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| The Second World War || Beevor, Anthony || | |||
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| Churchill, Hitler, and 'The Unnecessary War': How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World || Buchanan, Patrick || 5-Sep-18 | |||
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| Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 || Giangreco, D.M. || | |||
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| Jutland, 1916: Death in the Grey Wastes || Hart, Peter || 6-Nov-17 | |||
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| The Battle for the Falklands || Hastings, Max || 5-Oct-12 | |||
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| A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 || Meyer, G.J. || 15-Jul-20 | |||
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| History's Great Military Blunders and the Lessons They Teach (Great Courses) || Aldrete, Gregory || | |||
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| On Grand Strategy || Gaddis, John Lewis || 30-Aug-18 | |||
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| Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought || Handel, Michael I. || 11-Apr-18 | |||
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| Masters of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers (Great Courses) || Wilson, Andrew || | |||
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Revision as of 20:16, 3 October 2020
I am trying to balance the categorization here. Without a firm grip on my innate OCD, these would get too granular. You might disagree with some of my choices, but tough, it's my list.
Agile
| Title | Author | Date Read |
|---|---|---|
| Scaled Agile Framework Distilled: A Practical Guide to Scaling Agile in the Enterprise | Knaster, Richard | 31-Jan-19 |
| Escape Velocity - Better Metrics for Agile Teams | Norton, Doc | 16-Jan-19 |
Behavioral Economics
| Title | Author | Date Read |
|---|---|---|
| Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter | Ariely, Dan | |
| Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts | Duke, Annie | 18-Jan-17 |
Business
| Title | Author | Date Read |
|---|---|---|
| The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey | Blanchard, Kenneth H. | |
| Boss Life: Surviving My Own Small Business | Downs, Paul | 20-Aug-18 |
| How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business | Hubbard, Douglas W. | 6-May-18 |
| Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It | Voss, Chris | 29-Jul-18 |
Climate/Current Events
| Title | Author | Date Read |
|---|---|---|
| Don't Panic: ISIS, Terror and Today's Middle East | Dyer, Gwynne | 12-May-18 |
| False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet | Lomborg, Bjørn | 15-May-18 |
| Atmosphæra Incognita | Stephenson, Neal | 2-Sep-19 |
| Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life | Strauss, Neil | 24-Dec-17 |
| Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction | Newitz, Annalee |
Computing / Privacy
| Title | Author | Date Read |
|---|---|---|
| Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions | Christian, Brian | 23-Sep-20 |
| The Expert Beginner | Dietrich, Erik | 15-Sep-17 |
| Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age | Doctorow, Cory | 8-Apr-17 |
| The Art of Invisibility | Mitnick, Kevin D. | 7-Mar-18 |
| Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy | O'Neil, Cathy | 25-Mar-19 |
| Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World | Schneier, Bruce | 3-Mar-19 |
| Permanent Record | Snowden, Edward | 18-Oct-19 |
Economics
| Title | Author | Date Read |
|---|---|---|
| The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine | Lewis, Michael | 9-Aug-20 |
| Uncommon Carriers | McPhee, John | 30-Dec-16 |
Health
| Title | Author | Date Read |
|---|---|---|
| Blood Sugar 101: What They Don't Tell You About Diabetes | Ruhl, Jenny | 4-May-17 |
History (General)
| Title | Author | Date Read |
|---|---|---|
| Live from Cape Canaveral: Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today | Barbree, Jay | |
| The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language | Bragg, Melvyn | |
| The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses | Carlin, Dan | 6-Jan-16 |
| The Lessons of History | Durant, Will | 22-May-18 |
| The Cold War: A New History | Gaddis, John Lewis | 22-Mar-18 |
| The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past | Gaddis, John Lewis | 17-Jan-18 |
| The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War | Kaplan, Fred | |
| The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger | Steinmetz, Greg | |
| Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different | Wood, Gordon |
Leadership
| Title | Author | Date Read |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Change | Kotter, John P. | 14-May-18 |
| Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders | Marquet, L. David | 8-Jun-19 |
| Summary of Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High | Patterson, Kerry | |
| Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us | Pink, Daniel H. | 31-Aug-17 |
| Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win | Willink, Jocko |
Military History
| Title | Author | Date Read |
|---|---|---|
| The Second World War | Beevor, Anthony | |
| Churchill, Hitler, and 'The Unnecessary War': How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World | Buchanan, Patrick | 5-Sep-18 |
| Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 | Giangreco, D.M. | |
| Jutland, 1916: Death in the Grey Wastes | Hart, Peter | 6-Nov-17 |
| The Battle for the Falklands | Hastings, Max | 5-Oct-12 |
| A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 | Meyer, G.J. | 15-Jul-20 |
Military Strategy & Operational Art
| Title | Author | Date Read |
|---|---|---|
| History's Great Military Blunders and the Lessons They Teach (Great Courses) | Aldrete, Gregory | |
| On Grand Strategy | Gaddis, John Lewis | 30-Aug-18 |
| Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought | Handel, Michael I. | 11-Apr-18 |
| Masters of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers (Great Courses) | Wilson, Andrew |
