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Book Club 2023
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October 2023 Nominations
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All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Editor), Katharine K.Wilkinson (Editor)
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
I nominate “Dinosaurs: How they lived and evolved”. It's the best natural history of dinos for adults. I reviewed the 1st edition ( https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... ). Also, this group needs more dino love ;) Seriously, the last time a dino book won was March 2019 ( https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... ).
The Unified Theory of Motivation and Living by Manohar Man Shresthahttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Unified-Theo...
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I'm sorry, this book is too new. It was only published in July 2023. And it seems to be available only in kindle format.
I nominate
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
by Tim Harford (336 p., pub. 2021).
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Tim Winegard “A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate.”
Even if this doesn’t make our cut, I can recommend this enough for personal shelving.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
Jennet Conant109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos https://a.co/d/aeNMqsg
The End of Everything I heard about it on Steven Strogatz's podcast "The Joy of Why" and it seemed pretty interesting. :)
It's about how the universe could end, the author is a theoretical astrophysicist and discusses 5 theories on the universe's ending.
I'd like to nominate The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell. A biologist friend recommended me this book and showed some amazing illustrations depicted in the book on the structure of cells.The Machinery of Life
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The Machinery of Life (other topics)The End of Everything (other topics)
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality (other topics)
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics (other topics)
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