 | First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $2.22 Don't waste time trying to overcome your weak spots, dedicate all your effort to improve at what you are already good at. This will take you to excellence and to greater happiness.
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 | A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain by John J. Ratey
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.19 The brain's circuitry has great plasticity / neurons don't just start dying from your teens onwards / memory can be "tricked" and "experiences" can be "imagined" into your brains...
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 | Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.49 An "Eye for an eye" is not such a bad or unfair strategy after all. / The "hard" sciences, in this case physics, are now more about probabilities than about fixed states.
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 | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $6.30 Gut feelings can be "educated", the more the better. / Racism and sexism as well as other preconceptions are not always conscious decisions.
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 | Nature Via Nurture : Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley
Buy used from: $4.86 Nurture (environmental factors) can be more deterministic than genetic factors and discrimination based on environmental factors seems even more unfair than discrimination based on hereditary ones.
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 | Beyond Numeracy by John Allen Paulos
Buy new: $9.50 / Used from: $1.26 Democracy's outcome is always the majority's will. However the same votes can give different results, depending on how you define majority or the majority is not always the majority?
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 | Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics (Princeton Science Library) by A. Zee
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $13.94 Antimatter exists and has been observed (not only as a fiction). / Symmetry can be (and in fact is) broken in nature, as counterintuitive as this may seem.
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 | Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys And a Trip to Stockholm by Frank Wilczek
Buy new: $33.30 / Used from: $39.86 The empty space may not be as empty as we think, ether or its particle physics equivalent the "higgs field" may fill the universe. Does Nature abhor vacuum after all?
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 | Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics by Bruce A. Schumm
Buy new: $21.09 / Used from: $16.94 Matter is probably created all the time. Particles can emerge and dissapear in and from a "field", like bubbles in a soup.
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 | Practical Lean Accounting: A Proven System for Measuring and Managing the Lean Enterprise by Brian H. Maskell
Buy new: $47.65 / Used from: $38.00 All the book is full of paradigm shifting ideas.
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 | Animal Farm by George Orwell
Buy new: $10.95 / Used from: $2.45 Distrust anybody that tells you that he knows what is good for you. / The law of the conservation of power revealed to me in my teens: "Power is neither created nor destroyed, it only changes hands".
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 | Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
Buy used from: $0.01 Randomness is governed by deterministic rules. / Randomness can have a pattern, meaning randomness follows an order and respects limits.
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 | Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell by Boyce Rensberger
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $1.25 It changed my very concept of life. When you freeze a cell slowly, it gets into an inanimate state with no metabolism but it maintains its internal structures intact and when unfreezing it, it regains life. Is the frozen cell alive or dead?
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 | Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
Buy new: $15.34 / Used from: $10.38 Big organizations are less creative than small ones; the truth is that creativity increases exponentially with size. Big organizations are less sensitive to change; its quite the contrary, their parts are so interdependent that a small change can cause catastrophes (they are hypersensitive to change). This is why they do not adopt changes easily.
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 | Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures by Marvin Harris
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.60 Cultural anthropology reveals interesting insights to cultural traits of different societies, as well as some rituals and beliefs, based on the resources available to the specific cultures. This book changed the way I thought about why something is perceived as "sacred" or as "evil" in different religions.
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 | Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity by John Gribbin
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.44 This book did me a great favor by clarifying to me James Lovelock's "Gaia" concept, which sees the Earth as a complex system in a thermodynamic sense, not in a "New Age" fashion. Truly enlightening.
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