Library works at the moment, but I need to implement some better review process/display.
Status | Title | Author | Rating |
Want to read | Prisoner's Dilemma | William Poundstone | |
Want to read | The Mating Mind | Geoffrey Miller | |
Want to read | Orientalism | Edward W. Said | |
Want to read | The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life | Kevin Simler | |
Want to read | The Dictator's Handbook | Bruce Bueno de Mesquita | |
Want to read | The Enigma of Reason | Hugo Mercier | |
Want to read | The Book of Why | Judea Pearl | |
Want to read | Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved | Stephen Macedo | |
Reading | Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | |
Read | Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything | Joshua Foer | ∗∗∗∗ |
Read | The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins | |
Read | In search of Schrödinger's cat | John Gribbin | ∗∗∗∗ |
Read | Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
Read | The Red Queen | Matt Ridley | ∗∗∗∗∗ |
Read | A Little History of Philosophy | Nigel Warburton | ∗∗∗∗ |
Read | The Order of Time | Carlo Rovelli | |
Read | Steppenwolf | Hermann Hesse | ∗∗∗∗ |
Read | Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind | David Vandermeulen | |
Read | The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design | Richard Dawkins | |
Read | The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe | Steven Weinberg | |
Read | The Naked Ape | Desmond Morris | |
Read | How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog | Chad Orzel | ∗∗∗∗ |
Read | Thinking in Systems | Donella Meadows | ∗∗∗∗ |
I would have given this 4 if I had no idea about systems theory, but as an electronics engineer, many things explained in the book are daily stuff for me. So I unfortunately can not say I have learned too much reading this, which is not a bad thing at all. But it was a little boring at times. From an engineering perspective, the explanations for fundamental terms in systems theory are straight-forward and clear and author makes them understandable for the ones which are not exposed to these kind of thinking or problem solving daily. So leaving my background on the side, I can easily say it was a nice and easy read. One thing bothered me most of the time though, is that the author chooses to give an unnecessarily lot of examples on basic topics, especially in the beginning of the book. I would have left many of them out. I just skipped the parts where more than one example is given actually. | |||
Read | Chess Story | Stefan Zweig | |
Read | The Bonobo and the Atheist | Frans de Waal | ∗∗∗∗∗ |
Read | Myths from Mesopotamia | Stephanie Dalley | ∗∗∗ |
Read | How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog | Chad Orzel | |
Read | Homo faber | Max Frisch | |
Read | Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe | Bill Bryson | |
Read | Blueprint | Robert Plomin | ∗∗∗∗ |
Read | Safsatalar Ansiklopedisi | Immanuel Tolstoyevski | ∗∗∗∗ |
Read | Of the Abuse of Words | John Locke | ∗∗∗ |
Read | Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty | Daron Acemoğlu | |
Read | Haben oder Sein | Erich Fromm | ∗∗∗∗ |
Read | Benim de Söyleyeceklerim Var! | Umut Sarıkaya | ∗∗∗∗∗ |
Read | Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches | David Macleod | ∗∗∗∗ |
Read | The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | ∗∗∗∗ |
Read | Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism | Sven Beckert | ∗∗∗∗ |
Read | The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time | Jonathan Weiner | ∗∗∗∗∗ |
Read | A Tramp Abroad | Mark Twain | ∗∗∗∗ |
Read | The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
Read | The Right to Be Lazy | Paul Lafargue | ∗∗∗ |
Read | The Descent of Man | Charles Darwin | |
Read | The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind | Steven Pinker | ∗∗∗∗ |
Read | The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | ∗∗∗∗ |
Read | Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years | Jared Diamond | |