What Fred Has Read

Andreas Wagner, Professor at University of Zurich’s Institute of Evolutionary Biology, is an award-winning science writer who has published over 150 papers in leading journals. This book popularizes his new evolutionary systems research.  Read more

Andrew Sneddon is Professor of philosophy at the University of Ottawa in Canada. In this book he first reasons why externalism is better than internalism, then states his philosophy that better describes moral psychology. He realizes that this is a work in progress.  Read more

Dave Goldberg is a professor at Drexel. He got his PhD from Princeton. He currently works on theoretical cosmology, especially on how gravity can distort our view of the universe. He writes the Ask a Physicist column for io9.com and wrote articles for Slate.com and the LA Times. This was a gift book.  Read more

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) wrote 11 novels – Brave New World (1932) is his masterpiece and The Perennial Philosophy (1944) may be his best known. A prolific writer, he's written 20 Essays and 15 other styles of literature: Short Stories, Poetry, Dramas, and Selected Works. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.)  Read more

Fannie Flagg, once a standup comedian, became a writer after her second book – Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café – became a bestseller. As of 2016 she has written eleven books. My wife and I had read her first book. This book, her sixth, was a NYT bestseller.  Read more