Lifehacker-2011: The 10 best books of the year

We love to read books. And we love to advise our readers the most interesting of them. Layfhaker pleased to present you the top 10 books of 2011 the outgoing year.

Tony Hsieh "Delivering Happiness". What is happiness, and how to find it?

Thousands of candles can light from a single candle, and her life will not be shorter. Happiness does not become smaller when they delishsya.

Levitt and Dabner "Superfrikonomika". Pleasure, comparable to a hundred lectures TED view - and all in one book

"Superfrikonomika" - a continuation of a sufficiently well-known and popular "Frikononomiki" unusual textbook on kindly mad economists. Levitt and Dabneru able to show that the economy - is not just a complicated science with a bunch of numbers and obscure words, it is truly a living discipline, objects of study which may well become prostitutes, drug addicts, monkeys, suicide bombers, "green" and even the economists.

Dan Ariely "Positive irrationality"

"Positive irrationality" - this is the second book by Dan Ariely, a continuation of his "predictable irrationality". However, you can immediately reassure fans of sequential read - books perfectly perceived separateness and with each other almost unrelated.

Mark Gouston "I can hear you through. An effective technique of negotiation! "

The book is easy to read and enjoyable, on average, all it can "swallow" for three hours. However, I advise you not to do so - otherwise the reading will be useless. The peculiarity of "I can hear you through!" Is that the techniques in the book should be applied in practice, but do not go into fanaticism and turn in their communication Verbal Judo.

"Running with Arthur Lydiard"

If run - this salvation, the "Running with Arthur Lydiard" - the Bible. It is difficult to try to comment on the book, which for forty years is in fact the only guide to wellness jogging. With this book under his arm, he ran a marathon hundreds of thousands of people (and many of them were far beyond 60). And you too will be able to, you'll see!

Martin Seligman, "The Pursuit of Happiness"

Martin Seligman - a famous American psychologist, a preacher of positive psychology and distributor the theory that human happiness and an optimistic attitude in life - these are the things that depend on it itself. And in order to begin to influence the happiness, just enough to understand a little theory and believe in themselves.

"Whole Life". Key skills to achieve your goals

The authors managed in a fairly concise manner (which is unusual), to convey their point of view on how to set a goal and how to change themselves in order to achieve it.

Patrick Lencioni "Five teams vices"

The book is worth the time you spend on it. You, especially if you work with the team enough time probably will not learn anything surprising, but structuring and sketchy, described in the book will help you to change the view on the current state of your own team.

Mike Michalowice "Startup without a budget"

You will enjoy the vibrant storytelling. It seems that not open the book, and the window to the gym, where the happy people are happy to do what you do lazy.

«Slide: ology» Nancy Duarte

How often do you face in your work with a good presentation?
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But if you're interested in this book, so think of the minority of those who likes to do everything awesome.

Enjoy your reading and happy holidays!