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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Nate Silver's The Signal and The Noise

Summary by New Books in Brief: 
http://newbooksinbrief.com/2012/10/15/22-a-summary-of-the-signal-and-the-noise-why-so-many-predictions-fail-but-some-dont-by-nate-silver/

University of Maryland has a First Year Book Program and they choose this book for 2013-14. Read here for chapter summaries and key points, terms and discussion points for each chapter:
http://wp.fyb.umd.edu/2013/

NY Times Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/books/review/the-signal-and-the-noise-by-nate-silver.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

The Slate Book Review:
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/books/2012/10/nate_silver_s_book_the_signal_and_the_noise_reviewed_.html

Nate Silver answers viewers questions:
http://freakonomics.com/2012/10/05/fivethirtyeighter-nate-silver-answers-your-questions-about-politics-baseball-and-the-signal-and-the-noise/

"What Nate Silver Gets Wrong" from The New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/01/what-nate-silver-gets-wrong.html

Recent interview with Nate Silver (March 2014):
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/03/nate-silver-interview-fivethirtyeight-espn.html


Nate Silver's Website: 
http://fivethirtyeight.com/

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2017 Reading List

  • Jan/Feb. - The Longest Road, P. Caputo
  • March/April - Caravans, J. Michener
  • May/June - Founding Mothers, C. Roberts

2016 Reading List

  • January - I'm Feeling Lucky by D. Edwards
  • February - Cross Creek by M. Rawlings
  • March - Settled in the Wild by S. Shetterly
  • April - All the Light We Cannot See by A. Doerr and Season at the Point by J. Connor
  • May - Boys in the Boat by D. Brown
  • June- A Sail of Two Idiots by R. Petrillo
  • July - BFG by R. Dahl; A Short History of Nearly Everything by B. Bryson
  • August - The Cape by C. Whitecar Miskelly
  • September - The Tribe by S. Junger
  • October - Hard Choices, H. Clinton
  • November - The Shepherd's Life, J. Rebanks

2015 Reading List

  • January - The Slip by K. Matison
  • February - Caribbean by J. Michener/The Alchemist by P. Coehlo
  • March - Moonbird by P. Hoose
  • April /May - The Nesting Season by B. Heinrich
  • June - A Year in Provence by P. Mayle
  • July - Cosmos by C. Sagan
  • August - The Genius of Dogs by Brian Hare and V. Woods
  • September - The Bees by L. Paull
  • October - Dreams from My Father by B. Obama
  • November/December - Return to Wild America by S. Weidensaul

2014 Reading List

  • January 9 - Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • February 20 - The Zealot by Reza Aslan
  • March 27 - Mary Poppins by Pamela Travers
  • April 30 - The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
  • June 19 - The President's Club by N. Gibbs, M. Duffy
  • August 14 - The Homing Instinct by Bernd Heinrich
  • September 11 - Thunder at Twilight - Vienna 1913/14 by Frederic Morton
  • October 16 - Chasing Monarchs by Robert Pyle
  • November 6 - Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • December 30 - Inferno by D. Brown

Books to Consider

  • Caravans, J. Michener
  • Poor Economics, A. Bamerjee
  • The Hidden Life of Trees, P. Wohlleben
  • Founding Mothers, C. Roberts
  • M Train, P. Smith
  • Lab Girl, H. Jahren
  • A Sting in the Tale, D. Goulson
  • Founding Mothers, C. Roberts
  • Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, W. Finnegan
  • Catherine the Great, R. Massie
  • One Summer, America, 1927, B. Bryson
  • George, Nicholas and Wilhelm, M. Carter
  • The Little Paris Bookshop, N. George
  • How to Bake PIE: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics, E. Cheng
  • Lingo by G. Dorren
  • The Man from Banner Lake by Tim Black
  • Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan Phillip Sendker
  • Wild Swans by Chang
  • The Road to Little Dribbling, B. Bryson
  • Paul Durand Ruel: Memoirs of the First Impressionist Art Dealer
  • Daughters of the Samurai by J. Nimura
  • The Master and the Margarita by Bulgakov (tr.M Glenny)
  • The Smartest Guys in the Room by B. McLean
  • The Magus by J. Fawl
  • The Circle by D. Eggers
  • The Forest Unseen by D. Haskell
  • The Idea Factory by J. Gertner
  • Go Set a Watchman, by H. Lee
  • The Trees in my Forest, B. Heinrich
  • Gutenberg's Apprentice by A. Christie
  • The Pine Barrens by John McPhee
  • How Google Works, by E. Schmidt
  • The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

Websites/Blogs worth visiting

  • New York Times Book Reviews
  • Washington Post: Books
  • Litlovers
  • linesandwinesbookclub
  • Good Reads

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