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My first attempt at a 'connected reading list'. I like to read factual books and often find myself jumping from one subject area to the next either through direct quotation, a reference or bibliography entry, a reviewer's comment or simply from a Google search. If you hover your mouse pointer over the photo I've added notes which are links to each title on Amazon.co.uk
Working up the stack we start with
- Joe McNally's The Moment It Clicks; Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters. He takes an interesting approach and it reads somewhere between a heavily illustrated autobiography and a how-to manual and that, somehow, is a perfect combination! (I found this and the next two from Thom Hogan's excellent Nikon centric website)
- Light Science and Magic. So you like taking photographs? This is the book that explains all about why light itself acts the way it does.
- Out of the Blue, So you like taking photographs or you just enjoy being outside! Read this great book to get an understanding on the weather and its visual phenomenon.
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. The title says it all - A huge undertaking that Bryson pulls off with aplomb. Get some sense of scale. This should be required reading for everybody!
- Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative is my favourite book on displaying information by Tufte.
- Universal Principles of Design is a collection of 125 design concepts draw from a wide range of disciplines from graphic design to architecture to user-interface design.
- Security Engineering by Ross Anderson is THE book on the subject. Most engineers in any field spend their time trying to get things to work well, Security Engineers need to spend their time thinking about how to break things. This book looks at everything from Cash Machines to Nuclear Command and Control, Door Locks to Cryptography and reminds you that you are only as secure as the weakest link.
- A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander. Despite appearances this actually has more pages than Anderson's Security tome. The title refers to a structured method of describing good design practices within Architecture, however it has been applied to numerous other fields since. If our modern era planning control adopted more of these 'patterns' we would live in far more pleasant built environs.
- Patterns of Home is a distillation of the domestic scale patterns suggested by Alexander et al in Pattern Language by two of the original collaborators, Silverstein and Jacobson, based on their experiences of applying them to houses over years of architectural practice.
- The Housebuilder's Bible by Mark Brinkley is how to Self-Build you own house in the UK.
- Designing a house to build inevitable brings you around to considering energy usage and supply. Sustainable Energy Without The Hot Air looks at this challenge on an individual household, national and global level, considering energy use and how to reduce it and energy supply options.
- A Place of My Own is the story of one man's desire to build his own space, in this case a writing studio. A fascinating narrative.
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad. At first and probably second glance the odd one out in this stack. It is over simplistic, over familiar, over American and a lot of what it details is common sense or should be. However the more financial titles I read the more I find myself coming back to it and re-reading it with modified perspectives.
- The Long and The Short of It: A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren't in the Industry is a perfect antidote to the financial services industry and mainstream press personal finance output. The book to read if you don't trust the banking and investment industry and suspect you could probably do a better job yourself. It suggests you probably can and tells you how.
I've been watching the "Bailout Plan" unfold and am sickened. My plan to reduce my debt is NOT to borrow money - why is that the plan the US Government is following? If Obama thinks really this will work, he looks much smarter than he is!
To see the power behind investing in precious metals, especially silver and gold, watch the documentary "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Michael Maloney.
Still not convinced? Watch Aaron Russo's documentary on the United States of America and our likely demise in a video called "America: Freedom to Fascism". It started as a quest to find what legal basis the IRS has to tax American citizens (there IS NO LAW - the IRS is unconstitutional) and ends up exposing a conspiracy which will destroy the United States of America. Paper money is being devalued at an alarming rate. Educate yourself on the real monetary system of the USA - then you will probably be more interested in these silver coins...
In 2007 I went to Puebla, where most Mexicans in NYC come from. Rural villages are virtually abandoned by young men, who send money home to the women, children and elderly left behind. On my visit, FINCA Mexico had just celebrated the payment of a group loan with a group of women and was making new loans.
Photo by: Barbara Magnoni.
Check cashing agencies are still very popular with the largely unbanked, Mexican Community.
Photo: Marta Magnoni.
Mark Dalton & Lindsay Hopkins are two of our most revered mentors and Bindar is a hugely successful landlord & Women In Wealth speaker.
A Mexican entrepreneur serves horchata and mango juice to his customers in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Photo: Betty Salanic.
Adrian Franco with a group of students from Qualitas’ basic financial education class in New York.
Photo: Courtesy of Qualitas of Life.
A Mexican entrepreneur serves horchata and mango juice to his customers in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Photo: Betty Salanic.
Adrian teaching advanced students the ABC’s of Investing.
Photo: Courtesy of Qualitas of Life, New York.
SS001 (Sunday Shoot 001) What's the Sunday Shoot?
Yesterday was the first day of my Sunday Shoot project - I want to take a new picture every Sunday and upload it. This might seem quite easy to some of you but recently I've been neglecting my camera even when I have a few spare hours at the weekend. I hope this project will help me improve as a photographer. Also living in Japan I really have no excuses with so much to photograph.
I took quite a few pictures around Umeda, Osaka around midday.
This one was my favourite but there will be more to follow. Have a nice Monday!
Kathy Heasley is the woman behind of Robert Kiyosaki's the Rich Dad, Poor Dad brand, as well as Kim Kiyosaki's Rich Woman brand. Additionally Kathy has worked with the big names like Coca-Cola, Dr Pepper, Proctor & Gamble, McCann Erickson and Exxon. I really enjoyed having a discussion with her, she is very knowledgeable and interesting person!
Become Empowered!
I used this photo in a blog post called "The Correction of a Simple False Assumption Moved the Human Race Forward". Click the link below to see:
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