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Shapeshifting: Techniques for Global and Personal Transformation 30 reviews
John Perkins
Destiny Books, 1997
Read everything John writes.
+ Highly recommended
+ Great Book!
+ A fascinating read
+ An Amazing Journey
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Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language and Life
Jeremy Campbell
Simon & Schuster, 1982
This book succeeds in its stated intention of giving an overview of the development of information theory. Human beings are "decoders" who interpret information. Scientific theories are human creations seeking to enlighten. The author explains a basic explanation from information theory, i.e., that "in an ordinary conversation, information is conveyed when the speaker says something that changes ...
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness330 reviews
Kay Redfield Jamison
Vintage, 1996
Kay Jamisons credentials
+ An Unquiet Mind
+ Really Helps to Understand
I'd just like to correct something is one of the reviews.
Kay Jamison is not a psychiatrist. She is a psychologist who heads a psychiatric department. If you have read this book, you know that.
I've read over a dozen books on Bipolar Disorder. Being Bipolar myself, I really felt a kinship ...
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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention22 reviews
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Harper Perennial, 1997
The Real Facts About Creative People
+ Interesting
+ Excellent book
+ Long and deep but very interesting
+ A book for all psychology majors
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography 252 reviews
Simon Singh
Anchor, 2000
Cryptography 101
+ Excellent reading on evolution of cryptography
+ Excellent
+ Solve any Enigma
+ excellent
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Thunderstruck 152 reviews
Erik Larson
Three Rivers Press, 2007
An Artful Reconstruction of History
+ "More than a saga of violence"
A wonderful, exciting, and vivid look at what life may have been like for and in the time of Guglielmo Marconi, (often cited as the inventor of but, more accurately, the first to successfully commercialize wireless communication). The author painstakingly reconstructs many events in Marconi's life ...
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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos68 reviews
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Simon & Schuster, 1992
A superb account of the emergence of the science of Emergent Complexity.
+ If you liked Gleick's Chaos, you'll love this!
This is a brilliant and riveting account of the birth of the science of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute told in the form of detailed and human biographical profiles of some the leading scientific voices in the movement. Some reviewers here have complained that this isn't a book of science, ...
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In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India58 reviews
Edward Luce
Anchor, 2008
A Giant's Untapped Potential
+ Wondering About India: Palimpsest or Pentimento?
+ Great primer on what makes India tick
+ Great perspective - very honest view of India.
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Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise10 reviews
Manfred Schroeder
W. H. Freeman, 1992
A comprehensive introduction to chaos in two levels
+ A Chaotic Heaven
+ Great Math Book
+ For the uninitiated!.--Fun too!
+ Best book on chaos
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Kitchen Table Wisdom 10th Anniversary13 reviews
Rachel Naomi Remen
Riverhead Trade, 2006
Must Reading
+ Naomi
+ Kitchen Table Wisdom by Rachel Naomi Remen
+ Wow!!
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul92 reviews
Karen Abbott
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008
I Love the Naughty Ladies
+ History lesson + page turning tale of scandal, devotion and two sisters way ahead of their time
+ Ghosts in the Loop
+ CANNOT PUT IT DOWN
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Never Let Me Go 193 reviews
Kazuo Ishiguro
Vintage, 2006
Won't ever fade
+ Will stay with you for days
+ Sensitive, ultimately credible
"...complaining about how memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading. I lost Ruth, and I lost Tommy, but I won't lose my memories of them."
For a novel that packs so much broiling ...
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Thunderstruck152 reviews
Erik Larson
Three Rivers Press, 2007
An Artful Reconstruction of History
+ "More than a saga of violence"
A wonderful, exciting, and vivid look at what life may have been like for and in the time of Guglielmo Marconi, (often cited as the inventor of but, more accurately, the first to successfully commercialize wireless communication). The author painstakingly reconstructs many events in Marconi's life ...
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography252 reviews
Simon Singh
Anchor, 2000
Cryptography 101
+ Excellent reading on evolution of cryptography
+ Excellent
+ Solve any Enigma
+ excellent
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Kitchen Table Wisdom 10th Anniversary13 reviews
Rachel Naomi Remen
Riverhead Trade, 2006
Must Reading
+ Naomi
+ Kitchen Table Wisdom by Rachel Naomi Remen
+ Wow!!
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In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India58 reviews
Edward Luce
Anchor, 2008
A Giant's Untapped Potential
+ Wondering About India: Palimpsest or Pentimento?
+ Great primer on what makes India tick
+ Great perspective - very honest view of India.
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Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language and Life
Jeremy Campbell
Simon & Schuster, 1982
This book succeeds in its stated intention of giving an overview of the development of information theory. Human beings are "decoders" who interpret information. Scientific theories are human creations seeking to enlighten. The author explains a basic explanation from information theory, i.e., that "in an ordinary conversation, information is conveyed when the speaker says something that changes ...
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Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise10 reviews
Manfred Schroeder
W. H. Freeman, 1992
A comprehensive introduction to chaos in two levels
+ A Chaotic Heaven
+ Great Math Book
+ For the uninitiated!.--Fun too!
+ Best book on chaos
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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention22 reviews
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Harper Perennial, 1997
The Real Facts About Creative People
+ Interesting
+ Excellent book
+ Long and deep but very interesting
+ A book for all psychology majors
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness330 reviews
Kay Redfield Jamison
Vintage, 1996
Kay Jamisons credentials
+ An Unquiet Mind
+ Really Helps to Understand
I'd just like to correct something is one of the reviews.
Kay Jamison is not a psychiatrist. She is a psychologist who heads a psychiatric department. If you have read this book, you know that.
I've read over a dozen books on Bipolar Disorder. Being Bipolar myself, I really felt a kinship ...
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