jg
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:42 am Post subject: summer reading list |
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I highly recommend all or any of the below:
My book list:
Gates of Fire-Steven Pressfield
"Real" Battle of Thermopylae
In a Sunburned Country-Bill Bryson
About his adventures in Australia
A Short History of Nearly Everything-Bill Bryson
Entertaining history of a lot of stuff
Prehistory of the Far Side-Gary Larson
Some of the funniest cartoons ever and a little history of the Far Side
Unearthing Atlantis-Charles Pelligrino
Intriguing study of the advanced Minoan culture and why Thera (Santorini) was probably Atlantis
The Last Place on Earth-Roland Huntford
The story of the race to the south pole: Amundsen vs Scott. Adventure,tragedy, lessons well learned.
Guns, Germs and Steel-Jared Diamond
Why western culture took over the world
Blink-Malcolm Gladwell
How we think
Freakonomics-Levitt and Dubner
Intriguing study of incentives and some surprising conclusions
The Endurance-Carolyn Alexander
Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctic excursion. Heroism, leadership, hardship, human endurance, awesome photographs
The World is Flat-Thomas Friedman
Discussion of the global economy with the implications of Chinese and Indian dominance
Undaunted Courage-Stephan Ambrose
Lewis and Clark
Theodore Rex-Edmund Morris
Theodore Roosevelt
Mere Christianity-C.S. Lewis
a philosophical study of Christianity
Dancing Wu Li Masters-Gary Sukav
Fascinating discussion of partical physics mixed with eastern thought
Skeletons on the Zahara-Dean King
A true survival story of sailors shipwrecked on the Moroccan coast circa 1815: slavery, deprivation and thirst...escape for a few.
How We Know What Isn't So-Thomas Gilovich
The fallibility of human reason in everyday life. Explains critical thinking
Storm of Steel-Ernst Junger
An unromantic All Quiet on the Western Front.
The memoir of a German foot soldier during World War 1. Warning: The never ending nightmare of the war is on every page. It out horrors any Gothic horror story or slasher movie, yet presented in plain language, as if it was something normal...normal for a German foot soldier. This stuff is true and not a Stephan King nightmare.
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