Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W20

“Listen, if you're worried about global warming or climate change, just go watch An Inconvenient Truth; it came out in 2006, everything in it has been proven wrong.”

“Like it is about framing the way you view the world and giving people this lens from which to approach the challenges they face. What is it? Jordan Peterson's book called '12 Rules for Life'?”

“Back by popular demand, the man who is braving Judge M's infamously chilly and fart-infested courtroom is a legal analyst for CNN, also author of the excellent book 'Trying Trump,' our old friend Norm Eisen. Norm, welcome back!”

“She's a social psychologist and the author of two books; one from about 30 years ago called 'Shattered Assumptions' and the other called 'The Two Moralitities: The Origin and Fall of Right and Left Politics.' Why did I want to talk to Dr. Janoff-Bulman?”

“Well, it's interesting, because the Book of Job is one of the books that really sets the stage in the biblical corpus for the story of the crucifixion, right? Because the crucifixion story is the story of Job expanded even more thoroughly, right?”

“You know, the notion that we're not going to make a change every second based on one disconfirming thing—I mean, I actually love Karl Popper. You know, the notion is we should be cognitively conservative when it comes to our schemas, or our theories.”

“And I do agree, you know, it's interesting, we talk about motivation because when I was doing the 'Two Moralities' book, of course all of that is funneled right through motivation.”

“It's like that Atticus Finch quote where you get to put on someone else's shoes and walk a while.”

“And by the way, I keep saying once we're gone, um remember that amazing 2007 book, The World Without Us by Alan Weisman?”

“What I'm thinking is, take my friendship with the late Abigail Thernstrom and Steven Thernstrom, which goes back to my early days at Harvard, and which ended when I critically reviewed their book, America in Black and White, in a long review in the Atlantic, and they broke off with me.”

“In 'Mother of God', I write about the first one that me and JJ caught together, which was probably a little bigger than this table.”

“You go back to that Frans de Waal book, 'Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?', there's so many incredible examples of controlled studies where the researchers didn't understand how to shed this insurmountably human perspective and recognize that there's other types of intelligence, whether that's in elephants or cats.”

“Richard Evan Schultes is someone I learned about from Wade Davis’ book ‘One River,’ which is this hefty tome about the Amazon.”

“What he eats, and yep, it's, uh, John Danaher talks about Kaizen. Kaizen is this Japanese phrase for doing something over and over and over again.”

“Meantime, Jen Psaki's book came out last week and her publisher is now having to correct quote inaccuracies. You could also call them lies.”

“So what's the novel? A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines. Maybe the title's too long.”

“Some of the notable titles and topics of those books include 'Creating a Life,' 'Finding Your Individual Path,' as well as 'The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other,' which, as the name suggests, is about relationships.”

“Some of the notable titles and topics of those books include 'Creating a Life,' 'Finding Your Individual Path,' as well as 'The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other,' which, as the name suggests, is about relationships.”

“He has also written about how to access our most resilient self in the book entitled 'Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times.'”

“And so that's what led to the writing of the book 'Under Saturn's Shadow.' And I suggested a number of those secrets.”

“I also wrote a book called 'Swamplands of the Soul' that deals with anxiety, depression, loss, betrayal, etc.”

“Finally, I get to sit down with her—I’m talking about Laura Lynn Jackson, the author of these two incredible books: "The Light Between Us" and "Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe."”