Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W49

“I wasn’t introduced to Chesterton's Fence until, I don’t know, 2016 or even later. Chesterton's Fence is a profoundly important principle.”

“I mean, at the policy level, at the identity level, like here's an example of somebody who overcame their low SAT score, but it just kind of underscores the inanity of all this. Like, The Joy Luck Club?”

“My book club, we read The Hundred Secret Senses. Oh wait, is that a novel?”

“I think it’s referenced in David Deutsch’s "The Fabric of Reality," where essentially, you know, the farmer feeds the chicken daily, and the chicken grows fat and happy.”

“Reading his recent memoir entitled 'Every Man for Himself and God Against All,' one can't help but think that Werner Herzog himself isn't so different.”

“And of course, my first book, 'Walking in Ice,' when I traveled on foot from Munich to Paris, writing has been all the time equally tied to filmmaking.”

“Then another one of your books that has had a tremendous impact on me, I think about it all the time, it's called 'The Twilight World.' Could you talk a bit about Hero Onoda's story and how you came to know him?”

“So today we're tackling the very serious topic, the emperor of all maladies: cancer.”

“No, no, no, the lazy answer is our second StarTalk book published with National Geographic called Cosmic Queries, which has an entire section on how astronomers find distances to things in the universe, and it was called the distance ladder.”

“Here's the truth: has anybody ever heard of Hannibal Lector? He was a nice fellow.”

“Because, you know, Jonathan Haidt wrote The Coddling of the American Mind.”

“We require them to learn about the Federalist Papers, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and all that great stuff.”

“There was a story that I mentioned in my book, 'The General's Son,' that my mother told me many times.”

“And as a matter of fact, in my other book, Injustice, I mentioned this.”

“My mother read this book called Caging Skies and she pitched it to me, she said, you should make this into a movie. And the way she pitched the story to me, I found so funny and I thought this is fantastic!”

“Robert Greene is an author who has written more than five bestselling books, including The 48 Laws of Power, The Laws of Human Nature, and Mastery.”

“Robert Greene is an author who has written more than five bestselling books, including The 48 Laws of Power, The Laws of Human Nature, and Mastery.”

“Robert Greene is an author who has written more than five bestselling books, including The 48 Laws of Power, The Laws of Human Nature, and Mastery.”

“I taught it for four years, and one of the books was 'Longitude,' which is a wonderful story about the discovery of timekeeping devices.”

“One book I’ll leave as a mystery, not to be mysterious, but because it's a science book; I'll just tell you that it’s 'Principles of Neuroscience.'”

“When you're very young, they direct you towards intellectual and mental pursuits as well, and there's a book I recommend for everybody—it's Howard Gardner's 'Five Frames of Mind.'”

“This notion you referred to, 'death ground,' is an important tactic from my book, '33 Strategies of War,' which is about strategic thinking inspired by Sun Tzu.”

“There's a really good book out there called Glucose Revolution; it's very well written. You can read it in like three to four hours about how to manage your glucose curve.”