Reading list for #BelshawBlackOps12
As I’ve already mentioned, in just over a week I’ll be on Belshaw Black Ops for the whole of December. During that time I want to spend time with my family, slow down a little, and read. You know, long-form stuff.
Here’s three books I’ve got queued up:
- Makers: the New Industrial Revolution (Chris Anderson)
- Reality is Broken: why games make us better and how they can change the world (Jane McGonigal)
- Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
Altogether, I’ve set myself the challenge of reading 10 non-fiction books during December.
What else should I read? (and why?) It doesn’t have to be a new book, nor does it have to be about education or technology – but it does need to be interesting.
List your three must-read books in the comment section below. I’ll be writing a short review of the ten books I end up reading when I come back in January. 🙂
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Update
The following books have been recommended by the awesome people commenting below:
- Empowering Public Wisdom: a Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics (Tom Atlee)
- Society of the Spectacle (Guy Debord)
- Cinema 1: the Movement-Image (Gilles Deleuze)
- How to Get Rich(Felix Dennis)
- Making is Connecting (David Gauntlet)
- Tristes Topiques (Claude Levi-Strauss)
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner)
- Slow Reading (John Miedema)
- The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude (Andrew Nikiforuk)
- Tempo (Venkatesh Rao)
- Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (Andrew Solomon)
Also, Audrey Watters recommended via Twitter:
And on Google+ Timothy Scholze recommended:
- Net Smart: How to Thrive Online(Howard Rhiengold)
- Witness to Hope(George Weigel)
- 21st Century Skills: rethinking how students learn(James Bellanca)
Then, again on Twitter Jon Parnham recommended:
- 64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then: How to Face the Digital Future Without Fear (Ben Hammersley)
- How to Find Fulfilling Work: The School of Life (Roman Krznaric)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Society-Spectacle-Guy-Debord/dp/0934868077
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cinema-1-Movement-Image-Gilles-Deleuze/dp/0816614008
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tristes-Tropiques-Claude-Levi-Strauss/dp/B000NKH4TC/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353583589&sr=1-1&keywords=Claude+Levi-strauss+-+Tristes+Tropiques
I doubt if you can get any of them in Kindle format.
Thanks Leon! 🙂
You can get a copy of Tristes Tropiques at Archive.org > http://archive.org/details/tristestropiques000177mbp
Although they’re not your usual non-fiction books, they’ve helped me open up my mind, so I’d reccomend these:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Freakonomics-Economist-Explores-Hidden-Everything/dp/0141019018
http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Get-Rich-Felix-Dennis/dp/009192166X
Both are pretty comical and have some interesting points that are transferable to many different subject areas.
But if you ever feel like a change from a book, there’s loads of good documentaries out there:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/97-owned/
Thanks Robert! 🙂
Making is Connecting by David Gauntlett
Tempo by Venkatesh Rao
Slow Reading by John Miedema
Would love to share on the Miedema book via highlighting and notes on Kindle App.
Awesome, thanks Terry!
My Amazon Kindle profile is here: https://kindle.amazon.com/profile/Doug-Belshaw/66205
Andrew Solomon ‘Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity’ See Ian Brown piece on book about the limits of a parent’s love http://soc.li/k2Eg6Jb
Empowering Public Wisdom: a Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics by Tom Atlee
The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude by Andrew Nikiforuk
Thank you for suggestions. Good reading to come.
Thanks Glenis! 😀
Hi Doug, you’ve got some very interesting suggestions there already! But how about “Toxic Childhood” by Sue Palmer http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0752880918/ or “Questioning Evangelism” by Randy Newman http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/082543324X/
Hope you have a great month 🙂