A friend recently (today in fact) asked me for a list of 10 books that had effect on me. So here is a list of 11 books that I have learned a lot from over the past 20 years. They are in order of influence on my knowledge-base and my understanding of life, the universe, and everything. You will note the lack of books about cosmology - an area of knowledge that changes so fast I find I am better off keeping up by reading The Economist, New Scientists and other journals and web pages rather than books (I also find that it boggles my mind; e.g. the fact that the universe is flat makes no sense to me - and believe me I have tried to understand - maybe the word flat is being used in a non-3D way????). The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt The Penguin History of the World. By J M Roberts River Out Of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life by Prof Richard Dawkins (20 May 2001) Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters Paperback by Matt Ridley Lucky or Smart?: Secrets to an Entrepreneurial Life. Bo Peabody The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins by Andreas D. Baxevanis (Editor), B. F. Francis Ouellette (Editor) Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.) by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Aug 25, 2009) Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain Levitt, Steven D. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions Paperback by Dan Ariely (Author) A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 10:45:44 +0000
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