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Computational Pharmacokinetics by Anders Källén

Secrets of Consulting by Gerald Weinberg

Le Ton Beau de Marot by Douglas Hofstadter

Born to Win by Muriel James and Dorothy Jongeward

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Le Ton Beau de Marot by Douglas Hofstadter

How is it? please share your impressions.

If you're interested enough to ask, then you'll probably like it. If you've read and liked any other Hofstadter, then just just go get it. A bit weird at first, but ultimately superb.

I will. I took GEB and leave it 200 pages from the end, it is great but i keep feeling im not getting something. Im starting over now. And "le ton..." would be next.

I haven't liked it as much as GEB. At times, it strikes me as too clever (puns and autobiographical digressions all over the place). It's definitely interesting and thought-provoking, though. With translation as its main topic (not so interesting to me), it explores lots of tangents (of more interest to me): syntax and semantics, medium and message, constraint and discovery, all with loads of interesting examples. Most of all, it's a book about words, for people who love words. The main thing I get out of it is an appreciation for just how sophisticated the verbal part of the human mind is.

> Computational Pharmacokinetics

Woa, this sure sounds geeky. What is it about ?

It explains the mathematics describing drugs' passage into, through, and out of the body.

There are lots of books about pharmacokinetics, but this one is notable for being so clear, direct, precise, and readable. It explains the main causal factors, the not-so-obvious causal factors, the reasons behind peculiar notions in the field (e.g. a drug's "volume of distribution" might be much more than the volume of your body), and how to actually crunch the numbers. It doesn't just present results, it shows you the reasoning.

It's quite short, too: 170 pages. Nothing like those gigantic textbooks that say much less.

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