Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has
to offer the interested reader, while a 'Speed Read' for each book
delivers a quick sense of what each book is like to read and a
highly compressed summary of the main points of the book in
question. The titles covered include thought-provoking classics on
psychology, mindfulness, rationality, the brain, mathematical and
economic thought and practical philosophy. The selection includes
books about self-improvement as well as historically interesting
accounts of how the mind works. Titles included go back as far as
the Epictetus classic The Enchiridion and Bertrand Russell's
charming The ABC of Relativity, and proceed through classics such
as Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking and into the digital era with
titles such as The Shallows and Big Data. The books are arranged
chronologically, which draws attention to some of the interesting
juxtapositions and connections between them. Some of the titles
included are: Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt; Blink: The Power
of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell; Sapiens: A Brief
History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari; The Organized Mind:
Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload, by Daniel J.
Levitin; The Descent of Man, by Grayson Perry; How the Mind Works,
by Steven Pinker; Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn
from Their Mistakes - But Some Do, by Matthew Syed; We Should All
Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Guns, Germs, and Steel:
The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond; The Black Swan: The
Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb; Man's
Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl; The News: A User's Manual,
by Alain de Botton; Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking, by Richard
E. Nisbett; The ABC of Relativity, by Bertrand Russell; The
Psychopath Test, by Jon Ronson; The Path: What Chinese Philosophers
Can Teach Us About the Good Life, by Michael Puett; A Brief History
of Time, by Stephen Hawking; Messy: The Power of Disorder to
Transform Our Lives, by Tim Harford; Big Data: A Revolution That
Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, by Viktor
Mayer-Schoenberger; Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,
by Michael Lewis; The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science That
Could Save Your Life, by Ben Sherwood; Black Box Thinking, by
Matthew Syed; Chaos: Making a New Science, by James Gleick; A Short
History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson; The Shallows: What
the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr; Making Ideas
Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality, by
Scott Belsky; The Enchiridion, by Epictetus; Goedel, Escher, Bach,
by Douglas R. Hofstadter; What I Talk About When I Talk About
Running, by Haruki Murakami; and Lateral Thinking, by Edward de
Bono.
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