Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W39

“A lot of it is down to phones, you know this, Jonathan Haidt’s book that came out was pretty scary about the impact on impressionable young minds, but I also think we're not preparing kids when they come through school; we're not preparing them for the hard knocks of the real world.”

“Uh, his book? Oh, you read The Lucifer Effect? I have it on the bookshelf right back there.”

“However, a version of 'Do no harm' is found in Hippocrates' book of the Epidemics from 400 BCE. He writes that the physician must have, quote, two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely to do good or to do no harm.”

“And then I also want to shout out a book series called Little People, Big Dreams; it’s a kids' book series that we've been reading to my daughter. In fact, it’s kind of all she wants to read right now, and they are on great women in history and kind of brutally honest for reading to kids.”

“Um, and this was written by the same person who wrote the award-winning book, 'The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.' Her name is uh, Jean, uh, Theoharis, it's all one word.”

“You know, I read the very scientific book by Michael Crichton called 'The Andromeda Strain'.”

“So, you've got your Trump trading card NFTs. You've bought Trump's coffee table book. You got Milan's memoir that she's out there hawking right now.”

“You've bought Trump's coffee table book. You got Milan's memoir that she's out there hawking right now. You've stocked up on Trump and Son's private cryptocurrency, World Liberty Financial—their cryptocurrency platform.”

“You also mentioned 'The Artist's Way' as a helpful book for you.”

“Casey gets into regenerative agriculture and farming in her book, 'Good Energy,' which everyone should buy and read, but you saw what the media did afterward.”

“Every wedding you go to, they're always reading 1 Corinthians 13. It's like I think it's the only verse in the Bible, actually.”

“There's often a huge deal made in ancient alien shows or Time Life Mysteries of the Unknown.”

“So he is very, very well-connected, according to a book called Records of the Grand Historian; this guy was a monster!”

“There's a fantastic book called, uh, Devil in the Shape of a Woman that looks at this practice in the Salem Witch Trials.”

“He believes that when there's economic downturn, especially on a wide scale, in any region or globally even or just in a town, the probability of creating a future serial killer who is going through this, uh, the economic downturn, all the realities that you face when that's happening, he believes that you increase the probability of creating serial killers,”

“Here's a book that my mom literally had a self-help book on her shelf! Alright, called, It's None Of My Business What You Think Of Me! 30 seconds, we got there! And even as a little kid, that was my mantra!”

“Well, Melania Trump's memoir is coming out in October, so maybe that's the October surprise. I doubt it would be bad for Trump; maybe that's good for me.”

“Mara, you are, I mean, if you are a person listening to this who is roughly my age, Mara was in, I don't know about like 30% of the movies that made up a huge part of your childhood. And you have recently written a memoir, Where Am I Now?”

“The bitter pill is in Chapter 11 of The Selfish Gene, where he presents the concept of memes. For the first time, he says that memes are a new primeval suit; he sees it as a new evolutionary realm where creatures are beginning to form.”