books about: errors     books:     Errors      The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek) F. A. Hayek University Of Chicago Press, 1991 Politicians should read this book I first read The Fatal Conceit back in 1991, after reading Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. I reread the book in 2007 while commuting back and forth to California's state capital in my capacity as a state assemblyman. Needless to say, the book's profound critique of ...             Common Errors in English Usage Paul Brians William James & Company, 2003 Help for Writers This book provides help with common language usage questions. As an engineer working for the federal government, writing is a large part of my job. I keep this book next to my computer, and rely on it frequently. The "word in question" and the "correct/incorrect" ...             Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain Antonio Damasio Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005 Wonderful Intro to Cognitive Neuroscience. This book served as my introduction to the world of cognitive neuroscience. Written in a hybrid story-explanation form unique to Damasio, this book shows how much is known about how our mind operates and how we know it. As indicated in the title, it also describes a ...             Why Good People Do Bad Things: How to Stop Being Your Own Worst Enemy Debbie Ford HarperOne, 2008 Shame sells!!!! Being a not so avid reader, this latest book by Debbie Ford has proven to keep me reading. I truly wanted to know how to stop being my own worse enemy, and i did! My favorite part is where she goes into detail on the different "masks" that people wear to hide who they ...             Clean, Well-Lighted Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Avoiding the Most Common Errors in Grammar and Punctuation Janis Bell W. W. Norton, 2008 Very good and an easy read This is a nice book, pleasure reading and learning something that I can use on almost a daily basis. I haven't been in an English class for A LONG TIME but I need to write for work every day. This book has truly helped me to write more clearly and stop making some of ...             Try to Remember: Psychiatry's Clash over Meaning, Memory, and Mind Paul R. McHugh Dana Press, 2008 In the 1990s a disturbing trend emerged in psychotherapy: patients began accusing their parents and other close relatives of sexual abuse, as a result of false ?recovered memories? urged onto them by therapists practicing new methods of treatment. The subsequent loss of public confidence in psychotherapy was devastating to psychiatrist Paul R. ...             Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking Thomas E. Kida Prometheus Books, 2006 Regarding Pseudoscience, 2006: One of my favorite quotes from this book: "why do we hold many pseudoscientific beliefs? Probably the main reason is that we want to believe them. As the noted astronomer Carl Sagan observed, pseudoscience and other weird beliefs often meet our emotional needs ...             Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things Madeleine L. Van Hecke Prometheus Books, 2007 Get ...and stay...Smart! If every person in a position of responsibility read this book, perhaps there would be fewer catastrophes! Granted, there are so many things at play in complex situations, a mere human may not be able to change entire outcomes. However, there are so many stupid ...             Trowel and Error: Over 700 Tips, Remedies and Shortcuts for the Gardener Sharon Lovejoy Workman Publishing Company, 2002 a must have This is a great "sitting by the garden" book. I have learned a lot, and it has reinforced some things I thought I already knew. Lots of great ideas, and I love the organic ways to take care of gardens/pests/etc.             Things That Make Us (Sic): The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar Takes on Madison Avenue, Hollywood, ... Martha Brockenbrough St. Martin's Press, 2008 Hilariously helpful guide to English spelling, grammar and usage. Like a one-woman vigilante, Martha Brockenbrough* exposes assorted crimes against the English language and offers crisp, witty advice on spelling, grammar, and usage to the offenders. Her favored tactic is the open letter, wherein she points out the mistakes in ...             The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations Dietrich Dorner Basic Books, 1997 A MUST READ! This book should be required in school. It's an easy read and a good introduction into how complicated our society has become and how quickly things can get out of control.             How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life Thomas Gilovich Free Press, 1993 Vulcans Should Read This Book Hello, my name is Mr. Spock. You may know me from the TV series StarTrek. For years I've been tormented by the illogic of humans. Let's face it, Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy are not the sharpest phasers in the intergalactic utility belt! Then I read Gilovich's ...             Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax" Philip C. Plait Wiley, 2002 Great book for us non-astronomy experts I bought this book expecting to read the usual stuff about why some people think that the moon landing was a hoax and how astrology doesnt really work (as explained on the cover). But i was suprised to learn about so many things that I actually thought really did exist ...             Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things Laurence Gonzales W. W. Norton, 2008 Stimulates thinking in new ways I was surprised by how negative some of the reviews of this book are. It seems that people who read Gonzales' previous book, Deep Survival, were disappointed in this one because they expected a very different kind of book. Not having read Deep Survival, I had no ...             The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (Economics, ... Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Steve Ziliak University of Michigan Press, 2008 Oh so needed! The message that I took from this book was two fold: 1) Queries into existence (does a relationship exist?) are metaphysical, not scientific. 2) Looking to the statistical significance of a relationship must be coupled with a look at the magnitude of the ...          products you might be interested in search for books fallibility, misconceptions, recognizing, significance, statistical, well-lighted      toavi.com    web we recommend a must have randomly chosen book: Computational Collective Intelligence