Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Wednesday, 29 December 2010

Free e-books and audio books

My sources for free e-books and audiobooks are -

Project Gutenberg:

Google E-bookstore

Internet Archive

Open Library

Many Books

LibriVox (audiobooks)

Can anyone suggest any more?

PS: I omitted one of my favourites: Memoware

Sunday, 21 June 2009

"Risk" by Dan Gardner

A good analysis of how we, as a society, perceive risk, and how we should perceive it and deal with it. We worry amount relatively small risks, but become blase about much bigger ones, due to various biases - the Von Rorkoff effect, optimism bias, hindsight bias, etc - and errors of logic.

Our initial reaction to a given situation is based on gut instinct - our hard-wiring; if (and it is a big "if") our logical mind then kicks in to modify our reaction, it is normally only partially successful, with the result that most reactions are gut-based rather than logic-based

A genuinely absorbing read - I read it at one sitting - and full of ideas to mull over