People that don’t read books are missing out. I love books I also love consuming information through media such as podcasts. However books provide a method of learning complex topics in a way you cannot learn from other media. I wrote an article on the effect of media and critical though on the usethetrivium website.

Below is a list of my most influencial books (and a few podcasts). Every book, video or podcasts on this list has been read and it rocks my world in one way or another

• Tragedy & Hope – Carol Quigley
• Getting things done – David Allen
• Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
• Four Hour work week – Timothy Ferris
• Malcom X autobiography
• Old man and the sea Ernest Hemingway
• JFK and the Unspeakable why he died and why it matters James W Douglass
• Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
• The Napoleon Podcast
• History of the Isles – Norman Davies

Other Books and media I like but didn’t make the top 10

Individual Resiliency

• The Survival Podcast

Philosophy

•  Philospophy The Classics An Excellent introduction to many of the most influential philosophers

Engineering

• Freakenomics
• Structures or why things don’t fall down - JE Gordon
• The New science of Strong Materials – JE Gordon

Permaculture

• The North Carolina State University Permaculture course through itunes U (Its free 30 lectures)
• Backyard food productions DVD

Health

• The Tao of Health, sex and longevity – Daniel Reid

News

• Democracy Now Podcast
• The Lew Rockwell Show

Fiction

• Island – Aldous Huxley

Investment

see my finance blog for other recommendations (its a bit screwed because google lost all my images on the blog)

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