Sideways Karma

A pleasant voyage through the history of the universe.  Bryson is a gifted story teller who helps make the unfathomable understandable, the unintersting enjoyable, and the useless intriguing.

Has a better book about the restaurant world ever been written?  Maybe, but more brutally honest? Doubtful.  Enter the frantic, endearing world of Anthony Bourdain and pick up some great tips about chef knives and garlic along the way.  This book has plenty of re-readability potential -- it′s on my reading list once a year.

Gladwell′s book about how a lot of hard work and good luck makes those who push the edges who they are.  Awesomely enjoyable audiobook for the commute.

You gotta love Woz. :)  Here′s his first-hand story, according to him...he never lies.  Even my teen daughters enjoyed listening to this one on a day-trip car ride.

When pressed hard enough, it‛s happiness most will claim to attain to.  But what is happiness?  What does science have to say about it?

Data is everywhere, and now it is more accessible than ever before.  How can you use Google to help you pick a name for a book?  How are doctors usin databases to diagnose patients?  And most importantly, which is better the statistics or human intuition / experience?

A good reminder that history is written by the victors.  Here Howard Zinn offers a look at the other side of history′s pen.

A solid attempt at mainstream political philosophy.