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William L. Ury, Roger Fisher, Bruce Patton: Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (Paperback, 1991, Penguin) 3 stars

Describes a method of negotiation that isolates problems, focuses on interests, creates new options, and …

Review of 'Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Buy this book to learn of the one weird trick that leads to success!, which is basically this: being a human being is not necessarily a defect in a capitalistic setting, if it serves capitalistic ends. Of course, it is filled with a fair dose of yellow-unionism advocacy with just the right level of triumphalism characteristic of the book's age.

Douglas R. Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid (1999, Basic Books) 4 stars

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to …

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4 stars

It remains a well-aged book, from which the author's humour and enthusiasm jump at you and massage your brain. Well-suited for those taking interest in mathematics.