What book are you reading?

Hardwiring Excellence by Quint Studer

 

48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene


....this is my bible to success in the workplace. Based on historical references, it's GREAT!

 

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I just started reading "The Rain". One of the authors is a chemist where I work. He has had several articles published in some national magazines and this is his first novel. It is a fictitious story of Noah and the Ark based on biblical fact.

Here is the link to Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/2cze4n

 

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

 

(Hey SweetPrii, nice to post after another Nashvillian.)


Just finished reading "The Glass Castle" by Jeanette Walls. Currently reading "Kill Me" by Stephen White.

 

Last week, "Each day another small victory" (about a stoat)
This week, another Patrick O'Brian sea adventure.

 

Most recently finished The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. (oops, good catch F8L)
Excellent read.

 

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It's Pollan, but I agree, it was a very good book.

 

In the car: Himalaya by Michael Palin
At Home: The Eagle by Jack Whyte

 

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I became a vegetarin 12 years ago after reading that book!!

 

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I'm currently reading Water Lily (by Susanna Jones). It's out of print but I sought this one out after enjoying the author's first book, The Earthquake Bird.

 

1491 - New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus ~ Charles C. Mann


"The past 140 years have seen scientific revolutions in many fields, including demography, climatology, epidemiology, economics, botany, genetics, image analysis, palynology, molecular biology, and soil science. As new evidence has accumulated, long-standing views about the pre-Columbian world have been challenged and reexamined. Although there is no consensus, and Mann acknowledges controversies, Mann asserts that the general trend among scientists is to acknowledge that

1. (a) the population levels were probably higher than traditionally believed among scientists and closer to the number estimated by "high counters"; (b) humans probably arrived in the Americas earlier than thought over the course of multiple waves of migration to the New World (not solely by the Bering land bridge over a relatively short period of time);
2. The level of cultural advancement and settlement range was higher and broader than previously imagined; and
3. The New World was largely not a wilderness but an environment controlled by humans (mostly with fire).

These three main foci (origins/population, culture, environment) form the basis for three parts of the book.

Introduction

Mann was inspired to write this book because he was taught in high school that "Indians came across the Bering Strait about 13,000 years ago, that they had so little impact on their environment that even after millennia of habitation the continents remain mostly wilderness." He examines what he terms "Holmberg's mistake", named for the anthropologist Allan R. Holmberg, who lived among the Siriono in the 1940s and came to the conclusion that they were the most "culturally backward peoples" in the world. Mann writes that Holmberg's theory was in fact a mistake, because smallpox and influenza devastated Siriono villages during the 1920s, and the Siriono were the "persecuted survivors of a recently shattered culture."

 

Duma key

not quite what i hoped it would be, about half way through..but king is on a roll with cell and this new one

 

Physics of the Impossible - Michio Kaku
The Revolution: a Manifesto - Ron Paul

 

The Handbook to Higher Consciousness (Keyes)

Just finished Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen). It was so fine. If you are looking for a great book to read, pick it up! It is immensely entertaining, exciting, beautifully written, moving, and a great story, in general. I picked it up at the airport and could not put it down...

 

Stuck in traffic a lot, eh?

 

At the moment I'm reading Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt series. When that's done I'll be reading Outcast from Erin Hunter's Warriors series.

 

I've got a couple cracked open right now, read a little of each most days.
Walt Disney, The triumph of the American imagination, written by Neal Gabler.
"Gabler shows us the young Walt Disney."
"Seven years in the making and meticulously reseaarched-Gabler is the first writer to be given access to the Disney archives-this is the full story of a man whose work left an ineradicable brand on our culture but whose life has largely been enshrouded in myth."

The Rebels of Ireland, the Dublin Saga, written by Edward Rucherfurd.
"...The tales of families whose fates rise and fall in each generation.."

 

1491 was great. If you like it, you might also enjoy Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. I read those two back to back last year.

Currently reading: Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon

 

Thanks Scott! I'll definately check it out. It falls in line with my two favorites topics, ecology and preindustrial history.