God Is Not Great
In "God Is Not Great," Christopher Hitchens critiques religion as a man-made construct that leads to repression, advocating for a secular life grounded in science and reason.
A Distant Mirror
In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life.
Savage Continent
Savage Continent is the chronicle of a world gone mad, the standard history of post–World War II Europe for years to come.
Collapse
My view is that, if environmentalists aren’t willing to engage with big businesses, which are among the most powerful forces in the modern world, it won’t be possible to solve the world’s environmental problems. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed – My Perspective Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose…
Our Iceberg Is Melting
Buddy was offered a number of more important jobs. He turned them all down, but helped the Leadership Council find other good candidates. His lack of ambition came to be seen as great humility. The birds loved him even more. Melting Down My Resistance: A Review of “Our Iceberg Is…
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Understanding is more often used to try to alter an outcome than to repeat or perpetuate it. That’s why psychologists try to understand the minds of murderers and rapists, why social historians try to understand genocide, and why physicians try to understand the causes of human disease. Those investigators do…