Ideas


Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Outliers: The Story of Success
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Man's Search for Meaning
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Meditations
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The Little Prince
Leviathan by Thomas HobbesModern Living and Its Discontents by Stephen C. HoenigmannPooh and the Philosophers by John Tyerman WilliamsHumanism in the English novel by Peter FaulknerBlasphemy ancient & modern by Nicolas Walter
Philosophy And Books On Ideas
100 books — 2 voters
Automate This by Christopher SteinerFuture Perfect by Steven JohnsonThe Idea Factory by Jon GertnerThe Power of Habit by Charles DuhiggThe Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
Most Thought-Provoking Books of 2012
10 books — 3 voters

Children of War by Astrid V.J.Stories and Scripts by Zack LoveBeware the Little White Rabbit by Shannon DelanyAt Hell's Gates by Monique HappyA Season for Romance by Cassia Hall
An Abundance of Anthologies
113 books — 56 voters

The Murder of Professor Schlick by David EdmondsThe Crossroads of Civilization by Angus RobertsonAsperger's Children by Edith ShefferSaving Freud by Andrew NagorskiThe Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya
Vienna: History of Ideas
21 books — 5 voters
The Systems View of Life by Fritjof CapraThe Connected Company by Dave  GrayWhere Good Ideas Come From by Steven JohnsonEmergence by Steven JohnsonGive and Take by Adam M. Grant
cooperation
28 books — 9 voters

Diane Setterfield
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.
Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

Salman Rushdie
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced." [Books vs. Goons, L.A. Times, April 24, 2005] ...more
Salman Rushdie

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