With the blessing of downtime peculiar to the teaching profession many of us have been catching up on our reading.
Our school's "One Book, One School" book this year is
"Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson and David Relin.
I've also been reading:
"The Road to Serfdom" by Freidrich von Hayek
"Thomas Paine: The Right's of Man" by Christopher Hitchens
"The Discourses" by Machiavelli
"Why Lazarus Laughed" by Wei Wu Wei
"Banks and Politics in America" by Hammond
"Investments" by Bodie, Kane, and Marcus
"In Defense of Property" Dietze
"The Dirty Dozen", Robert Levy and William Mellor
As well as a rereading of some favorites...
"The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins
"The Tao te Ching" translated by Stephen Mitchell
Among the numerous children books read out loud to my daughters was one stand out
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
Still to be completed before summer's end:
"Goedel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstader
"The Word in a Phrase: A Brief History of Aphorism" by James Geary
"The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living" by Fritjof Capra
"The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century", edited by John Brockman
Thank you to those that recommended or in some cases even lent the books above. There is little finer than a good book from a friend. Please mention some of your own summer reading especially if you recommend them to fellow members of WeeklyMusings.
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Hey Joe,
Your list is impressive! I have read a lot of books this summmer, some very light fare, some of interest only to me, some in Spanish and some in Dutch. One recommedation: After Three Cups of Tea, I stayed with the subject of the role of women in Islam. An eyeopener was "In the Land of Invisible Women " written by an American trained physician and an accomplished writer, Dr. Qanta Ahmed, who spends two years in The Kingdom of Saudia Arabia.
Lida R.
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