{"id":1014,"date":"2007-11-08T22:59:29","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T06:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/08\/books-the-last-12-months\/"},"modified":"2007-11-08T22:59:29","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T06:59:29","slug":"books-the-last-12-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/08\/books-the-last-12-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Books, the last 12 months"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been almost exactly a year since I last pointed to my reading list, turns out I’ve read about 30 books in the last 12 months, highlighted by seven in the month of July (mom-in-law got me a gift certificate to Barnes & Noble for my birthday so I splurged and then read them all in quick succession). Here’s the list in reverse chronological order with no spacing:<\/p>\n

The World Is Flat<\/a> A Rumor of War<\/a> The Ghost Map<\/a> The End of Poverty<\/a> The Design of Everyday Things<\/a> Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable<\/a>
\nSmall Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design<\/a> The Soul Of A New Machine<\/a> The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness<\/a> Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin’ and Gunnin’ Phoenix Suns<\/a> The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship<\/a> Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers<\/a> Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer<\/a> Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed<\/a> Acts of Faith<\/a> Traveling Mercies<\/a> Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days<\/a> Micro-ISV: From Vision To Reality<\/a> To End All Wars<\/a> SR-71 Revealed: The Inside Story<\/a> The Architecture of Happiness<\/a> Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate<\/a> The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind<\/a> Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed<\/a> Next<\/a> Crossing the Chasm<\/a> The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram<\/a> Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero<\/a> This Beautiful Mess<\/a> Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero<\/a><\/p>\n

I haven’t come across many new books lately (I keep my to-read list<\/a> at Amazon and my have-read list here<\/a>) so ping me (ajohnson@cephas.net) if you’ve read something cool lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been almost exactly a year since I last pointed to my reading list, turns out I’ve read about 30 books in the last 12 months, highlighted by seven in the month of July (mom-in-law got me a gift certificate to Barnes & Noble for my birthday so I splurged and then read them all … Continue reading Books, the last 12 months<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,23,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}