Posted Fri, 04/26/2013 - 9:46am by fred
Date Fred Read:
April 2013
Historian Thomas Cahill is the author of the bestselling Hinges of History (five volumes as of April 2013), published to great acclaim and translated into several languages. The first four volumes were bestsellers. This gift book is volume V. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.) Read more
Posted Tue, 04/09/2013 - 1:17pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
March 2013
T. R. Reid is a longtime correspondent for The Washington Post and former chief of its Tokyo and London bureaus, as well as a commentator for NPR. His books include The United States of Europe, The Chip, and Confucius Lives Next Door. This book was a NYT Bestseller. Read more
Posted Tue, 11/20/2012 - 12:59pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
November 2012
Historian Thomas Cahill is the author of the bestselling Hinges of History (five volumes as of 2008), published to great acclaim and translated into several languages. The first four volumes were bestsellers. This book is volume IV of this series. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.) Read more
Posted Wed, 06/29/2011 - 3:41pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
June 2011
Jeffrey Sachs is director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University and was special advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals. He is internationally renowned as an economic advisor to governments and international organizations around the world. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.) Read more
Posted Wed, 06/08/2011 - 5:36pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
June 2011
Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning science writer whose articles have appeared in The NYT Magazine, The Oprah Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review and elsewhere. She taught non-fiction creative writing at Univ. of Memphis and Univ. of Pittsburgh and scientific journalism at NY Univ. This book, her first, was a NYT bestseller and was on many 'Best of 2010' lists. Read more
Posted Sat, 05/07/2011 - 6:36pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
April 2011
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Press
Naomi Oreskes is a professor of history and science studies at UC San Diego. Her study Beyond the Ivory Tower, published in Science, was a milestone in the fight against global warming. Erik M. Conway has published four previous books, including Atmospheric Science at NASA: A History. This was a gift book. Read more
Posted Sun, 05/01/2011 - 4:34pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
April 2011
Mark J. Penn, widely regarded as a perceptive pollster in American politics, is CEO of Burson-Marsteller. He has advised many Fortune 500 Corporations and 25 foreign heads of state. E. Kinney Zalesne was a counsel to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. This book was a gift. Read more
Posted Sat, 03/19/2011 - 4:47pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
March 2011
Publisher:
National Geographic
Dan Buettner is the author of Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zone Way (a 6-pp excerpt is in Blue Zones) who founded Blue Zones to research the world’s best practices in health, longevity and happiness. This NYT Bestseller was selected by my wife's Book Club. Read more
Posted Thu, 01/20/2011 - 6:52pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
January 2011
Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf
Daniel Gilbert, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, has won numerous awards for teaching and research, including the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the American Psychological Associations Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology. This national bestseller book was a welcome gift. Read more
Posted Sat, 12/18/2010 - 6:07pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
December 2010
Publisher:
Harper Collins
Steven Levitt teaches economics at the Univ. of Chicago. He received the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every 2 years to the best American economist under 40. Stephen Dubner, a NYT and New Yorker writer, had bestselling books Turbulent Souls and Confessions of a Hero Worshipper. Freakonomics was a NYT bestseller. Both books were gifts. Read more
