Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2022-W44

“there was a reflexive skepticism you can prove anything with Statistics or this famous book how to lie with Statistics and just this idea that you seem kind of really clever if you say oh well yeah you can prove anything with it with Statistics but if you're basically just rejecting everything on the grounds that it's got statistics in”

“I enjoyed the his first one which was what everybody lies”

“and um his most recent book when he was talking about transport for humans uh and some of the challenges”

“yeah so my that is a point I made in my most recent book which is called the data detective in the US and it's called how to make the world add up in the UK”

“I studied the bicycle for another book of mine called 50 things that made the modern economy which also is a podcast series and I just explored different inventions”

“I got suggested a book this weekend uh Churchill's Ministry of ungentlemanly warfare”

“she's uh she's an economist at British Columbia uh uh University and she's written a book called dollars and uh dollars and sex if I remember rightly”

“There was a famous story at that time about a vet named James Herriot, who also came to the US and had a TV miniseries.”

“There's a compelling book titled 'Collapse' by Vlodislav Zubok, a professor at the London School of Economics, who describes the elite-driven dissolution of the Soviet Union accurately.”

“I studied with Richard Pipes, and he was really offended after writing his comprehensive volumes on the Russian Revolution that others would dare to write about it.”

“And I would say there's a book that just popped in my mind called Influence by Robert Cialdini. Which I've never read that!”

“I do think you read; what do you think I read? I think you read Ted Williams' biography. Guilty guilty, but I occasionally read other things.”

“Anyway, I read this book Soul on Ice, and it just came because I saw a store out here in Los Angeles called Soul on Ice, and it had all these cool sport jerseys.”

“And so, you know, there's a lot that's been written, and I started to write a book about it; I obviously didn't have time to do it.”

“I'm listening to The Gray Man; there's a movie that's out right now, but it's the book that the movie's based on, and it's by Mark Greaney.”

“Well, you know, like 'Twas the Night Before Christmas', like an old-time sleeping cap.”

“As a Canadian, I feel a sense of ownership of that book because Margaret Atwood is a great Canadian author. We all read it in school, so I'm quite familiar with it.”

“I was first introduced to meditation through a book during high school, as I was a bit of a rebel in my early years and, as part of a program, received a book on the subject. The book is titled 'Wherever You Go, There You Are' by Jon Kabat-Zinn. He was one of the first individuals to popularize meditation and”