Whatcha reading at the moment?

[he_who_is_nobody]

Eureka!: Scientific Breakthroughs that Changed the World by Leslie Alan Horvitz.

 

[Aught3]

Is science necessary? by Max Perutz. Good read.

 

[Inferno]

I've just re-stocked my Bookshelf for between 400-500€.
In no particular order:

Bad Pharma - Ben Goldacre
Trick or Treatment - Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
The Geek Manifesto - Mark Henderson
How To Lie With Statistics - Darrell Huff
Deceit & Self-Deception - Robert Trivers
Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Mortality - Christopher Hitchens
The Oxford Book Of Modern Science Writing - Richard Dawkins
What Do You Care What Others Think? - Feynman
The Age Of Reason - Thomas Paine
The Prince - Machiavelli
The Extended Phenotype - Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene -R.D.
Bildung Braucht Persönlichkeit (Education needs personality) - Gerhard Roth
How The Mind Works - Stephen Pinker
Hitch-22 - Hitchens
The God Species - Mark Lynas
Pale Blue Dot - Sagan
Darwin's Dangerous Idea - Daniel C. Dennett
The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond
Evolution vs. Creationism - Eugenie C. Scott
The Dragons Of Eden - Sagan
The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out - Feynman
No Ordinary Genius - Feynman
River Out Of Eden - Dawkins
A Passage To India - E.M. Forster
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence
A Universe From Nothing - Lawrence Krauss

Plus about 20 books on education (seminar literature and such) and philosophy. (Basically the complete Nietzsche bibliography plus a few books on general philosophy.)

I think I'm set for a few years.

 

[australopithecus]

The Dragons Of Eden - Sagan

A friend got me this for Christmas and I've just gotten around to reading it. So far, so excellent.

 

[tuxbox]

I am currently reading two books.

The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien and The Panther - Nelson DeMille

 

[theyounghistorian77]

I am currently reading "The Balkans. 1804-2012: Nationalism, War & the Great powers" by Misha Glenny

 

[Frenger]

Dianetics - L. Ron Hubbub

 

[he_who_is_nobody]

A Devil's Chaplain - Richard Dawkins

 

[theyounghistorian77]

A few of the books that have come into my collection as of late.

"The Storm of Steel" - Ernst Jünger (English translation published 1929)
"Eastern Approaches" - Fitzroy Maclean.

"Vanished Kingdoms. The History of Half-forgotten Europe" - Norman Davies

"History of ww1" - Sir Basil Liddel Hart
"A soldier’s reader" ed George Macy, which was Published in 1943.

Aristotle on the Athenian Constitution

 

[Dragan Glas]

Greetings,

theyounghistorian77, I was wondering if you'd read either of Stevenson's books on World War 1?

1914-1918: The History Of The First World War
With Our Backs To The Wall

If not, I'd recommend at least one of them.

Kindest regards,

James

 

[Nemesiah]

I just put down Ender's Game and started Speaker for the dead.

 

[theyounghistorian77]

Greetings,

theyounghistorian77, I was wondering if you'd read either of Stevenson's books on World War 1?

1914-1918: The History Of The First World War
With Our Backs To The Wall

If not, I'd recommend at least one of them.

Kindest regards,

James

Hi James

I digested Stevenson a few years ago. But as the centenary of the Great War comes ever closer now is the time i think for a re-read of all the ww1 literature i have. So after i have finished what i have displayed in the post above, i shall be focusing on that. Also, as the 100th anniversary of the formal beginning of the Second Balkan War is this month (June 29th), so i am reading about that and on the plus side preparing a short blogpost about it. I hope one was interested in my first in the series dealing with the 100th anniversary of the treaty of London which marked the end of the 1st.

Take care

 

[Frenger]

The Qu'ran - Muhammad

So far, a lot of death :/

 

[theyounghistorian77]

"The Sleepwalkers: How Europe went to War in 1914" by Christopher Clark.

 

[Visaki]

The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One - Miranda Carter

I'm up to 1903-1904 and liking it thus far. Learning a lot of new things that that's what reading is supposed to be about, right?

 

[Daealis]

"The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil"
I'm always interested in the psychology of evil, what drives people to these things. So far it's been an interesting read about the Stanford Prison Experiment.

Next up: Michael Shermer - The Science of Good And Evil

 

[he_who_is_nobody]

Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason - Thomas Paine

 

[PAB]

Im currently reading a spiderman comic ...where he reminisces about being sexually abused as a child :|

 

[he_who_is_nobody]

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution - Richard Dawkins.

 

[Inferno]

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution - Richard Dawkins.

There are only two or three new examples in the book, the rest is the same stuff Dawkins uses in all his other books. Boring.