Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W16

“And he said, A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett! And I said to Danny, I was like, never heard of Max Bennett! I spent 20-plus years studying intelligence and what it is and what it's not!”

“Did you ever read Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing; that guy gave sort of the be—that's, I think, probably the best window into an outsider in the political process, at least in terms of the campaign trail.”

“And then I didn't know this, but there's this author, David A. Price, who has a book called Love and Hate in Jamestown, and in this book, which I haven't finished, he makes a pretty fascinating case.”

“I just got done reading the 2019 book by author Tom O'Neal, titled 'Chaos: The CIA and Charles Manson.' It dives into the Manson Family and all this other stuff and draws a bunch of conclusions that I think you guys would find interesting.”

“We agree with you, Full Body Taste; it does raise a lot of fascinating questions. There are some holes in 'Helter Skelter.' Tom O'Neal is writing in good faith; he spent decades researching these links, and he had a lot of falling out situations with various publishers.”

“Sorry, Christian Bible, we're going with 'Operation Chaos'; that's the one book we're going to read. So while we are getting a copy of that, we want to hear from you folks.”

“And there's this notable book called 'Going Off the Grid' or possibly 'Playing Dead,' which discusses the challenges of successfully committing pseudocide.”

“And there's this notable book called 'Going Off the Grid' or possibly 'Playing Dead,' which discusses the challenges of successfully committing pseudocide.”

“There’s that phrase that arrived when that book Perfect Storm came out, which was a very good phrase because it's so useful in so many sort of events.”

“Um, the one thing I do remember about that moment was that was really the moment where Jeffrey Toobin kind of ascended into the cultural consciousness, like he was the one reporting on that case from Los Angeles. He later wrote what I think is one of the best legal books ever, um, irrespective of what you might think about”

“But The Run of His Life is one of the best legal books I have ever read, with the exception of The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents and Commentary by Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissman. That's exactly right.”

“The book I know best is probably his most famous work called 'The User Illusion.'”

“I read Daniel Dennett's book and also Jeffrey Gray's book; Gray is a real genius.”

“I read Daniel Dennett's book and also Jeffrey Gray's book; Gray is a real genius.”

“Gibson wrote a great book called 'The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception,' and I believe there are brilliant concepts within it.”

“For me, John Waters is a pretty fun one because he hitchhiked and enjoyed it as a kid and then eventually wrote a book. He hitchhiked as a 68-year-old grown man in 2013 from his home in Baltimore to his other home in San Francisco and wrote a book about it called 'John Waters Hitchhikes Across America.'”

“Whether it's obviously Jack Kerouac's On the Road is a big one, or Tom Robbins even Cowgirls Get the Blues. The Gus Van Sant movie, the main character was born with an abnormally large thumb, so she obviously had a talent as a hitchhiker, and that's kind of one of the subplots of the book and film, right?”

“So that book was sort of the standard until 1969, about 25 years later or so, when Paul Kirk, a biochemist and forensic scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, published a different book called 'Fire Investigation.'”

“He needs on-the-job training, you need 10,000 hours of torturing to get really good at it, that's what that Malcolm Gladwell book is about, if I'm remembering it properly.”

“I'm also an author; I’m currently in the middle of writing a military science fiction trilogy, and you can find it anywhere you find your books. It's called The Undying Legion!”

“Yeager is also the author of an important and extremely useful new book entitled '10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People.' The book is scheduled for release this summer, that is, the summer of 2024, and we provided a link to the book in the show notes.”

“It could be for art, for intellectual history; it’s a classic Viktor Frankl argument from 'Man’s Search for Meaning.' What helped him survive as he was leaving the concentration camps was the debt he owed to the future work he wanted to write to share with the world.”

“But um, what I find compelling is a beautiful new book by Mary Murphy called 'Cultures of Growth' who was trained at Stanford under Claude Steele. Uh, was also trained by Carol Dweck, just came out a week ago, and it's getting tons of great press.”

“And we all went back to college and were there for a service, and I remember being in the airport and I picked up Jeffrey Sachs' 'End of Poverty,' which was a popular book at the time, and just thinking, 'Here's a guy who, like, I don’t know, was doing something pretty mundane, macroeconomics, but he was spending all his”

“If you read "Betrayal," the second book, in Houston, the money was actually – we went there for the purposes of picking it up; the DEA agent who was there was supposed to have gotten in touch with the clearing house, where law enforcement tells each other on the day of or a day before what they’re going to be”