Books

The Better World Shopping Guide

The Better World Shopping Guide: Every Dollar Makes a Difference, Ellis Jones The only comprehensive guide for socially and environmentally responsible consumers available, this book […]

How Starbucks Saved My Life

How Starbucks Saved My Life, Michael Gates Gill This one is a bit of a feelgood tale, the story of a high-flying advertising executive born […]

Escape

Escape, Carolyn Jessop I read Jon Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven a few years ago and was absolutely dumbstruck by the existence and far-reaching […]

Sick

Sick, Jonathan Cohn I was browsing around The Book Passage in Corte Madera with a Christmas gift voucher from my mum when I saw this […]

Gang Leader For A Day

Gang Leader For A Day, Sudhir Venkatesh Whilst studying for his PhD. in sociology at the University of Chicago, Sudhir Venkateshchose to take a slightly […]

Three Cups Of Tea

Three Cups Of Tea, Greg Mortensen Finding himself stranded and close to death after an attempted summit of K2 in the Karakoram range of the […]

1001 Nights In Iraq

1001 Nights In Iraq, Shant Kenderian A gift from my mother-in-law for my birthday, 1001 Nights In Iraq is quite a harrowing story of an […]

Sperm Wars

Sperm Wars, Robin Baker TB left this book at our house last year, thought we might find it an interesting read.  Each chapter begins with […]

Infidel

Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali Mum gave me this book a while back and I read it earlier this year, just forgot to put it on […]

Shantaram

Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts Jacqui Steele put me onto this book a while ago after I mentioned to her that Marching Powder is one of […]

Losing My Virginity

Losing My Virginity, Sir Richard Branson Another parting gift from TB when he left us last Christmas, thanks for a good read Big Fella.  This […]

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, Ranulph Fiennes A present from my lovely wife (big props on finding this one for me), Mad, Bad and […]

Before the Dawn

Before the Dawn, Nicholas Wade Art kindly shipped his second copy of this book to me from Seattle, a very enlightening and interesting read.  Given, […]

Packer’s Lunch

Packer’s Lunch, Neil Chenoweth Mum gave me Packer’s Lunch as a Christmas present last year, what an eye-opener!  Although I’m sure it exists here as […]

Marching Powder

Marching Powder, Rusty Young I didn’t just read this, I read it years ago when a friend of mine put me onto it.  But, I wanted […]

Scar Tissue

Scar Tissue,  Anthony Kiedis I don’t think this would be the type of book I’d usually pick up in the book store, but I must […]

Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb Just finished this one, pretty good read, reminded me a lot of my Behavioral Finance class at Cal.  If […]