Joesph's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 29 Mar 2021 23:41:12 -0700 60 Joesph's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure]]> 56990341 254 Pooja Agnihotri Joesph 3 Its a good book and I do recommend it, just wish it had more in it.]]> 4.46 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
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This short book is packed with useful strategies and insights for a successful business. Only shortcoming is that it outlines just 17 reasons. Agreed they are all valid and powerful reasons to sink a business but there are many more that can be added.
Its a good book and I do recommend it, just wish it had more in it.
]]> <![CDATA[Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World]]> 48889983 Bullshit isn't what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and think clearly in a world of fake news and bad data.

It's increasingly difficult to know what's true. Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news abound. Our media environment has become hyperpartisan. Science is conducted by press release. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high art. We are fairly well equipped to spot the sort of old-school bullshit that is based in fancy rhetoric and weasel words, but most of us don't feel qualified to challenge the avalanche of new-school bullshit presented in the language of math, science, or statistics. In Calling Bullshit, Professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West give us a set of powerful tools to cut through the most intimidating data.

You don't need a lot of technical expertise to call out problems with data. Are the numbers or results too good or too dramatic to be true? Is the claim comparing like with like? Is it confirming your personal bias? Drawing on a deep well of expertise in statistics and computational biology, Bergstrom and West exuberantly unpack examples of selection bias and muddled data visualization, distinguish between correlation and causation, and examine the susceptibility of science to modern bullshit.

We have always needed people who call bullshit when necessary, whether within a circle of friends, a community of scholars, or the citizenry of a nation. Now that bullshit has evolved, we need to relearn the art of skepticism.]]> 336 Carl T. Bergstrom 0525509186 Joesph 0 to-read 4.09 2020 Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
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]]> <![CDATA[The Creator Mindset: 92 Tools to Unlock the Secrets to Innovation, Growth, and Sustainability]]> 54808026 Just about every book on creativity is bullshit.Ěý Filled with lofty theoretics and complexity about why you should be creative, they lack sound, practical tools about how to become more creative.ĚýThat’s where this book comes in.ĚýThe Creator MindsetĚýis designed to bring you simple, sound, and practical tools to awaken your creativity at work—even if you don’t think you are creative.Ěý Not fluff or theories. No bullshit or fillers. Bashan draws on a lifetime of success in business to give you real actionable tools that you can use to become more creative.Ěý And each chapter brims with businesslike action items on how to make creativity happen at work.ĚýWritten in plain language with real-world examples, chapters

Creativity for non-creative peopleTraining your mind to think in a creative wayWhen nothing else works—creativity willThe virtues of listening—and the value of making mistakesMeant to be used as a manual which you can draw upon at the office, business, or in your career,ĚýThe Creator MindsetĚýis all about teaching you how to awaken your long lost creativity in order to see the world as it can be, not as it is.ĚýĚý]]> 253 Nir Bashan 1260460029 Joesph 5 3.55 The Creator Mindset: 92 Tools to Unlock the Secrets to Innovation, Growth, and Sustainability
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]]> What I Know for Sure 21531503 O, The Oprah Magazine's widely popular "What I Know For Sure" column, a monthly source of inspiration and revelation.

Now, for the first time, these thoughtful gems have been revised, updated, and collected in What I Know For Sure, a beautiful cloth bound book with a ribbon marker, packed with insight and revelation from Oprah Winfrey. Organized by theme—joy, resilience, connection, gratitude, possibility, awe, clarity, and power—these essays offer a rare, powerful and intimate glimpse into the heart and mind of one of the world's most extraordinary women—while providing readers a guide to becoming their best selves. Candid, moving, exhilarating, uplifting, and frequently humorous, the words Oprah shares in What I Know For Sure shimmer with the sort of truth that readers will turn to again and again.]]> 228 Oprah Winfrey 1250054052 Joesph 5 to-read 4.14 2014 What I Know for Sure
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]]> Adultery 20819682 272 Paulo Coelho 1101874082 Joesph 0 to-read 3.09 2012 Adultery
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]]> The Witch of Portobello 1252043
That is the central question of international bestselling author Paulo Coelho's profound new work, The Witch of Portobello. It is the story of a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who knew her well—or hardly at all.]]> 261 Paulo Coelho 0061338818 Joesph 0 to-read 3.72 2006 The Witch of Portobello
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]]> The Zahir 1427 The ZahirĚý is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who has disappeared along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not be her lover.

Was Esther kidnapped, murdered, or did she simply escape a marriage that left her unfulfilled? The narrator doesn’t have any answers, but he has plenty of questions of his own. Then one day Mikhail finds the narrator and promises to reunite him with his wife. In his attempt to recapture a lost love, the narrator discovers something unexpected about himself.]]> 336 Paulo Coelho 0060832819 Joesph 0 to-read 3.61 2005 The Zahir
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]]> Veronika Decides to Die 1431 The Alchemist addresses the fundamental questions asked by millions: What am I doing here today? and Why do I go on living?

Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for: youth and beauty, plenty of attractive boyfriends, a fulfilling job, and a loving family. Yet something is lacking in her life. Inside her is a void so deep that nothing could possibly ever fill it. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up.

Naturally Veronika is stunned when she does wake up at Villete, a local mental hospital, where the staff informs her that she has, in fact, partially succeeded in achieving her goal. While the overdose didn't kill Veronika immediately, the medication has damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live.

The story follows Veronika through the intense week of self-discovery that ensues. To her surprise, Veronika finds herself drawn to the confinement of Villete and its patients, who, each in his or her individual way, reflect the heart of human experience. In the heightened state of life's final moments, Veronika discovers things she has never really allowed herself to feel before: hatred, fear, curiosity, love, and sexual awakening. She finds that every second of her existence is a choice between living and dying, and at the eleventh hour emerges more open to life than ever before.

In Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho takes the reader on a distinctly modern quest to find meaning in a culture overshadowed by angst, soulless routine, and pervasive conformity. Based on events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. Poignant and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman at the crossroads of despair and liberation, and a poetic, exuberant appreciation of each day as a renewed opportunity.

]]> 285 Paulo Coelho Joesph 0 to-read 3.75 1998 Veronika Decides to Die
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]]> The Alchemist 18144590 The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.

Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, following our dreams.]]> 182 Paulo Coelho 0062315005 Joesph 5 4.01 1988 The Alchemist
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]]> Three Daughters of Eve 36429751
The photograph takes Peri back to Oxford University, as an eighteen year old sent abroad for the first time. To her dazzling, rebellious Professor and his life-changing course on God. To her home with her two best friends, Shirin and Mona, and their arguments about Islam and femininity. And finally, to the scandal that tore them all apart.]]> 384 Elif Shafak 1632869977 Joesph 5 3.86 2016 Three Daughters of Eve
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]]> The Forty Rules of Love 6642715 Sweet Blasphemy, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara. Ella is mesmerized by his tale of Shams's search for Rumi and the dervish's role in transforming the successful but unhappy cleric into a committed mystic, passionate poet, and advocate of love. She is also taken with Shams's lessons, or rules, that offer insight into an ancient philosophy based on the unity of all people and religions, and the presence of love in each and every one of us. As she reads on, she realizes that Rumi's story mir­rors her own and that Zahara—like Shams—has come to set her free.

In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her 2007 novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz—that together incarnate the poet's timeless message of love.]]> 354 Elif Shafak Joesph 5 4.16 2009 The Forty Rules of Love
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