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  1. More Baths Less Talking Nick Hornby A witty and illuminating blueprint to the habits and how-to’s of reading good books well. 

    More Baths Less Talking

    Nick Hornby

    A witty and illuminating blueprint to the habits and how-to’s of reading good books well. 
  2. This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking John Brockman Every year for more than a decade, intellectual impresario and Edge editor John Brockman has been asking the era’s greatest thinkers a single annual question, designed to illuminate some important aspect of how we understand the world. In 2011, he asked: “What scientific concept will improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?” The answers, featuring a wealth of influential scientists, authors, and thought-architects, are gathered in this formidable anthology of short essays by 151 of our time’s biggest thinkers on subjects as diverse as the power of networks, cognitive humility, the paradoxes of daydreaming, information flow, collective intelligence, and a dizzying, mind-expanding range in between. Together, they construct a powerful toolkit of meta-cognition — a new way to think about thinking itself.

    This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

    John Brockman

    Every year for more than a decade, intellectual impresario and Edge editor John Brockman has been asking the era’s greatest thinkers a single annual question, designed to illuminate some important aspect of how we understand the world. In 2011, he asked: “What scientific concept will improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?”

    The answers, featuring a wealth of influential scientists, authors, and thought-architects, are gathered in this formidable anthology of short essays by 151 of our time’s biggest thinkers on subjects as diverse as the power of networks, cognitive humility, the paradoxes of daydreaming, information flow, collective intelligence, and a dizzying, mind-expanding range in between. Together, they construct a powerful toolkit of meta-cognition — a new way to think about thinking itself.
  3. The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories Frank Rose A field guide to the visionaries—and the fans—who are reinventing the art of storytelling.

    The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories

    Frank Rose

    A field guide to the visionaries—and the fans—who are reinventing the art of storytelling.