Taipan Publishing Groups Senior Editor's Picks for You
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist by Thomas Levenson
Editorial Recommendations: "I am constantly searching for the beginning of 'now.' How did we get to this astounding moment in history with all its attendent sturm und drang? Certainly we can trace a good bit of our current circumstance to William of Orange’s invention of notional money in the seventeenth century. In Newton and the Counterfeiter, we are treated to a rather infamous episode of this story wherein the British government literally went bankrupt. So the greatest mind of the era, Isaac Newton was brought in to scientifically modernize the London mint and hunt down the 'coyners' who were enthusiastically taking advantage of this shortfall."
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Thought Contagion by Aaron Lynch
Editorial Recommendations: "I am frequently asked: 'What is that you actually do all day with all those books and computer screens?' The answer might be described as 'Memetics.' Memetics is an attempt to quantify, scientifically describe, and perhaps even predict how ideas race about the world. Lynch’s book is a reasonably apt description of the core Memetic concept that archetypal thoughts attempt to propagate themselves in a Darwinian fashion. My job is to track those archetypal threads and note which is just reaching dominance as expressed by the global financial system. Some say it’s all horse-hockey, but hey, it works for me."
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Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns by Thomas N. Bulkowski
Editorial Recommendations: "Lots of folks tout this chart or that formation as the 'real deal.' Bulkowski has no favorites and takes no prisoners. Rather he runs dispassionately through the lot of them, assigning each usable statistics on deployability and reliability."
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Editorial Recommendations: "Often quoted, but seldom actually read, Smith was the first to clearly define perceived self interest as the prime force behind functioning markets and to organize durable and usable conclusions from that fact."
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay
Editorial Recommendations: "The perfect bookend to Adam Smith, MacKay assays a fabulous collection of historical instances in which twisted perception leads to the destruction of wealth on both small and massive scales."
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
Editorial Recommendations: "Considered to be one of the 100 greatest books of the 20th century, Visual Display is an unerring guide to ordering and comprehending information, and drawing and communicating conclusions from the same. Also, Tufte’s really funny in person (and yes, my personal copy is autographed)."
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Options For The Stock Investor: How Any Investor Can Use Options to Enhance and Protect their Return by James B. Bittman
Editorial Recommendations: "One of the Chicago floor’s greatest traders, and current head of the CBOE’s education arm (last I checked anyway - I wouldn’t blame him a bit if he has finally retired), it was his personal tutelage that truly opened my mind to the power of stock options."
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon and David P. Womersley
Editorial Recommendations: "Three reasons Gibbon should begin any list: First, Gibbon is perhaps the greatest linear thinker and writer of his - or any - age. Just reading his prose settles the mind and improves one’s logical capacity. Second, the parallels between Rome’s last moments in the sun and our own are remarkably informative - if a tad unsettling. Finally, Gibbon really was a remarkable wit. His analysis of Roman astronomers’ failure to note the Christian miracles almost got him burned at the stake, and puts me in stitches every time."
