New books to kick off the fall semester!
For some people, August means vacations and beaches. But perhaps some of you want to start
planning for Your
best year ever: a 5-step plan for achieving your most important goals. Publisher alert: If only there were a
shortcut involving a one-step plan for your five best years. Sign me up!
If one of your most important goals for the coming year
involves finally showing philosophy who is the boss, we certainly have the right
book for you: Taking
back philosophy: a multicultural manifesto.
If taking back philosophy is as exhausting as taking back the items you
bought during your Black Friday shopping binge, you might want to start
budgeting like a dot.com billionaire. How
to turn down a billion dollars: the Snapchat story will undoubtedly help
you get a good deal on that personal jet with all that extra money you’re
saving. Or maybe you’ll want to take a
more fiscally conservative view before smashing the piggy bank and read Finance
for normal people: how investors and markets behave while you’re riding
the bus to work.
No one wants to admit how much time they spend online. I’m sure we all only spend 10-20 minutes per
day, and that’s a generous estimate. Ursula
K. LeGuin wrote about No
time to spare: thinking about what matters in her last book, and I don’t
know about you, but I’m glad to hear that she believes "How rich we are in
knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of
us." Show me the money!
Moving on from the main course, could we interest you in one
of our tasty desserts? We can recommend The
bad food bible: how and why to eat sinfully and the chef’s specialty: The
perfect cake: your ultimate guide to classic, modern, and whimsical cakes. Want to know why it’s midnight, and you’re mindlessly eating carbs? Why
you eat what you eat: the science behind our relationship with food might
clear things up.
If you’re worried that someone is watching you indulge in
that guilt-free dessert that you certainly, positively, absolutely deserve, you
may be right. Don’t look behind you, but
there is a book on the shelf called Under
surveillance: being watched in modern America. Why worry about strangers judging you when
the government will do it more efficiently?
Do you find that you’re running short on cuts? Cuts of what – meat? Could it be? No, it’s A
thousand cuts: the bizarre underground world of collectors and dealers who
saved the movies. If saving movies
doesn’t interest you because you’re too busy wondering where this blog entry is
going, Passing
judgment: praise and blame in everyday life could be the book you’re
looking for. As the saying goes, it’s better
to pass a class than pass judgment.