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My personal quest to read one book per week and the lessons I uncovered in them.
Books so far
- Book 54. 2011. The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
- Book 53. 2011. Emotional Awareness: Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance and Compassion by Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman Ph.D.
- Week 52. 2011. Smile: The Astonishing Powers of a Simple Act by Ron Gutman
- Week 51. 2011. Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box by Arbinger Institute
- Week 50. 2011. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
- Week 49. 2011. The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society by Frans de Waal
- Week 48. 2011. Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel and Daisetz T. Suzuki
- Week 47. 2011. The Innovator's Cookbook: Essentials for Inventing What Is Next by Steven Johnson
- Week 46. 2011. The Art of Invention: The Creative Process of Discovery and Design by Steven J. Paley
- Week 45. 2011. POP: How Graphic Design Shapes Popular Culture by Steven Heller
- Week 44. 2011. Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application by Jason Fried, Heinemeier David Hansson and Matthew Linderman
- Week 43. 2011. I'll Have What She's Having: Mapping Social Behavior (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) by Alex Bentley, Mark Earls, Michael J. O'Brien and John Maeda
- Week 42. 2011. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
- Week 41. 2011. How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One by Stanley Eugene Fish
- Week 40. 2011. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Mathew Frederick
- Week 39. 2011. Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything by F.S. Michaels
- week 38. 2011. Tribal Leadership by David Logan
- Week 37. 2011. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- Week 36. 2011. The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar
- Week 35.2011. Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design by Scott Rogers
- Week 34. 2011. Redesigning Leadership by John Maeda & Rebecca J Bermont
- Week 33. 2011. Game-Based Marketing: Inspire Customer Loyalty Through Rewards, Challenges, and Contests by Gabe Zichermann
- Week 32. 2011. The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations by Dietrich Dörner
- Week 31. 2011. How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gill
- Week 30. 2011. Bossypants by Tina Fey
- Week 29. 2011. The Medium is the Massage - Marshall McLuhan
- Week 28. 2011. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
- week 27. 2011. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
- week 26. 2011 Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
- Week 25. 2011. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Week 24. 2011 Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster
- Week 23. 2011. The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
- Week 22. 2011. Content Strategy for the Web by Kristina Halvorson
- Week 21. 2011. Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood by Michael Lewis
- Week 20. 2011. The Tale of the Unknown Island by Jose Saramago
- Week 19. 2011. Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
- Week 18. 2011. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Week 17. 2011. A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown
- week 16. 2011. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- week 15. 2011. Tao Te Ching by Burton Watson, Lao-Tzu, Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo
- week 14. 2011. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
- Week 13. 2011. Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
- Week 12. 2011. The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong by D. Shenk
- Week 11. 2011. Be Excellent at Anything: The Four Keys To Transforming the Way We Work and Live by Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes and Catherine McCarthy
- Week 10. 2011. And the Pursuit of Happiness by Maira Kalman
- Week 9. 2011. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel by Charles Yu.
- Week 8. 2011. The Happiness Manifesto by Nic Marks
- Week 7. 2011. The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why by Richard Nisbett
- Week 6. 2011. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
- Week 5. 2011. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey
- Week 4. 2011. Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
- Week 3. 2011. The Poetics of Aristotle by Bc- Bc Aristotle
- Week 2. 2011. Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best... and Learn from the Worst by Robert I. Sutton
- Week 1. 2011. The MacIntosh Way by Guy Kawasaki
- 2010 Book 23 - Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach and Russell Munso
- 2010 Book 22 - Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition by Steven Levy
- 2010 Book 21 Bilbao - Nueva York - Bilbao by Kirmen Uribe
- 2010 Book 20. The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge;
- 2010 Book 19. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher
- 2010 Book 18. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
- 2010 Book 17. Encounter by Milan Kundera
- 2010 Book 16. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
- 2010 Book 15. 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot (Borzoi Books) by Richard Wiseman
- 2010 Book 14. Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality by Scott Belsky
- 2010 Book 13. The Pirate Inside: Building a Challenger Brand Culture Within Yourself and Your Organization by Adam Morgan
- 2010 Book 12. Cirque du Soleil: The Spark - Igniting the Creative Fire that Lives within Us All by John U. Bacon and Lyn Heward
- 2010 Book 11. The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel by Jed Rubenfeld
- 2010 Book 10. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. El vicio incurable de contar by Conrado Zuluaga
- 2010 Book 9. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
- 2010 Book 8. Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher
- 2010 Book 7. Historia universal de la infamia by Jorge Luis Borges
- 2010 Book 6. The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica
- 2010 Book 5. Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation by William H. Gass
- 2010 Book 4. Chief Culture Officer: How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation by Grant David McCracken
- 2010 Book 3. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
- 2010 Book 2. The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage by Roger L. Martin
- 2010 Book 1. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
- week 52. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- week 51. Weird Ideas That Work: 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation by Robert I. Sutton
- week 50. Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Steven Johnson
- week 49. Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders
- week 48. The art of the idea by John Hunt
- week 47. Candide by Voltaire,
- week 46. The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
- week 45. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
- week 44. Seven Nights by Jorge Luis Borges
- week 43. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer and Richmond Lattimore
- week 42. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
- week 41. La Insoportable Levedad Del Ser por Milan Kundera
- week 40. Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists by Susan Neiman
- week 39. Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life by Dacher Keltner
- week 38. Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
- week 37. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
- week 36. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage) by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland
- week 35. Desde el Otro lado del Escaparate by Toni Segarra
- week 34. The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation by Mark Kurlansky
- week 33. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
- week 32. The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do by Clotaire Rapaille
- week 31. It's Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be: The World's Best Selling Book by Paul Arden
- week 30. Just Listen by Nancy O'Hara
- week 29. El Perro Del Hortelano (Spanish Edition) by Lope de Vega
- week 28. It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons by Andrea J. Buchanan
- week 27. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
- week 26. Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman
- week 25. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
- week 24. Father Knows Less Or: "Can I Cook My Sister?": One Dad's Quest to Answer His Son's Most Baffling Questions by Wendell Jamieson
- week 23. The Nature of Marketing: Marketing to the Swarm as well as the Herd by Chuck Brymer
- week 22. Duel in the Sun: The Story of Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon by John Brant
- week 21. Lois on the Loose: One Woman, One Motorcycle, 20,000 Miles Across the Americas by Lois Pryce
- week 20. How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
- week 19. The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO by Tom Kelley
- week 18. Simple Truths by Kent Nerburn
- week 17. Letters to A Young Poet by reiner Maria Rilke.
- week 16. The Ten Faces of Innovation by by Thomas Kelley and Jonathan Littman
- week 15. World Wide Rave by David Meerman Scott
- week 14. The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company by David A. Price
- week 13. The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind
- week 12. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide by Henry Jenkins
- week 11. The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas by Robert H. Frank
- week 10. The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You by Mark Buchanan
- week 9. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud
- week 8. Annie Leibovitz at Work by Annie Leibovitz
- week 7. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
- week 6. Las tribulaciones del estudiante Torless by Robert Musil
- week 5. Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me by Ben Karlin
- week 4. Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
- week 3. All about love. New visions by Bell Hooks
- week 2. How fiction works by James Wood
- week 1. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
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ReplyDeleteThis is really a great topic and have eye catching title. I think may attracts most of the people in this world and most the people are facing the same problems. I hope your books will give some tips to overs come those problems. Anyways keep it up and keep continue with your valuable thoughts.