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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds Michael Lewis W.W. Norton & Company (2016) A brilliant analysis of how two world-famous psychologists could – and did — “undo” so many misconceptions about human error I have read and…
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds Michael Lewis W.W. Norton & Company (2016) A brilliant analysis of how two world-famous psychologists could – and did — “undo” so many misconceptions about human error I have read and…
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Useful Delusions: The Power & Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain Shankar Vedantam & Bill Mesler W.W. Norton & Company (March 2021) When context determines appropriateness As I began to read the first three chapters of this book, I was again…
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The Art of War: A New Translation by Michael Nylan Sun Tzu W.W. Norton & Company (January 2020) A classic within western civilization has been revitalized W.W. Norton has proudly published this volume, one that, “for the first time in…
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee W.W. Norton & Company (2014) “Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.” Opinions vary as to the timeframe of the…
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The Odyssey Homer; Emily Wilson, Translator W.W. Norton & Company (November 2017) A brilliant exploration of “both the origins of Western literature, and our infinitely complex contemporary world” The last time I checked, Amazon offers 221 English translations of Homer’s…
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Team Human Douglas Rushkoff W.W. Norton & Company (January 2019) How to think constructively, connect meaningfully, and act purposefully Douglas Rushkoff wrote this book to help as many people as possible who now struggle in a world in which “autonomous…
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William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life James Lee McDonough W.W. Norton & Company (June 2016) “War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be…
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We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie Noah Isenberg W.W. Norton & Company “Art is the recreation of the world after the heart’s desire.” Havelock Ellis As I often do, I read this…
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The New York Times Book of Science: More than 150 Years of Groundbreaking Scientific Coverage David Corcoran, Editor Sterling Publishing Group (2015) How “progress in science extends the reach of certainty into precisely articulated realms of uncertainty” In the Foreword,…
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