Books featured on the podcast "If Books Could Kill" hosted by Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri. "The airport books that captured our hearts and ruined our minds."
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
An awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother's exercise in extreme parenting, revealing the rewards-and the costs-of …
Phil in SF says: Ep. 49. A memoir about parenting very badly and then getting weirdly defensive when anyone asks you about it.
www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/15802540-battle-hymn-of-the-tiger-mother
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Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson
5 stars
Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, published on …
Phil in SF says: Ep. 52. What should workers do when they get laid off? In 1998 a bleak, asinine bestseller told them to find another whey.
www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/15901105-who-moved-my-cheese
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Phil in SF says: Ep. 54. Peter and Michael discuss the book that launched the phenomenon of New Atheism and asked the question: What if we hated Muslims, but in a secular way?
www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/16041649-sam-harris-s-the-end-of-faith
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What's The Matter With Kansas? by Thomas Frank
One of "our most insightful social observers"* cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker …
Phil in SF says: Ep. 54. In 2004, historian Thomas Frank proposed a theory about the rightward drift of the white working class. Was he a prescient king whose work presaged the rise of Trump — or a bumbling fool with a broken thesis? Unfortunately it turns out he is a secret third thing that takes 1 hour & 6 minutes
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You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
Bestselling author, speaker and world-traveling success coach, Jen Sincero, Hatcuts through the din of the self-help genre with her own …
Phil in SF says: Ep 55. Peter and Michael dissect Jen Sincero's "You are a Badass," a book that answers the question: What if "The Secret" was written in the painful, try-hard style of "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck"? Featuring a surprise digression about Sincero's other, even worse books.
