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Re: The DMIESSLER.COM Book List

Brian — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:36:08 -0000

I suggest The Progress Paradox by Gregg Easterbrook.

...over the last fifty years, by almost all objective standards, things have improved in the United States and Europe. At the same time, surveys of satisfaction and happiness have not changed since the 1950s. Why, Easterbrook asks, have objective measures of well-being increased while overall satisfaction and happiness have remained constant?

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b. wolfe — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:15:33 -0000

I am definately game for this. I want to read "The World is Flat" soon. Soon being after December 5th. I am on a mission right now to redeem myself from a horrible failure in one of my classes (this happened today actually). But, after this semester, I will definately need to borrow some "dead trees" printed with interesting information.

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Tim — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:11:52 -0000

I'd join the book club, but I'm horrible about reading books. I've had an O'Reilly book on PHP and MySQL on my nightstand for months now... and I'm currently 200 pages into the latest Harry Potter book (yes, I'm late on it, but whatever -- I'm not as much of a Harry Potter freak as Jason Powell).

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Jason — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 07:27:47 -0000

Would "The Flight of the Creative Class" fall into this grouping? I think you read it some time ago, and I recall your being impressed with it.