I like the basic premise and overall design of this book; however, I found the New Age-y, attribution-free, pseudo-science style of the actual writing to be distracting to the point of irritation. Perhaps it will be more inspiring to more artistic types than it was to me.
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wordman reviewed Decoding Design by Maggie Macnab
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wordman rated The Men Who Stare at Goats: 3 stars
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted …
wordman rated Batman and philosophy: 3 stars
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wordman rated Watchmen and philosophy: 3 stars
Watchmen and philosophy by Mark D. White (The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series)
wordman rated Awake in the dark: 4 stars
wordman rated The World Without Us: 5 stars
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
If human beings disappeared instantaneously from the Earth, what would happen? How would the planet reclaim its surface? What creatures …
wordman rated Souls in the Great Machine: 4 stars
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wordman rated The Wisdom of Crowds: 4 stars
James Surowiecki: The Wisdom of Crowds (2004, Doubleday)
The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are …
wordman rated Apocalypse 2012: 3 stars
Apocalypse 2012 by Lawrence E. Joseph
"Updated to include dramatic new evidence from NASA and the National Academy of Sciences pointing to a knockout of the …