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Some notes excerpted from non-fiction books

Note: Text inside quotes written by the author, but outside quotes, my reaction to the text.

• Ludicrous by Ed Niedermeyer
• How the Mind Works by Stephen Pinker
• The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr. I read this book twice.
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
• The Water will Come by Jeff Goodell
• The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable by Gretchen Daily and Katherine Ellison
• Buying into Fair Trade: Culture, Morality and Consumption by Keith Brown
• Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
• Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal
• The Hunt for Vulcan by Thomas Levenson
• Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina

Capsule Book Reviews

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Vietnam War
• Biographies and memoirs of scientists
• Notable unrecommended books

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alison@exerciseforthereader.org (Alison Chaiken)
Wed Nov 19 22:38:56 PST 1997
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