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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...