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Current Non-Fiction reads

Les Conquérants de l'inutile - Lionel Terray .
De la Mine aux Sommets - Jerzy Kukuczka .

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Picked up a copy months ago in Estes Park, now sitting down to get a good start on it during this holiday break.

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This book is somewhat dated, but I keep running into a ton of references about it, so I figured I better actually read it as it has done nothing more than collect dust in my vast collection.

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The Four Witnesses - Robin Griffith-Jones

A long-term occupant of my shelf, finally taken down for reading. The book provides a detailed discusion of the different messages of the four Gospels, set in the historical background of Biblical times and the expanding social and religious worlds of the early Christian church. Fascinating but very dense reading.
 
I started reading President Obama's The Audacity of Hope, but I've gotten kind of side-tracked by other books on my shelves and from the library so I'm still only a little bit over 100 pages into it. I really need to get back to it because I was enjoying what I read.
 
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I started reading President Obama's The Audacity of Hope, but I've gotten kind of side-tracked by other books on my shelves and from the library so I'm still only a little bit over 100 pages into it. I really need to get back to it because I was enjoying what I read.
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This is a good book, it definitely shows his practical side on the issues. He recognizes how guns are a way of life to rural Americans, yet, he also believes that we can regulate guns in urban areas where they cause much strife. He has done next to nothing on the issue as anything he will do will cause people to claim he's the anti-Christ out to take away their liberty.:lol: I'll have to browse through it again, especially when it comes to parts regarding the economy.
 
Nothing at the moment. I finished "The Elegant Universe" on the plane yesterday and now I am delving into some fun, gritty cyberpunk before plunging into the next non-fiction title.
 
I am in the final chapters of "Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind" by VS. Ramachandran.

A really fascinating book!
 
La Géologie : Les Sciences de la Terre appliquées à l'Archéologie - Bravard Jean-Paul, Cécilia Cammas, Pierre Nehlig ...
HIMALAYA-TIBET ~ La collision continentale Inde-Eurasie - Georges Mascle, Arnaud Pêcher, Stéphane Guillot, Patrick Le Fort .
KARSTOLOGIE - Karsts, grottes et sources - Éric Gilli .

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Just finished The Social Animal by David Brooks. The author argues that human decisions and life in general is determined by a mix of conscious and unconscious factors. Brooks excoriates contemporary economics and the theory of rational choice. The story is creatively told through a fictional account of a man and a woman who are born, grow up, marry one another, and who go through the typical life processes. All the while, each navigates their personal baggage that follows them in the subconscious. Brooks does a great job of working in relevant research and findings regarding neuroscience, sociology, and economics as well. If you love social sciences and debates about human will/nature, this one will be to your liking.

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Nice review, SFG. It might re-motivate me to finish reading the book although, based on my brief go at it, I think two stars is about right. :)
 
I'm currently starting Mathematics - The Loss of Certainty by Morris Kline, an argumentative book which according to the flap "refutes the myth that mathematics is a body of unshakable truths about the physical world and that mathematical reasoning is exact and infallible."

It sounds like I will be learning a thing or two about modern math.
 
Oops, add another. Just went out and got the mail. :sad:

A Guide to Understanding the Bible - The Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick
 
I only picked it up as I know of his tiffs with Thomas Friedman. Then again, who doesn't Friedman quarrel with?:lol: With all that being said, it was written in an interesting way and he presented a thorough picture of how the unconscious could weave in and out of the decision making process through a person's life. While in theory that is all fine and dandy, identifying those influencs specifically is quite another and was something that left this reader begging for more. Such a thing is difficult to prove, unless you have case studies to back up your assertions regarding how mostly rational people make the most unrational decisions.
 
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