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I am curently ready this: The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction, which you can find here: http://www.amazon.com/Great-Depression-New-Deal-Introduction/dp/B001C4OGFI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231895745&sr=8-1

It's very good, especially relevant in these times, and you can easily read it in a week.

Cheers.

-G

Thanks Greg, as you say looks very relevant in todays climate. Added to my amazon wish list.

Supercrunchers
Written by one of the authors of Freakonomics, it is about the way that large scale statistical data is used increasingly for decision making, everything from website design to price sensitivity

The Photographers Eye by Michael Freeman
One of the best books about photography that there is, very much about design of image rather than how to use a camera

Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray
A series of essays by London School of Economics professor.
< snip > Themes include the similarities between hypnotism and financial markets and uncomfortable truths behind drug use and its prohibition. In a chapter called Deception, Gray traces Humanism from Plato through Postmodernism. He critiques both science and religion: Science can advance human knowledge, it cannot make humanity cherish truth. Like the Christians of former times, scientists are caught up in the web of power; they struggle for survival and success; their view of the world is a patchwork of conventional beliefs.< /snip >

"collapse", by jared diamond.
a thrilling account on how civilizations prosper for centuries - and disappear all of a sudden.
delivers more than a hint on what eventually could happen to us. terrific read.

thanks for the suggestions, added to list.

I found your blog looking for advice on how to use OneNote effectively. I plan to try your system. Couldn't resist throwing in my 2 cents:

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
http://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Brain-Life-Obsessiveness/dp/0812929985/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233355088&sr=8-1

and

The Brain That Changes Itself
http://www.amazon.com/Brain-That-Changes-Itself-Frontiers/dp/0143113100/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233355145&sr=1-1

Both fascinating.

First: I got some great ideas for my own use of OneNote from your OneNote GTD thing, thanks.

Second: I strongly recommend audible.com if you want to read a book a week. I have been a subscriber for about 8 years and it has enabled me to consume books when i otherwise couldn't: car, train, plane, exercise, my lunchtime walks, sleep. Check it out.

Seven good books for you:

Linked, by Barabasi - network theory, very good

Code 2.0 by Lessig - regulability and intellectual property in digital world

Hamilton by Chernow - amazing story of the guy who thought up the country we live in after the revolutionaries did their thing

Megacommunities - about the role of massive collaboration an NGOs having a very strong role in the future interface between government and industry

Gridlock Economy - how too much ownership of intellectual property is hurting us big time

Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy - several stories of unpopular decisions that changed history, can be read in 30 minute chunks - written while JFK was Senator

Rising Tide - story of flood of Mississipi in 1927 that makes Katrina look like a leaky faucet. Changed economic, racial and political landscape in America

I recommend "The age of Turbulance" by Alan Greenspan. I'm reading it in Ebook form with a new update to talk about the current economic crisis.

There are too many great books to jam into 1 a week. For example, POSTWAR by Tony Judt. That's not a 1 weeker to read well and take notes and absorb.
Best of luck.

Thanks for your ideas on using OneNote. Here are a couple of ideas for books:

The Forgotten Man - A view of the Great Depression from the ordinary worker, and how the New Deal affected their lives.

Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia - A short memoir from the man who negotiated the book deal between the Yale Press & the Russian government, compiling, editing, and publishing supressed documents. Facinating view into Russian life.

A Bridge of Birds - "A Novel of Ancient China That Never Was". Chinese mythology meets Sherlock Holmes. Not to be missed.

The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America - Hugely entertaining book about the early days of American comics and the "brain rot" scare of the 1940's and 50's drove comics underground.

So many I would like to suggest but a few off the top of my head;
Wold War Z - Max Brooks
ACCELERANDO - Charles Stross
White Line Fever - Autobiogarphy of Lemmy (MotorHead)
Dabble in a compilation of Philip K Dick, I suggest read all of his work.
A few other authors;
Neal Stephenson
Bruce Sterling
Isaac Asimov

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.

One of the greatest books I've ever read and the best one describing the biggest enemy within us, Resistance.

It's also a very quick read (cca. 160 pages) but every page has the potential to have a great impact on you.

It would be nice to know what you have already chosen.

Here is good one if you like to think and feel. Living the Wisdom of the Tao: The Complete Tao Te Ching and Affirmations. Link: Living the Wisdom of the Tao

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. Changed my life and worldview.

Cosmon and Psyce by Richard Tarnas

Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken

typo: Psyche of course.

Tarnas is one of those rare gems, brilliant, no big ego, gets the big picture.