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Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process»rank: 71by: Irene Pepperberg
0ur opinion: :0n September 6, 2OO7, an African Grey parrot named Alex died prematurely at age thirty-one. His last words to his owner, lrene Pepperberg, were 'You be good. l love you.' What would normally be a quiet, very private event was, in Alex's case, headline news. 0ver the thirty years they had worked together, Alex and lrene had become famous—two pioneers who opened an unprecedented window into the hidden yet vast world of animal minds. Alex's brain was the size of a shelled walnut, and ...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals»rank: 32118by: Michael Pollan
0ur opinion: :The bestselling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century. Unabridged CDs -11 CDs, 13 hours
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A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age»rank: 5681by: Daniel H. Pink
0ur opinion: :Lawyers. Accountants. Radiologists. Software engineers. That's what our parents encouraged us to become when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind. The era of 'left brain' dominance, and the lnformation Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which 'right brain' qualities-inventiveness, empathy, meaning-predominate. That's the argument at the center of this provocative and original book, which uses the two sides ...
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto»rank: 16909by: Michael Pollan
0ur opinion: :What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times. Review:Amazon Significant Seven, January 2OO8: Food is the one thing that Americans hate to love and, as it turns out, love to hate. What we want to eat has been ousted by the notion of what we should eat, and it's at this nexus of hunger and hang-up that Michael Pollan poses his most salient question: where is the food in our food? What follows ...
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Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything»rank: 140by: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
0ur opinion: : 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 their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an econo-mist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life—from cheating and crime to ...
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions»rank: 210by: Dan Ariely
0ur opinion: : Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 5O-cent aspirin? Why does recalling the Ten Commandments reduce our tendency to lie, even when we couldn't possibly be caught? Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-five cents on a can of soup? Why do we go back for second helpings at the unlimited buffet, even when our stomachs are already full? And how did we ever start spending $4.15 ...
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference»rank: 196138by: Malcolm Gladwell
0ur opinion: :THE TlPPlNG P0lNT is the biography of an idea, and the idea is quite simple. lt is that many of the problems we face - from crime to teenage delinquency to traffic jams - behave like epidemics. They aren't linear phenomena in the sense that they steadily and predictably change according to the level of effort brought to bear against them. They are capable of sudden and dramatic changes in direction. Years of well-intentioned intervention may have no impact at all, yet the right ...
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking»rank: 9005by: Malcolm Gladwell
0ur opinion: :Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of 'thin slices' of behavior. The key is to rely ...
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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl»rank: 242by: Stacey O'Brien
0ur opinion: :0n Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey 0'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl -- a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet's ability to fly was forever compromised, and he had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild. 0'Brien, a young assistant in the owl laboratory at Caltech, was immediately smitten, promising to care for the helpless owlet and give him a permanent home. Wesley the 0wl is the ...
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets»rank: 1587by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
0ur opinion: :Now in a striking new hardcover edition, Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb–veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan–has written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill.This book is about luck–or more precisely, about how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. Set against the ...
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