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These are just some of my favourite titles I've encountered over the years. I hope you find something here to pique your interest.
I've included Amazon links but I'm not retaining a referral commission.
Christopher's Star Rating System
Christopher's Star Rating System
★ Doesn't work, useless, or harmful
★★ Mostly frustrating, not recommended
★★★ Average, neither good nor bad or a mix of good and bad
★★★★ Good, better than most, recommended
★★★★★ Outstanding, among the very best
Politics
Politics
Paul Mason
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Alex Benay
Government Digital ★ ★ ★ ★
John Lorinc
Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopia ★ ★ ★ ★
Garnett and Pal
Cyber Threats to Canadian Democracy ★ ★ ★ ★
Stephen J.A. Ward
Irrational Publics and the Fate of Democracy [rating pending]
Lawrence Freedman
Strategy: A History ★ ★ ★ ★
It gets business-oriented at the end and that portion was less useful to me, but most of the text is fascinating and worth the read.
Classic fiction literature in the public domain
Classic fiction literature in the public domain
Don't pay for these.
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote
Sun Tzu
The Art of War
Franz Kafka
The Trial
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
Homer
The Odyssey
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Ernest
H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man
Lewis Carol
Alice in Wonderland
Communication
Communication
Russell and Norvig
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
★ ★ ★ ★
It's expensive, but it's the common primer for learning AI. Try to find a used edition.
Madsen Pirie
How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic ★ ★ ★ ★
Among books about logical fallacies, this one is enjoyable because it takes a subversive approach, as though the reader wishes to exploit them.
Dr. David Burns
Feeling Good: Overcome Depression and Anxiety with Proven Techniques ★ ★ ★ ★
The idea here is to learn Dr. Burns' cognitive distortions. You can disregard the chapters that follow (or not).
Kaufman and Kaufman (eds.)
Pseudoscience The Conspiracy Against Science ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Douglas Van Praet
Unconscious Branding: How Neuroscience Can Empower (and Inspire) ★ ★ ★ ★
This 2014 work may now be slightly dated.
Patrick Forsyth
Marketing A Guide to the fundamentals ★ ★ ★
It's accurate and useful, but dry.
Seth Godin
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable ★ ★ ★
This tiny book explains in simple terms what it takes to adopt an attention-grabbing Unique Sales Proposition, one component of an effective business strategy.
Michael Crawford
The Journalist's Legal Guide, 6th Edition ★ ★ ★
Save with an old edition: https://a.co/d/cDh0JzD
My main criticism is that it's chilling, potentially discouraging people from speaking out about important topics, but that's inherent in the subject matter.
Paul McLaughlin
How to Interview The Art of Asking Questions ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
With this book, you can become better at TV interviews than most TV journalists.
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