Lists of Bests: 2togo's "Read What I've Got (reorganized)" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/50919 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:33:51 GMT en-us 0 50 160 50 0 The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6975 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6975"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316346624.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Gladwell</div> Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18995 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18995"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679758941.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464981_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Wright</div> A Short History of Nearly Everything http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22692 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22692"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/076790818X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Bryson</div> PI in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38181 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38181"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316082597.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John D. Barrow</div> Star Wave: Mind, Consciousness, and Quantum Physics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/340307 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fred Alan Wolf</div> The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518063 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518063"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/019VNEKTW1L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Pinker</div> How the Mind Works http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10906 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10906"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393318486.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439877_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Pinker</div> The Making of Memory: From Molecules to Mind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/431620 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/431620"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385471211.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Rose</div> Clinical Neuroanatomy Made Ridiculously Simple (3rd Edition; Book & CD-ROM) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/90319 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/90319"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0940780577.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Goldberg</div> Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain (Hacks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68997 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68997"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0596101538.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ron Hale-Evans</div> Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2365392 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2365392"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805083391.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45112398_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Ekman</div> Memory in Literature: From Rousseau to Neuroscience http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3219223 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Suzanne Nalbantian</div> Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2793202 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2793202"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/017BDQH5QJL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oliver Sacks</div> Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3580 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3580"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142001783.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422264_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph LeDoux</div> Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5265 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5265"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0262511096.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1128025648_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James H. Austin</div> Genome http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1583203 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1583203"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000G740PI.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matt Ridley</div> The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1058026 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1058026"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385720319.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dean H. Hamer</div> Mathsemantics: Making Numbers Talk Sense http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1810369 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1810369"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140234861.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132599562_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward MacNeal</div> Additional Mathematics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2445526 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Mathematics for the Nonmathematician (Dover Books Explaining Science) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1042473 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1042473"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486248232.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Morris Kline</div> Once Upon a Number : The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67453 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67453"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465051596.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Allen Paulos</div> The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4487 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4487"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195142373.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Kaplan</div> Physics For the Rest of Us http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2726780 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2726780"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0809237164.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44226109_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roger S. Jones</div> Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1494 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1494"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060963107.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121692824_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fred A. Wolf</div> ALBERT EINSTEIN / THE WORLD AS I SEE IT / OUT OF MY LATER YEARS http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1151201 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1151201"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000C9K0E0.01-AEPD64NA1ATJF._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by TRANSLATED BY ALAN HARRIS</div> The Pony Fish's Glow: And Other Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/868375 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/868375"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0465072836.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George C. Williams</div> Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2553287 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2553287"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033861.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Seth Lloyd</div> Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18129 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18129"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671797182.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Davies</div> The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10258 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10258"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385476760.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43054439_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fritjof Capra</div> The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/542796 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/542796"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618711686.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dick Teresi</div> Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7701 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7701"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345379187.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Sagan</div> The Road to Reality : A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18540 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18540"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679454438.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124996926_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roger Penrose</div> The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4352 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4352"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192861980.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roger Penrose</div> The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2779115 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2779115"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11RKR0ST89L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Gribbin</div> Three Roads to Quantum Gravity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72162 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72162"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465078362.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lee Smolin</div> Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7562 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7562"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345336895.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Sagan</div> The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14264 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14264"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465030912.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel C. Dennett</div> Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14256 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14256"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465026567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas R. Hofstadter</div> Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14303 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14303"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465045669.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas R. Hofstadter</div> The Female Brain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813759 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813759"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01jizeI8oOL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louann Md Brizendine</div> Foundation and Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16207 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16207"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553587579.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Asimov</div> Tomorrow's Children : 18 Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3712079 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Second Foundation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3699734 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3699734"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11yMCLZ1LLL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Asimov</div> Forward the Foundation (Foundation Novels (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16000 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16000"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553565079.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1091594281_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Asimov</div> Foundation's Edge (Foundation Novels) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15810 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15810"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553293389.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1091593429_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Asimov</div> NEMESIS http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9997 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by ISAAC ASIMOV</div> Prelude to Foundation (Foundation Novels) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15747 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15747"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553278398.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65558605_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Asimov</div> The Robots of Dawn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15836 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15836"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553299492.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Asimov</div> Caves of Steel (Robot City (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15812 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15812"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553293400.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114032863_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Asimov</div> The Naked Sun http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15811 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15811"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553293397.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056455524_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Asimov</div>