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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (2012)

He argues that the drug industry is corrupted and it's corruption trickles over into the lives of doctors and patients, causing harm to everybody. According to what he brought to the table in his book, I would wholeheartedly agree. This book opened my eyes to the dirt of an industry drugs are and...

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (2012) by Ben Goldacre
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Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won (2011)

Review carried forward from Facebook wall.I just finished Scorecasting, a short but interesting book that is a must-read for sports fans who love statistics and the truth behind the clichés. It’s kinda the sports equivalent to Freakanomics (also highly recommended), teasing the truth out of numbe...

Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won (2011) by Tobias J. Moskowitz
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Make Good Art (2013)

Neil Gaiman: great speech, good advice, honest, accepting of the conventional and unconventional, and simple.Chip Kidd: love the layouts, varying from simple to a little less simple, beautiful and uncomplicated color palette, interesting, creative, and just laid out well. A cute little book. Thou...

Make Good Art (2013) by Neil Gaiman
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The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles (2010)

I loved reading this book. As a huge Harry Potter fan, this collection of short essays was fascinating. In this book the writers captured the deeper questions of the Potter books and films and compared them to the work of great philosophers ranging from Socrates to William James. I love that the ...

The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles (2010) by Gregory Bassham
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Mornings in Jenin (2010)

Very interesting to read a historical story from the Palestinian perspective this book left a feeling in me so strong, I can't even explain it

Mornings in Jenin (2010) by Susan Abulhawa
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The Art of Thinking Clearly (2011)

Ich habe dieses Buch von meiner ehemaligen Lehrerin geschenkt bekommen und habe es innerhalb von einem Tag verschlungen, es hat also ganz genau meinen Geschmack getroffen.Zum Einen finde ich die Denkfehler, auf welche Dobelli hinweist, sehr interessant, auch, wenn man bedenkt, dass einem gar nich...

The Art of Thinking Clearly (2011) by Rolf Dobelli
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Why Does E=mc²? (And Why Should We Care?) (2009)

Este libro trata de intriducirnos a lo que es la Teoría de la Relatividad. Si bien es cierto que hay explicaciones que las hace bien, el conjunto del libro no ha sido del todo de mi agrado. He sacado de él algunas ideas, pero no creo que quien no sepa nada de relatividad pueda entender demasiado ...

Why Does E=mc²? (And Why Should We Care?) (2009) by Brian Cox
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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012)

The book is a collection of articles written by scientists who explain how to improve our cognitive toolkits. Rather than improve my cognitive tool kit I just want to point out what I found of interest in the book. Strangers apparently find people more likable and form good first impressions if...

This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) by John Brockman
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Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average (2009)

I've read many books about cognitive errors, memory mishaps, why we can't navigate, and so on. This is one of the better ones. For one thing, I like the way the chapters are organized by causes of mistakes: "We Skim", "We'd Rather Wing It", and "Men Shoot First" are three examples. I also like th...

Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average (2009) by Joseph T. Hallinan
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2011)

What happens when a government or NGO infuses large sums into a third world country? The answer -- lots happens. If there is a poor governmental or regulatory structure, some persons become inordinately wealthy by siphoning off funds, some organizations benefit at least for the short term, someti...

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2011) by Abhijit V. Banerjee
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Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (2011)

I couldn't over come the cynicism that drips from this book. I should have gathered from the title, but it really describes how much better games can make our real world. Sure, but the real world isn't broken, because if its was then nothing anyone could do would be able to effect it. Also a lot ...

Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (2011) by Jane McGonigal
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Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will (2009)

This is probably the best book about knowing God's will that I have read to date. It is not nearly as comprehensive as Garry Friessen's "Decision Making and the Will of God," but I think that is a good thing as Friessen's book tended to be very repetitive, seemed to get bogged down in minutia at...

Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will (2009) by Kevin DeYoung
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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women (2000)

As an Australian, it was difficult to align the information regarding American statistics and policies with my own experiences as a young woman. I obviously didn't want to dismiss examples given just because they didn't apply to me, but I found myself skimming certain sections? I also wish this b...

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women (2000) by Jessica Valenti
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The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World (2010)

Well, I really liked this book but I do think you should approach it with caution. There are many interesting ideas in it, I found it profoundly inspiring and I really liked the idea of living your life in freedom, living it the way you wanna live it, even If it doesn't go with the conventions th...

The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World (2010) by Chris Guillebeau
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Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions (2012)

One of the things I love most about Lysa TerKeurst is how she is able to relate to other women with her struggles which are our struggles as well. Her writing is transparent and based on real-life examples. I previously read her book, Crave, which I loved. Unglued was very good as well ... the...

Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions (2012) by Lysa TerKeurst