George W Bush – 41 Portrait of my Father
This book is a “love story”, rather than a biography. George W Bush, the 43rd President of the United States wrote the book as a glimpse into the life of the 41st President of the United States, his father, George W H Bush. Not many…
The Psychopath Test – Jon Ronson
Without reading any reviews of the book, I assumed it would be a sort of how-to book, or at least some connection with criminal profiling in a way that it leaves you with some good takeaways. The book is actually about the famous psychopath test…
Mating in Captivity – Esther Perel
Esther Perel begins her 2006 best-seller by sharing her experiences as a psychotherapist. Did you ever go to a party and ask people about their sex lives? She did. In “Mating in Captivity”, she popularizes the concept of Erotic Intelligence. She also tries to convince…
Give and Take – Adam Grant
“Give and take” is a refreshing new look on what it takes to succeed in a professional life. Books researching success usually end up being too heavy on the processes behind it or they zoom in into some desirable traits or habits that successful people…
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness – R Thaler, C Sunstein
Reading Richard Thaler’s – Nudge opened my eyes on some kick-ass concepts, or at least getting a different angle from some traditional concepts. The first one is “choice architects”- a term coined by the author, which is a mix of statistician and marketing expert. In…
This Changes Everything – Naomi Klein
Charles David Keeling is the first person that alerted the world of the possibility of anthropogenic contribution to the greenhouse effect. He set up to measure the CO2 levels in the mid-1950s first in the Yosemite Park, then on top of Mauna Loa. He was…
The Third Plate – Dan Barber
Trickle down system for our food I’ve started reading this book after having been through plenty of similar ones in the past – books about crop rotation, impact of mono-cultures on soil, impact of soil in the relationship between fertilizers and the lack of in organic…
The Perfect Protein – A Sharpless S Evans
I read this book immediately after finishing Paul Greenberg’s Four Fish. It opened up a new area of interest, reading about ocean ecosystems and our efforts to stabilize what is currently a failing ecosystem. Growing up and later living in landlocked cities, I’ve always felt…
Four Fish: The future of the last wild food – Paul Greenberg
Reading the book left me with a series of depressing conclusions. The first being that there are hardly any wild salmon left in the oceans, none at all in the Atlantic. There is no more wild salmon in the Atlantic. This in itself is hard…
Crossing The Chasm – Geoffrey A Moore
Change is a constant and as much of a contradiction this is, this saying that originally came from the ancient Greeks (Heraclitus, a Greek Philosopher is credited for it) has two layers to it. The “constant” refers to the overall timeline while the “change” part…
Boomerang – Michael Lewis
I remember asking one of my friends about the financial crisis of 2008 as it was happening. She was doing a PhD in Economics at that time and I asked if she knew what the crises is about and how to fix it. She…
Tribal Leadership – Dave Logan
Tribal leadership is one of those books that is recommended by and to everyone that needed at some point to improve their leadership skills. It’s one of those rare books that is based on actual research, rather than wishful thinking of what should happen but…
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