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My Read Books

Sun Nov 22 18:35:44 2009

Just a list of books that I've read; this is mostly for my personal reference that I can access from anywhere and not something that is to be considered a guide to anyone :)

The list is a reverse-chronological order of the books I've read. It isn't meant to be of much value to other people, but feel free to look around.

  • The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor

    Author: Colin Tudge. ISBN: 978-0-316-07008-9

  • A Tear at The Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision For Life in an Imperfect Universe

    Author: Marcelo Gleiser. ISBN: 978-1-4391-0832-1

  • Why We Make Mistakes: How we look without seeing, forget things in seconds, and are all pretty sure we are way above average

    Author: Joseph T. Hallinan. ISBN: 978-0-7679-2806-9

  • The Most Human Human: What Talking With Computers Teaches Us About What It Means To Be Alive

    Author: Brian Christian. eISBN: 978-0-385-53307-2

  • The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and The Race to Discover The Rest of Reality

    Author: Richard Panek. ISBN: 978-0-618-98244-8

  • First Contact: Scientific breakthroughs in the hunt for life beyond Earth

    Author: Marc Kaufman. ISBN: 978-1-4391-0900-7

  • The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System

    Author: David Baker and Todd Ratcliff. ISBN: 978-0-674-04998-7

  • From Eternity to Here: The Quest For The Ultimate Theory of Time

    Author: Sean Carroll. ISBN: 978-0-525-95133-9

  • Freakonomicks: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

    Author: Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. ISBN: 978-0-06-179280-9

  • The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle The Red Planet and Why We Must

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    Author: Robert Zubrin with Richard Wagner. ISBN: 978-1-4516-0811-3

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  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

    Author: Stephen R. Covey. ISBN: 0-671-70863-5

  • Crime and Punishment

    Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • Marketing Led. Sales Driven: How Successful Businesses Use The Power of Marketing Plans and Sales Execution to Win in The Marketplace

    Author: Ajay K. Sirsi, Ph.D. ISBN: 1-4120-2178-2

  • Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count

    Author: Richard E. Nisbett. ISBN: 978-0-393-06505-3

  • Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe

    Author: Robert Lanza, MD and Bob Berman. ISBN: 978-1933771-69-4

  • This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

    Author: Daniel J. Levitin. ISBN: 978-0-452-28852-2

  • The Wealthy Barber: The Common Sense Guide to Successful Financial Planning

    Author: David Chilton. ISBN: 0-9683947-3-6

  • Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities

    Author: Jeffrey S. Rosenthal. ISBN: 978-0-00-639495-2

  • Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries

    Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson. ISBN: 978-0-393-33016-8

  • The Definitive Book of Body Language

    Author: Allan and Barbara Pease. ISBN: 978-0-553-80472-0

  • 57 Ways to Take Control of Your Time and Your Life

    Author: Jim Meisenheimer. ISBN: 0-9637479-4-0

  • How We Decide

    Author: Jonah Lehrer. ISBN: 978-0-618-62011-1

  • Reinventing Gravity: a Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein

    Author: John W. Moffat. ISBN: 978-0-88762-282-3

  • The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition

    Author: Richard Dawkins. ISBN: 978-0-19-929115-1

  • The God Effect: Quantum Entanglement, Science's Strangest Phenomenon

    Author: Brian Clegg. ISBN: 978-0-312-34341-5

  • The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search For Alien Intelligence

    Author: Paul Davies. ISBN: 978-0-547-42258-9

  • Body Language 101

    Author: David Lambert. ISBN: 978-1-60239-291-5

  • Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus: The Classic Guide To Understanding The Opposite Sex

    Author: John Gray, Ph.D. ISBN: 0-06-057421-6

  • Goals: The 10 Rules for Achieving Success

    Author: Gary Ryan Blair. ISBN: 978-1-60810-050-7

  • The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

    Author: Al Ries & Jack Trout. ISBN: 978-0-88-730666-2

  • Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition (Second Edition)

    Author: Jack Trout with Steve Rivkin. ISBN: 978-0-470-22339-0

  • Confidence: Finding It And Living It

    Author: Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D. ISBN: 1-56170-528-4

  • (fiction) Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

    Author: Edwin A. Abbott. ISBN: 1-59102-296-7

  • The Quirks & Quarks Guide To Space: 42 Questions (And Answers) About Life, The Universe, And Everything

    Author: Jim Lebans. ISBN: 978-0-7710-5003-9

  • Endless Universe: Beyond The Big Bang - Rewriting Cosmic History

    Author: Paul J. Steinhardt & Neil Turok. ISBN: 978-0-7679-1501-4

  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

    Author: Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D. ISBN: 978-0-06-124189-5

  • Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance

    Author: Richard Restak, M.D. ISBN: 978-1-59448-443-8

  • The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World

    Author: Paul Davies. ISBN: 978-0-671-79718-8

  • Earth: Inside and Out

    Author: American Museum of Natural History. ISBN: 1-56584-595-1

  • Managing Stress: A Quick and Easy Guide

    Author: American Institute of Preventive Medicine / Series: For Your Information. ISBN: 1-56420-025-6

  • Time Warps

    Author: John Gribbin. ISBN: 0-460-04430-3

  • Warped Passages: Unraveling The Mysteries of The Universe's Hidden Dimensions

    Author: Lisa Randall. ISBN: 978-0-06-053108-9

  • On The Origin of Species

    Author: Charles Darwin

  • Time

    Author: G. W. Dorling. ISBN: 0-582-32213-8

  • How The Brain Evolved

    Author: Alain Prochiantz. ISBN: 0-07-050929-8

  • Personality: What Makes You The Way You Are

    Author: Daniel Nettle. ISBN: 978-0-19-921142-5

  • The Book of Awesome

    Author: Neil Pasricha. ISBN: 978-0-399-15651-9

  • The Math Book

    Author: Clifford A. Pickover. ISBN: 978-1-4027-5796-9

  • Statistics: A Graphic Guide

    Author: Eileen Magnello & Borin Van Loon. ISBN: 978-184831-056-8

  • Inside the Body: Fantastic Images from Beneath the Skin

    Author: Susan Greenfield. ISBN: 978-1844035007

  • Neutrino

    Author: Frank Close. ISBN: 978-0-19-957459-9

  • The Science of Superstition: How The Developing Brain Creates Supernatural Beliefs

    Author: Bruce M. Hood. ISBN: 978-0-06-145265-9

  • The Little Book of String Theory

    Author: Steven S. Gubser. ISBN: 978-0-691-14289-0

  • Collider: The Search for The World's Smallest Particles

    Author: Paul Halpern. ISBN: 978-0-470-64391-4

  • Brain Rules

    Author: John Medina. ISBN: 978-0-9797777-4-7

  • 13 Things That Don't Make Sense

    Author: Michael Brooks. ISBN: 978-0-385-66424-0

  • (fiction) Slaughterhouse-Five

    Author: Kurt Vonnegut. ISBN: 978-0-385-33384-9

  • Breaking The Time Barrier: The Race to Build The First Time Machine

    Author: Jenny Randles. ISBN: 978-1-4165-1655-2

  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

    Author: Oliver Sacks. ISBN: 978-0-684-85394-9

  • The Instant Physicist: An Illustrated Guide

    Author: Richard A. Muller. ISBN: 978-0-393-07826-8

  • 45 Things You Do That Drive Your Boss Crazy and How to Avoid Them

    Author: Anita Bruzzese. ISBN: 978-0-399-53317-4

  • Why Does E=mc2?

    Author: Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw. ISBN: 978-0-306-81876-9

  • Maximize Your Memory

    Author: Ramón Campayo. ISBN: 978-1-60163-117-6

  • The Great Atlas of The Universe

    Author: Professor L. Benacchio. ISBN: 978-0-7153-2680-0

  • Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in The Universe

    Author: Evalyn Gates. ISBN: 978-0-393-33801-0 pbk.

  • Consciousness: A Graphic Guide

    Author: David Papineau and Howard Selina. ISBN: 978-184831-171-8

  • (fiction) Deeper

    Author: Jeff Long. ISBN: 978-1-4165-5029-7

  • Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in The Void

    Author: Mary Roach. ISBN: 978-0-393-06847-4 (hardcover)

  • In Search of The Multiverse

    Author: John Gribbin. ISBN: 978-0-141-03611-3

  • In Search of Time: Journeys Along a Curious Dimension

    Author: Dan Falk. ISBN: 978-0-7710-4759-6

  • Time: A Graphic Guide

    Author: Craig Callender & Ralph Edney. ISBN: 978-184831-120-6

  • The Brain

    Author: Ammar Al-Chalabi, Martin R. Turner, R. Shane Delamont. ISBN: 978-1-85168-594-3

  • Am I a Monkey?

    Author: Francisco J. Ayala. ISBN: 978-0-8018-9754-2

  • Programming The Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on The Cosmos

    Author: Seth Lloyd. ISBN: 978-1-4000-3386-7

  • The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics was Reborn

    Author: Louisa Gilder. ISBN: 978-1-4000-9526-1

  • How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells

    Author: Lewis Wolpert. ISBN: 978-0-571-23912-2

  • The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock The Secrets of The Universe

    Author: Anil Ananthaswamy. ISBN: 978-0-618-88468-1

  • Work Smarter with Speed Reading

    Author: Tina Konstant. ISBN: 978-0-07-173998-6

  • Hyperspace: A scientific odyssey through parallel universes, time warps, and the 10th dimension

    Author: Michio Kaku. ISBN: 0-385-47705-8

  • Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide

    Author: J.P McEvoy & Oscar Zarate. ISBN: 978-1-84046-850-2

  • The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction

    Author: Peter Atkins. ISBN: 978-0-19-957219-9

  • A Brief History of Time: The Updated and Expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition

    Author: Stephen Hawking. ISBN: 0-553-10953-7 ISBN: 0-553-38016-8

  • Antimatter

    Author: Frank Close. ISBN: 978-0-19-957887-0 (Pbk.) 978-0-19-955016-6 (Hbk.)

  • The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe

    Author: Theodore Gray. ISBN: 978-1-57912-814-2

  • Stop Faking It! Light

    Author: William C. Robertson, Ph.D. ISBN: 0-87355-215-61

  • Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition

    Author: Kimberly Elam. ISBN: 1-56898-249-6 (pbk.)

  • Physics of The Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into The World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

    Author: Michio Kaku. ISBN: 978-0-385-52069-0

  • Relativity: From Einstein to Black Holes

    Author: Gerald Tauber. ISBN: 0-531-10482-6

  • Gravity: The Universal Force

    Author: Don Nardo. ISBN: 1-56006-204-5

  • Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time

    Author: Richard Phillips Feynman / Caltech. ISBN: 0-465-02393-2

  • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained By Its Most Brilliant Teacher

    Author: Richard Phillips Feynman / Caltech. ISBN: 0-201-40955-0

  • Physics: Principles and Problems

    Publisher: Maxwell Macmillan Canada. ISBN: 0-02-954125-5

  • Designing The Future

    Author: Jacque Fresco. Free E-book, get it on The Venus Project website

  • The Kids Guide to Money Cent$

    Author: Keltie Thomas. ISBN: 1-55337-391-X

  • How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day

    Author: Michael J. Gelb. ISBN: 0-385-32381-6

  • Hypnosis: Secrets of The Mind

    Author: Michael Streeter. ISBN: 0-7641-2593-1

  • Hypnosis: Controlling The Inner You

    Author: Dr. Hans Holzer. ISBN-13: 978-0-7570-0271-7 (pbk.)

  • The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and The Limits of Working Memory

    Author: Torkel Klingberg. ISBN: 978-0-19-537288-5

  • The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence

    Author: Dr. Robert Anthony. ISBN: 0-425-20975-X

  • Sleep: The Gentle Tyrant

    Author: Webb, Wilse B.; ISBN: 0962704229 (pbk)

  • Sleep Thieves: an eye-opening exploration into the science and mysteries of sleep

    Author: Coren, Stanley; ISBN: 0684823047

  • Sex Heals

    Author: Laura Moore; ISBN: 0-9752902-4-X

  • The Secrets of Female Sexuality

    Author: David Shade; ISBN: 978-0-6151-5807-5

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