Please let me know your top book recommendations on: Business, Economy, Bio, History, General Non-fiction.?

Question

I'm an avid reader and always scouring for good books. Given the myriad options out there, I usually rely on peer advise vs. already-skewed media "top-sellers". Your help is greatly appreciated! Have a great New Year.

Answer 1

For a basic, yet funny introduction to Economics:
Tim Hartford "THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST" (many reference to today issues)

I recommend to you also various essays on economical history by Carlo M. Cipolla:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2000/09/13_cipolla.html
He wrote also a divertissement about human stupidity (until some months ago you could have it downloaded from www):
http://www.panix.com/userdirs/clocke/EGR/Stupidity.html (an abstract)

BIO: what's about a historical personality covered by a famous writer?
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/15/reviews/marquez-general.html
a tale about Simon Bolivar by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

I recommend too:
The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime
by William Langewiesche
http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/lection/050822.html

Answer 2

Oh let's see...

Rosita Arvigo's Sastun is probably my top recommendation for general nonfiction. She's a doctor who went to help with medical needs in the South American rainforests and ended up becoming apprenticed to a Mayan healer. Fascinating book--and she's done a lot of good work on getting medical research to examine the plant life of the Amazon basin more closely.

On biographies, I tend to read author bios, since that's a major interest of mine. Richard Ellman's biographies of Oscar Wilde and James Joyce are excellent. For that matter...I did a major research paper on Wilde a couple years back, and another great book I found is The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde, edited by Merlin Holland (his grandson), which contains the recently-surfaced transcripts of his suit against the Marquess of Queensbury. Even though the trial ended up in Wilde's conviction, it's still incredibly entertaining.

Answer 3

As a military history buff, my favorite book is undoubtedly, "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"..its not overly concerned with the military side of the war, (tactics, troop movements, etc), it deals almost entirely with Hitler, his rise and eventual fall. Its a classic that has been through multiple printings. If you havent already read it, I heartily recommend it.

Answer 4

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