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The Irrational Season (The Crosswicks Journal, Book 3)
Madeleine L'engle
HarperOne, 1984
An excellent, spiritual book for people who think
I have been a fan of Madeleine L'Engle since I discovered A Wrinkle in Time in the 5th grade. As an adult, I have come to appreciate her non-fiction and adult novels. Irrational Season is probably the best of her non-fiction. The story follows the litergical year and ...
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The Bondage BreakerŪ: Overcoming *Negative Thoughts *Irrational Feelings *Habitual Sins
Neil T. Anderson
Harvest House Publishers, 2006
Incredible resource for healing
The Bondage Breaker by Neil T. Anderson is a tough book for Christians. Many don't want to acknowledge the active spirit world or Satan or demons as real forces within it, because it seems illogical. Christianity has enough of a fight in today's culture without adding ...
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Rational Investing in Irrational Times : How to Avoid the Costly Mistakes Even Smart People Make Today
Larry E. Swedroe, 2002
Asset Allocate with Index Securities
Modern portfolio theory (MPT) has an aggressive advocate in Larry E. Swedroe's RATIONAL INVESTING IN IRRATIONAL TIMES. Investors are advised to stick with index funds, tax managed funds, or exchange traded funds (ETF) and allocate across a range of asset classes. This ...
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Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
William Barrett
Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1962
Between the immediate and the theoretical
Nothing is more exhausting than the search for meaning. Every question has a thousand answers, each claiming to be correct. And each can be challenged by a thousand objections. Evermore we come out the same door as in we went, and return to -- ourselves. We alone are ...
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Dan Ariely
HarperCollins, 2008
Enlightening as well as entertaining
Some books are engaging, easy to read and understand; others contain solid and rigorous empirical thinking. Often the most entertaining books contain dubious content and many with the best content can be deadly dense and boring. But a few books are both engaging and ...
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Irrational Exuberance
Robert J. Shiller
Doubleday Business, 2006
Want to be smarter?
read the book.
It will open your eyes to the 'truths' of wall street.
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Don't Drink The Kool-Aid: Oprah, Obama and the Occult
Carrington Steele
CreateSpace, 2008
...and sponsored by the number 7
This book was AWESOME--definitely the best thing I've read in the last hour!
It clearly explains how everything starting with the letter "O" is a tool of Satan and how American society has been completely duped into allowing this evil letter to precede so many words ...
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Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
Ori Brafman, Rom Brafman
Doubleday Business, 2008
definitely worth checking out.
i read ori's previous book starfish and the spider which was a bit all over the place but an interesting look at how decentralized organizations succeed. i was excited to get his new book and was not disappointed. he is like the newer version of malcolm gladwell, tying ...
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The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
Tim Harford
Random House, 2008
Logical Economics
If you enjoyed Freakonomics by Stephen Levitt you will love this book. The author will take you below the surface of reality and show why things are the way they are. This book does have some shocking things. (Like why oral sex increased dramatically among teenagers in ...
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The Greeks and the Irrational (Sather Classical Lectures)
E. R. Dodds
University of California Press, 2004
Those Crazy Greeks
Dodds introduces his material with an anecdote of a young man he met in the British Museum who confessed his inability to get excited about the Elgin Marbles, because, after all, the Greeks were so "terribly rational." Dodds then poses the question, "[w]ere the Greeks ...
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Emotional Branding : How Successful Brands Gain the Irrational Edge
Daryl Travis
Crown Business, 2000
It's Almost Everything
Emotional Branding is many things, but it's not everything. It's not boring. It's not without insight. It's not heavy (weight-wise, that is). It doesn't even give you the impression that you're trudging through another business book. It's definitely not disappointing. ...
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Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
Rakesh Khurana
Princeton University Press, 2004
Packed with Knowledge!
Charisma and reputation have replaced management experience and industry expertise in the corner office. Certainly that's not news to anyone who has read the business press at any time in the past decade, but the trend is certainly important enough to warrant the ...
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Numbers: Rational and Irrational (New Mathematical Library)
Ivan Morton Niven
Mathematical Assn of America, 1961
A Compact History of Numbers
In this concise [only 140 pages] presentation of the number system, Professor Niven parallels its historical development from ancient origins in counting to twentieth-century theorems on transcendental numbers, always with clear explanations, and without belaboring the ...
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Irrational Man-A Study in Existential Philosophy
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1962
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Ending the Management Illusion: How to Drive Business Results Using the Principles of Behavioral Finance
Hersh Shefrin
McGraw-Hill, 2008
The bestselling author of Beyond Greed and Fear puts behavioral concepts into corporate practice Psychologically smart companies manage both the pluses and minuses of human psychology through well-structured systems and processes. In Ending the Management Illusion , behavioral finance pioneer Hersh Shefrin addresses the biases that can ...
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