Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W03

“One of my favorite books of all time is by Stephen J. Gould. If you've never read that book, it kind of blows your mind. It's about the Cambrian explosion of life.”

“I think reading his autobiography is extremely important for anyone that wants to understand him. You should read his own words.”

“If you want to learn more about how Suzanne Simard took on the flawed conventional wisdom of forestry, check out her fascinating book entitled Finding the Mother Tree.”

“There's an old book called 'The Difference,' which explores what makes the best teams for judgment. It shows that teams comprised of people with different views outperform teams of experts.”

“Amaryllis Fox spent nearly a decade working as a CIA operative, recounting her experiences in the bestselling book, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA.”

“That's Sal Khan, the founder of the hugely popular education non-profit Khan Academy. Here's David Epstein, the author of Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.”

“She's also the author of three books on the topic, the most recent of which is called 'Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything,' even things that seem impossible today.”

“You know, Sherry Turkle went and wrote a book about that idea, 'Alone Together.' Maybe you should write 'Alone Alone.'”

“After this short break, they’ll return to talk about John's book 'Woke Racism.' So our listener, I know, wrote us an email about the high gas prices we’re currently seeing as a result of Russia’s war with Ukraine.”

“Claudia has pulled this research together into a brand new book entitled "Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey Towards Equity."”

“You've written a book called Rebel in the Ranks, which is about Martin Luther; could you just paint a picture of Martin Luther, this figure who so profoundly influenced the path of humanity? Was he an obvious person to trigger the Reformation?”

“I'm now embarked on a project that's going to take me several years, I'm sure, and it makes Unintended Reformation look like a micro-history.”

“In his new book, "Drug Use for Grown-Ups," he argues for a radical overhaul of drug policy.”

“Because I read your first book, which is called "High Price," and you were the nerdiest lab rat that ever existed; I would have never imagined you emerging as an advocate.”

“It ends up being that I’m going to write the 7 millionth essay about Catcher in the Rye. The world doesn't need another essay on Catcher in the Rye; the world needs kids who can pick a topic they like and then teach us about it!”

“He's got over 200 scientific publications, written a popular book entitled 'A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age,' and won a bundle of teaching awards.”

“When you look at Friedman's work on say the 53 positive economics book, he says economists must rely on evidence gleaned from the experiments that happen to occur.”

“On the one hand is what Gary Becker wrote about in his dissertation in 1957, which is people just get satisfaction out of hurting another person in a different group—that's one kind of theory.”

“But I was eager to talk with Rahm because I just finished reading his fascinating book, 'The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World.' It's full of deep insights, and that's no surprise since he has a reputation for being one of the smartest people in politics.”

“Stephen, I've been thinking about a conversation we had about A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. You said you loved that book, but you couldn't remember a single thing about it.”

“In addition, his New York Times number one bestseller, called "Measure What Matters," popularized the management approach known as Objectives and Key Results, or OKRs.”

“but I was bullheaded and persevering, and after being turned down hundreds, literally hundreds of times, was able to make this film with the help of, as always, lots of really important and talented people, including David McCullough, who written a book that I'd read about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge called The Great Bridge, and I've just devoured”

“the vaticans pushing World economic foreign principles and inclusive capitalism which is you know to Klaus has another book inclusive capitalism”

“I mean the Kissinger France Jacques out to Lee I brought his book”

“there's a history of DARPA attacks that Annie Jacobson wrote uh it's a really good book”

“So this one is you may have heard of John C Lilly right He's the dolphin dude”

“between two ages yeah and then the book The subtitle is the best part because it's America's role in technocratic Era”

“even Brzezinski in between two ages cites Anthony Sutton who's Anthony Sutton's famous Professor wrote the book uh Wall Street in the bolshik revolution and Hitler”

“even Brzezinski in between two ages cites Anthony Sutton who's Anthony Sutton's famous Professor wrote the book uh Wall Street in the bolshik revolution and Hitler”

“you should read or listen to the book one second after it's about an EMP Global attack”

“you want to talk about real slavery slaves I wrote this in my book Oh another free pitch for myself Blackout um I wrote this in my book”

“Nicolo Machiavelli was an Italian Renaissance diplomat who was infamous for his 1513 book, The Prince, a treatise on how to acquire power and keep it.”

“Some scholars have asserted that Machiavelli himself was not very Machiavellian; his later works, Discourses on Livy and The Art of War, seem to run counter to the advice given in The Prince.”

“Some scholars have asserted that Machiavelli himself was not very Machiavellian; his later works, Discourses on Livy and The Art of War, seem to run counter to the advice given in The Prince.”

“It reminds me of something that Steve Levitt and I wrote about in one of our Freakonomics books, Think Like a Freak, and it was about this charitable organization called Smile Train. Are you familiar with Smile Train?”

“And then it's like the Strunk and White of scientific writing.”

“I'm reading a little bit from a book by Allison Colin, Still Fair Race, called 'How Capitalism Forms Our Lives.'”

“The full article is titled 'How to Write a Research Report in Psychology.'”

“If you want to write more than one book in your entire life, you need to learn how to do the work. E.B. White, who I know you like, I love E.B. White.”

“You can learn more about her life as an accomplished ballerina, self-taught farmer, mother of eight, and devout Catholic convert in Stephen's 1998 memoir, Turbulent Souls, which was later republished under a new title, Choosing My Religion.”

“You can learn more about her life as an accomplished ballerina, self-taught farmer, mother of eight, and devout Catholic convert in Stephen's 1998 memoir, Turbulent Souls, which was later republished under a new title, Choosing My Religion.”

“so I did come across this book I'm not sure if you're familiar with it but I'd like to tell you about it a little bit maybe this would prove useful for Yvonne as well it's written by two authors one of whom I know you know Barry Schwartz who's a psychologist at Swarthmore and Kenneth sharp who's a political”

“and maybe to snob in you would feel better reading meditations or reading the essays of Michelle de montane then reading Dale Carnegie”

“and then I think about biographies I've read that really changed the shape of my life especially my life as a writer biographies of red Smith and ring lardner and Hemingway is a kind of cautionary tale”

“and then I think about biographies I've read that really changed the shape of my life especially my life as a writer biographies of red Smith and ring lardner and Hemingway is a kind of cautionary tale”

“and then I think about biographies I've read that really changed the shape of my life especially my life as a writer biographies of red Smith and ring lardner and Hemingway is a kind of cautionary tale”

“if you're feeling depressed or anxious and you don't have a cognitive behavioral therapist that you can go to one-on-one you could buy Feeling Good by David Burns”

“I was reading a lot of Carlisle and about him for something I was writing once long ago and I came across the story of how Carlisle had written a book about the French Revolution called the French Revolution”

“look if you think about children's books these little Parables right like The Little Engine That Could”

“or my favorite books were Frog and Toad and they are always something with a message”

“or my favorite books were Frog and Toad and they are always something with a message”

“and maybe it was from Reading Whitman you know do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large I contain multitudes because I think that's what it is to be a human is to exercise some different version of yourself in these different circumstances”

“John Wooden the UCLA basketball coach I remember reading it in his book they all said some version of the true test of a person's character is what you do when no one is watching”

“and this dates back to David Hume the Scottish philosopher This is from treaties of human nature he wrote this about our different elements I'm a venture to a firm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle of different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in Perpetual flux and movement”

“I've been thinking about checklists actually long before Chris Shipman sent us that question I read Atul gawande's checklist Manifesto”

“but many listeners will be familiar with the version of the story from 1918 the tale of Johnny Town Mouse written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter the English natural scientist who famously authored The Tale of Peter Rabbit”

“so like there's a biography of ring lardner a writer that I loved that I bought it was a biography by Jonathan Yardley”

“but he was actually thinking about Israeli historian Saul friedlander's 1979 Holocaust Memoir when memory comes”

“friedlander was actually referencing a book from his childhood the Austrian novelist Gustav myrink's retelling of the Jewish legend of Golem”

“It was a big trade fair, much like a world fair, and there was a horticultural exhibit featuring a banana plant with bananas growing on it, according to Virginia Scott Jenkins, a cultural historian and author of 'Bananas: An American History.'”

“His company is called Clarity Media Group and he wrote a book called pitch perfect how to say it right the first time every time”

“shortland has written a book called kidnap inside the ransom business”

“I am the author of several books including American green the obsessive quest for the Perfect Lawn and these Lawns as it were that existed back in 16th 17th 18th century England were typically found on Estates”

“I realize that I'm proposing nothing short of the most audacious power play by Black America in the history of the country Charles blow author of the new book The Devil you know a black power Manifesto that's next week until then take care of yourself”

“One of his main Inspirations was a Harvard Economist named ed Glaser who four years ago published a Manifesto called Triumph of the city how our greatest invention makes us richer smarter Greener healthier and happier”

“The work that we we first found that really I think sowed the seeds for what would become the downtown project was Ed Glazer's book I was very flattered when Tony reached out to me He read my book and seems to have been excited by it”

“but if you read books like good to great or tribal leadership there's a clear at least correlation right if not cause between companies that do well in the long term financially”

“Although if you look at the good to Great companies if you looked at those lately well so there's a follow-up book that Jim Collins came up with which was how the Mighty Fall or fail”

“he has something I think he refers to as the edifice complex in his book so versus let's build a giant right”

“Huang recently published a book called subprime attention crisis advertising in the time bomb at the heart of the Internet”

“She’s also co-author of a book called Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street.”

“Henrik recently followed that book with another one called the weirdest people in the world how the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous”

“you know Du Bois wrote about this notion of The Talented 10th among black Americans being the educated the intellectual the elite cultural black Americans from let's call it a century ago who he argued would set an example that would lead all black Americans to Aspire to those same things”

“This happened to me by the way when a previous book that I wrote called persuasion the first five thousand copies of the book were printed poorly”

“His book is called influence the psychology of persuasion We were discussing the new and Expanded Edition which has just been published”

“Some years back he wrote a book called conscious capitalism which argues that prophets and purpose should be fully compatible”

“mackie's follow-up book published this fall is called conscious leadership”

“Once upon a time you might have read a book when you were a kid where there was a house in the country and then the house was surrounded by other houses and then eventually the house was surrounded by these tall apartment buildings and there was an elevated train in front of it and all this kind of stuff”

“Alexandra Horowitz who runs a dog cognition Lab at Barnard college is the author of a wonderful book called inside of a dog”

“and that is the historian Kim Phillips fine author of the book fear city which is about New York's fiscal crisis”

“and that is Marty McCary he is a surgeon at Johns Hopkins and the author of the price we pay what broke American Health Care and how to fix it”

“in a book called an American sickness The Physician journalist Elizabeth Rosenthal describes the industrialization of U.S health care”

“I'm writing a book on early dog development which is tentatively titled year of the puppy”

“Her other books include being a dog our dogs ourselves”

“Her other books include being a dog our dogs ourselves”

“including a book called eat like a fish my Adventures farming the ocean to fight climate change by Bren Smith”

“the social psychologist Roy bowmeister calls it the power of bad”

“a person you may recognize if you've read his amazing book gang leader for a day or the chapter in Freakonomics called why do drug dealers live with their moms”

“and thanks to Erica ocran whose latest book is called highly irregular why tough through and do don't rhyme and other Oddities of the English language”

“so again taking a page out of a conservatives Playbook I read Jane Mayer's book dark money on the Koch brothers who have invested heavily for years in building for-profit companies and non-profit organizations and infrastructure on the right”

“here to discuss it all is Ilya Shapiro director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute he's also the author of supreme disorder judicial nominations and the politics of America's highest court”

“here to discuss it all is Ilya Shapiro director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute he's also the author of supreme disorder judicial nominations and the politics of America's highest court”

“my next guest is James R Fitzgerald he is a retired FBI criminal profiler who was involved in high profile cases like the search for it the Unabomber and the DC sniper shootings he's also the author of the book A Journey to the Center of the Mind”

“you have an interesting chapter on one of the books talking about how there may be a gender gap when it comes to pay in America”

“and you talk about some of this in your book”

“we weren't doing that as I showed my book girls on the edge”

“you know the publisher has asked me to write a new edition of the collapse of parenting which I'm working on now and there's going to be a new chapter on gender”

“this reminds me of the thing that that happened in American Girl doll which I did not realize is now owned by Mattel I mean we're all moms we all own toys by Mattel that's like where you go for toys and they're the ones who are obviously okay with this trans book being pushed on girls at American Girl”

“um you can still get his book things that matter uh which is a collection of his best columns and it's so well worth your your time and the read”

“I know you have to get eye test every single time beforehand uh and they check it all like that way so yeah I was I was sitting there reading the bising book and it's like man am I ever going to have to do that we figuring out a ways to lie and everything”

“so there was another cookbook in Victorian England called The Book of household management by Isabella Beaton yeah I think everyone referred to her as Mrs Beaton Probably and she um came up with a couple good ones a good couple good contributions One is the toast sandwich”

“one very notable one uh the long title is a general history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pirates with a y uh and or that is generally known a general history of the Pirates”

“and and Bonnie though she became more obscure according to the history Captain Johnson's history um she was let go at some point and we don't know where she went”

“I'm trying to get her to go to sleep and I've read her the book Goodnight Moon seven times and she says mommy read it to me one more time one more time”

“In 2018, she released a book, 'The Wind in My Hair,' which criticized the Iranian government's depiction and oppressive treatment of women.”

“Here we have a Gutenberg Bible printed on the press of Johan Gutenberg.”

“He's the author of the classic 1985 textbook 'Computational Physics' and has published 200 peer-reviewed papers in the fields of physics, astrophysics, scientific computation, energy technology and policy, and climate science.”

“check out noom's first ever book the new mindset a deep dive into the psychology of behavior change available to buy now wherever books are sold”

“They will force you to read beloved”

“We also spent some time talking about Rick's new book, which is all about creativity and ways to access creativity. The title of the book is The Creative Act: A Way of Being, by Rick Rubin.”

“Growing up, I was amazed by moving cameras, especially in Lewis Milestone's work, like in All Quiet on the Western Front or Pork Chop Hill. Those amazing shots with the camera moving to climb a hill with Gregory Peck, Woody Strode, and Robert Blake stuck with me!”

“Mel is a New York Times bestselling author and self-publishing phenom, and her work includes "The High Five Habit," "The 5 Second Rule," and "The Mel Robbins Podcast," which is the one that you have to subscribe to.”