Articles in Not So Recent Reads
Title: Long for This World
Title: Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality by Jonathan Weiner
Publisher’s Summary
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Jonathan Weiner comes a fast-paced and astonishing scientific adventure story: has the long-sought secret of eternal …
Title: Being Wrong
Title: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz
Publisher’s Summary
To err is human. Yet most of us go through life assuming (and sometimes insisting) that we are right about nearly everything, from …
Title: Your Money or Your Life
Title: Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin
Publisher’s Summary
Now more than ever-given today’s uncertain economic climate-a transformed relationship with money is the …
Title: The Rational Optimist
Title: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
Publisher’s Summary
Life is getting better at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down all across …
Title: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Title: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain De Botton
Publisher’s Summary
We spend most of our waking lives at work – in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask …
Title: World War Z
Title: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
Publisher’s Summary
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences …
Title: The Talent Code
Title: The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Anything by Daniel Coyle
Publisher’s Summary
A New York Times best-selling author explores cutting-edge brain science to learn where talent …
Title: The Top 10 Distinctions Between Millionaires and the Middle Class
Title: The Top 10 Distinctions Between Millionaires and the Middle Class by Keith Cameron Smith 3
Publisher’s Summary
If you’re ready to take the journey to wealth and personal fulfillment, here’s your ticket. In this life-changing audiobook, …
Title: Poor People
Title: Poor People by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher’s Summary
As both a masterpiece of Russian populist writing and a parody of the entire genre, Poor People is an early example of Dostoevsky’s genius.
Written as a series of letters, …
Title: Animal Farm
Title: Animal Farm by George Orwell
Publisher’s Summary
George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture, quoted so often that we tend to forget who wrote the original words. …
Title: World War One
Title: World War One: A Short History by Norman Stone
Publisher’s Summary
In 1914, a new kind of war came about, bringing with it a new kind of world. World War One began on horseback, with generals …
Title: Sample Capitalism
Title: Sample Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction by James Fulcher
Publisher’s Summary
Capitalism deals with the issues that have preoccupied thinkers from Marx and Weber through to Cuddens and Soros. It examines not only issues of …
Title: Shame of the Nation
Author: Jonathan Kozol
Date: 09-Oct-05
Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he finds that conditions have grown worse for inner-city children in the 15 years since federal courts …
Title: New Rules
Author: Bill Maher
Date: 16-Sep-05
Bill Maher first came to national attention as the host of the hit Comedy Central and ABC-TV program Politically Incorrect, where he offered a combustible mixture of irreverence and acerbic humor that …
Title: The Problem of Pain
Author: C.S. Lewis
Date: 28-Aug-2005
For centuries Christians have been tormented by one question above all, “If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?”
My Thoughts: Not exactly earth shattering stuff, …
Title: Mere Christianity
Author: C.S. Lewis
Date: 9-Aug-2005
Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis’ forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books, The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and …
Title: The Owner's Manual
Authors: Michael F. Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
Date: 7-Jul-2005
You probably think you know a lot about the human body. The reality is that most of us know very little about this miraculous, …
Title: Freakonomics
Author: Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Date: 29-May-05
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with …
Title: The World is Flat
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Date: 05-May-2005
When scholars write the history of the world 20 years from now, and they come to the chapter “Y2K to March 2004”, what will they say was the most crucial development? …
Title: State of Fear
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Once again Michael Crichton gives us his trademark combination of page-turning suspense, cutting-edge technology, and extraordinary research. State of Fear is a superb blend of edge-of-your-seat suspense and thought provoking commentary on how information is …
Title: The Question of God
Author: Armand Nicholi, Jr
Date: 22 Feb- 2005
Renowned psychiatrist and educator Armand Nicholi presents a fascinating comparison of the beliefs of Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis. For all the variety of specific religious beliefs, there are …
Title: The Souls of Black Folks
Author: W.E.B. Dubois
Date: 22-Feb-2005
W.E.B. Du Bois said, on the launch of his groundbreaking 1903 treatise, The Souls of Black Folk, “for the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line”, a …
Title: The Motley Fool: You Have More than You Think
Author: David and Tom Gardner
Date: 22-Feb-02
Taking control of your personal finances is the first – and most important – step toward successful investing and a secure future. The Motley Fool You Have More Than You …
Title: The Motley Fool's What to Do With Your Money Now
Author: David and Tom Gardner
Date: 16-Jan-05
From the Wall Street investment banker to the single working mom, from the Silicon Valley venture capitalist to the Main Street small business owner, from the baby boomer fast approaching …
Title: The Millionaire Course
Author: Marc Allen
Date: 16-Jan-2005
The Millionaire Course offers a vast array of powerful principles, truths, and exercises that will lead inevitably to a career and life path that feeds your soul. The lessons within are filled …
Title: Work Less, Make More
Author: Jennifer White
Date: 21-Dec-04
If you’re tired of holding your breath, waiting for exactly the right moment to arrive before you can start living the life you really want, wondering when it will be …
Title: Financial Freedom
Author: Suze Orman
Date: 14-Dec-04
This practical, systematic approach to financial freedom is divided into three parts. The first one takes us back to our most formative experiences with money. We do this in order to break …
Title: Economics in One Lesson
Author: Heny Hazlitt
Date: 27-Nov-04
Called by H.L. Mencken, “one of the few economists in history who could really write,” Henry Hazlitt achieved lasting fame for his brilliant but concise work. In it, he explains basic …
Title: The Book of Investing Wisdom
Author: Warren Buffet, Jim Rogers and More
Date: 27-Nov-04
Listen to writings by Warren Buffet, Peter Lynch, George Soros, and other leading figures of finance. In their own words, these legends of Wall Street share their …
Title: Who Needs God
Author: Harold S. Kushner
Date: 20-Oct-04
In today’s high-pressure world the odds are that you may feel overwhelmed, dissatisfied or unable to cope with unforeseen problems in your life. Harold Kushner’s challenging philosophy has brought inspiration to …
