{"id":2823,"date":"2008-08-08T02:23:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T02:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2008-08-08T04:02:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T04:02:39","slug":"books-the-readers-recommended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2823","title":{"rendered":"Books the Readers Recommended"},"content":{"rendered":"

In\u00a0mt previous \u00a0post, The Reading List of Colonel Thomas X. Hammes<\/a>, I asked for reader suggestions on new additions to the list and you responded both here and at Chicago Boyz<\/a><\/strong>. Here is what you offered up:<\/p>\n

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 [ Jeremiah<\/strong> ]<\/p>\n

War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0[ Wiggins<\/a><\/strong> ]<\/p>\n

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 [ Wiggins<\/strong> ]<\/p>\n

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 <\/strong>[ Glenn<\/strong> ]<\/p>\n

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 [\u00a0 Glenn<\/a><\/strong> ]<\/p>\n

Explaining Chaos<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 <\/strong>[ Munzenberg<\/strong> ]<\/p>\n

From Pablo to Osama: Trafficking and Terrorist Networks, Government Bureaucracies, and Competitive Adaptation<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 <\/strong>[ Munzenberg<\/a><\/strong> ]<\/p>\n

The Devil in the Details: Asymptotic Reasoning in Explanation, Reduction, and Emergence (Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science)<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>[\u00a0 Munzenberg<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 ]<\/p>\n

Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 [ Eddie<\/a><\/strong> – can’t find his second rec on Amazon]<\/p>\n

Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web Application<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 [ Jeffrey<\/strong> ]<\/p>\n

The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master Swordsman<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [ Jeffrey<\/a><\/strong> ]<\/p>\n

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [ Adrian <\/a><\/strong>– this was also a Hammes rec that I missed in my last post]<\/p>\n

G\u00f6del, Escher, Bach. Ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band.<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [ Adrian <\/strong>]<\/p>\n

Daemon<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [ Arherring<\/a> <\/strong>]<\/p>\n

Halting State (Ace Science Fiction)<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [ Arherring <\/strong>]<\/p>\n

The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>[ A.E<\/strong>. ]<\/p>\n

City Fights: Selected Histories of Urban Combat from World War II to Vietnam<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>[ A.E<\/strong>. ]<\/p>\n

Criminal-States and Criminal-Soldiers<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [ A.E<\/strong>. ]<\/p>\n

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [ David Foster<\/strong> <\/a>]<\/p>\n

The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>[ David Foster<\/strong> ]<\/p>\n

Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books.)<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>[ David Foster<\/strong> ]<\/p>\n

The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>[ David Foster<\/strong> ]<\/p>\n

The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 [ David Foster<\/strong> ]<\/p>\n

Order Out of Chaos<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 [ Shannon Love<\/strong> <\/a>]<\/p>\n

And here are mine:<\/p>\n

Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd (Strategy and History Series)<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blogfriend and cybersecurity expert\u00a0Gunnar Peterson<\/a><\/strong> steps up with his own list<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In\u00a0mt previous \u00a0post, The Reading List of Colonel Thomas X. Hammes, I asked for reader suggestions on new additions to the list and you responded both here and at Chicago Boyz. Here is what you offered up: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations\u00a0 [ Jeremiah ] War before Civilization: The Myth of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,133,331,247,343,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-book","category-hammes","category-reader-response","category-readers","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}