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What Are You Reading Right Now?

Science as a Candle in the Dark by (the late-great) Carl Sagan
 
bhkad said:
What Are You Reading Right Now?

What I am reading is a transcript from the Charlie Rose show; an hour-long interview with David Kilcullen.
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Is this a trick question.....?

I'm reading a thread called "What Are You Reading Right Now?"

D'uh
 
Finally picked up:
The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
Despite it's non-fiction title, looks like a fairly easy read. Had been reading About it/come across it alot.
A common sense, non-PC, work on Evolution/anthroplogy.

The 10,000 Year Explosion - Wikipedia

Amazon.com: The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution: Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending

The 10,000 Year Explosion - Home

You'll probably be seeing it's effect even more in my posts.
I had already used/agreed with the 'shorter evolution' idea before it's debut.. which is why I bought it.
 
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Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews
Peter Longerich / Oxford / 2010 / 645pp

One of the standard works, and now available in English for the first time. In this edition, Professor Longerich (Royal Holloway University of London) builds upon his original 1998 thesis with official documents from Eastern European and Soviet archives and provides overviews of academic points of contention within the Holocaust Studies field.
 
I'm fixin' to read Hunger Games. I kept hearing great things about the series, so I thought I'd give it a try.
 
mbig said:
Finally picked up:
The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
Despite it's non-fiction title, looks like a fairly easy read. Had been reading About it/come across it alot.
A common sense, non-PC, work on Evolution/anthroplogy.

The 10,000 Year Explosion - Wikipedia

Amazon.com: The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution: Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending

The 10,000 Year Explosion - Home

You'll probably be seeing it's effect even more in my posts.
I had already used/agreed with the 'shorter evolution' idea before it's debut.. which is why I bought it.
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I'd love to hear how it is. I picked it up at at bookstore but wanted to read about it. How "short" is the "short evolution?"
 
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books

"...his book will be about all the 'bad science' we are constantly bombarded with in the media and in advertising. At a time when science is used to prove everything and nothing, everyone has their own 'bad science' moments from the useless pie-chart on the back of cereal packets to the use of the word 'visibly' in cosmetics ads. This book will help people to quantify their instincts that a lot of the so-called 'science' which appears in the media and in advertising is just wrong or misleading. It will be satirical and amusing exposing the ridiculous but it will also provide the reader with the facts they need... "
 
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Don't throw any stones, but I am reading "In My Time" by Dick Cheney. :roll: Heeheeheehee!
 
Faith and Power: Religion And Politics In The Middle East
Bernard Lewis / 2010 / Oxford University Press / 208pp

Professor Bernard Lewis (Princeton - Near Eastern Studies) looks into the historical past, connects it to events today, and puts forth possibilities for tomorrow. Remarkably, he forecast the Arab Spring revolution in this book almost a year before it occurred. A very interesting and illuminating read.
 
When I have time, I am going through

Gordon S. Wood-The Purpose of the Past.

Many historians speak of their craft through the subjects they study rather than through the abstractions of the philosophers of history. Wood continues in this vein, giving his readers (many of which are casual readers of history, who he believes have been underserved by his colleagues) a more thorough glance at the discipline, but does so with his authoritative charm. It is interesting and very insightful, but I hope the mainstream readers of this book realize the limitations of his perspectives on the forms of historical research and writing. There are many other works that are compilations of various historians discussing their view of history and why they do what they do. As a book regarding historiography, I would highly recommend the book, but it certainly has points where I would disagree.
 
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While I am not currently reading these, books, I think that they are good for anyone who wants to learn about the African American experience in the US:


Before The Mayflower by Lerone Bennett Jr.

The Shaping of Black America: The Struggles and Triumphs of African-Americans, 1619-1990s by Lerone Bennett Jr.

To Be A Slave by Julius Lester
 
GBee said:
I loved this book...don't want to see the movie, though. It seems like the movies always change...something...
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Loved the book. Saw the movie yesterday and was predictably disappointed. They changed a few things that did not need to be changed, left a few things out and added a couple that were not in the book at all. Also a few of the characters were quite different in the movie. Skeeter's mother, for one. Much more likable in the movie.
 
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Widow for one year; John Irving.
 
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