Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Interesting Book List - Naturally IMHO


This is not by any accounts a complete list of books I would recommend, but it will do for starters!


Explanations (comprehensible) of The Recent Financial Crash
  • Big Short - Michael Lewis
  • Whoops (Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay) - John :Lanchester

Just Plain Interesting and difficult to categorise
  • Watching The English - Kate Fox
  • Risk - Dan Gardner
  • Flat Earth News - Nick Davies
  • Bounce - Matthew Syed
  • The Memory Bank - Keith Hart
  • The Chimp Paradox - Dr Steve Peters
  • Why Most Things Fail - Paul Ormerod
  • 59 Seconds, Think a Little, Change a Lot - Richard Wiseman



Humourous History
  • 1000 Years of Annoying The French - Stephen Clarke
  • An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain - John O’Farrell
  • An Utterly Impartial History of Britain - John O’Farrell



Serious History
  • The Rise & Fall of the Great Powers - Paul Kennedy
  • Why The West Rules For Now - The Patterns of history and what they reveal about the future - Ian Morris
  • Why Nations Fail - Daron Acemoglu & James A Robinson
  • World Civilizations - Burns, Ralph, Lerner, Meacham
  • Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations - David Landes
  • D-Day - Anthony Bevoir
  • The Myth of Decline - The Rise of Britain Since 1945 - George L Bernstein



Economics and Predictions Thereof
  • Solutions For The World’s Biggest Problems - Bjorn Lomborg
  • The Skeptical Environmentalist - Bjorn Lomborg
  • Fooled By Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • The World in 2020 - Hamish McRae
  • Just Capital - Adair Turner
  • Inevitable Surprise - Peter Schwarz
  • The Rational Optimist - Matt Ridley
  • 20:21 Vision: The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st - Bill Emmott



Comment on Current Affairs in Britiain
  • Scared To Death - Christopher Booker & Richard North
  • The Real Global Warming Disaster - Christopher Booker
  • All Must Have Prizes - Melanie Philips
  • The Welfare State We’re In - James Bartholomew
  • The Rise Of Political Lying - Peter Oborne
  • Bring Home the Revolution: The Case for a British Republic - Jonathan Freedland



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