Recommendation - Jim Burton and Luke the Engine Driver

Children's book in German translated into English. Simple but carries deep meaning. https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Button-Luke-Engine-Driver/dp/0879513918

Literature: 2019 Business Books

Transitions: Making Sense Of Life's Changes

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004ZY23TS?ref=dbs_p2d_P_R_popup_yes_pony_T1

Whether you choose it or it is thrust upon you, change brings both opportunities and turmoil. Since Transitions was first published, this supportive guide has helped hundreds of thousands of readers cope with these issues by providing an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful roadmap of the transition process. With the understanding born of both personal and professional experience, William Bridges takes readers step by step through the three stages of any transition: The Ending, The Neutral Zone, and, eventually, The New Beginning. Bridges explains how each stage can be understood and embraced, leading to meaningful and productive movement into a hopeful future. With a new introduction highlighting how the advice in the book continues to apply and is perhaps even more relevant today, and a new chapter devoted to change in the workplace, Transitions will remain the essential guide for coping with the one constant in life: change.

Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

https://www.amazon.com/Give-Take-Helping-Others-Success/dp/0143124986/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416626167&sr=1-1&keywords=give+%26+take+by+adam+grant

For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. In Give and Take, Adam Grant, an award-winning researcher and Wharton’s highest-rated professor, examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top of the success ladder while others sink to the bottom. Praised by social scientists, business theorists, and corporate leaders, Give and Take opens up an approach to work, interactions, and productivity that is nothing short of revolutionary.

Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End

https://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Winning-Streaks-Losing-Begin/dp/1400052912

Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again and again?

There’s a fundamental principle at work–confidence–that makes the difference between winning and losing in any competition, be it a high school basketball game or a high-stakes business situation. In Confidence, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter shows why organizations of all types may be brimming with talent but not be winners. Based on her extraordinary investigation of success and failure in companies such as Continental Airlines and Verizon and sports teams such as the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles, as well as the arenas of education, health care, and politics, Kanter explores a new theory and practice of success and provides people in leadership positions with a prescriptive program for maintaining a winning streak or turning around a downward spiral.

Packed with brilliant, practical ideas, Confidence provides fresh thinking about success in all facets of life—from the factors that can make or break corporations and governments to the keys for successful relationships in the workplace or at home.



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Literature: Reading Taste

I just spent some time reading some short stories by Mulk Raj Anand, a famous 20th century Indian writer. There are many accomplished writers from other cultures that I do not read much. These authors, though appreciated by the literary critics and those who studied liberal arts, are under-appreciated by the public at large, even by those who read a lot. Nowadays, if I read fiction, I find myself mostly absorbed in science fiction or fantasy. They're typically very entertaining but not very deep or intellectually fulfilling. It's like eating ice cream or candy compared to eating rice or meat.

When I was younger, I delighted in reading kid's magazines such as Highlights, Boy's Life, and Cricket. I especially liked Cricket since it was a kid's literary magazine with stories, cartoons, and assorted articles. As I grew older though, my taste changed and the magazines I read shifted towards more worldly concerns such as the Economist and Times. However subtly, I relinquished my zeal of reading well-written meaningful literature and opted instead for news, politics, business, and science fiction.

Literature: Some Books

I constantly add new bookmarks to books that I should read. Forgive my description, but I have decided that my bookmarks of my Google Chrome is becoming increasingly bloated like a constipated fat man needing to relieve some gas. I have decided to clean up my original Chrome bookmarks of books and instead re-organize and share the books I'm reading or plan to read here. Have you read any of these? Let me know.

BIOGRAPHY
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
Frank McCourt

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua

The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls


BUSINESS
A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing
Jim Rogers


Jump Start Your Business Brain: The Scientific Way to Make More Money
Doug Hall

The Innovation Paradox: The Success of Failure, the Failure of Success
Richard Farson, Ralph Keyes

Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges
C. Otto Scharmer


CULTURE
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond

Into that Silent Sea
Francis French, Colin Burgess, Paul Haney


FUTURISM
The Third Culture Beyond the Scientific Revolution [FREE!]
John Brockman


HUMOR
Dinosaurs by Design
Duane T. Gish, Earl Snellenberger, Bonita Snellenberger

Niubi!: The Real Chinese You Were Never Taught in School
Eveline Chao, Chris Murphy


INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL/SPACE
Emigrating Beyond Earth: Human Adaptation and Space Colonization
Cameron M. Smith

Frontiers of Propulsion Physics
Dr. Eric W. Davis, Marc G. Millis

Going Interstellar
Les Johnson

The Seventh Landing: Going Back to the Moon, This Time to Stay
Michael Carroll

Space Enterprise: Living and Working Offworld in the 21st Century
Phillip Harris


LAW
Getting Permission: How to License and Clear Copyrighted Materials Online and Off
Richard Stim


NOVEL
Alas, Babylon
Pat Frank

The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein

Deep Winter
Thomas Sherry

Earth Abides
George R. Stewart

Earth's Children (5 Books)
Jean M. Auel

Fifty Shades of Grey
E. L. James

Lights Out
David Crawford

On the Beach
Nevil Shute

One Second After
William R. Forstchen

The Last Ship
William Brinkley

The Postman
David Brin

平凡的世界
路遥


PHILOSOPHY
First Earth Battalion Operations Manual: Reprint of Original Manual from the '70s
Jim Channon

God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion
Guy Consolmagno

The Trial
Franz Kafka


PHYSICS
Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality
Dean Radin

The Holographic Universe
Michael Talbot

Wrinkles in Time
George Smoot, Keay Davidson


POLITICS
Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative
Jon Michael Hubbard

The Machinery of Freedom
David Friedman


PSYCHOLOGY
Dangerous Instincts: How Gut Feelings Betray Us
Mary Ellen O'Toole, PhD, Alisa Bowman

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
David Eagleman

In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People
George K. Simon, PhD

Milieus of Creativity
Peter Meusburger, Joachim Funke, Edgar Wunder

The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness
Martha Stout

Out of the Ordinary True Tales of Everyday Craziness
Jon Ronson

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Jon Ronson

The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty
Simon Baron-Cohen

Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work
Paul Babiak, Robert D. Hare

The Sociopath Next Year
Martha Stout

Without Consciousness: The Disturbing World of Psychopaths Among Us
Robert D. Hare, PhD


SCIENCE FICTION
2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America
Albert Brooks

Ennatarian Dreams [Kindle]
Peter Saye

Eternity Road
Jack McDevitt

Expedition: Being an Account in Word and Artwork of the 2358 A.D. Voyage to Darwin IV
Wayne Douglas Barlowe

Operation Chaos
Poul Anderson

Orbit Unlimited
Poul Anderson

The Fountains of Paradise
Arthur C. Clarke

The Silk Code
Paul Levinson

Wasteland: Stories of the Apocalypse
John Joseph Adams


SPIRITUAL
A Heart as Wide as the World
Sharon Salzberg

ALREADY READ

Abundance
Dr. Peter Diamondis