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Title: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point introduces the dynamic behind social epidemics. It is that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once. Malcolm Gladwell begins by discussing the inexplicable resurgence of at-the-time-terminally-uncool Hush Puppies shoes among a handful of hipsters in Manhattan’s cutting-edge enclaves in the 1990s, a trend which soon spread across the United States and resulted in exponential increases in the company’s sales. Using this phenomenon as an introduction to the book’s analytical theme, Gladwell states that he will identify, dissect, and explain the mechanisms by which certain trends take hold, while others fail.

Title: Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Author: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J Dubner
Abortion and Crime A huge crime wave hit the United States in the 1990's. Many experts were conservatively forecasting the end of the world including President Clinton and James Alan Fox who was commissioned to report on the situation to the Attorney General. Fox predicted optimistically that crime would rise 15% over the next decade; pessimistically he predicted it would more than double.

Title: The World is Flat: A brief history of the 21st century
Author: Thomas L. Friedman

Title: The Widsom of Crowds
Author: Anthony Robbins
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, first published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group. The book presents numerous case studies and anecdotes to illustrate its argument, and touches on several fields, primarily economics and psychology.

Title: On Bullshit
Author: Harry G. Frankfurt
This short little book on a subject little thought of in intellectual circles provided a surprising amount of inspiration. This book is a fascinating journey into the meaning of truth, lies and BS.
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