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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Joe Conason

2007-08-18

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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Jared Diamond

2007-08-16

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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Authors: Al Franken Joe Conason James Roosevelt Jr.

2007-08-12

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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: James McManus

Tags: poker

2007-06-15

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Type: educational

Status: I recommend

Author: Richard Rorty

2007-06-14

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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Malcom Gladwell

Description: Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant.Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.
Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind," focusing on the wrong cue leaves us vulnerable to "the Warren Harding Effect" (i.e., voting for a handsome but hapless president). In a provocative chapter that exposes the "dark side of blink," he illuminates the failure of rapid cognition in the tragic stakeout and murder of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. He underlines studies about autism, facial reading and cardio uptick to urge training that enhances high-stakes decision-making. In this brilliant, cage-rattling book, one can only wish for a thicker slice of Gladwell's ideas about what Blink Camp might look like....

2007-05-05

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Lucius Shepard

Tags: magicalrealism

2006-05-05

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Kim Stanley Robinson

Tags: scifi ecology

2005-10-29

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Nicholas Meyer

Tags: sherlock holmes

2005-10-25

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Authors: Gilbert Hernandez Jaime Hernandez

Tags: comics sequentialart

Description: Love and Rockets Vol 9

2005-10-09