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Ronald’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ronald’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Ronald Gruner
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Ponca City, Oklahoma, The United States
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We the Presidents: How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century
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COVID Wars: America’s Struggle Over Public Health and Personal Freedom
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Short Essays for Inquiring Minds
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Update: COVID deaths versus Vaccination Rates
The Epilogue of my book, We the Presidents: How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century, discusses the politicization of COVID, in particular how voting patterns have affected vaccination rates. Here's an update:
By the end of March 2022, the United States will have suffered one million COVID deaths. Tragically, over 60 percent of these deaths (621,000) have come after vaccines became available Read more of this blog post »
By the end of March 2022, the United States will have suffered one million COVID deaths. Tragically, over 60 percent of these deaths (621,000) have come after vaccines became available Read more of this blog post »
Ronald’s Recent Updates
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The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind
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| You'll need some background in mathematics and artificial intelligence to appreciate this book. It's largely a recounting of artificial intelligence research conducted since the nineteen-fifties. I found the book informative although much of the disc ...more | |
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| This is not a book you breeze through. David Parson's latest book discusses the paradoxes that confounded mathematicians and scientists in the 17th century as scientific discoveries such as planetary motion raised, at the time, unanswerable questions ...more | |
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| The cover of Chris Emery's latest book says, "Short vignettes, hopefully entertaining." That's accurate. This small book consists of fifteen recollections starting when he was eight years old conniving ways to avoid church through his years as a Whit ...more | |
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| I am a fan of the author, David Parsons, and have read many of his books. Every book takes a fresh approach. "Gravity," for example, was written so that a precocious middle-schooler can calculate the weight of the sun using simple, logical mathematic ...more | |
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You'll enjoy, and appreciate, Robert Jacob's latest book whether you are a professional historian, simple history lover, or just looking for a lavish coffee table book. The first time I opened Blackbeard: The Truth Revealed I spent an hour thumbing th ...more |
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“Wings of Freedom” tells of one of America’s greatest and most magnanimous accomplishments, the Berlin Airlift. Shortly after the end of the Second World War, the United States and its allies issued a new German currency, the Deutsche Mark, to replace ...more |
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We the Presidents: How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century
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“The modern politician is less interested in being a hero than a superstar. Heroes walk alone; stars derive their status from approbation. Heroes are defined by inner”
― We the Presidents: How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century
― We the Presidents: How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century
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"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more
