I would offer $20 to anyone who can give examples for the three different books in an area, that they actually read, up to a maximum of $60. (e.g. three books in Linear Algebra, or three books in carpeting, or three books about programming).
Buddhism: What: What Makes You Not a Buddhist by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (There are probably books with more detail and a more broad view, but I love this one for how it contrasts ideas from popular culture with Buddhism to highlight similarities and differences, making it very accessible); How: Meditation Is Not What You Think by Jon Kabat-Zinn; Why: Bring Me the Rhinoceros by John Tarrant (It’s not explicit in explaining the why, but presents zen koans that cause you to enter the mindset of letting go of assumptions)
Crisis Intervention Counseling: What: Interviewing for Solutions by Insoo Kim Berg and Peter De Jong; How: Motivational Interviewing by Miller and Rollnick; Why: On Living by Kerry Egan
Teaching: What: Understanding by Design; How: Made to Stick by Dan and Chip Heath (not strictly a “How” book, but an excellent book to develop strategy for presenting curriculum); Why: Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
I don’t want your money—as soon as I finished this article I started thinking about the topics that I study the most and what books I would recommend to people. Also, I am a suicide intervention trainer by trade, so I have an obsession with figuring out how to teach people about empathy. :D
Oh, no. Sorry. I didn’t intend to make any point. I just thought that having additional examples would be really valuable for this post, and wanted to incentivize people to post them.
I would offer $20 to anyone who can give examples for the three different books in an area, that they actually read, up to a maximum of $60. (e.g. three books in Linear Algebra, or three books in carpeting, or three books about programming).
Buddhism: What: What Makes You Not a Buddhist by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (There are probably books with more detail and a more broad view, but I love this one for how it contrasts ideas from popular culture with Buddhism to highlight similarities and differences, making it very accessible); How: Meditation Is Not What You Think by Jon Kabat-Zinn; Why: Bring Me the Rhinoceros by John Tarrant (It’s not explicit in explaining the why, but presents zen koans that cause you to enter the mindset of letting go of assumptions)
Crisis Intervention Counseling: What: Interviewing for Solutions by Insoo Kim Berg and Peter De Jong; How: Motivational Interviewing by Miller and Rollnick; Why: On Living by Kerry Egan
Teaching: What: Understanding by Design; How: Made to Stick by Dan and Chip Heath (not strictly a “How” book, but an excellent book to develop strategy for presenting curriculum); Why: Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
I don’t want your money—as soon as I finished this article I started thinking about the topics that I study the most and what books I would recommend to people. Also, I am a suicide intervention trainer by trade, so I have an obsession with figuring out how to teach people about empathy. :D
Sadly, there aren’t a lot of books dedicated to suicide intervention, so it’s harder to make a list for that.
I have read a lot of books on Buddhism, but the first in your list is the only one I have even heard of. I will have to check them out.
Little late to the party here but I was reading this and at least one immediately came to mind. Corporate valuation:
What: Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of any Asset by Aswath Damodaran,
Why: Corporate Finance, 4th Edition, Ivo Welch, but perhaps better in lecture form. Khan Academy’s finance series is good as well.
How: HBR Tools: Business Valuation
Thanks! (Might be easier to read the comment if the three books were separated onto separate lines, although ymmv)
Is the point of your comment that you think people very rarely read (completely or almost completely) 3 books in one field?
(if yes, then I agree)
Oh, no. Sorry. I didn’t intend to make any point. I just thought that having additional examples would be really valuable for this post, and wanted to incentivize people to post them.
Tom A. Apostol Calculus I && II (Haven’t fully read II). (Sorry don’t got 3 I guess)