Gangleader for a Day - Sudhir Venkatesh's illuminating story about the housing projects, crack gangs and community dynamics of south side chicago in the '90s.

Gangleader for a Day - Sudhir Venkatesh's illuminating story about the housing projects, crack gangs and community dynamics of south side chicago in the '90s. Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely explains a lot of the idiosyncracies in everyday human behavior Thoughts Without a Thinker - Mark Epstein's enjoyable tale about buddhism and psychotherapy Worst: SuperFreakonomics - Superficial, poorly written, overly patriotic cocktail party factoids