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The Best Books I Read in 2013
• The Box by Marc Levinson
• The Most Powerful Idea in the World by William Rosen
• Harvesting the Biosphere by Vaclav Smil
• The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond
• Poor Numbers by Morten Jerven
• Why Does College Cost So Much? by Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman
• The Bet by Paul Sabin

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My Summer Reading List, 2013
• The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
• (Bonus: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond)
• The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson
• However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls by Aimee Molloy
• How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough
• Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impacts (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Vaclav Smil and Kazuhiko Kobayashi
• Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing by Vaclav Smil
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time) by Claude Steele
• Patriot and Assassin by Robert Cook

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Great Books on Science and Innovation, 2013
• Smallpox: The Death of a Disease by D. A. Henderson
• The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger by Leon Hesser (Book Review)
• House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox by William H. Foege
• Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson (Book Review)
• For the Love of Physics by Walter Lewin (Book Review)
• , Vol. 1: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands
• Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol 2: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands
• Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol 3: Quantum Mechanics by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands
• Harvesting the Biosphere by Vaclav Smil
• Energy Myths and Realities by Vaclav Smil (Book Review)
• The New Science of Strong Materials by J.E. Gordon (Book Review)
• The Hair of the Dog and other Scientific Surprises by Karl Sabbagh
• 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense by Michael Brooks

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A Year-End Reading List, 2013
• The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don't by Nate Silver
• The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
• The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry and Invention by William Rosen
• Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2013 by Carol J. Loomis

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My Top Reads of 2012
• The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined by Steven Pinker
• Deng Xiaoping by Ezra Vogel
• The Quest by Daniel Yergin
• Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
• One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World? by Gordon Conway
• A World-Class Education by Vivien Stewart
• Academically Adrift by Richard Arum & Joshipa Roksa
• This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff
• The City That Became Safe: New York’s Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control by Franklin Zimring

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Books I Read this Summer, 2012
• A Nation of Wusses: How America’s Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great by Ed Rendel
• The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking by Eli Broad
• Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
• Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
• Awakening Joy: 10 Steps That Will Put You on the Road to Real Happiness by James Baraz and Shoshana Alexander

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More Great Summer Reading, 2012
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
• The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
• A Rogue’s Guide to Acquisition by Ranak Jones, Jayesh Mehta, Anish Sikri
• The Alchemist by Paul Coelho

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Great Summer Reading, 2012
• The Better Angels of our Nature Steven Pinker
• The Quest by Daniel Yergin
• Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra Vogel
• The Cost of Hope by Amanda Bennett
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
• Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update by Donella Meadows
• Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• The Man Who Stayed Behind by Amanda Bennett

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Assorted book reviews:
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
• The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J. Gordon
• Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients by Jeremy Smith
• Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik
• The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty by Nina Munk

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• The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton
• The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal by David McCullough
• Value-Added Measures in Education: What Every Educator Needs to Know by Douglas N. Harris
• Interventions: A Life in War and Peace by Kofi Annan
• Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era by Amory Lovins