Showing posts with label Book Club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book Club. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete

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The Long Run is an emotional and incredibly honest story about Matt's determination to fight through fear, despair, loneliness, and in...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Book Podcast of the Day

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Why Cities Rock Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier . By Edward Glae...

Loaning Electronic Books

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Interesting feature on Amazon- I've always thought one disadvantage of electronic books is that you can't share a good book with you...

Kindle needs lots of improvement

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Go figure : Figure 1 below- which one is from Kindle and which one's from the book? The book is Singapore's Success: Engineering ...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

July Book Club

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Let us hear if any of you're reading the list for July .
Sunday, June 6, 2010

“The meaning of life is that it ends”- Kafka

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Just finished reading the book ' How Doctors Think ' by Jerome Groopman. Came across two moving stories from the NYT- I recommend ...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

LOGICOMIX

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Christos Papadimitriou at Google Related; Logicomix Algorithm and Blues
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Chutes and Ladders in Harlem

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A highly recommended podcast from EconTalk with Katherine Newman ,a sociologist at Princeton.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

One Author to read 2010- Orhan Pamuk

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Pamuk’s appeal has not been lost on politicians. Daniel Cohn-Bendit has credited Pamuk with helping him to ‘understand the importance of Tur...
Monday, December 28, 2009

When things go wrong in project managment!

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I'm starting to become a big fan of Scott Berkun ; 1. Calm down . Nothing makes a situation worse than basing your actions on fear, ange...
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Confessions of a Public Speaker- recommended by Tyler Cowen

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Tyler Cowen recommends: Scott Berkun , Confessions of a Public Speaker . If you get only one good tip from this book, it's worth it.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Political Islam 101

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The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Juan Cole comedycentral.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Mark Sanford Engagi...
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Monday, January 19, 2009

What I'm reading

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Outliers , by Malcolm Gladwell Kenneth Rogoff Interview , The Region Making Great Decisions in Business and Life , David R. Henderson
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Reading List on Middle East

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Middle East Studies Greatest Hits
Thursday, March 13, 2008

A Brief Economic History of the World

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A course on economic history using Greg Clark's book- taught by Barry Eichengreen- The Mastery of Nature:A Brief Economic History of th...
Thursday, January 10, 2008

To Do Lists Voyerism

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Book event at Google on To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soulmate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us , To-do List Blog
Monday, November 5, 2007

One Economics, Many Recipes

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Crooked Timber is planning on doing a seminar on Rodrik's One Economics, Many Recipes Related; Solow et al. make my weekend One economi...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

A Farewell to Alms-Why did the Industrial Revolution happen?

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All our readers are encouraged to participate in the book forum on the book at Marginal Revolution . Related Podcasts; Interview with author...
Saturday, August 18, 2007

Bayesian Heresy’s Friday Book Club

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I’m starting a new series- Fridays Book Club. Every week we would discuss a book on the blog- for the coming weeks it is The Prize by Danie...
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