Last night I re-sorted all my work-related books, with approximately one shelf for each of the following categories:
- Argumentation theory, informal logic, and critical thinking
- Psychology of judgement and decision making
- Popular (“trade”) books on mind and rationality
- Software development, including UI and interaction design and usability
- Visual thinking, information design and architecture
- Training, elearning and educational design
- Books about business, with focus on decision making and leadership
- And of course, books that fit none of the above. Â
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And of course it’s on the that miscellaneous shelf that you’ll have all the truly engaging books . . . . say on literary theory.
No, cimberli, literary theory is not Tim’s scene. But in my library you’ll find the following shelves:
1. Genocide, Terror and Totalitarianism
2. Global Political Economy
3. American Politics and History
4. Chinese Politics and History
5. Japan and the Koreas
6. War in the Modern World
7. War, Strategy and Geopolitics
8. Espionage and Counter-Espionage
9. Intelligence Analysis, Secrecy and Code-breaking
10. The Vietnam War
11. Brain, Mind and Reason
12. The JFK Case: A Study in Conspiracy Theory
13. Shakespeare and Goethe
14. Language, Mythology and Imagination
15. Cosmology, Evolution and Climate
16. Poetry
17. Art, Cinema and Sexuality
18. Nietzsche, Freud and Heidegger
19. Christianity and the Bible
20. Philosophy and Comparative Religion
21. Archaeology and Pre-History
22. Greece and Rome
23. Islam and the Middle East
24. Israel and the Arabs
25. Modern European Literature
26. Latin America and Magical Realism
27. Music, Theatre and Musical Biography
Which of hese shelves would you find “truly engaging”?
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