Recent reading...
Pretty heavy on history and science this month...
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollen. A fascinating investigation into where our food comes from by an author with a rare gift for insight.
Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War by David Eicher. A very readable history that energetically drives home the point that one of the main reasons the South lost the Civil War was due to its own infighting and incompetence.
Dark Ages America by Morris Berman. A driving and depressing screed against the cultural decay and arrogance that often marks American life today.
What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff. An engaging history of the early computer age emphasizing the personalities and cultural events involved; a refreshing counter to other books which focused only on the business or technology aspects of this history.
The Fall of the Roman Empire : A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather. A solid and very thorough history of just how the greatest nation the Earth has ever seen went from dominance to nothing in less then 100 years.
A War Like No Other : How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson. This book is a nice survey of Greek military history and tactics during the Peloponnesian War, but he often over-stretches in trying to find relevance to events in our world today.
The Walls Around Us by David Owen. An interesting guide to how houses are built, from the foundation to the roof, full of tons of interesting details and personal stories.
Stumbling On Happiness by David Gilbert. A psychologist examines the science of happiness: what makes human beings happy? The answers are very interesting and often counter-intuitive.
Intelligent Thought: Science vs the intelligent design movement edited by John Brockman. A great collection of essays by leading scientists on various aspects of evolutionary theory and the threat to science posed by intelligent design.
Pretty heavy on history and science this month...
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollen. A fascinating investigation into where our food comes from by an author with a rare gift for insight.
Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War by David Eicher. A very readable history that energetically drives home the point that one of the main reasons the South lost the Civil War was due to its own infighting and incompetence.
Dark Ages America by Morris Berman. A driving and depressing screed against the cultural decay and arrogance that often marks American life today.
What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff. An engaging history of the early computer age emphasizing the personalities and cultural events involved; a refreshing counter to other books which focused only on the business or technology aspects of this history.
The Fall of the Roman Empire : A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather. A solid and very thorough history of just how the greatest nation the Earth has ever seen went from dominance to nothing in less then 100 years.
A War Like No Other : How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson. This book is a nice survey of Greek military history and tactics during the Peloponnesian War, but he often over-stretches in trying to find relevance to events in our world today.
The Walls Around Us by David Owen. An interesting guide to how houses are built, from the foundation to the roof, full of tons of interesting details and personal stories.
Stumbling On Happiness by David Gilbert. A psychologist examines the science of happiness: what makes human beings happy? The answers are very interesting and often counter-intuitive.
Intelligent Thought: Science vs the intelligent design movement edited by John Brockman. A great collection of essays by leading scientists on various aspects of evolutionary theory and the threat to science posed by intelligent design.
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