Post by Kahlessa on May 31, 2007 21:32:49 GMT -5
Today while I was working at the bookstore, a customer with the New York Times Sunday Book Review asked for help. He had the review dated Sunday, June 3, 2007. (Apparently if you have a subscription, you get it before Sunday.)
There was a survey titled “Read Any Good Books Lately?” which featured different celebrities giving their recommendations. Michael Crichton was one of them. The customer had underlined several of the titles, including two Crichton had recommended.
Here are the three books Crichton recommended. I will post the link and his comments about the books when the article comes online.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb (who also wrote Fooled by Randomness)
Hardcover
ISBN: 1400063515
Pub. Date: April 2007
From the Publisher:
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.
Problems of Empiricism (Philosophical Papers), Vol. 2
By Paul K. Feyerabend
Paperback
ISBN: 0521316413
Pub. Date: June 1985
From the Publisher:
Over the past thirty years Paul Feyerabend has developed an extremely distinctive and influentical approach to problems in the philosophy of science. The most important and seminal of his published essays are collected here in two volumes, with new introductions to provide an overview and historical perspective on the discussions of each part. Volume 1 presents papers on the interpretation of scientific theories, together with papers applying the views developed to particular problems in philosophy and physics. The essays in volume 2 examine the origin and history of an abstract rationalism, as well as its consequences for the philosophy of science and methods of scientific research. Professor Feyerabend argues with great force and imagination for a comprehensive and opportunistic pluralism. In doing so he draws on extensive knowledge of scientific history and practice, and he is alert always to the wider philosophical, practical and political implications of conflicting views. These two volumes fully display the variety of his ideas, and confirm the originality and significance of his work.
Bone in the Throat
By Anthony Bourdain
Paperback
ISBN: 1582341028
Pub. Date: September 2000
From the Publisher:
When up-and-coming chef Tommy Pagano settles for a less than glamorous stint at his uncle's restaurant in Manhattan's Little Italy, an operatically eccentric group of wise guys become his superiors and he unwittingly finds himself their partner in big-time crime. And when the mob decides to use the kitchen for a murder, nothing Tommy learned in cooking school has prepared him for a kettle of fish like this.
There was a survey titled “Read Any Good Books Lately?” which featured different celebrities giving their recommendations. Michael Crichton was one of them. The customer had underlined several of the titles, including two Crichton had recommended.
Here are the three books Crichton recommended. I will post the link and his comments about the books when the article comes online.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb (who also wrote Fooled by Randomness)
Hardcover
ISBN: 1400063515
Pub. Date: April 2007
From the Publisher:
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.
Problems of Empiricism (Philosophical Papers), Vol. 2
By Paul K. Feyerabend
Paperback
ISBN: 0521316413
Pub. Date: June 1985
From the Publisher:
Over the past thirty years Paul Feyerabend has developed an extremely distinctive and influentical approach to problems in the philosophy of science. The most important and seminal of his published essays are collected here in two volumes, with new introductions to provide an overview and historical perspective on the discussions of each part. Volume 1 presents papers on the interpretation of scientific theories, together with papers applying the views developed to particular problems in philosophy and physics. The essays in volume 2 examine the origin and history of an abstract rationalism, as well as its consequences for the philosophy of science and methods of scientific research. Professor Feyerabend argues with great force and imagination for a comprehensive and opportunistic pluralism. In doing so he draws on extensive knowledge of scientific history and practice, and he is alert always to the wider philosophical, practical and political implications of conflicting views. These two volumes fully display the variety of his ideas, and confirm the originality and significance of his work.
Bone in the Throat
By Anthony Bourdain
Paperback
ISBN: 1582341028
Pub. Date: September 2000
From the Publisher:
When up-and-coming chef Tommy Pagano settles for a less than glamorous stint at his uncle's restaurant in Manhattan's Little Italy, an operatically eccentric group of wise guys become his superiors and he unwittingly finds himself their partner in big-time crime. And when the mob decides to use the kitchen for a murder, nothing Tommy learned in cooking school has prepared him for a kettle of fish like this.