May 9, 2012

What the Dog Saw: and Other Adventures - by: Malcolm Gladwell (2009)

This is a collection of intellectual (i.e. intelligent) articles written by Gladwell for The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1996. Several of the articles are very interesting, but of particular note is the one called "Dangerous Minds: Criminal Profiling made easy", in which Gladwell does a good job discrediting the FBI's behavior analysis units for the quackeries they are, and why.

Magic and Mystery in Tibet - by: Alexandra David-Neel (1932, 2014)

This is one of those rare books that exposes another culture in a way that really opens it up an lets the reader glimpse for themselves what...