White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White By Daniel Hill Published September 19, 2017 Daniel served on staff at Willow Creek Community Church for five years before founding River City Community Church in 2003. He … Continue reading →
Crisis of Control: How Artificial SuperIntelligences May Destroy or Save the Human Race Author: Peter J. Scott Narrator: Peter J. Scott Published: February 3, 2017 The book is fascinating and yet scary and hopeful at the same time. Crisis of … Continue reading →
A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C. White Published: January 13, 2009 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER I thought I knew most of the facts about Abraham Lincoln’s life. We were all taught about the self-educated man who would walk miles to … Continue reading →
The best source of information about the Spanish Flu I have found – short of a book – is the Wikipedia Spanish Flu page. The Spanish Flu had three pandemic waves, which is shown on this chart of the weekly … Continue reading →
Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race By Debbie Irving Published: January 16, 2014 Original Review May 9, 2020, updated June 3, 2020 I read this book in December 2018 on the recommendation of a person … Continue reading →
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin Erik Larson (Author) Publication: May 10, 2011 ISBN-10: 9780307408846 ISBN-13: 978-0307408846 This is my first Erik Larson book. It is a disturbing look of Hitler’s first … Continue reading →
Floodpath The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles by Jon Wilkman Publisher: Bloomsbury Press; 1 edition (January 5, 2016) ISBN-10: 1620409151 ISBN-13: 978-1620409152 This is not just the story of the St … Continue reading →
John Adams by David McCullough Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1st Touchstone edition (September 3, 2002) ISBN-10: 0743223136 ISBN-13: 978-0743223133 This book is the Pulitzer Prize wining story of the forgotten founding father – John Adams – the 2nd President of the United States. David McCullough … Continue reading →
Connections by James Burke ISBN-10: 0316116815 ISBN-13: 978-0316116817 First edition (1978) Reprinted many time Connections is the companion volume to the BBC television series “Connections” produced in the Autumn of 1979. I originaly read connections after watching the BBC series on my local PBS … Continue reading →
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: by Jared Diamond ISBN-10: 0143117009 ISBN-13: 978-0143117001 Publisher: Viking Adult; 1 edition (December 29, 2004) This is the follow up book to Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs and Steel”. “In Guns, Germs and Steel” he discusses … Continue reading →
