Bill Gates recomenda nova lista de livros; veja obras que o bilionário já aprovou

SÃO PAULO – Já não é novidade que o bilionário Bill Gates gosta de ler. Todos os anos, o co-fundador da Microsoft divulga, em seu blog, uma lista de livros que ele já leu e recomenda que os outros também leiam.

Em abril deste ano, a pedido dos organizadores do TED, ele exibiu uma lista com seis livros que não podem faltar na cabeceira de ninguém em 2015. Agora, ele incluiu mais sete obras à sua coleção.

O primeiro livro, “Hyperbole and a Half”, é uma coletânea de tirinhas publicadas pela artista Allie Brosh. Em seguida ele destaca “A Magia da realidade”, de Richard Dawkins; “What If” e “XKCD”, ambos escritos por Randall Munroe; “How to Lie With Statistics”, por Darrell Huff; “Should We Eat Meat?”, de Vaclav Smil; e “On Immunity”, por Eula Biss.

As recomendações de Gates para quem quer se distrair, empreender, gerenciar e entender um pouco mais do mundo já ultrapassam os 150 livros. Confira:

• Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things that Happened – Allie Brosh
• What If? – Randall Munroe
• The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True –  Richard Dawkins
• XKCD – Randall Munroe
• Should We Eat Meat? – Vaclav Smil
• On Immunity – Eula Biss
• How to Lie With Statistics – Darrell Huff
• How Asia Works – Joe Studwell
• The rosie Effect – Graeme Simsion
• The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years – Sonia Shah
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century – Thomas Piketty
• Business Adventures – John Brooks
• Stress Test – Timothy F. Geithner
• The Rosie Project: A Novel – Graeme Simsion
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History – Elizabeth Kolbert
• Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System – Ezekiel J. Emanuel
• The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism – Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization – Vaclav Smil
• The Idealist –  Nina Munk 
• The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality, Angus Deaton
• Women, Poverty and AIDS – Paul farmer, Margaret Connors e Janie Simmons
• To Repair the World – Paul Farmer 
• The Uses of Haiti – Paul Farmer 
• Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction – Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim e Arthur Kleinman
• Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor – Paul Farmer
• Partner to the Poor – Paul Farmer 
• Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues – Paul Farmer
• In the Company of the Poor – Paul Farmer
• Global Health in Times of Violence – Barbara Rylko-Bauer
• AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame – Paul Farmer
• The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future – Paul Sabin
• The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger –  Marc Levinson
• The World Until Yesterday – Jared Diamond
• Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics And What To Do About It – Morten Jerven
• Why Does College Cost So Much? – Robert B. Archibald e David H. Feldman
• The Patriarch – David Nasaw
• The Path Between the Seas – David McCullough
• Engineers of Victory – Paul Kennedy 
• Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken From Nature – Vaclav Smil
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty – Daron Acemoglu e James A. Robinson
• The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t – Nate Silver
• The Most Powerful Idea in the World – William Rosen
• Value-Added Measures in Education: What Every Educator Needs to Know – Douglas N. Harris
• Interventions: A Life in War and Peace – Kofi Annan
• One Billion Hungry: Can we Feed the World? – Gordon Conway
• Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China – Ezra Vogel
• The City That Became Safe – Franklin E. Zimring 
• This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly – Carmen Reinhart e Kenneth Rogoff
• Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012 – Carol Loomis
• Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food – Pamela Ronald e Raoul Adamchak
• A World Class Education – Vivien Stewart
• Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses – Richard Arum e Josipa Roksa
• Why Capitalism? – Allan H. Meltzer
• Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era – Amory B. Lovins
• The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking – Eli Broad
• Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech – Gary P. Pisano
• A Nation of Wusses: How America’s Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great – Ed Rendell
• Awakening Joy: 10 Steps to Happiness – James Baraz 
• Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything – Joshua Foer
• The Cost of Hope – Amanda Bennett
• The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
• Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
• Finance and the Good Society – Robert J. Shiller
• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined – Steven Pinker 
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right – Atul Gawande
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity – Katherine Boo
• Unlocking Energy Innovation: How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System – Richard K. Lester e David M. Hart
• The Cat’s Table – Michael Ondaatje
• The Time of Our Lives – Tom Brokaw
• Titan II: A History of a Cold War Missile Program – David K. Stumpf
• Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World – Michael Lewis
• The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb –  F.G. Gosling 
• The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World – Daniel Yergin 
• Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think – Peter H. Diamandis e Steven Kotler
• The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics –  Thomas Byrne Edsall
• The Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Update – Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers e Dennis Meadows
• Why Don’t Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What it Means for the Classroom – Dan Willingham
• For the Love of Physics – Walter Lewin
• That Used to be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World it Invented and How We Can Come Back – Tom Friedman
• The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger – Norman Borlaug
• Change.edu: Rebooting for the New Talent Economy – Theodore Hesburgh
• The Hair of the Dog – and other Scientific Surprises – Karl Sabbagh
• Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results – Michael E. Porter
• The Emperor of all Maladies – A Biography of Cancer – Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Post-Capitalist Society – Peter Drucker
• 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know – Joanne Baker 
• The Changing Body – Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700 – Roderick Floud, Robert W. Fogel, Bernard Harris e Sok Chul Hong
• The Computer and the Brain – Jon von Neumann
• World on the Edge – Lester R. Brown
• Giant Molecules: From Nylon to Nanotubes – Walter Gratzer
• Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs are Destroying Our Health Care System – Daniel Callahan
• Global Health: An Introductory Textbook – A. Lindstrand, S. Bergstrom e H. Rosling
• Unlocking the Gates – Taylor Walsh
• On Intelligence – Jeff Hawkins
• Retiree Health Plans in the Public Sector: Is There a Funding Crisis? – Robert L. Clark e Melinda Sander Morrill
• How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place – Bjørn Lomborg
• How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance – Parag Khanna
• Global Warming: The Complete Briefing – John Houghton 
• Giving it all Away: The Doris Buffett Story – Michael Zitz
• Frank Stewart’s Bridge Club – Eddie Kantar
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine – Michael Lewis
• The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa – Deborah Brautigam
• What Does China Think? – Mark Leonard
• Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty – Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee e Esther Duflo
• Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines – Vaclav Smil
• The Plundered Planet – Paul Collier
• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation – Steve Johnson
• The New Science of Strong Materials – James Edward Gordon
• The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time – Jonathan Weiner
• A Champion’s Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis – Pete Sampras
• The Tobacco Atlas, Omar Shafey – Michael Eriksen, Hana Ross e Judith Mackay
• Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics – Edward Teller 
• Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
• Weather for Dummies – John D. Cox
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War -Michael Dobbs
• Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools – Steven Brill
• Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World – Matthew Bishop e Michael Green
• Health Care Will Not Reform Itself: A User’s Guide to Refocusing and Reforming American Health Care – George Halvorson
• Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century – Burton Richter 
• 13 Things that Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time -Michael Brooks
• Epidemics and Pandemics: Their Impacts on Human History – J. N. Hays
• Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life – John Emsley
• A Guide to the Elements – Albert Stwertka
• The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments – George Johnson
• Dirt and Disease: Polio Before FDR –  Naomi Rogers
• The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World –  Phillip F. Schewe
• Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization –  Gordon Brown 
• The Foundation: A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth is Changing the World – Joel Fleishman
• Who’s Teaching Your Children?: Why the Teacher Crisis is Worse Than You Think and What Can Be Done About It – Vivian Troen e Katherine C. Boles
• The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria – Randall Packard
• Priorities in Health – Dean T. Jamison 
• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World – Liaquat Ahamed
• Wheels, Clocks and Rockets: A History of Technology – Donald Cardwell 
• The Post-American World – Fareed Zakaria
• A Life Decoded: My Genome – My Life – J. Craig Venter
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger – Charlie Munger
• The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
• Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System — and Themselves – Andrew Ross Sorkin 
• The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century – Thomas Friedman 
• The Feynman Lectures On Physics, The Definitive Edition Volumes 1, 2 e 3 – Richard P. Feynman
• Showing Up for Life – Bill Gates
• Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines – Richard A. Muller
• Physics for Dummies – Steven Holzne
• Open: An Autobiography – Andre Agassi
• Give Smart: Philanthropy that Gets Results – Thomas J. Tierney left Bain
• Einstein: His Life and Universe – Walter Isaacson 
• Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance – Nouriel Roubini
• Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact – Vaclav Smil
• Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age – Joel Shurkin
• Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School -John Medina
• A Separate Peace, – John Knowles
• Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine’s Greatest Lifesaver – Arthur Allen
• Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens and Practice – Richard L. Guerrant, David H. Walker e Peter F. Weller
• Smallpox: The Death of a Disease – D. A. Henderson
• Mountains Beyond Mountains – Tracy Kidder
• House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox – Bill Foege
• Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors – Alan D Lopez, Colin D Mathers, Majid Ezzati, Dean T Jamison e Christopher JL Murray
• Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries – Dean T Jamison, Joel G Breman, Anthony R Measham, George Alleyne,Mariam Claeson, David B Evans, Prabhat Jha, Anne Mills e  Philip Musgrove
• The Earth’s Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics and Change, Vaclav Smil
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America – Thomas L. Friedman
• Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties – Vaclav Smil
• Energies: An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization – Vaclav Smil
• Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present – Cynthia Brown
• The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time – Jeffrey Sachs
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies – Jared Diamond
• Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years – Vaclav Smil
• Enriching the Earth: Fritz Habery, Carol Bosch and the Transformation of World Food Production – Vaclav Smil
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed – Jared Diamond
• Polio: An American Story – David Oshinsky
• Getting Better: Why Global Development is Succeeding – Charles Kenny
• Stretching the School Dollar – Frederick M. Hess 
• Educational Economics: Where Do School Funds Go? – Marguerite Roza
• Jim Grant – UNICEF Visionary –  Richard Jolly
• The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves – Matt Ridley
• Why America is Not a New Rome – Vaclav Smil
• A Rational Look at Energy – Vaclav Smil
• Energy Transitions – Vaclav Smil
• Liberating Learning – Terry Moe e John Chubb
• Life Is What You Make It – Peter Buffett
• In Fed We Trust – David Wessel
• Super Freakonomics – Steven Levitt e Stephen Dubner
• Work Hard. Be Nice. – Jay Mathews
• Understanding Energy Use and Technology – Ken Caldeira