Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W04

“Pinker wrote a book about it; I think he did a really good job summarizing it.”

“Well, the Theory of Moral Sentiments...”

“and Jeff emmel has written a book about this moment where he was getting ready to take over the CEO job from Jack Welch and they're in London where there's this legendary British executive they're having dinner with”

“To support this podcast, please check out our sponsors in the description, and now let me leave you with some words from Carl Sagan: 'Perhaps the aliens are here but are hiding because of some galactic ethic of non-interference with emerging civilizations.'”

“my next guest spent 15 years as a covert CIA agent specializing in counter-terror and counter narcotic operations he now runs his own company Portman Square group and is the author of a new book company rules or everything I know about business I learned from the CIA like that Mike Baker joins me now”

“snuck some books back there about end of discussion about how the left is shutting down it's a great book available on Amazon Guy Benson 2015 memory serves That's correct”

“and you know Harry in his book he referred he he talks very briefly about bullying”

“including saying oh yeah sorry um yeah I forgot about that you know I forgot one of the tabloids in Britain um did a fantastic front page uh inspired by some children's books that were popular here a few years a few years back and it was called Little Miss forgetful that's a kindness to suggest it actually was forgetfulness”

“Don't forget the name of her book is the end of gender well worth your time”

“But when are you releasing The cookbook 101 ways to make eggs by Tim Poole”

“You can look at sex education like a Chilton's book for like a a car right Sexual education is how it works These are the body parts etc etc”

“But I have a great trilogy I've written called Who's Who in World War II, Who's Who in the Civil War, and Who's Who in Russian history. Right now, I'm on a binge on Russian history.”

“I wrote a JFK history book. I wrote a history of every presidency, not every president, every presidency.”

“So great to see you, the stand-up comedy book, Mike Donovan, he also has, uh, what is it, uh, World War II, who's who in World War II, who's who in the Civil War, and who's who in Russian history.”

“Oh, here is an old man moment I had, when I was a kid they had a submarine ride at Disney World— at least it was called 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and it was a, I think a successful movie from the 1950s, I believe, the ride was, and they have the same ride!”

“and he came out with a book called child care and the growth of love It was basically I know it's a great title They'll love it but it was based on the work and the research that he did for the World Health Organization but he he very wisely I get the impression wrote it for a popular audience”

“you literally owned the Dearborn independent and personally published anti-semitic articles You bound the Articles into volumes called the international Jew”

“Okay, I wanna plug two books that are available for pre-order right now. The first of which is Jamie Loftus's book about hot dogs, called Raw Dog, and it's available for pre-order. Go to her social media for all that info.”

“I've been reading his book um guygo's book because I'm a do you read I'm a DC Insider I didn't say I finished this book I've been reading his book because I'm uh embarrassed incredibly well-sourced DC Insider who knew this announcement was coming uh like everybody else in the country He's an incredible Story I mean he grew up”

“Let's start here with NBC News not normally an offender in our take pieces here uh this is a piece from Jeffrey Bellen who wrote a book about mass incarceration the headline is the road to end mass incarceration could begin with Mercy for some January 6 rioters This piece argues that Biden should pardon thousands of prisoners including some”

“How is the experience of writing this book and kind of bearing it at all in a way; it's called surrender, so did it feel like that?”

“Yeah, there seems to be, and I don't think I knew this until I wrote Brainiac and interviewed dozens of people like this, that there is such a type that just seems to be like this from the womb.”

“I wrote a book called Maphead about people with weird geographic quirks and hobbies, and one thing I found while writing the book is that I see the world through a very geographic lens that many people do not share, but other people with weird geography fixations do.”

“Lott ended up writing a book called More Guns, Less Crime; it was quite a big seller and he received a lot of praise in certain circles for it. He became a sort of hero of the NRA crowd.”

“At the time, if you Googled 'business efficiency consultant,' I was like the only search result, which led to me being offered to write 'Business Efficiency for Dummies.'”

“So from a game theory perspective, I was always a fan of Robert Axelrod's work around the evolution of cooperation. He was a political scientist.”

“He's the author of the best-selling book, Triumph of the City, and now he's back with a new book co-authored with David Cutler called Survival of the City.”

“So back in 2008, Ed, you wrote a book called Triumph of the City, and now, 13 years later, you've got a new book called Survival of the City.”

“His first book, The Undercover Economist, came out over 15 years ago, and it's still the first book I recommend to anyone who asks me for advice about what to read.”

“Well, of late, one of the novels that I'm very proud of is Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, which I assure you many people you know have read and loved.”

“This year at the National Book Awards, I was very excited because I had to duck and run between tables because Sarah Broom, who wrote the memoir The Yellow House, was up for a National Book Award as was my other client, Julia Phillips, who wrote Disappearing Earth, which she was up for fiction.”

“This year at the National Book Awards, I was very excited because I had to duck and run between tables because Sarah Broom, who wrote the memoir The Yellow House, was up for a National Book Award as was my other client, Julia Phillips, who wrote Disappearing Earth, which she was up for fiction.”

“I think that for anybody who has daughters, you should make them read 'She Said,' which is Watergate for girls; it's the New York Times reporters writing about breaking the Harvey Weinstein story and the reluctance of women to come forward.”

“In this week's episode, I pick up in the middle of our conversation, where I tell Sendhil about my first reaction to hearing that he had written a book entitled Scarcity.”

“I want to learn how to remember things better, and I feel incredibly lucky to have the chance to sit down with four-time USA Memory Tournament champion Nelson Dellis, who has authored the books Memory Superpowers and Remember It.”

“There were, I don't know, 250 kids in this hall, and they had all been assigned to read a book called 'Slight of Mind,' which is a book on the neuroscience of magic. I did my show, and afterwards they were asking great questions, and one after the next, I realized we don't know the answers to these questions.”

“I had committed to do two books; one was Quest for the Tree Kangaroo, and the other was my memoir, The Good Pig, that I wrote to honor Christopher Hogwood.”

“If you enjoyed what you heard from Ted Miguel today, check out his book titled "Economic Gangsters," which he co-authored with another one of my favorite economists, Ray Fisman.”

“she interviews Chris Bosh about his own book A Memoir called letters to a young athlete”

“you'll notice this book is called letters to a young athlete it's modeled on some of my favorite books like letters to a young poet and letters to a young jazz musician”

“you'll notice this book is called letters to a young athlete it's modeled on some of my favorite books like letters to a young poet and letters to a young jazz musician”

“and then after that once I got into the NBA I always thought it was fascinating how I started hearing the books like Rich Dad Poor Dad I read that too”

“There was a Rutger bregman wrote a book called humankind and in that he talked about the puppification of humans and that was the same thing that evoking of some sort of uh sense of of care”