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No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart: The Surprising Deceptions of Individual Choice
Tom Slee
Between the Lines Productions, 2006
This Book is a Keeper
+ Good discussions of economic theory, mediocre at applying to real world
+ An orthodox economic rebuttal to the naive idea of consumer choice
+ The more interesting side of economics
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On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace
Dave Grossman, Loren W. Christensen
PPCT Research Publications, 2007
On Combat
+ Critical Primer for the Citizen Soldier
+ informative
+ An outstanding read, recommended for all warriors.
+ Dead ( no pun intended) On
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
David W. Anthony
Princeton University Press, 2007
Massive scholarship, generally convincing
+ Excellent Work!
+ The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
+ Well worth reading, but not worth reading ALL
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Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
Gary Klein
The MIT Press, 1999
How People Make Decisions and Lead Others
+ Very interesting to know how we can improve efficiency in our decision process
+ Staple Fire Service Text
+ pOWERFUL cONCEPT
+ How decisions are really made
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Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade (Council of Foreign ...
Jagdish Bhagwati
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
Jagdish Bhagwati, the internationally renowned economist who uniquely combines a reputation as the leading scholar of international trade with a substantial presence in public policy on the important issues of the day, shines here a critical light on Preferential Trade Agreements, revealing how the rapid spread of PTAs endangers the world trading system. Numbering by now well over 300, and ...
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Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
Ori Brafman, Rom Brafman
Doubleday Business, 2008
Great content, but is there better treatment of the subject elsewhere?
+ Too short, too far reaching, an okay book
+ Swayed...Yes I Am!
The Brothers Brafman chose a truly fascinating topic for their book: the irrationalities hard-wired into the human brain that can lead us to make poorer decisions than we might otherwise. A number of books have been written about this topic of late, and this one isn't bad, but it isn't the best, ...
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The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
Bryan Caplan
Princeton University Press, 2007
Wonderfully thought provoking.
+ Get a Copy Before It Disappears
This book is wonderfully thought provoking and can be summed up with an exhortation that Caplan uses near the end: "Democracy is a commons, not a market."
Under this thesis Caplan shows how economics would predict 'irrational' voter behavior even under the rational actor theory. Voters are no ...
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Radical Honesty, The New Revised Edition: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth
Brad Blanton
SparrowHawk Publications, 2005
Fantastic Book
+ Radical Honesty
+ Very likely the most important book I have read recently
+ handle with care
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Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle
Steven Vogel
W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
Fascinating book on the function of muscles in the body
+ Explains complex concepts simply
+ Prime Mover
+ Interesting history and natural history of muscle and muscle-powered tools, weapons, and vehicles
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Behavioural Investing: A Practitioners Guide to Applying Behavioural Finance (The Wiley Finance Series)
James Montier
Wiley, 2007
Montier really gives his industry a hard time
+ The Best Book on Investing I've Ever Read
+ One of the solid, no nonsense investment books
+ The investment bible for the next 50 years
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The World is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies, and Products That Are Fattening the Human Race
Barry Popkin
Avery, 2008
Fast Food Nation meets The World Is Flat in this eye-opening look at the obesity epidemic . Today, the planet’s 1.3 billion overweight people by far outnumber the 700 million who are undernourished. This figure would have seemed ludicrous just fifty years ago, when hunger was the world’s most pressing nutritional problem. In The World Is Fat , Barry Popkin argues that the fattening of the ...
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A Rulebook for Arguments
Anthony Weston
Hackett Pub Co Inc, 2000
Makes a terrible doorstop, so you may as well read it...
+ Argument: Well I say it's good!
+ Many Virtues, Just One Fault
+ Brilliant
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The Living Clock: The Orchestrator of Biological Rhythms
John D. Palmer
Oxford University Press, USA, 2002
Fairly entertaining book about scientific discovery.
Palmer explains that he wrote this book because so many people he encountered were interested in what he does as a marine biologist. In truth it is a book about scientific curiosity and the process of discovery. I won't give away the ending, found in the last chapter. Had Palmer's objective been ...
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Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture
Dale Allen Pfeiffer
New Society Publishers, 2006
We Need to Bring Back the Victory Garden
+ Very informative!
+ Crisis in Agriculture
I wish I had read this book last year, I would already have prepared a vegetable garden to plant this spring. I know about Peak Oil, etc. but this book really got my attention. It provides a clear explanation of how dependent our food supply is on fossil fuels. Higher and higher food prices are in ...
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More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want
Robert Engelman
Island Press, 2008
Trusting women and respecting history
+ Birth Control Can Save the World
+ More for kids, not more kids
+ An important read
+ Finally... a compassionate AND well reasoned approach to population and environment
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