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==={{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}}’s “Incerto” collection=== | ==={{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}}’s “Incerto” collection=== | ||
{{ | {{br|Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets}}<br> | ||
{{ | {{br|The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable}} <br> | ||
{{br|Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life}} <br> | {{br|Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life}} <br> | ||
{{br|Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder}} | {{br|Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder}} | ||
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===Science, mathematics and the philosophy of science=== | ===Science, mathematics and the philosophy of science=== | ||
{{ | {{br|The Structure of Scientific Revolutions}} - {{author|Thomas Kuhn}} <br> | ||
{{ | {{br|A Grand Design}} - {{author|Stephen Hawking}} <br> | ||
{{ | {{br|Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos}} - {{author|Roger Lewin}} <br> | ||
{{ | {{br|Consilience}} - {{author|E. O. Wilson}} <br> | ||
{{ | {{br|Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality can be a Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life}} - {{author|Emanuel Derman}} <br> | ||
{{ | {{br|How to Teach Quantum Physics to your Dog}} - {{author|Chad Orzal}} <br> | ||
{{ | {{br|The Dappled World – A Study of the Boundaries of Science}} - {{author|Nancy Cartwright}} <br> | ||
{{ | {{br|Lake Views: This World and the Universe}} - {{author|Steven Weinberg}} <br> | ||
{{ | {{br|The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives}} - {{author|Leonard Mlodinow}} <br> | ||
{{ | {{br|The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science and What Comes Next}} - {{author|Lee Smolin}} <br> | ||
===Good books about technology=== | ===Good books about technology=== | ||
{{ | {{br|Code: Version 2.0}} - {{author|Lawrence Lessig}} <br> | ||
{{ | {{br|The Nature of Technology: What it is and How it Evolves}} - {{author|Brian Arthur}} <br> | ||
===Bad books about technology=== | ===Bad books about technology=== | ||
{{ | {{br|Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization}} – {{author|Parag Khanna}} and {{author|Ayesha Khanna}} <br> | ||
{{ | {{br|The Singularity is Near}} - {{author|Ray Kurzweil}} <br> | ||
===Business and process engineering=== | ===Business and process engineering=== | ||
{{ | {{br|Blockbusters: Why Big Hits - and Big Risks - Are the Future of the Entertainment Business}} - {{author|Anita Elberse}} <br> | ||
{{ | {{br|Enterprise 2.0}} – {{author|Andrew MacAfee}} <br> | ||
{{ | {{br|Steve Jobs}} - {{author|Walter Isaacson}} <br> | ||
{{ | {{br|The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right}} - {{author|Atul Gawande}} <br> | ||
{{ | {{br|The Design of Business: Why Design is the Next Competitive Advantage}} - {{author|Roger Martin}} <br> | ||
{{br|Rework}} - {{author|Jason Fried}} | {{br|Rework}} - {{author|Jason Fried}} | ||
===Writing and the law=== | ===Writing and the law=== | ||
{{ | {{br|How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One}} - {{author|Stanley Fish}} <br> | ||
===Good books about philosophy and psychology=== | ===Good books about philosophy and psychology=== | ||
{{ | {{br|Man’s Search for Meaning}} - {{author|Viktor Frankl}} <br> | ||
{{ | {{br|The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind}} - {{author|Julian Jaynes}} <br> | ||
{{ | {{br|Thinking, Fast and Slow}} - {{author|Daniel Kahneman}} <br> | ||
{{ | {{br|Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance}} - {{author|Robert M. Pirsig}} <br> | ||
===Bad books about philosophy === | ===Bad books about philosophy === | ||
{{ | {{br|Affluenza}} - {{author|Oliver James}} <br> | ||
{{br|The God Delusion}} - {{author|Richard Dawkins}} <br> | {{br|The God Delusion}} - {{author|Richard Dawkins}} <br> | ||
{{c|The Jolly Contrarian}} | {{c|The Jolly Contrarian}} | ||
{{c|Review}} | {{c|Review}} |