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[topum]

Hey guys, what's the coolest non-fiction book you read in the last say three years?

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[found-world.livejournal.com]

I'd like to be able to contribute to this, but I can't think of any non-fiction book I've read during that time offhand. (I am saying I can't help so you won't wonder if i just didn't bother replying or didn't read this.)

[topum.livejournal.com]

Thank you.
And no worries, I do not police my friends here ). I want everyone here to feel free to read the entries they are interested in and skip those they are not. The same goes for comments, all friends are welcome to do as they please, read and stay silent, comment a lot and everything in between ). All kinds of comments are welcome too, from long and deep ones to just smiley faces. And if I have to interpret the silence I will always assume the best.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

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Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[found-world.livejournal.com]

I thought of non-fiction I read but it wasn't within the last three years, but i'll mention it in order to suggest something. _Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!_ was interesting at the time.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I read it and I thought so too! )

[found-world.livejournal.com]

Welcome. How about _The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon_ ?

[topum.livejournal.com]

Thank you, looks interesting indeed.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Sex-Suicide-Mitochondria-Meaning/dp/0199205647/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

http://www.amazon.com/Language-Instinct-Mind-Creates-P-S/dp/0061336467/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

http://www.amazon.com/Annals-Former-World-John-McPhee/dp/0374518734/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1459732452&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Paradox-Choice-Why-More-Less/dp/0060005696/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1459732495&sr=1-1

[topum.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you. This is good!
I read only the last one.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

As regards life happiness, that's the most important. McPhee's book is *gigantic* -- it comprises four previous non-trivial books.

[wearwoolf.livejournal.com]

Non-fiction! Ohh I got lots!

I may have to get back to you but here are a few:

1. The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
2. Where the Heart Beats by Kay Larson
3. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
4. You are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier

[wosny.livejournal.com]

Ten years is a long time!
the last five I have read;
We are Our Brains-A Neurobiography of the Brain by D. Swaab
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
The Boy in the River: A shocking true story of ritual Murder by Richard Hoskins
A Different Class of Murder (Lord Lucan story) Laura Thompson
The Emperor of All Maladies- A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Rabid - A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus.

plus a special mention for Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, which I am sure you will have already read.

[wearwoolf.livejournal.com]

Seconding Jared Diamond!

[topum.livejournal.com]

I have read that one. It was great indeed.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! I have read GG&S indeed.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

If you liked the Diamond book you might enjoy the much older book by Hans Zinsser, "Rats, Lice, and History", which is an interesting historical perspective of history, if you will.

[wosny.livejournal.com]

This has been an excellent question, I have already downloaded the book on Mitochondria, and the Rat, Lice and History sounds right up my street. Suggestions to keep me happy for a while. :) Thank you Topum and also Wearwolf and Randomdreams.

[topum.livejournal.com]

I bought it too. And some others. Thank you guys.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

I will note the mitochondria book is probably more meaningful to those of us who are microbiologists, but as regards part of the biogenesis problem, it's pretty amazing.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Letters from a Living Dead Man (1914) by Elsa Barker

[topum.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[pageeater.livejournal.com]

Polishing the Mirror - Ram Dass

[topum.livejournal.com]

Thank you.