post your books (bio)

[Kuznetzova]

Biology and evolution.

[Kuznetzova]

Neuroscience and cognitive science

[Omniscientone]

Interesting I have none of these, but when I get a chance I'll take a picture of some of my cognitive science books and post them.

[The Voice of Time]

Programming books, game programming, web-application and website programming, two programming languages (Visual C# and Visual Basic) and database programming (sql)



African Finance, African Entrepreneurship and the 2010 developmental report from the African Development Bank analysing the prospects for and the challenges met in developing the African economies.



1) "When China Rules the World", a book arguing for an emerging cultural domination from China possibly out-phasing in the future western cultural influences, as well as an analysis of other national issues of China

2) "Inside the Kingdom", telling the story of modern Saudi-Arabia and giving an intimate look at the government and its relationship with the (religious) elites and the people

3) "Macrowikinomics", a story of the emergence of several trends across the internet, and how to capitalize on it, dealing (so far only read a very small portion) with cyber-technology and its impact upon the way we do business



1) "Aristotle - Politics" is the only original piece of philosophical work I've ever owned, and I've owned it for years and still not finished! Generally I refrain from reading fully originals, and prefer commentary abstracts, making me feel I'm getting an enhanced perspective, as all philosophers are self-justifying and makes lots of mistakes and stuff

2) "Ernesto Che Guevara - Guerilla Warfare", the original classic book elaborating on the strategies, pre-requisites and the course of guerilla warfare, in its goals it reminds of The Art of War by Sun Tzu, only in a modern context. It's basically a large recipe for the successful execution of a guerilla war. Che being a bit of a philosopher, it's an interesting look at a genius' piece of work, and great thinker, though I have no obvious reasons for either reading or owning the book, I like to think of it as a relic of sorts, and I expect it may be an interesting book to have read whenever I get into the computer game production business, and may find myself making a war-game. There's nothing more real and intriguing than reality itself, real events, people who has experienced the real thing, and so forth.

3) "Mathematics - A Short Introduction" elaborates on the huge discipline of Mathematics and gives interesting looks at many very fundamental concepts that are otherwise pragmatically explained in high school but is here given a more relaxed and free-thinking explanation, not teaching you to calculate, but to understanding mathematics as a philosophy/logic language for patterns.

4) "Eckhart Tolle - A New Earth", spiritual book I was recommended once. While it's not too bad and interesting at some degree it also suffers from a form of "because I say so" spiritual teaching, that inevitably biases it in a lot of areas. But for somebody like me just liking to float on the ocean of ideas and fish casually it works, though I read it slow despite its rather simple read.



1) "Terry Pratchett - Discworld Series", here are 3 books of the huge series of fantasy comedies centred around the "Discworld". Very entertaining, gives me a lot of laughs and comforts!

2) Nocturnes... this I think is more of female's favourite, but since I'm unfamiliar with the style and concept of writing used in it, I've decided I should finish it sometime in the future, just to have read it, although it's a bit too much romance and sorrow for my taste, but it's short enough, and varied, consisting of several smaller stories.

3) The last book "Mr. Mulliner Speaking" I've not started on, but it's some form of comedy.

[chaz wyman]

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3) The last book "Mr. Mulliner Speaking" I've not started on, but it's some form of comedy.

Last but not least. Wodehouse is a master. You might know him best for Jeeves and Wooster.
The ditsy idiot toff and his far superior Spinoza reading valet Jeeves.

[The Voice of Time]

Dunno Chaz, just saw it in the shop when I was in a book-buying mood

[reasonvemotion]

I have had this book for some time (quite a few years) but have just began reading it.

"Creative Evolution is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. It provides an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by a "vital impetus" that can also be understood as humanity's natural creative impulse.

The book also develops concepts of time (offered in Bergson's earlier work) which significantly influenced modernist writers and thinkers such as Marcel Proust. For example, Bergson's term "duration" refers to a more individual, subjective experience of time, as opposed to mathematical, objectively measurable "clock time." In Creative Evolution, Bergson suggests that the experience of time as "duration" can best be understood through creative intuition, not through intellect."

[Kuznetzova]

Thanks for the submissions.

So far, those were only the biology-related books on my shelf