Books ----- Ron Nicholson's recommended book and reading list: ( with some 4 and 5 star review rankings ) MindReal: How the Mind Creates its Own Virtual Reality by Robert Ornstein , 2008 ISBN: 193377939X ***** (five stars) Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb , 2012 ISBN: 1400067820 ***** Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain by Michael S. Gazzaniga , 2012 ISBN: 9780061906107 ***** Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't by George Lakoff , 1996 ISBN: 0226467961 ***** A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell , 1988 ISBN: 0688079512 ***** The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis , 2016 ***** Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain by Antonio R. Damasio , 1994 ISBN: 0380726475 ***** The Mind's Past by Michael S. Gazzaniga , 1998 ISBN: 0520224868 ***** The Right Mind: Making Sense of the Hemispheres by Robert Ornstein , 1997 ISBN: 0156006278 ***** Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini , 1984 ISBN: ???? ***** The Enigma of Reason Hardcover by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber , 2017 ISBN: 0674368304 ***** Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Hardcover by Yuval Noah Harari , 2015 ISBN: 0062316095 ***** The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb , 2007 ISBN: 1400063515 ***** Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb , 2004 ISBN: 158799190X **** Red-Blooded Risk: The Secret History of Wall Street by Aaron Brown , 2011 ISBN: 1118043863 **** The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen , 1997 ISBN: 0875845851 ***** Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert , 2006 ISBN: 1400042666 ***** Irrationality: Why We Don't Think Straight! by Stuart Sutherland , 1994 ISBN: 0813521505 Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini , 1994 ISBN: 047115962X How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas Gilovich , 1991 ISBN: 0029117062 What's Luck Got to Do with It?: The History, Mathematics, and Psychology of the Gambler's Illusion by Joseph Mazur , 2010 ISBN-10: 0691138907 Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average by Joseph Hallinan , 2009 ISBN: 0767928059 The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory by Torkel Klingberg , 2008 ISBN: 0195372883 Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford , 2011 ISBN: 0374100969 Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate by William F. Ruddiman , 2007 ISBN: 0691133980 ***** Green Equilibrium: The vital balance of humans and nature by Christopher Wills , 2013 ISBN: 0199645701 ***** Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond , 1997 ISBN: ???? ***** Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization by Spencer Wells , 2010 ISBN: 1400062152 The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Hardcover by Elizabeth Kolbert , 2014 ISBN-10: 0805092994 Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli , 2015 ISBN-10: 0385347405 **** Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson , 2011 ISBN: 1451648537 ***** The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson , 2014 ISBN-10: 147670869X **** Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell by Phil Lapsley , 2013 The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone Hardcover by Brian Merchant , 2017 ISBN: 031654616X Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired--and Secretive--Company Really Works by Adam Lashinsky , 2012 ISBN: 145551215X Inside Steve's Brain by Leander Kahney , 2008 ISBN-10: 1591841984 The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick , 2011 ISBN: 0375423729 I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey through the Science of Sound and Language by Lydia Denworth , 2014 ISBN-10: 0525953795 **** The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind Seth S. Horowitz , 2012 ISBN: 1608190900 ***** The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell by Basil Mahon , 2003 ISBN: 047086088X The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution by Charles R. Morris , 2012 ISBN: 1586488287 How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown , 2010 ISBN: 0385531087 The Day We Found the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak , 2010 ISBN: 0307276600 **** About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang by Adam Frank , 2011 ISBN: 1439169594 **** Concrete Planet by Robert Courland , 2011 ISBN: 1616144815 ***** The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention by William Rosen , 2012 ISBN: 0226726347 **** Cascadia's Fault: The Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America by Jerry Thompson , 2011 ISBN: 1582436436 **** The Mathematics of Life by Ian Stewart , 2011 ISBN: 0465022383 Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements by Matt Wilkinson , 2016 Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution Nick Lane , 2009 ISBN : 0393065960 **** Invisible in the Storm: The Role of Mathematics in Understanding Weather by Ian Roulstone , 2013 ISBN: 0691152721 Storm Kings: America's First Tornado Chasers by Lee Sandlin , 2013 ISBN: 0307378527 Forecast: What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics by Mark Buchanan , 2013 ISBN: 9781608198511 **** The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto , 2000 ISBN: 04650161 **** Free Market Madness: Why Human Nature is at Odds with Economics by Peter A. Ubel , 2009 ISBN: 1422126099 Losing the Signal: The Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry by Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff , 2015 ISBN: 1250060176 United Breaks Guitars: The Power of One Voice in the Age of Social Media by Dave Carroll , 2012 ISBN: 1401937934 The Whole Story of Climate: What Science Reveals About the Nature of Endless Change by E. Kirsten Peters , 2012 ISBN: 1616146729 **** The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust ... by Robert M. Hazen , 2012 ISBN: 0670023558 **** The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate by David Archer , 2008 ISBN: 0691136548 **** The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat by Eric Roston , 2008 ISBN-10: 0802715575 ***** Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming by Bjorn Lomborg , 2007 ISBN: 0307266923 A World Without Ice by Ph.D., Henry Pollack , 2009 ISBN: 1583333576 **** Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource by Marq de Villiers , 2000 ISBN: 0618030093 **** The Wave Watcher's Companion by Gavin Pretor-Pinney , 2010 ISBN: 0399534261 Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis by Rowan Jacobsen , 2008 ISBN-10: 1596915374 **** An Edible History of Humanity Tom Standage , 2010 ISBN: 0802715885 Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik The Suicide of Reason by Lee Harris , 2007 ISBN: 046500203X **** Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein , 1996 ISBN: 0471121045 **** Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics by John Derbyshire , 2003 ISBN: 0309085497 ***** A Grand and Bold Thing: An Extraordinary New Map of the Universe Ushering In A New Era of Discovery by Ann K. Finkbeiner , 2010 ISBN: 1416552162 **** The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe by Anil Ananthaswamy , 2010 ISBN: 0618884688 The Atom and the Apple: Twelve Tales from Contemporary Physics by Sebastien Balibar , 2008 ISBN: 0691131082 **** Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes by Charles Seife , 2006 ISBN: 067003441X **** Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos by Seth Lloyd , 2006 ISBN: 1400040922 Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Great Discoveries) by David Foster Wallace , 2003 ISBN: 0393003388 An Imaginary Tale by Paul J. Nahin , 1998 ISBN: 0691027951 **** (also see: Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula, 2006) Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick , 1988 ISBN: 0140092501 ***** Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos by Roger Lewin ISBN: 0226476553 ***** Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology by Steven Levy , 1992 ISBN: 0679743898 ***** Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity by John Gribbin , 2005 ISBN: 140006256X The Quest for Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell , 1999 ISBN: 0684864622 ***** Balance: In Search of the Lost Sense by Scott McCredie , 2007 ISBN: 0316011355 **** Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey , 2008 ISBN: 0316113506 ***** Natures Mind: The Biological Roots of Thinking by Michael S. Gazzaniga , 1992 ISBN: 0465048633 **** The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries by Shannon Moffett , 2006 ISBN: 1565124235 Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World by Carl Zimmer , 2004 ISBN: 0743230388 On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee , 2004 ISBN: 0805074562 How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds by John Powell , 2010 ISBN: 0316098302 This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin , 2006 ISBN: 0525949690 ***** How We Hear Music: The Relationship between Music and the Hearing Mechanism by James Beament , 2003 ISBN: 0851159400 The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier by Thad Carhart , 2002 ISBN: 0375758623 ***** Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilisation by Stuart Isacoff , 2002 ISBN: 0571196225 **** The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics by Karl Sabbagh , 2003 ISBN: 0374250073 Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers by Dan Rockmore , 2005 ISBN: 037542136X The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics by Stanislas Dehaene , 1997 ISBN: 0195110048 Letters to a Young Mathematician (Art of Mentoring) by Ian Stewart , 2006 ISBN: 0465082319 The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the 17th-Century Letter that Made the World Modern by Keith Devlin , 2010 ISBN: 0465018963 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell , 2005 ISBN: 0316172324 Linked: The New Science of Networks by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi , 2002 ISBN: 0738206679 Gravity's Arc by David Darling , 2006 ISBN: 0471719897 A Brief History of the Human Race by Micheal Cook , 2003 ISBN: 0393052311 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson , 2003 ISBN: 0767908171 Universe on a T-Shirt: The Quest for the Theory of Everything by Dan Falk , 2004 ISBN: 1559707070 Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life by Leonard Mlodinow , 2003 ISBN: 044653045X Precious Objects: A Story of Diamonds, Family, and a Way of Life by Alicia Oltuski , 2011 ISBN: 1416545123 The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't by Nate Silver , 2012 ISBN: 1594204111 My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance by Emanuel Derman , 2004 ISBN: 0471394203 The Poker Face of Wall Street by Aaron Brown , 2006 ISBN: 0471770574 **** Inventing Money: The Story of Long-Term Capital Management by Nicholas Dunbar , 1999 ISBN: 0471899992 Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich by Robert Frank , 2007 ISBN: 0307339262 Mine's Bigger: Tom Perkins and the Making of the Greatest Sailing Machine Ever Built by David A. Kaplan , 2007 ISBN: 0061227943 Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything by Doug Macdougall , 2008 ISBN-10: 0520249755 To Follow the Water: Exploring the Ocean to Discover Climate by Dallas Murphy , 2007 ISBN: 158243350X Extreme Waves by Craig B. Smith , 2006 ISBN: 0309100623 Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather by Marq de Villiers , 2006 ISBN: 080271469 **** Hurricane Watch: Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth by Bob Sheets, Jack Williams ISBN: 037570390X Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope by Fred Watson , 2007 ISBN: 0306814323 The Stargazing Year: A Backyard Astronomer's Journey Through the Seasons of the Night Sky Charles Laird Calia ISBN: 1585423912 The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future by Richard B. Alley ISBN: 0691102961 Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King , 2000 ISBN: 0802713661 Socrates: A Man for Our Times by Paul Johnson , 2011 ISBN: 0670023035 Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers by David Edmonds, John Eidinow , 2002 ISBN: 0060936649 **** Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages by Richard E. Rubenstein , 2003 ISBN: 0151007209 **** Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler , 2002 ISBN: 0-380-97776-1 Ingenium: Five Machine That Changed the World by Mark Denny , 2007 ISBN: 0801885860 Blip, Ping, and Buzz: Making Sense of Radar and Sonar by Mark Denny , 2007 ISBN: 0801886651 Grace Hopper by Kurt W. Beyer , 2009 ISBN: 026201310X The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr , 2008 ISBN-10: 0393062287 Jacquard's Web: How A Hand-Loom Led To The Birth Of The Information Age by James Essinger , 2005 ISBN: 0192805770 The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph ... by Tom Standage , 1998 ISBN: 0802713424 Thread Across the Ocean by John Steele Gordon , 2002 ISBN: 0802713645 Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw , 2013 ISBN-10: 0465031013 Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew About Genes by Sue Hubbell , 2001 ISBN: 0618040277 A Guinea Pig's History of Biology by Jim Endersby , 2007 ISBN: 0674027132 The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll , 2006 ISBN: 0393061639 **** The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel by Robin Marantz Henig , 2000 ISBN: 0395977657 Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year by David Ewing Duncan , 1998 ISBN: 0380793245 ***** Time's Pendulum: The Quest to Capture Time From Sundials to Atomic Clocks by Jo Ellen Barnett , 1988 ISBN: 0306457873 Newton's Clock: Chaos in the Solar System by Ivars Peterson , 1995 ISBN: 0716727242 Measuring Eternity: The Search for the Beginning of Time by Martin Gorst , 2001 ISBN: 0767908279 Reinventing Gravity: A Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein by John W. Moffat , 2008 ISBN: 0061170887 The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order by Francis Fukuyama , 1999 ISBN: 0-684-84530-X The Axemaker's Gift: Technology's Capture and Control of Our Minds and Culture by James Burke, Robert Ornstein , 1997 **** ISBN: ???? Acid Tongues and Tranquil Dreamers: Tales of Bitter Rivalry That Fueled the Advancement of Science and Technology by Michael White , 2002 ISBN: 0380806134 Artifacts by Christine Finn , 2001 ISBN: 0262062240 Shadow Syndromes by John J. Ratey & Catherine Johnson , 1997 ISBN: 0553379593 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver W. Sacks , 1992 ISBN: 0684853949 Older and Wiser: How to Maintain Peak Mental Ability for As Long As You Live by Richard M., Md. Restak, 1999 ISBN: 0425165868 The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue by Deborah Tannen ISBN: 0679456023 **** Science on Trial by Marcia Angell MD ISBN: 0393316726 Why Our Children Can't Read: A Scientific Revolution in Reading by Diane McGuinness ISBN: 0684831619 Coercion, Why We Listen to What 'They' Say by Douglas Russkoff , 1999 ISBN: 1573221155 Are We Unique? by James S. Trefil ISBN: 0471249467 **** Maxwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes by Hans Christian Von Baeyer , 1998 ISBN: 0679433422 The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh , 1999 ISBN: 0385495315 Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh , 2005 ISBN: 0007162200 Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition by Steve Olson , 2004 ISBN: 0618251413 In Code: A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery, David Flannery , 2002 ISBN: 1565123778 The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing by Martin Davis , 2000 ISBN: 0393047857 ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer by Scott McCartney , 2000 ISBN: 0425176444 Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity by David Bodanis , 2005 ISBN: 1400045509 The Triumph of Numbers by I. B. Cohen , 2006 ISBN: 0393328708 A Mathematical Mystery Tour: Discovering the Truth and Beauty of the Cosmos by A. K. Dewdney , 1999 ISBN: 0471238473 200% Of Nothing: An Eye-Opening Tour Through ... Math Abuse and Innumeracy by A. K. Dewdney ISBN: 0471145742 Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers by Amir D. Aczel , 2015 ISBN-10: 1137279842 The Natural History of Zero by Robert Kaplan , 1999 ISBN: 0195128427 Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace by Leonard Mlodinow , 2002 ISBN: 0684865238 e: The Story of a Number by Eli Maor ISBN: 0691058547 Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick , 1999 ISBN: ???? Times Pendulum: From Sundials to Atomic Clocks, the Fascinating History of Timekeeping by Jo Ellen Barnett , 1999 ISBN: ???? Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science by Alan Cromer , 1993 ASIN: 0195082133 Inside the Animal Mind by George Page , 1999 ISBN: 038549291X Is Your Cat Crazy?: Solutions from the Casebook of a Cat Therapist by John C. Wright, Judi Wright Lashnits , 1996 ISBN: ???? The Mind's I by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett, Doug Hofstadter , 1985 ISBN: 0553345842 **** A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth by Samantha Weinberg , 2000 ISBN: 0060932856 **** Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code by Matthew Cobb , 2015 ISBN-10: 0465062679 Of Flies, Mice, and Men by Francois Jacob , 1999 ISBN: ???? Cradle of Life by J. William Schopf , 1999 ISBN: ???? Lifelines: Biology Beyond Determinism by Steven Rose , 1998 ISBN: ???? Science As a Way of Knowing: The Foundations of Modern Biology by John A. Moore ISBN: ???? Alternate Realities: How Science Shapes Our Vision of the World by Joel Davis , 1997 ISBN: ???? Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics by Amir D. Aczel ISBN: ???? Doubt and Certainty: The Celebrated Academy : Debates on Science ... by Tony Rothman, George Sudarshan , 1999 ISBN: 0738201693 **** The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty by Robert P. Crease , Alfred Scharff Goldhaber , 2014 Our Cosmic Habitat by Martin J. Rees , 2001 ISBN: 0691089264 Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History by Canyon Sam , 2009 ISBN: 029598953X Sounds of the River: A Memoir by Da Chen , 2002 ISBN: 0060199253 **** (& China's Son : Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution) North Atlantic Civilization at War: The World War II Battles of Sky, Sand, Snow, Sea, and Shore by Patrick L. Hatcher ISBN: 0765601354 Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics by Paul Ormerod , 2006 ISBN: 0375424059 **** Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor by Hali Felt , 2012 And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind: A Natural History of Moving Air by Bill Streever , 2016 Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons , 2016 The Perfect Store: Inside eBay by Adam Cohen ISBN: 0316150487 Piloting Palm: The Inside Story of Palm, Handspring and the Birth of the Billion Dollar Handheld Industry by Andrea Butter, David Pogue , 2002 ISBN: 0471089656; Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives by George Lakoff, Howard Dean (Foreword) , 2004 ISBN: 1931498717 Elephants Can't Dance by Lou Gerstner , 2002 ISBN: 0060523794 Antarctica, the Last Continent by Kim Heacox , 1998 Explorations; My Quest for Adventure and Discovery Under the Sea by Robert D. Ballard, Malcolm McConnell , 1995 ISBN: ???? The Eternal Darkness by Robert D. Ballard , 2000 ISBN: 069109554X ***** Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, Annette Lawrence Drew , 1998 ISBN: ???? Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power Hardcover by Dan Hurley , 2013 ISBN-10: 1594631271 Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions by Susan R. Barry , 2009 ISBN: 0465009131 The Second Law of Life: Energy, Technology, and the Future of Earth As We Know It by John E.J. Schmitz , 2007 ISBN: 0815515375 How Math Explains the World: A Guide to the Power of Numbers, from Car Repair to Modern Physics by James D. Stein , 2008 The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos by Leonard Mlodinow , 2015 The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow , 2008 ISBN: 0375424040 The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century by David Salsburg , 2001 ISBN: 0716741067 Chances Are: Adventures in Probability by Michael Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan , 2006 ISBN: 0670034878 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner , 2005 ISBN: 0061234001 Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody by William Poundstone , 2014 ISBN-10: 0316228060 Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design by Alvin E. Roth , 2015 ISBN-10: 0544291131 Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) by William Poundstone , 2010 ISBN: 080909469X Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-year .. Black-Scholes ... George G. Szpiro , 2011 ISBN: 0465022480 Fortune's Formula by William Poundstone , 2005 ISBN: 0809046377 Geniuses at War : Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age by David Price The Things We Make : The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans by Bill Hammack , 2023 How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World by Suzie Sherry Chip War : The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller The Founders : The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley by Jimmy Soni How the Mountains Grew : A New Geological History of North America by John Dvorak Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science by Aubrey Clayton , 2021 The Man from the Future : The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya ***** Hunter Gatherers Guide by Brett Weinstein Meteorite: How Stones from Outer Space Made Our World by Tim Gregory Genius Makers by Cade Metz Gravitational Waves by Brian Clegg The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova ***** Alchemy: The Dark Art & Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, & Life by Rory Sutherland ***** Origins by Lewis Dartnell Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman ***** The Story of Earth 25 Rocks by D. Prothero How to Fail at Almost Everything by Scott Adams The Calculus Story by David Acheson AI Superpowers by Kai Fu Lee The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson Where the Wild Coffee Grows by J. Koehler Flash Boys by Michael Lewis , 2014 ISBN: 0393244660 Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis , 2006 ISBN: 039306123X ***** Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World Michael Lewis , 2012 ISBN: 0393343448 Moneyball by Michael Lewis , 2003 ISBN: 0393057658 The New New Thing by Michael Lewis , 1999 ISBN: 0140296468 **** Kidding Ourselves: The Hidden Power of Self-Deception by Joseph T. Hallinan , 2014 Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler , 2015 Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions by Gerd Gigerenzer , 2014 ISBN: 0670025658 The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600 by Alfred W. Crosby ISBN: 0521639905 Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen ISBN: 0684818868 Marriage and Civilization: How Monogamy Made Us Human Hardcover by William Tucker , 2014 ISBN-10: 1621572013 Marriage Shock: The Transformation of Women into Wives by Dalma Heyn , 1997 ISBN: ???? How to Make Anyone Fall in Love With You by Leil Lowndes , 1997 ISBN: 0809229897 Glamour Addiction: Inside the American Ballroom Dance Industry by Juliet McMains . Wesleyan University Press 2006 ISBN: 0819567744 Kiss and Tango: Looking for Love in Buenos Aires by Marina Palmer , 2005 ISBN: 0060742925 The Curse of the Singles Table by Suzanne Schlosberg ISBN: 0446690546 Husbandry: Sex, Love & Dirty Laundry--Inside the Minds of Married Men by Stephen Fried , 2007 ISBN: 0553806653 Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me about ... by Dinesh D'Souza , 2015 ISBN-10: 0062366718 Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? by Morgan Spurlock , 2008 ISBN: 1400066522 Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia by Carmen Bin Ladin , 2004 ISBN: 0446577081 Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War by Joe Bageant , 2007 ISBN: 030733936X God And Country: How Evangelicals Have Become America's New Mainstream by Monique El-faizy , 2006 ISBN: 1582345198 The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science by Tom Bethell , 2005 ISBN: 089526031X China Dawn: The Story of a Technology and Business Revolution by David Sheff , 2002 ISBN: 0060005998 The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer by Charles J. Murray ISBN: 0471048852 Game Over; How Nintendo Conquered the World by David Sheff ISBN: 0679736220 **** The Chunnel: The Amazing Story of the Undersea Crossing of the English Channel by Drew Fetherston , 1997 ISBN: 0812921984 Defining Vision: The Battle for the Future of Television by Joel Brinkley , 1998 ISBN: ???? Turning the Tables: Restaurants from the Inside Out by Steven A. Shaw , 2005 ISBN: 0060737808 Go Long!: My Journey Beyond the Game and the Fame by Jerry Rice with Brian Curtis , 2007 ISBN: 0345496116 -- Fiction: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel Zevin, Gabrielle , 2014 Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel Robin Sloan , 2012 Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson , 1999 ISBN: 0380788624 ***** The Diamond Age (A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer) by Neal Stephenson ISBN: 0553573314 ***** Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson ISBN: 0553562614 Interface by Stephen Bury (N. Stephenson?) ISBN: ???? Mathematicians in Love by Rudy Rucker , 2006 ISBN: 076531584X Frek and the Elixir by Rudy Rucker , 2004 ISBN: 0765310589 Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension by Rudy Rucker , 2002 ISBN: 0765303663 First Kyu by Sung-Hwa Hong , 1999 ISBN: 0964479699 A Dance for Emilia by Peter S. Beagle , 2000 ISBN: 0451458001 Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C. S. Lewis ISBN: 0156904365 ***** The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis ISBN: ???? ***** - The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod , 1985 ISBN: 0465021212 A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Gordon Malkiel ISBN: ???? **** The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need by Andrew P. Tobias ISBN: ???? How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff ISBN: ???? Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships by Eric, M.D. Berne ISBN: 0345410033 Language in Thought and Action by S. I. Hayakawa ISBN: 0156482401 -- -- -- -- -- Some Textbooks and Reference Books: Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham , 1999 ISBN: 0198534469 A Technical Introduction to Digital Video by Charles A. Poynton ISBN: 047112253X The Mac Bathroom Reader by Owen W. Linzmayer ISBN: 0782115314 The Complete Palmpilot Guide by Calvin O. Parker ISBN: 1558285865 Sams Teach Yourself Palm Programming in 24 Hours by Gavin Maxwell, Brad Jones , 1999 ISBN: 0672316110 -- -- -- -- -- Books, as of yet unread/unfinished my me, but which look very promising : The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It by Philip Ball , 2010 ISBN: 0199754276 The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Practices Bryan Caplan , 2007 ISBN: 0691129428 The Myths of Innovation Scott Berkun , 2007 ISBN: 0596527055 Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind V. S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee , 1998 ISBN: 0688152473 Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation David Huron , 2006 ISBN: 0262083450 Music, the Brain & Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination Robert Jourdain , 1998 -- -- -- -- -- I found many of these books on Amazon.com . If you enjoyed this reading list, please use this URL to find and buy books at Amazon.com : and I could end up with some gift certificates (for more books!) from your referral. Thanks! -- - 2023Dec06 Copyright 1998-2023 rhn AT nicholson DOT com http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/home.html