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A Brief Guide to Smart Thinking

Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested reader while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a quick sense of what each book is like to read and a highly compressed summary of the main points of the book in question. The titles covered include thought-provoking classics on psychology mindfulness rationality the brain mathematical and economic thought and practical philosophy.

The selection includes books about self-improvement as well as historically interesting accounts of how the mind works. Titles included go back as far as the Epictetus classic The Enchiridion and Bertrand Russell's charming The ABC of Relativity and proceed through classics such as Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking and into the digital era with titles such as The Shallows and Big Data. The books are arranged chronologically which draws attention to some of the interesting juxtapositions and connections between them.

Some of the titles included are: Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt; Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell; Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari; The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin; The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry; How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker; Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do by Matthew Syed; We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Guns Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond; The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb; Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl; The News: A User's Manual by Alain de Botton; Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking by Richard E. Nisbett; The ABC of Relativity by Bertrand Russell; The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson; The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life by Michael Puett; A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking; Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford; Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live Work and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger; Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis; The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science That Could Save Your Life by Ben Sherwood; Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed; Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick; A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson; The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr; Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality by Scott Belsky; The Enchiridion by Epictetus; Gödel Escher Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter; What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami; and Lateral Thinking by Edward de Bono.

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  • Classification : Business, Management & Economics
  • Pub Date : APR 2, 2020
  • Imprint : Robinson
  • Page Extent : 288
  • Binding : HB
  • ISBN : 9781472143686
  • Price : INR 799
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