(Part 2) Best commerce books according to redditors
We found 52 Reddit comments discussing the best commerce books. We ranked the 29 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
This is a fairly good book on the subject (it was the text we used in a class I took where we wrote some viruses and a simple antivirus program as well).
https://www.amazon.ca/Computer-Viruses-Malware-John-Aycock/dp/0387302360
People of the Book is almost pornography for bibliophiles. This book had me seriously considering going back to school to learn about document preservation.
I went through a period of wanting to read a lot of books about books about a year ago. I think I even have an old submission in r/books on the same subject. Here are a bunch of books I still have on my amazon wishlist that date to around that time. This will be a shotgun blast of suggestions, and some may be only tangentially related, but I figure more is better. If I can think of even more than this, I'll edit later:
The Man who Loved Books Too Much
Books that Changed the World
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
How to Read and Why
The New Lifetime Reading Plan
Classics for Pleasure
An Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the World of Books
The Library at Night
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
Time Was Soft There
I have even more around here somewhere...
Edit: Ok, found a couple more....
Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book-Hunter in the 21st Century
At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
Candida Hofer
Libraries in the Ancient World
The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read
A Short History of the Printed Word
Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption
Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work
The Book on the Bookshelf
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts
Bookmaking: Editing, Design, Production
Library: An Unquiet History
Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms
A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
And yet I still can't find the one I'm thinking of. Will get back to you...
Fuck yeah, I found it!
That last is more about the woman who own the store than about books, but it's awash in anecdotes about writers and stories we all know and love. Check it out.
If you're interested in all of that, you should start by reading up on mechanism design, which you can find in any good microeconomics or game theory textbook. I like Fudenberg and Tirole.
I mainly see Krishna's book used for auctions. Menezes and Monteiro is also good. There are also books by Paul Klemperer and Paul Milgrom which are less textbook like.
For matching, the guide to the "classical" theory is Roth & Sotomayor, but it's getting pretty old. There's a new "Handbook of Market Design" but I haven't read it and can't vouch for it.
For bargaining, you can't go wrong with Osbourne and Rubinstein.
Sadly, I don't know of a good voting textbook. Much of the recent work in voting has moved out of economics into computer science, political science, etc., so I would look there for current work on voting.
/u/Qgqqqqq, just wanted to suggest the other path for the book club as it is a fantastic book on how the global poor (in this case peru) can be aided by better economic institutions.
I recommend you get a copy of Hit Lit, by James W. Hall. he was a creative writing professor at the University of Florida (?) and also a very good writer.
Hit Lit is a non-fiction analysis of some of the best selling books of the 20th Century. There's always a lot of luck involved -- no matter the amount of promotion publishers put behind a book it's difficult or impossible to predict the public's interest. You can pay for advertising, but not pay for genuine word of mouth success. Nonetheless, Hall identifies a lot of common traits among mega-best sellers. there's minimal backstory, there's a ticking-clock element where the hero is facing a critical deadline, etc.
https://www.amazon.com/Hit-Lit-Cracking-Twentieth-Bestsellers/dp/0812970950
There was a book called Vinyl Leaves that came out back in the 90's, it had a great deal to say about cultural symbolism and presentation of things at Walt Disney World. It definitely has the feel of an anthropology/sociology textbook. Alot of it is pretty dated now, but if you can find a copy at a library somewhere, it might be worth a flip through. I recall it having a whole chapter on Walt buying up the property and some of the pushback he got from locals, and how the local economy was effecting in the late 60's/early 70's by the park opening.
http://www.amazon.com/Vinyl-Leaves-America-Institutional-Structures/dp/0813314720
Like I said, a bit dated, but it's at least close to a scholarly work.
The Cube: HERE
The Bottom Book: [HERE] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Basics-Information-Security-Understanding/dp/1597496537/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1406954470&sr=8-3&keywords=introduction+to+information+security)
Those are just decorative books and refresher books. I work as an information security consultant. I have a ton of books at home and pdfs on my computer. :)
Four random books from my nearest shelf: Underground Bases and Tunnels, Man's Search for Meaning, The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, Amberville.
Can't say I have read the five books you listed, but based on what I've heard about them... Amberville would probably be something you'd enjoy. :)
Edit: Have to throw this in: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. ;)
How did MSI screw up? I love stories where businesses botch things and fail. One of my favorite books: https://smile.amazon.com/New-Improved-Story-Marketing-America/dp/0875846726