Three books I would like to read
Aug. 19th, 2007 02:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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
magentamn in LJ today.
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Recommended by many people, most recently
mle392.
Away by Amy Bloom
Review in the Strib A&E section today.
Anybody have anything else to recommend?
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]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Recommended by many people, most recently
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
Away by Amy Bloom
Review in the Strib A&E section today.
Anybody have anything else to recommend?
no subject
Date: 2007-08-19 07:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-19 11:17 pm (UTC)Pretty much anything by Henry Petroski; you may have seen his LA Times op-ed on the I-35W collapse.
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Date: 2007-08-20 03:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-20 01:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-26 06:54 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2007-08-26 07:13 pm (UTC)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.)