Ask HN: 1 book,1 article and 1 research paper you suggest?

I have been running this experiment with a close group of friends where I send an email every other week with a list of 1 book, 1 news/opinion/blog article and 1 research paper on any subject which I have read in the past and have found it profoundly useful.

This was in response to all the quick dim-witted stuff that gets shared around on social networks frequently and how much one has to comb through to find something actually useful.

So throwing this question out to the HN crowd to see what are your suggestions (would be great if you could throw some comments on the choices too!)