485,7 +2471,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2606779-one-minute-to-midnight", "year": "2008" }, - "Origin of Wealth": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Origin-Wealth-Remaking-Economics-Business/dp/1422121038", "author": "Eric D. Beinhocker", "category": "Economics", @@ -2499,7 +2485,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22456.The_Origin_of_Wealth", "year": "2006" }, - "Origins of Form: The Shape of Natural and Man-Made Things": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Form-Natural-Man-made-Things_Why/dp/1589798082", "author": "Christopher Williams", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -2513,7 +2499,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16255011-origins-of-form", "year": "" }, - "Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Genius-Darwinian-Perspectives-Creativity/dp/0195128796", "author": "Dean Keith", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -2527,7 +2513,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254489.Origins_of_Genius", "year": "1999" }, - "Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Out-Control-Biology-Machines-Economic/dp/0201483408", "author": "Kevin Kelly", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -2541,7 +2527,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16080353-out-of-control", "year": "1995" }, - "Outliers: Story of Success": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930", "author": "Malcolm Gladwell", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -2555,7 +2541,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3364437-outliers-the-story-of-success", "year": "2008" }, - "Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Outsmarting-IQ-Emerging-Learnable-Intelligence/dp/0029252121", "author": "David Perkins", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2569,7 +2555,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1008488.Outsmarting_Iq", "year": "1995" }, - "Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Outwitting-Devil-Secret-Freedom-Success/dp/1469259036", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -2583,7 +2569,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10713286-outwitting-the-devil", "year": "2011" }, - "Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength (2nd edition)": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Gravity-Systematic-Gymnastics-Bodyweight/dp/0990873854", "author": "Steven Low", "category": "Health", @@ -2597,7 +2583,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33293328-overcoming-gravity", "year": "2011" }, - "Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Language-Buildings-Construction-Environmental/dp/0195019199", "author": "Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel", "category": "Design", @@ -2611,7 +2597,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79766.A_Pattern_Language", "year": "1977" }, - "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Pilgrim-Tinker-Harper-Perennial-Classics/dp/0061233323", "author": "Annie Dillard", "category": "Nature", @@ -2625,7 +2611,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12527.Pilgrim_at_Tinker_Creek", "year": "2000" }, - "Predictably Irrational": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expanded-Decisions/dp/0061353248", "author": "Dan Ariely", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2639,7 +2625,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1713426.Predictably_Irrational", "year": "2008" }, - "Pride And Prejudice": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Japanese-Jane-Austen/dp/4309462642", "author": "Jane Austen", "category": "Classics", @@ -2653,7 +2639,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1885.Pride_and_Prejudice", "year": "2000" }, - "Prisoner's Dilemma": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Dilemma-Neumann-Theory-Puzzle/dp/038541580X", "author": "William Poundstone", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2667,7 +2653,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29506.Prisoner_s_Dilemma", "year": "2009" }, - "Prometheus Rising": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Prometheus-Rising-Robert-Anton-Wilson/dp/0692710604", "author": "Robert Anton Wilson", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2681,7 +2667,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28597.Prometheus_Rising", "year": "2010" }, - "P\u00e8re Goriot": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/p%C3%A8re-Goriot-French-Honor%C3%A9-Balzac-ebook/dp/B005R5NJ1K", "author": "Honor\u00e9 de Balzac", "category": "Classics", @@ -2695,7 +2681,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59145.P_re_Goriot", "year": "1997" }, - "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking/dp/0307352153", "author": "Susan Cain", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2709,7 +2695,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8520610-quiet", "year": "2012" }, - "Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Rapt-Attention-Focused-Winifred-Gallagher/dp/0143116908", "author": "Winifred Gallagher", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2723,7 +2709,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6262510-rapt", "year": "2009" }, - "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Rare-Earth-Complex-Uncommon-Universe/dp/0387952896", "author": "Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -2737,7 +2723,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88552.Rare_Earth", "year": "2003" }, - "ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/ReWork-Change-Way-Work-Forever-ebook/dp/B003ELY7PG", "author": "David Heinemeier Hansson", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -2751,7 +2737,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6732019-rework", "year": "2010" }, - "Ready Player One": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307887448", "author": "Ernest Cline", "category": "Science Fiction", @@ -2765,7 +2751,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9969571-ready-player-one", "year": "2011" }, - "Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Resource-Wars-Landscape-Conflict-Introduction/dp/0805055762", "author": "Michael Klare", "category": "Politics", @@ -2779,7 +2765,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149206.Resource_Wars", "year": "2002" }, - "Rich Dad Poor Dad : What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Don't": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Dad-Poor-Teach-Middle/dp/1612680194", "author": "Robert T. Kiyosaki", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -2793,7 +2779,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69571.Rich_Dad_Poor_Dad", "year": "" }, - "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095", "author": "Yuval Noah Harari", "category": "History", @@ -2807,7 +2793,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23692271-sapiens", "year": "2014" }, - "Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Genius-Psychology-Dean-Simonton/dp/0521117135", "author": "Dean Keith Simonton", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -2821,7 +2807,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1752295.Scientific_Genius", "year": "1988" }, - "Sense and Sensibility": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Sense-Sensibility-Jane-Austen/dp/1503292738", "author": "Jane Austen", "category": "Classics", @@ -2835,7 +2821,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14935.Sense_and_Sensibility", "year": "2003" }, - "Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Dawn-Stray-Modern-Relationships-ebook/dp/B007679QTG", "author": "Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha", "category": "Sexuality", @@ -2849,7 +2835,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7640261-sex-at-dawn", "year": "2010" }, - "Shakespeare's Metrical Art": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Shakespeares-Metrical-Art-George-Wright/dp/0520076427", "author": "George T. Wright", "category": "Shakespeare", @@ -2863,7 +2849,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428615.Shakespeare_s_Metrical_Art", "year": "1991" }, - "Sherlock Holmes": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Complete-Novels-Stories/dp/0553212419", "author": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "category": "Mystery", @@ -2877,7 +2863,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/49996-sherlock-holmes", "year": "2005" }, - "Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Shoe-Dog-Memoir-Creator-Nike-ebook/dp/B0176M1A44", "author": "Phil Knight", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -2891,7 +2877,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27220736-shoe-dog", "year": "2016" }, - "Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Snoop-What-Your-Stuff-About/dp/0465013821", "author": "Sam Gosling", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2905,7 +2891,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1581330.Snoop", "year": "2008" }, - "Snow Crash": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0553380958", "author": "Neal Stephenson", "category": "Science Fiction", @@ -2919,7 +2905,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash", "year": "2003" }, - "Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Sophies-World-History-Philosophy-Classics/dp/0374530718", "author": "Jostein Gaarder and Paulette Moller", "category": "Historical Fiction", @@ -2933,7 +2919,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959.Sophie_s_World", "year": "2007" }, - "Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Spent-Sex-Evolution-Consumer-Behavior/dp/0143117238", "author": "Geoffrey Miller", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -2947,7 +2933,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6283340-spent", "year": "" }, - "Spycraft": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Spycraft-History-Spytechs-Communism-Al-Qaeda/dp/0452295475", "author": "Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger", "category": "History", @@ -2961,7 +2947,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/971936.Spycraft", "year": "2008" }, - "Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp/1591846447", "author": "Simon Sinek", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -2975,7 +2961,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7108725-start-with-why", "year": "2009" }, - "Steppenwolf: A Novel": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Steppenwolf-Novel-Hermann-Hesse/dp/B000A6U2HU", "author": "Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton", "category": "Classics", @@ -2989,7 +2975,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16631.Steppenwolf", "year": "2015" }, - "Steve Jobs": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1451648537", "author": "Walter Issacson", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -3003,7 +2989,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11084145-steve-jobs", "year": "2011" }, - "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Stiff-Curious-Lives-Human-Cadavers/dp/0393324826", "author": "Mary Roach", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -3017,7 +3003,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32145.Stiff", "year": "2004" }, - "Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-Their-Own-Land-Mourning-ebook/dp/B074CMNKDQ", "author": "Arlie Russell Hochschild", "category": "Politics", @@ -3031,7 +3017,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28695425-strangers-in-their-own-land", "year": "" }, - "Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Sustainability-Manifesto-Adam-Werbach/dp/142217770X", "author": "Adam Werbach", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -3045,7 +3031,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6553353-strategy-for-sustainability", "year": "2009" }, - "Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Summerhill-School-New-View-Childhood/dp/0312141378", "author": "A. 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"The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Improbable-Robustness-Fragility/dp/081297381X", "author": "Nassim Nicholas Taleb", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -3395,7 +3381,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242472.The_Black_Swan", "year": "2007" }, - "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Blank-Slate-Modern-Denial-Nature/dp/0142003344", "author": "Steven Pinker", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -3409,7 +3395,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate", "year": "2003" }, - "The Bone People": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Bone-People-Novel-Keri-Hulme/dp/0140089225", "author": "Keri Hulme", "category": "Miscellaneous", @@ -3423,7 +3409,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/460635.The_Bone_People", "year": "1986" }, - "The Book Thief": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Book-Thief-Markus-Zusak/dp/0375842209", "author": "Markus Zusak", "category": "Historical Fiction", @@ -3437,7 +3423,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19063.The_Book_Thief", "year": "2006" }, - "The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Bottom-Billion-Poorest-Countries-Failing/dp/0195373383", "author": "Paul Collier", "category": "Economics", @@ -3451,7 +3437,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493371.The_Bottom_Billion", "year": "2007" }, - "The Brain: The Story of You": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Story-You-David-Eagleman/dp/0525433449", "author": "David Eagleman", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -3465,7 +3451,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25776132.the-brain", "year": "2015" }, - "The Broken Empire": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Prince-Thorns-Broken-Empire-Lawrence/dp/1937007685", "author": "Mark Lawrence", "category": "Fantasy", @@ -3479,7 +3465,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/64473-the-broken-empire", "year": "2011" }, - "The Brothers Karamazov": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Karamazov-Fyodor-Dostoevsky/dp/0374528373", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky", "category": "Classics", @@ -3493,7 +3479,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934.The_Brothers_Karamazov", "year": "2002" }, - "The Catcher in the Rye": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Catcher-Rye-J-D-Salinger/dp/0316769487", "author": "J.D. Salinger", "category": "Classics", @@ -3507,7 +3493,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye", "year": "2001" }, - "The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/dp/0312430000", "author": "Atul Gawande", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -3521,7 +3507,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-manifesto", "year": "2009" }, - "The Chronicles of Narnia": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Narnia-C-S-Lewis/dp/0066238501", "author": "Clive Staples Lewis", "category": "Fantasy", @@ -3535,7 +3521,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11127.The_Chronicles_of_Narnia", "year": "2005" }, - "The City & The City": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/City-Novel-Random-Readers-Circle/dp/034549752X", "author": "China Mieville", "category": "Fantasy", @@ -3549,7 +3535,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4703581-the-city-the-city", "year": "2009" }, - "The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Codebreakers-Comprehensive-History-Communication-Internet/dp/0684831309", "author": "David Kahn", "category": "History", @@ -3563,7 +3549,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29608.The_Codebreakers", "year": "1996" }, - "The Compound Effect": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Compound-Effect-Darren-Hardy/dp/159315724X", "author": "Darren Hardy", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -3577,7 +3563,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9420697-the-compound-effect", "year": "" }, - "The Concise 48 Laws of Power": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Concise-Laws-Power-Robert-Greene/dp/1861974043", "author": "Robert Greene", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -3591,7 +3577,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18224060-the-concise-48-laws-of-power", "year": "2011" }, - "The Curse of the Mogul": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Curse-Mogul-Worlds-Leading-Companies/dp/1591843901", "author": "Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -3605,7 +3591,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7162410-the-curse-of-the-mogul", "year": "2009" }, - "The Da Vinci Code": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Vinci-Code-Robert-Langdon/dp/0307474275", "author": "Dan Brown", "category": "Mystery", @@ -3619,7 +3605,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968.The_Da_Vinci_Code", "year": "2006" }, - "The Dark Tower": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Tower-8-Book-Boxed-Set/dp/1501163566", "author": "Stephen King", "category": "Fantasy", @@ -3633,7 +3619,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/40750-the-dark-tower", "year": "2003" }, - "The Death of Ivan Ilych": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Death-Ivan-Ilyich-Bantam-Classics/dp/0553210351", "author": "Leo Tolstoy", "category": "Classics", @@ -3647,7 +3633,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18386.The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilych", "year": "" }, - "The Design of Everyday Things": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Revised-Expanded/dp/0465050654", "author": "Donald Norman", "category": "Design", @@ -3661,7 +3647,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/840.The_Design_of_Everyday_Things", "year": "2002" }, - "The Diamond Age": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Age-Neal-Stephenson/dp/1491543388", "author": "Neal Stephenson", "category": "Science Fiction", @@ -3675,7 +3661,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age", "year": "2000" }, - "The Diary of a Young Girl": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Anne-Frank-Diary-Young-Girl/dp/B007Z332A0", "author": "Anne Frank", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -3689,7 +3675,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48855.The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl", "year": "1993" }, - "The Director": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Director-Novel-David-Ignatius/dp/0393350592", "author": "David Ignatius", "category": "Classics", @@ -3703,7 +3689,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23316525-the-director", "year": "2009" }, - "The Discoverers": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Discoverers-History-Search-World-Himself/dp/0394726251", "author": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "category": "History", @@ -3717,7 +3703,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714380.The_Discoverers", "year": "2012" }, - "The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-About/dp/0887307280", "author": "Michael E. Gerber", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -3731,7 +3717,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81948.The_E_Myth_Revisited", "year": "1995" }, - "The Eight": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Eight-Katherine-Neville/dp/0345366239", "author": "Katherine Neville", "category": "Mystery", @@ -3745,7 +3731,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113310.The_Eight", "year": "2000" }, - "The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Ethical-Brain-Science-Moral-Dilemmas/dp/0060884738", "author": "Michael S. Gazzaniga", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -3759,7 +3745,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328734.The_Ethical_Brain", "year": "2006" }, - "The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Ethical-Slut-Infinite-Sexual-Possibilities/dp/1890159018", "author": "Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt.", "category": "Sexuality", @@ -3773,7 +3759,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54944.The_Ethical_Slut?from_search=true", "year": "2004" }, - "The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Extended-Phenotype-Reach-Popular-Science/dp/0192880519", "author": "Richard Dawkins", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -3787,7 +3773,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61538.The_Extended_Phenotype", "year": "1999" }, - "The Fifth Sacred Thing": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Sacred-Thing-Maya-Greenwood/dp/0553373803", "author": "Starhawk", "category": "Science Fiction", @@ -3801,7 +3787,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80689.The_Fifth_Sacred_Thing", "year": "1994" }, - "The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Art-Small-Talk-Conversation/dp/1401302262", "author": "Debra Fine", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -3815,21 +3801,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93409.The_Fine_Art_of_Small_Talk", "year": "2005" }, - "The Forever War": { - "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Forever-War-Joe-Haldeman/dp/0312536631", - "author": "Joe Haldemann", - "category": "Science Fiction", - "description": "The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand\u2014despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy that they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties without rancor and even rise up through military ranks. Pvt. Mandella is willing to do whatever it takes to survive the ordeal and return home. 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"The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Map-Londons-Terrifying-Epidemic/dp/1594482691", "author": "Steven Johnson", "category": "History", @@ -3871,7 +3843,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map", "year": "2006" }, - "The Girl on the Train": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Train-Novel-Paula-Hawkins-ebook/dp/B00L9B7IKE", "author": "Paula Hawkins", "category": "Mystery", @@ -3885,7 +3857,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22557272-the-girl-on-the-train", "year": "2015" }, - "The Glass Bead Game": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Glass-Bead-Game-Magister-Novel-ebook/dp/B00ANI9G0O", "author": "Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston", "category": "Classics", @@ -3899,7 +3871,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16634.The_Glass_Bead_Game", "year": "2002" }, - "The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp/0062273205", "author": "Ben Horowitz", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -3913,7 +3885,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-about-hard-things", "year": "2014" }, - "The Help": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Help-Kathryn-Stockett/dp/0425232204", "author": "Kathryn Stockett", "category": "Historical Fiction", @@ -3927,7 +3899,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4667024-the-help", "year": "2009" }, - "The Hero with a Thousand Faces": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Faces-Collected-Joseph-Campbell/dp/1577315936", "author": "Joseph Campbell", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -3941,7 +3913,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces", "year": "1972" }, - "The History of Western Philosophy": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/History-Western-Philosophy-Bertrand-Russell/dp/0671201581", "author": "Bertrand Russell", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -3955,7 +3927,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243685.A_History_of_Western_Philosophy", "year": "1972" }, - "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Douglas-Adams/dp/0345391802", "author": "Douglas Adams", "category": "Science Fiction", @@ -3969,7 +3941,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11.The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy", "year": "2007" }, - "The House of Mirth": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/House-Mirth-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486420493", "author": "Edith Wharton", "category": "Classics", @@ -3983,7 +3955,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17728.The_House_of_Mirth", "year": "2006" }, - "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Life-Henrietta-Lacks/dp/1400052181", "author": "Rebecca Skloot", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -3997,7 +3969,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6493208-the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks?ac=1&from_search=true", "year": "2010" }, - "The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0143110373", "author": "Kevin Kelly", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -4011,7 +3983,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27209431-the-inevitable", "year": "2016" }, - "The Innovator's Dilemma": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Change-Business/dp/0062060244", "author": "clayton m. christensen", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -4025,7 +3997,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_Innovator_s_Dilemma", "year": "2003" }, - "The Kingkiller Chronicle": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Wise-Mans-Fear-Kingkiller-Chronicle/dp/0756407915", "author": "Patrick Rothfuss", "category": "Fantasy", @@ -4039,7 +4011,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/45262-the-kingkiller-chronicle", "year": "2007" }, - "The Last Lecture": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Last-Lecture-Randy-Pausch/dp/1401323251", "author": "Randy Pausch", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -4053,7 +4025,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2318271.The_Last_Lecture", "year": "2008" }, - "The Last Wish - Saga": { + { "author": "Andrzej Sapkowski", "category": "Fantasy", "rating": "4.2", @@ -4061,7 +4033,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1128434.The_Last_Wish", "year": "1993" }, - "The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898", "author": "Eric Ries", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -4075,7 +4047,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10127019-the-lean-startup", "year": "2011" }, - "The Little Schemer": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/0262560992", "author": "Daniel P. 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Yanofsky", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -4257,7 +4229,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841838-the-outer-limits-of-reason", "year": "2013" }, - "The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Paradox-Choice-More-Less-Revised-ebook/dp/B000TDGGVU", "author": "Barry Shwartz", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -4271,7 +4243,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10639.The_Paradox_of_Choice", "year": "2005" }, - "The Paypal Wars": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/PayPal-Wars-Battles-Media-Planet/dp/1936488590", "author": "Eric M. Jackson", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -4285,7 +4257,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4052.The_PayPal_Wars", "year": "2010" }, - "The Picture of Dorian Gray": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Picture-Dorian-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486278077", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "category": "Classics", @@ -4299,7 +4271,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray", "year": "2004" }, - "The Pillars of the Earth": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Pillars-Earth-Novel-Kingsbridge/dp/0451166892", "author": "Ken Follett", "category": "Historical Fiction", @@ -4313,7 +4285,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5043.The_Pillars_of_the_Earth?from_search=true", "year": "2002" }, - "The Player of Games": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Player-Games-Culture-Iain-Banks/dp/0316005401", "author": "Iain M. Banks", "category": "Science Fiction", @@ -4327,7 +4299,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630.The_Player_of_Games", "year": "1997" }, - "The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Power-Full-Engagement-Managing-Performance/dp/0743226755", "author": "Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -4341,7 +4313,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68985.The_Power_of_Full_Engagement", "year": "2005" }, - "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business/dp/081298160X", "author": "Charles Duhigg", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -4355,7 +4327,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-habit", "year": "2012" }, - "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment/dp/1577314808", "author": "Eckhart Tolle", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -4369,7 +4341,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6708.The_Power_of_Now", "year": "2004" }, - "The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Quark-Jaguar-Adventures-Simple-Complex/dp/0805072535", "author": "Murray Gell-Mann", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -4383,7 +4355,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270881.The_Quark_and_the_Jaguar", "year": "2000" }, - "The Queen's Gambit": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Queens-Gambit-Novel-Walter-Tevis/dp/1400030609", "author": "Walter Tevis", "category": "Miscellaneous", @@ -4397,7 +4369,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62022.The_Queen_s_Gambit", "year": "2003" }, - "The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Rational-Optimist-Prosperity-Evolves-P-s/dp/0061452068", "author": "Matt Ridley", "category": "History", @@ -4411,7 +4383,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7776209-the-rational-optimist", "year": "2010" }, - "The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Revenge-Geography-Coming-Conflicts-Against/dp/0812982223", "author": "Robert D. 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Deacon", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -4621,7 +4593,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/733691.The_Symbolic_Species", "year": "1998" }, - "The Ten Faces of Innovation": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Faces-Innovation-Strategies-Organization/dp/0385512074", "author": "Tom Kelley", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -4635,7 +4607,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95656.The_Ten_Faces_of_Innovation", "year": "2005" }, - "The Thank You Economy": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Thank-You-Economy-Gary-Vaynerchuk/dp/0061914185", "author": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "category": "Economics", @@ -4649,7 +4621,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9203287-the-thank-you-economy", "year": "2011" }, - "The Third Door:The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Third-Door-Uncover-Successful-Launched/dp/0804136661", "author": "Alex banayan", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -4663,7 +4635,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36739769-the-third-door", "year": "2018" }, - "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Tipping-Point-Little-Things-Difference/dp/0316346624", "author": "Malcolm Gladwell", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -4677,7 +4649,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2612.The_Tipping_Point", "year": "2002" }, - "The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Everything-Irreverent-Illustrations/dp/1573921106", "author": "Matthew Stewart", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -4691,7 +4663,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18528861-the-truth-about-everything", "year": "1997" }, - "The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Upside-Irrationality-Unexpected-Benefits-Defying-ebook/dp/B003JBHVZY", "author": "Dan Ariely", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -4705,7 +4677,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7815744-the-upside-of-irrationality", "year": "2010" }, - "The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/User-Illusion-Cutting-Consciousness-Penguin/dp/0140230122", "author": "Tor Norretranders", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -4719,7 +4691,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106732.The_User_Illusion", "year": "1999" }, - "The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Intimacy-Stories-Directions-Paperbook/dp/0811201902", "author": "Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander", "category": "Classics", @@ -4733,7 +4705,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10031.The_Wall", "year": "2010" }, - "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Networks-Production-Transforms-Markets/dp/0300125771", "author": "Yochai Benkler", "category": "Science and Medicine", @@ -4747,7 +4719,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14721.The_Wealth_of_Networks", "year": "2006" }, - "The Wheel of Time": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Wheel-Time-Boxed-Set-Books/dp/0812538366", "author": "Robert Jordan", "category": "Fantasy", @@ -4761,7 +4733,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/series/41526-the-wheel-of-time", "year": "1990" }, - "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/World-Flat-History-Twenty-first-Century/dp/0374292884", "author": "Thomas L. 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Baumeister, John Tierney", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -5055,7 +5027,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11104933-willpower", "year": "2011" }, - "Wings of Fire": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Wings-Fire-Autobiography-Abdul-Kalam/dp/8173711461", "author": "A.P.J. Abdul Kalam", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -5069,7 +5041,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634583.Wings_of_Fire", "year": "2011" }, - "Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Wounded-School-Recapturing-Learning-Standing/dp/0807749559", "author": "Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer", "category": "Education", @@ -5083,7 +5055,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6425208-wounded-by-school", "year": "2009" }, - "Wuthering Heights": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Wuthering-Heights-Wordsworth-Classics-Bronte/dp/1853260010", "author": "Emily Bronte", "category": "Classics", @@ -5097,7 +5069,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6185.Wuthering_Heights", "year": "2002" }, - "Xeelee Sequence": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Xeelee-Stephen-Baxter/dp/0575090413", "author": "Stephen Baxter", "category": "Miscellaneous", @@ -5111,7 +5083,7 @@ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/series/49784-xeelee-sequence", "year": "1992" }, - "You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/You-Just-Dont-Understand-Conversation/dp/0060959622", "author": "Deborah Tannen", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -5125,7 +5097,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147222.You_Just_Don_t_Understand", "year": "2007" }, - "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Mind-Beginners-Informal-Meditation-ebook/dp/B00I8USOM0", "author": "Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick", "category": "Philosophy And Psychology", @@ -5139,7 +5111,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402843.Zen_Mind_Beginner_s_Mind", "year": "1973" }, - "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry/dp/0060589469", "author": "Robert M. Pirsig", "category": "Classics", @@ -5153,7 +5125,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/629.Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance", "year": "2006" }, - "Zero to One": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296", "author": "Peter Thiel, Blake Masters", "category": "Startups and Business", @@ -5167,7 +5139,7 @@ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050143-zero-to-one", "year": "2014" }, - "iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It": { + { "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/iWoz-Computer-Invented-Personal-Co-Founded/dp/0393330435", "author": "Steve Wozniak", "category": "Autobiographies and Biographies", @@ -5180,5 +5152,33 @@ "title": "iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It", "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/798635.iWoz", "year": "2007" + }, + { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Forever-War-Joe-Haldeman/dp/0312536631", + "author": "Joe Haldemann", + "category": "Science Fiction", + "description": "The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand\u2014despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy that they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties without rancor and even rise up through military ranks. Pvt. Mandella is willing to do whatever it takes to survive the ordeal and return home. But \"home\" may be even more terrifying than battle, because, thanks to the time dilation caused by space travel, Mandella is aging months while the Earth he left behind is aging centuries.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1386852511l/21611._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0060510862", + "lang": "eng", + "pages": "278", + "rating": "4.14", + "title": "The Forever War", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21611.The_Forever_War", + "year": "2003" + }, + { + "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/Mismatch-Inclusion-Simplicity-Technology-Business/dp/0262038889", + "author": "Kat Holmes, John Maeda", + "category": "Design", + "description": "How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. Something as simple as color choices can render a product unusable for millions. These mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion. In Mismatch, Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion. Inclusive design methods--designing objects with rather than for excluded users--can create elegant solutions that work well and benefit all.Holmes tells stories of pioneers of inclusive design, many of whom were drawn to work on inclusion because of their own experiences of exclusion. A gamer and designer who depends on voice recognition shows Holmes his \"Wall of Exclusion,\" which displays dozens of game controllers that require two hands to operate; an architect shares her firsthand knowledge of how design can fail communities, gleaned from growing up in Detroit's housing projects; an astronomer who began to lose her eyesight adapts a technique called \"sonification\" so she can \"listen\" to the stars.Designing for inclusion is not a feel-good sideline. Holmes shows how inclusion can be a source of innovation and growth, especially for digital technologies. It can be a catalyst for creativity and a boost for the bottom line as a customer base expands. And each time we remedy a mismatched interaction, we create an opportunity for more people to contribute to society in meaningful ways.", + "image_url": "https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1538365830l/39644200._SX98_.jpg", + "isbn": "0262038889", + "lang": null, + "pages": "176", + "rating": "4.14", + "title": "Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design", + "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39644200-mismatch", + "year": "2018" } -} \ No newline at end of file +] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/utils/update_json_files.py b/utils/update_json_files.py index 47e6ebc..9c89d14 100644 --- a/utils/update_json_files.py +++ b/utils/update_json_files.py @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def clean_category(category_raw): if __name__ == "__main__": library = load("../README.md", "new") - existing_book_names_to_details = json.load(open("books.json")) + existing_book_names_to_details = json.load(open("book_name_to_details.json")) for category in library: category_name = clean_category(category) @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__": if fetched: print(f"✅ {title}") existing_book_names_to_details[title] = new_book - with open("books.json", "w") as f: + with open("book_name_to_details.json", "w") as f: json.dump( existing_book_names_to_details, f, @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__": book_list = [] for _, book in existing_book_names_to_details.items(): book_list.append(book) - with open("books_list.json", "w") as f: + with open("books.json", "w") as f: json.dump(book_list, f, sort_keys=True, indent=4, separators=(",", ": ")) else: print(f"❌ Error while fetching {title}")