{"id":341,"date":"2010-11-04T20:10:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T00:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/?page_id=341"},"modified":"2024-01-13T10:55:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T15:55:26","slug":"reading-list","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life &#8211; 1st Edition &#8211; Charles Darwin<\/li>\n<li>Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries &#8211; Neil deGrasse Tyson<\/li>\n<li>The Last Lecture &#8211; Randy Pausch<\/li>\n<li>The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution &#8211; Richard Dawkins<\/li>\n<li>A Short History of Nearly Everything &#8211; Bill Bryson<\/li>\n<li>Science, Evolution, and Creationism &#8211; National Academy of Sciences &amp; Institute of Medicine<\/li>\n<li>Rare Earth &#8211; Peter Ward &amp; Donald Brownlee<\/li>\n<li>Supersense &#8211; Bruce Hood<\/li>\n<li>Outliers -Malcolm Gladwell<\/li>\n<li>Blink &#8211; Malcolm Gladwell<\/li>\n<li>The Faith Instinct &#8211; Nicholas Wade<\/li>\n<li>How We Decide &#8211; Jonah Lehrer<\/li>\n<li>The Invisible Gorilla &#8211; Christopher Chabris &amp; Daniel Simons<\/li>\n<li>The Demon-Haunted World &#8211; Carl Sagan<\/li>\n<li>How We Believe &#8211; Michael Shermer<\/li>\n<li>The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature &#8211; Steven Pinker<\/li>\n<li>The Bridge at the End of the World &#8211; James Speth<\/li>\n<li>Confessions of an Economic Hitman &#8211; John Perkins<\/li>\n<li>How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like &#8211; Paul Bloom<\/li>\n<li>Annoying: The Science of What bugs Us &#8211; Joe Palca &amp; Flora Lichtman<\/li>\n<li>The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined &#8211; Steven Pinker<\/li>\n<li>Mortality &#8211; Christopher Hitchens<\/li>\n<li>The Hobbit &#8211; J. R. R. Tolkien<\/li>\n<li>The Fellowship of the Ring &#8211; J. R. R. Tolkien<\/li>\n<li>Flight Behavior &#8211; Barbara Kingsolver<\/li>\n<li>Free Will &#8211; Sam Harris<\/li>\n<li>How the Mind Works &#8211; Steven Pinker<\/li>\n<li>Thinking, Fast and Slow &#8211; Daniel Kahneman<\/li>\n<li>Guns, Germs, and Steel &#8211; Jared Diamond<\/li>\n<li>The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty &#8211; Dan Ariely<\/li>\n<li>Drunk Tank Pink &#8211; Adam Alter<\/li>\n<li>Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal &#8211; Mary Roach<\/li>\n<li>The Measure of a Nation: How to Regain America&#8217;s Competitive Edge and our Boost Global Standing &#8211; Howard Steven Friedman<\/li>\n<li class=\"parseasinTitle \"><span id=\"btAsinTitle\">The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet &#8211; <\/span><span class=\"contributorNameTrigger\">Robert M. Hazen<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"parseasinTitle \">A Walk in the Woods &#8211; Bill Bryson<\/li>\n<li>Anthill &#8211; E.O. Wilson<\/li>\n<li>Let&#8217;s Explore Diabetes with Owls &#8211; David Sedaris<\/li>\n<li>The Wild Life of our Bodies &#8211; Rob Dunn<\/li>\n<li>Five Billion Years of Solitude &#8211; Lee Billings<\/li>\n<li>Lucky Planet &#8211; David Waltham<\/li>\n<li>The Improbability Principle &#8211; David Hand<\/li>\n<li>Ha!: The Science of When we Laugh and Why\u00a0 &#8211; Scott Weems<\/li>\n<li>Being Mortal &#8211; Atul Gawande<\/li>\n<li>The Lacuna &#8211; Barbara Kingsolver<\/li>\n<li>Seveneves &#8211; Neal Stephenson<\/li>\n<li>Aurora &#8211; Kim Stanley Robinson<\/li>\n<li>A Brief History of Time &#8211; Stephen Hawking<\/li>\n<li>The Martian &#8211; Andy Weir<\/li>\n<li>Red Rising &#8211; Pierce Brown<\/li>\n<li>Golden Son &#8211; Pierce Brown<\/li>\n<li>Morning Star &#8211; Pierce Brown<\/li>\n<li>Iron Gold &#8211; Pierce Brown<\/li>\n<li>Dark Age &#8211; Pierce Brown<\/li>\n<li>A Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy &#8211; Douglas Adams<\/li>\n<li>A Game of Thrones &#8211; George R. R. Martin<\/li>\n<li>A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire &#8211; George R. R. Martin<\/li>\n<li>New York 2140 &#8211; Kim Stanley Robinson<\/li>\n<li>A Man Called Ove &#8211; Fredrik Backman<\/li>\n<li>A Game of Thrones &#8211; George R. R. Martin<\/li>\n<li>A Clash of Kings &#8211; George R.R. Martin<\/li>\n<li>A Storm of Swords &#8211;\u00a0 George R. R. Martin<\/li>\n<li>A Feast for Crows &#8211; George R. R. Martin<\/li>\n<li>Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 &#8211; David Sedaris<\/li>\n<li>Artemis &#8211; Andy Weir<\/li>\n<li>The Hidden Life of Trees &#8211; Peter Wohlleben<\/li>\n<li>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tail &#8211; Margaret Atwood<\/li>\n<li>The Testaments &#8211; Margaret Atwood<\/li>\n<li>Red Moon &#8211; Kim Stanley Robinson<\/li>\n<li>How to Change Your Mind &#8211; Michael Pollan<\/li>\n<li>Middlesex -Jeffrey Eugenides<\/li>\n<li>First Man &#8211; James R Hansen<\/li>\n<li>Rocket Men &#8211; Robert Kurson<\/li>\n<li>Britt-Marie Was Here &#8211; Fredrik Backman<\/li>\n<li>Why Fish Don&#8217;t Exist &#8211; Lulu Miller<\/li>\n<li>Moonshot &#8211; Richard Wiseman<\/li>\n<li>Unsheltered &#8211; Barbara Kingsolver<\/li>\n<li>The Body &#8211; Bill Bryson<\/li>\n<li>Leviathan Wakes &#8211; James S. A. Corey<\/li>\n<li>Caliban&#8217;s War &#8211; James S. A. Corey<\/li>\n<li>Abaddon&#8217;s Gate &#8211; James S. A. Corey<\/li>\n<li>Project Hail Mart &#8211; Andy Weir<\/li>\n<li>Nemesis Games &#8211; James S. A. Corey<\/li>\n<li>Babylon&#8217;s Ashes &#8211; James S. A. Corey<\/li>\n<li>Persepolis Rising &#8211; James S. A. Corey<\/li>\n<li>The Vital Abyss &#8211; James S. A. Corey<\/li>\n<li>Gods of Risk &#8211; James S. A. Corey<\/li>\n<li>Tiamat&#8217;s Wrath &#8211; James S. A. Corey<\/li>\n<li>Auberon &#8211; James S. A. Corey<\/li>\n<li>Leviathan Falls &#8211; James S. A. Corey<\/li>\n<li>Drive &#8211; James S. A. Corey<\/li>\n<li>The Churn &#8211; James S. A. Corey<\/li>\n<li>The Butcher of Anderson Station &#8211; James S. A. Corey<\/li>\n<li>Strange Dogs &#8211; James S. A. Corey<\/li>\n<li>Cibola Burn &#8211; James S. A. Corey<\/li>\n<li>The Golden Compass &#8211; Philip Pullman<\/li>\n<li>His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife &#8211; Philip Pullman<\/li>\n<li>The Amber Spyglass &#8211; Philip Pullman<\/li>\n<li>Shaman &#8211; Kim Stanley Robinson<\/li>\n<li>The High Sierra &#8211; Kim Stanley Robinson<\/li>\n<li>The Sandman &#8211; Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs<\/li>\n<li>Other Minds 0- Peter Godfrey-Smith<\/li>\n<li>The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission &#8211; Jim Bell<\/li>\n<li>The Ultimate Interplanetary Travel Guide &#8211; Jim Bell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2>Great Courses (by The Teaching Company)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Famous Greeks &amp; Famous Romans<\/em> by J. Rufus Fears<\/li>\n<li><em>From Jesus to Constantine: A History of Early Christianity<\/em> by Bart D. Ehrman<\/li>\n<li><em>Particle Physics for Non-Physicists<\/em> by Steven Pollack<\/li>\n<li><em>Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World<\/em> by Steven L. Goldman<\/li>\n<li><em>Origins of Life<\/em> by Robert M. Hazen<\/li>\n<li><em>Einstein&#8217;s Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for the Non-Scientist, 2nd Edition<\/em> by Richard Wolfson<\/li>\n<li><em>Earth&#8217;s Changing Climate<\/em> by Richard Wolfson<\/li>\n<li><em>Origins of the Human Mind<\/em> by Stephen P. Hinshaw<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life &#8211; 1st Edition &#8211; Charles Darwin Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries &#8211; Neil deGrasse Tyson The Last Lecture &#8211; Randy Pausch The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/reading-list\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading List&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-341","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3mcUm-5v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3783,"href":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341\/revisions\/3783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}