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I'm just making this entry to remind myself. People are always recommending books that sound fascinating and then I forget them.

Survival of the Sickest, a medical maverick discovers why we need disease
Dr. Sharon Moalem, with Jonathan Price, William Morrow, 2007
Recommended by [livejournal.com profile] magentamn in LJ today.

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Recommended by many people, most recently [livejournal.com profile] mle392.

Away by Amy Bloom
Review in the Strib A&E section today.

Anybody have anything else to recommend?

Date: 2007-08-19 07:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
I strongly recommend Colin Cotterill's mysteries and Atul Gawande's Better (nonfiction).

Date: 2007-08-19 11:17 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ckd
Linked, by Albert-László Barabási

Pretty much anything by Henry Petroski; you may have seen his LA Times op-ed on the I-35W collapse.

Date: 2007-08-20 03:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daedala.livejournal.com
I really liked Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness.

Date: 2007-08-20 01:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skylarker.livejournal.com
If you're up for fiction, anything by Charles Stross, but I'm especially enjoying his Merchant Princes series, starting with The Family Trade.

Date: 2007-08-26 06:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] huladavid.livejournal.com
I keep meaning to post an entry on the wonderful trash I've been reading, but apparently the trash has rotted my mind. One of a number of books I'd think you'd enjoy is Dark of the Moon a very jaundiced view of the American race to the Moon.

Another recomendation is The Man Who Saved Britian: The disturbing world of James Bond which isn't so much about the spy as it is about what World War II did to the English, and/or the fall of the British Empire.

Date: 2007-08-26 07:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] huladavid.livejournal.com
I keep meaning to post about the wonderful trash I've been reading, but apparently the trash has rotted my mind. Even with that, I've a couple of books I think you'd like:

The Dark Side Of The Moon: The magnificent madness of the American lunar quest (Gerard DeGroot), which is a pretty damned jaundiced, and uncomfortably realistic look at the space race.

Another recommendation is The Man Who Saved Britain: The disturbing world of James Bond (Simon Winder) which isn't so much about the spy as it is about what World War II did to the English, and/or the fall of the British Empire (and what a good, good thing it was in the author's opinion.)