Finished 2 books in March08:
1. Brida by Paulo Coelho
Very easy and quick read. The story is mainly about Love and Finding of our soul mate. And sometimes Love need not to be possessed or owned, just sharing a loving moment in a particular time or situation is enough for a life time remembrance.
The main character is Brida, a witch apprentice, who is trying hard to succeed. She had help from her master a witch, a wizard and his boy friend.
Paulo's books are quite entertaining, always there is a twist and surprise in the end. Well, the book is based on Wizards and Witches characters of modern days, maybe might contradict to some people's religious belief, need an open mind to read this book.
2. Micromotives and Macrobehaviour by Thomas C. Schelling
This author is one of the 2005 Nobel prize recipient for economics, he wrote "Strategy of Conflict". I am getting this book from the Library soon. Could not get it in normal bookstores at the moment.
In this book, Schelling illustrate how decisions made by individual will slowly effect the larger crowd eventually. Well, great economist like Schelling really like to make lots of Hypothesis, and look into it one by one, segregating the unlikely, likely . And then chart it out and plot into Graphs for better explanation.
(quote from Editorial Review)
""Schelling here offers an early analysis of 'tipping' in social situations involving a large number of individuals."—official citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize
1. Brida by Paulo CoelhoVery easy and quick read. The story is mainly about Love and Finding of our soul mate. And sometimes Love need not to be possessed or owned, just sharing a loving moment in a particular time or situation is enough for a life time remembrance.
The main character is Brida, a witch apprentice, who is trying hard to succeed. She had help from her master a witch, a wizard and his boy friend.
Paulo's books are quite entertaining, always there is a twist and surprise in the end. Well, the book is based on Wizards and Witches characters of modern days, maybe might contradict to some people's religious belief, need an open mind to read this book.
2. Micromotives and Macrobehaviour by Thomas C. SchellingThis author is one of the 2005 Nobel prize recipient for economics, he wrote "Strategy of Conflict". I am getting this book from the Library soon. Could not get it in normal bookstores at the moment.
In this book, Schelling illustrate how decisions made by individual will slowly effect the larger crowd eventually. Well, great economist like Schelling really like to make lots of Hypothesis, and look into it one by one, segregating the unlikely, likely . And then chart it out and plot into Graphs for better explanation.
(quote from Editorial Review)
""Schelling here offers an early analysis of 'tipping' in social situations involving a large number of individuals."—official citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize
Micromotives and Macrobehavior was originally published over twenty-five years ago, yet the stories it tells feel just as fresh today. And the subject of these stories—how small and seemingly meaningless decisions and actions by individuals often lead to significant unintended consequences for a large group—is more important than ever. In one famous example, Thomas C. Schelling shows that a slight-but-not-malicious preference to have neighbors of the same race eventually leads to completely segregated populations.."
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glad to know that my friend is reading so many books constantly. I dun read seriously nowadays, less time to read. I like to read a book from beginning to end, which is difficult for me with my monkeys running around, haha.
Well... I will be stuck in the MRT every working for about 1 hour. Thats 1/24 of my life. Better spend it on reading...
although there are many Leng Lui commuters that I can rest my eyes on... but then again no point and waste of time.
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