From e05d7110292cc753a690f9a654187e488525fb76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vishnu Ks Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 00:58:56 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] all books listed --- README.md | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6d3366e..0f2cdeb 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -51,11 +51,6 @@ * [Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1081413.Super_Crunchers) by Ian Ayres by Ian Ayres * [The Curse of the Mogul](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7162410-the-curse-of-the-mogul) by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave - -###Self Help -* [How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4865.How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People) - - ###Philosophy, Psychology and Spirituality * [Predictably Irrational](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1713426.Predictably_Irrational) by Dan Ariely @@ -70,6 +65,7 @@ * [In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315425.In_Defense_of_Food) by Michael Pollan * [Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6262510-rapt) by Winifred Gallagher * [You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147222.You_Just_Don_t_Understand) by Deborah Tannen +* [How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4865.How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People) * [Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707599-moral-tribes) by Joshua Greene * [Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5040579-why-we-make-mistakes) by Joseph T. Hallinan * [Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7090193-tattoos-on-the-heart) by Gregory Boyle @@ -112,6 +108,9 @@ * [The Social Contract](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12651.The_Social_Contract) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston * [Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100247.Vagabonding) by Rolf Potts +###Design + +* [Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79766.A_Pattern_Language) by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel ###History @@ -137,29 +136,13 @@ * [The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/<1911 class="The_World_Is_Flat">) by Thomas L. Friedman -###Design - -* [Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79766.A_Pattern_Language) by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel - ###Health * [8 Weeks to Optimum Health](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37124.8_Weeks_to_Optimum_Health) by Andrew Weil - -###Politics - -* [Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149206.Resource_Wars) by Michael Klare -* [The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493371.The_Bottom_Billion) by Paul Collier -* [The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698866.The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter) by Bryan Caplan -* [Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452731-justice) by Michael J. Sandel -* [Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6694937-game-change) by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin -* [Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11515298-currency-wars) by James Rickards -* [The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream](www.goodreads.com/book/show/9742.The_Audacity_of_Hope) by Barack Obama -* [The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind) by Jonathan Haidt -* [Economic Facts and Fallacies](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2064279.Economic_Facts_and_Fallacies) by Thomas Sowell - ###Evolution, Science, and Medicine + * [The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61539.The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions) by Thomas S. Kuhn * [Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24113.G_del_Escher_Bach) by Douglas R. Hofstadter * [The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9778945-the-shallows) by Nicholas Carr @@ -182,14 +165,37 @@ * [Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11148989-catching-fire) by Richard Wrangham * [The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270881.The_Quark_and_the_Jaguar) by Murray Gell-Mann * [Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164560.Figments_of_Reality) by Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen +* [How to Find a Habitable Planet](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7551498-how-to-find-a-habitable-planet) by James kasting +* [Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1752295.Scientific_Genius) Dean Keith Simonton +* [The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61538.The_Extended_Phenotype) Richard Dawkins +* [Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88552.Rare_Earth) Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee +* [Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/648195.Mind_Children) by Hans Moravec. +* [The Little Schemer](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/548914.The_Little_Schemer) by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman +* [Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16080353-out-of-control) by Kevin Kelly +###Logic and Problem Solving + +* [What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493576.What_Is_the_Name_of_This_Book_) by Raymond M. Smullyan +* [How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192221.How_to_Solve_It) by George Polya +* [Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55436.Labyrinths_of_Reason) by William Poundstone + +###Politics + +* [Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149206.Resource_Wars) by Michael Klare +* [The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493371.The_Bottom_Billion) by Paul Collier +* [The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698866.The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter) by Bryan Caplan +* [Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452731-justice) by Michael J. Sandel +* [Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6694937-game-change) by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin +* [Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11515298-currency-wars) by James Rickards +* [The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream](www.goodreads.com/book/show/9742.The_Audacity_of_Hope) by Barack Obama +* [The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind) by Jonathan Haidt +* [Economic Facts and Fallacies](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2064279.Economic_Facts_and_Fallacies) by Thomas Sowell ###Sexuality * [Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7640261-sex-at-dawn) by Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha * [The Sex Myth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13569582-the-sex-myth) by Brooke Magnanti - ###Education * [The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance]https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/857333.The_Art_of_Learning() by Josh Waitzkin @@ -200,7 +206,6 @@ * [Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/409588.Curious_Minds) by John Brockman * [Teaching as a Subversive Activity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79681.Teaching_as_a_Subversive_Activity) by Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner - ###Writing * [Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12909101-hat-box) by Stephen Sondheim @@ -217,7 +222,6 @@ * [Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3493241-different-every-night) by Mike Alfreds * [Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254808.Notes_on_Directing) by Frank Hauser, Russell Reich - ###Shakespeare * [Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1334872.Thinking_Shakespeare) by Barry Edelstein. @@ -225,6 +229,10 @@ * [Hamlet and Revenge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625956.Hamlet_Revenge_) by Eleanor Prosser * [Shakespeare's Metrical Art](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428615.Shakespeare_s_Metrical_Art) George T. Wright +###Humor + +* [I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9010.I_Hope_They_Serve_Beer_in_Hell) + ###Fiction @@ -259,27 +267,3 @@ * [Lonesome Dove](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256008.Lonesome_Dove) by Larry McMurtry * [The Queen's Gambit](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62022.The_Queen_s_Gambit) by Walter Tevis * [War and Peace](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace) by Leo Tolstoy - - -###Technical - -* [How to Find a Habitable Planet](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7551498-how-to-find-a-habitable-planet) by James kasting -* [Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1752295.Scientific_Genius) Dean Keith Simonton -* [The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61538.The_Extended_Phenotype) Richard Dawkins -* [Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88552.Rare_Earth) Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee -* [Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/648195.Mind_Children) by Hans Moravec. -* [The Little Schemer](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/548914.The_Little_Schemer) by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman -* [Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16080353-out-of-control) by Kevin Kelly - - -###Logic and Problem Solving - -* [What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493576.What_Is_the_Name_of_This_Book_) by Raymond M. Smullyan -* [How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192221.How_to_Solve_It) by George Polya -* [Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55436.Labyrinths_of_Reason) by William Poundstone - - -###Humor - -* [I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9010.I_Hope_They_Serve_Beer_in_Hell) -