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 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! -- - 2017Nov20 Copyright 1998-2017 rhn AT nicholson DOT com http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/home.html