books Flashcards
keep track of ones read by book club books I have liked (14 cards)
MIndwise: How we understand what others think , believe, feel, and want
NIcholas Epley, psychologist, U Chicago,
most extra human cortex related to reading others
color-blind personal delusion
appreciate reality best with PMFC
capital in the 21st century
Thomas Pitketty
Capital’s share of income = r/g-greater return on capital, G = growth rate.
Wealth tax is necessary for equitable treatment of the population.
Lawrence in Arabia
Scott Anderson, reporter
Lawrence endurance athlete, gifted linguist, asexual, arab royalist, anti imperialist
Men who tried to save the world
the 4 o’clock murders
inside the league (world anti-Communist league)
Doubt: a history: the great doubters and their legacy of innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson.
Jennifer Hecht PhD phil science Columbia doubt 2003 happiness myth 2007 history of suicide 2013
Jack Reacher novels
knight errand
Lee Child
publishing since 1997, 20x up to 2015
The creation of inequality: how our prehistoric ancestors set the stage for monarchy, slavery, and Empire
big men, relatives, craftsmen, workers, nothing men
Kent Flannery
exhaustive compilation of archaeological digs and anthropological interpretation.
The swerve, how the world became modern
Stephen Greenblatt
recovery of Latin poet Lucretius thinking/writing stimulated onset of the Renaissance.
Dessert queen
Janet Wallach
Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), British upper class, Father’s pet, oxford graduate, talented linguist, arab sympathizer, anti imperialist, knowledgeable diplomat,
also wrote
Seraglio, a book on the Ottoman Empire
Arafat, in the eyes of the beholder
Woodrow Wilson Institute visiting fellow, has taught at multiple American colleges, BA from New York University, born NYC
founding director and president emeritus of “seeds of peace” a nonprofit organization founded by her late husband John Wallach working with outstanding teenagers at a summer camp in Maine.
The sleepwalkers: How Europe went to war in 1914
christopher clark
Australian historian working in England
Diplomatic maneuvering focusing on Serbs, Austro-hungary, germany, russia
Imperialistic approach to wealth via colony possession.
Steven Pinker
Professor psychology, Harvard,
BA McGill 1976 psychology
PhD Harvard 1979
Evolutionary psychology, experimental psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, visual cognition
wrote
the sense of style: the thinking person’s guide to writing in the 21st century
on the Mind works, the Blank Slate, the better angels of our nature
City of thieves
David Benioff
siege of Leningrad fascination, checks with grandparents, grandfather’s recollection ?historical fiction, coming-of-age Russian Jewish teenager, Bolshevik worldview, adolescent sex fixation, hunger, cold, abandonment fears, and war violence hooks. Ring of historical accuracy-Russian culture with human touch.
creator HBO game of thrones
screenwriter X-Men origins
father-Stephen Friedman former head Goldman Sachs
Napoleon: A Life
Andrew Roberts
honors BA degree in history Cambridge
strong supporter American military, Tony Blair, Iraq war, waterboarding
wrote
HItler and Churchill
history of English-speaking peoples since 1900
storm of war
Ian Mcewan
English author, british army brat, atheist
man booker prize x 6
1st book 1978, atonement 2001, children act 2014
Sean B Carroll
Scientists, novelist, World War II buff
Brave genius: a scientist, a philosopher, and their daring adventures from the French resistance to the Nobel prize
story of Albert Camus as a novelist concerned with adsurbity and Jacques Monod a gifted scientist and musician came to know each other after both serving in the French resistance during World War II and both assumed the supreme human challenge of affirming creative freedom in an absurd universe. Both were communists initially, both turned against Soviet Russia early on, both earned a Nobel Prize.
