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The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships

by Michael P. Nichols

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Jun 08, 2022 08:14AM

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Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

by Rachel Held Evans

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The Gene: An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Jim Gleason said: " Busy reading this fascinating work, disciplined to at least 10 pages per day for this almost 600 page tome of a reading... thus leaving room for some other entertainment reading in parallel.

After daily discipline of taking time to read at least 10 pa Busy reading this fascinating work, disciplined to at least 10 pages per day for this almost 600 page tome of a reading... thus leaving room for some other entertainment reading in parallel.

After daily discipline of taking time to read at least 10 pages a day (towards the end I found myself glued to 50 or more pages read at a sitting - instead of watching TV), I finished!

Wow, what a read! In this huge tome of a book, the author takes us on an enlightening and enjoyable journey through the history of human discovery of the basic organism building block, the gene, While much of the technology was over my head, he conveys it in understandable language with the many science stories that make it so interesting along the way. Taking on such a high-tech topic and 500 pages of material is a challenge, but so worth it with this heavily awarded book. It really exercised my curious mind throughout. Each time the depth of the subject good seemingly too deep, he added very interesting background on the human interest side of the historical story-line. I highly recommend its reading to anyone fascinated with the many mysteries behind the human organism that we live inside of every day.

Even more interesting was how, even while not fully comprehending the full science, being touched by it made for daily connecting with news of continued advancement, especially with overcoming illnesses using these discoveries, that seems to appear in our daily news today. If you read this and don't come away amazed at the complexities of our bodies workings at the cellular level, something is very wrong. Even with all that we have come to know, one comes away realizing we have only touched the beginnings of the amazing workings of our bodies and human nature.

Be forewarned, each amazing discovery is shown as having both a 'ying & yang' to it - with the ethics involved in applying this growing knowledge having severe and unsettled ethical issues that come with each seemingly positive advance in our knowledge. And this is where there is so much to think about and deal with in the days and years ahead.

I was so impressed with his book that I went and ordered his earlier tome of a work, The Emperor of All Maladies, A Biography of Cancer, which is described by the author as The Gene book being the prequel of this sequel (The Emperor), which I am now inspired to tackle (after restful speed reading of some just-for-enjoyment novel, The Storied Life of A. J. Fiery) ...more "

Aug 17, 2017 11:56AM · see review

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