Does anyone know what books were included as part of TED 2009's TED book club?

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Looks like I found a list libs-spot.blogspot.com/2009/01/ted-book-... Book Club SelectionsIt's that time of year when I start getting excited about heading to TED - and when friends and relatives start dreading the bombardment of new ideas I'll spout after being there. As a warm-up for this year's blogging, here's a list of the latest books from the TED book club. I'd be delighted to start seeing some comments on this blog - perhaps people have read these books and would add their comments on the books?

Tribes, by Seth GodinGodin is best known for his marketing book Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable. This proposes that to get your message across in today's world of message saturation, you have to make your products and services as remarkable as a purple cow in a field of Guernseys. In Tribes, he proposes that anyone can be a leader, by leveraging the Internet to connect a passionate group of people to your idea and to you as a leader.

I've been fascinated by the story of how new media was used in the Obama campaign, in a presentation by Rahaf Harfoush, a young Canadian woman who worked there. The founder of Facebook led the development of tools that enabled any iPhone user to function as a field office, and any PC user to turn her house into a full campaign office. Rahaf said the campaign was successful in using these tools because Obama 'got it', because they were open and supportive in promoting good work by people outside the campaign (typified by the 27M views of Will.i.Am's video published on YouTube), and the clarity and consistency of the campaign message which meant these outside collaborators' efforts were 'on' message.

Too bad Godin's book was published too early to document this most spectacular of tribes. Tribes is a very light book - small pages and not many of them.It's also a bit repetitive. But it does read like a breeze and it's a great way to spend a couple of hours.

Godin is speaking at TED this year, so I hope to add more on these ideas from TED. The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cell Phone: Reflections on Idea, the Emerging 21st Century Power, by Shashi TharoorI'm anxious to read this book, both because I love TED's suggestions in general and because of my fascination with India. The book blurb says the book described the 'vast changes that have recently transformed this once sleeping giant into a world leader in the realms of science and technology, a nation once poverty stricken that now boasts a middle class of over 300 million people.

' A review characterizes the many pieces in the book as 'quick, sketchy takes on Indian cultural touchstones, from political corruption to Bollywood to cricket.' They comment on his 'ready wit' - an Indian without a horoscope is like an American without a credit card! McMafia: A Journey through the Global Criminal World, by Misha GlennyNow here's a book I wouldn't have picked up if it weren't sent by TED. A review on Amazon, where it was picked as a Significant Seven for April last year writes that Glenny 'draws the dark map that lies on the other side of Tom Friedman's bright, flat world.

That connected globe not only brings software coders and supply-chain outsourcers closer together; it's also opened the gates to a criminal network of unsettling vastness, complexity, and efficiency that represents a fifth of the earth's economy, trading in everything from untaxed cigarettes and uthe usual narcotics to human lives and nuclear material'. Sounds as if this will be a real eye-opener - and not in a good way. January 18, 2009 12:02 AM Sources: http://libs-spot.blogspot.com/2009/01/ted-book-club-selections.html .

One book included in Ted's 2009 book club is entitled "The Untied States of America." 17 February 2006TED Book Club: The Untied States of AmericaUntied2When we selected the books to send TEDsters this month, we just had to include The Untied States of America, the startling new book by futurist Juan Enriquez, who's spoken so powerfully at TED and TEDGLOBAL. Juan looks at the same facts you and I do, but discovers insights that we miss. Shockingly, predicts that the next 50 years could see the US (and many other parts of the world) fragment in dangerous and unexpected ways.

He writes the same way he speaks. Every page is stuffed with intriguing images, surprising graphs and, as a bonus, wonderful humor. - Chris Sources: http://blog.ted.com/2006/02/ted_book_club_t.php .

Every book is a treasure. It is upto the hands of the readers how to spend with books. Since I am very fond of book reading, I used to read all types of books.

Sources: my opinion .

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.