I just finished reading Gwyneth Cravens‘ “Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy“.
Gweneth Cravens is a writer and journalist, and was a anti-nuclear activist. She met and debated the merits of nuclear power with Dr. D. Richard (Rip) Anderson over the course of many years, and eventually one day Rip asked her: “Why don’t you go on an American nuclear power tour?” This book is the result of that journey.
After reading “The Colour of Infinity“, specifically chapter 7, I went back to the library and grabbed “The (Mis)Behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward” by Benoît Mandelbrot. I figured that if the “Father of Fractal Geometry” has a book out about the markets, that’d be the authoritative source for fractal market behaviour.
Awhile ago I read “Finite and Infinite Games” by James P. Carse. I heard of it through the Long Now Foundation’s “Seminars about Long Term Thinking” series.
The book is best categorized as a Philosophical Logic work.
The premise of the book is to define what finite and infinite games are, differentiate the two, and then apply those patterns to many aspects of everyday life to surprising consequences.
I somewhat recently read “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets“, by Nassin Nicholas Taleb. I heard of the author somewhere awhile ago. That, combined with my fractals / randomness kick, and recent news about housing markets and stocks diving, it seemed like an appropriate choice.