One of my favorite books for certain.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Those are the two to start with. If you like those, check out some of her nonfiction books: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism, Philosophy: Who Needs It, and Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (these are but a few - Rand wrote a long series of nonfiction books). Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist by Tara Smith (a philosophy professor at UT-Austin) is excellent because it unpacks Ayn Rand's ethical system in an academic style. Finally, Leonard Peikoff's Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand gives a comprehensive view of Rand's entire philosophy. Light reading (not by Objectivist authors, and not in any particular order): Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James Watson What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
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- Atlas Shrugged
- The Soul of a New Machine
- The Fountainhead
- Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
- Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
- Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
- Philosophy: Who Needs It
- Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist
- The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
- The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
- What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Read something REALLY fun, enlightening and TRUE: Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a curious character) and What do you care what other people think (Further adventures of a curious character) ObAmazon: http://www.amazon.com/What-Care-Other-People-Think/dp/039332... (http://www.amazon.com/What-Care-Other-People-Think/dp/0393320928) ObAmazon: http://www.amazon.com/Surely-Feynman-Adventures-Curious-Char... (http://www.amazon.com/Surely-Feynman-Adventures-Curious-Character/dp/0393316041)
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