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Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe
F.I.A.S.C.O.: Blood In The Water On Wall Street
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger Also recommended by Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway's 2005 annual meeting is the DVD entitled "Last Best Chance" and a BBC Film entitled "Fog Of War". |
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A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING, Bill Bryson Recommended by Warren Buffett at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting. From primordial nothingness to this very moment, A Short History of Nearly
Everything reports what happened and how humans figured it out. To accomplish
this daunting literary task, Bill Bryson uses hundreds of sources, from popular
science books to interviews with luminaries in various fields.
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DEEP SIMPLICITY, John Gribbin Recommended by Charlie Munger at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting. (No review provided by Amazon.com)
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A MATTER OF DEGREES, Gino Serge Length and mass are measurements we understand intuitively, but temperature is
fleeting and elusive. Why is it so hard to measure compared with other fundamentals?
Why do living things require such a narrow range of temperatures to go about their
business? How cold is deep space, anyway? Physicist Gino Segre knows how to keep interest
flowing along; even when he's explaining the intricacies of small-scale physics, he takes
time to ground it in real life.
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DARWIN'S BLIND SPOT, Frank Ryan Ryan (Virus X), a British physician, attempts to find a common explanation for
much in our natural world. Ranging widely from the origin of life to the creation of
human civilization and from the origin of sex to the root causes of many mental illnesses,
Ryan turns to symbiosis ("an association between different species that persists for a
long period") as the natural force responsible for all of this and much more.
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PERSONAL HISTORY, Katharine Graham A woman survives a wealthy childhood not without its problems, outlives a marriage that goes disastrously wrong, then takes over the family business and not only makes it a success, but influences American history as well. - Amazon.com
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THE WARREN BUFFETT PORTFOLIO: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy, Robert Hagstrom The sequel to the New York Times bestseller The Warren Buffett Way reveals how to profitably manage stocks once you select them. Staking its claim on the New York Times Bestseller list for 22 weeks, The Warren Buffett Way provided readers with their first look into the strategies that the master uses to pick stocks. The follow-up to that book, The Warren Buffett Way Portfolio is the next logical step. It will help readers through the process of building a superior portfolio and managing the stocks going forward.
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COMMON SENSE ON MUTUAL FUNDS: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor, John C. Bogle Common Sense on Mutual Funds marks the culmination of one of Wall Street's most inspired careers. Invoking both Thomas Paine and Benjamin Graham, Jack Bogle proceeds to outline a supremely logical plan not only to better investors' returns, but to improve the whole fund industry. This isn't just the best book yet by Bogle, it may well be the best book ever on mutual funds. - Don Philips, Morningstar CEO Cogent, honest and hard-hitting -- a must read for every investor - Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway CEO
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TITAN: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Ron Chernow This book is a triumph of the art of biography. Unflaggingly interesting, it brings John D. Rockerfeller Sr. (1839-1937) to life through a sustained narrative portraiture of the large-scale 19th-century kind. - New York Times
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THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, David S. Landes Professor David S. Landes takes a historic approach to the analysis of the distribution of wealth in this
landmark study of world economics. Landes argues that the key to today's disparity between the rich and
poor nations of the world stems directly from the industrial revolution, in which some countries made the leap
to industrialization and became fabulously rich, while other countries failed to adapt and remained poor. Why
some countries were able to industrialize and others weren't has been the subject of much heated debate
over the decades; climate, natural resources, and geography have all been put forward as explanations--and
are all brushed aside by Landes in favor of his own controversial theory: that the ability to effect an industrial
revolution is dependent on certain cultural traits, without which industrialization is impossible to sustain. - Amazon.com
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GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that
emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular:
one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his
heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30
years.
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THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE, Jared Diamond A provocative look at mankind's evolution from the ape into the complex creature we call
human. By standards of other animals, our powerful civilization appears unique. So do many
of our behaviors, including our sexual habits and the ways we select mates. Yet in many
respects we are merely another species of ape--our genes are more than 98% identical to
those of chimpanzees. 25 line drawings and halftones.
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INFLUENCE: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert B. Cialdini Some people just won't take no for an answer. In Influence, Dr. Robert Cialdini explains the
six psychological principles that drive our powerful impulse to comply to the pressures of
others and shows how we can defend ourselves against manipulation (or put the principles to
work in our own interest).
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Dover Thrift Editions One of our most inspiring Americans comes to life in this unabridged reading. Written as a
letter to his son, Franklin's account of his life from his childhood in Boston to his years in
Philadelphia ends in 1757 with his first mission to England.
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LIVING WITHIN LIMITS, Ecology, Economics and Population Taboos, Garrett Hardin An argument for population control uses a lifeboat analogy to show how the notion of
limitless growth fails to recognize the earth's limited carrying capacity and makes a case for
closed borders and an end to immigration.
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