I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson.
I often hear people say that books aren’t relevant in today’s world. Any required information is easily accessible, and there is no need to read thick volumes in order to learn something new. Partially these statements are truthful, because it is easy to get information. But not all people can arrange the information, organize it and see the whole picture in diversity.
A separate article or discussion of a certain question can be compared with a piece of a puzzle. And then, a book acts like a large part of a picture where the individual parts have already been pulled together by the author.
And if you want to increase your knowledge in different fields, you have to read books.
This section presents books of the fields which I am interested in.
- Biology, sports
- Brain Functions
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Malcolm Gladwell.
- How We Decide. Jonah Lehrer.
- On Intelligence. Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee.
- The Agile Mind: How Your Brain Makes Creativity Happen. Estanislao Bachrach.
- The Art of Systems Thinking: Essential Skills for Creativity and Problem Solving. Joseph O’Connor, Ian McDermott
- The Wisdom of Crowds. James Surowiecki.
- Your Brain at Work. David Rock.
- Exchange trading
- Technical analysis handbook for the commodity and financial markets. Anna Ehrlich.
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
- The Complete TurtleTrader: The Legend, the Lessons, the Results. Michael W. Covel.
- The Zurich Axioms. Max Gunther.
- Trading Chaos: Maximize Profits with Proven Technical Technigues. Bill Williams.
- History, memoirs
- Management, communication
- Marketing
- Software development
- Code Complete. Steven C. McConnell.
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, John Vlissides, Ralph Johnson.
- Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software. Eric Evans.
- Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications. Grady Booch.
- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. Martin Fowler.
- Software Architecture Patterns. Mark Richards.
- The Mythical Man-Month. Frederick P. Brooks.