Excellent reads..
These are some books that I have read about a chapter or two, as e-books. Will try to issue them and read these sometime in full...truly excellent reads. Hope to try and update this list..
In descending order of books read, starting with the latest:
5. The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb
Summary: Three great runners across the globe. All vying to break the psychological 4-minute mile barrier in early 1950s. The book showcases the great sportsmanship and dedication of athletes of those times, and how they looked at sports as a source of pure joy and fulfillment rather than a hardcore professional job. Nice read.
4. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and Oliver Relin
Summary: In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan’s Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time—Greg Mortenson’s one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. (source: booksamillion.com)
3. Pandora's Baby by Robin Marantz
Summary: In Pandora's Baby, the award-winning journalist Robin Marantz Henig tells the story of that confrontation, which ushered in a new era in reproductive technology. She takes us back to the early days of IVF, when the procedure was viewed as crackpot science and its pioneers as outsiders in the medical world. Henig lays out the ethical and political battlefield of the 1970s -- a battlefield that is recreated with each new technology -- and traces the sea change that has occurred in the public perception of "test tube babies." It is a human story, of men and women grappling with the moral implications of a scientific discovery: researchers, couples yearning for babies, hospital administrators, and bioethicists. (source: booksamillion.com)
2. The Radioactive Boy Scout by Ken Silverstein
Summary: In this page-turning biography, Silverstein explores one Boy Scout's out-of-control love affair with science and his astonishing attempt to build a nuclear reactor in his backyard. High school older. (source: booksamillion.com)
1. Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky
Summary: Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin, and other key players, Oshinsky paints a remarkable portrait of America in the early 1950s, using the widespread panic over polio to shed light on national obsessions and fears. (source: booksamillion.com)
In descending order of books read, starting with the latest:
5. The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb
Summary: Three great runners across the globe. All vying to break the psychological 4-minute mile barrier in early 1950s. The book showcases the great sportsmanship and dedication of athletes of those times, and how they looked at sports as a source of pure joy and fulfillment rather than a hardcore professional job. Nice read.
4. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and Oliver Relin
Summary: In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan’s Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time—Greg Mortenson’s one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. (source: booksamillion.com)
3. Pandora's Baby by Robin Marantz
Summary: In Pandora's Baby, the award-winning journalist Robin Marantz Henig tells the story of that confrontation, which ushered in a new era in reproductive technology. She takes us back to the early days of IVF, when the procedure was viewed as crackpot science and its pioneers as outsiders in the medical world. Henig lays out the ethical and political battlefield of the 1970s -- a battlefield that is recreated with each new technology -- and traces the sea change that has occurred in the public perception of "test tube babies." It is a human story, of men and women grappling with the moral implications of a scientific discovery: researchers, couples yearning for babies, hospital administrators, and bioethicists. (source: booksamillion.com)
2. The Radioactive Boy Scout by Ken Silverstein
Summary: In this page-turning biography, Silverstein explores one Boy Scout's out-of-control love affair with science and his astonishing attempt to build a nuclear reactor in his backyard. High school older. (source: booksamillion.com)
1. Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky
Summary: Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin, and other key players, Oshinsky paints a remarkable portrait of America in the early 1950s, using the widespread panic over polio to shed light on national obsessions and fears. (source: booksamillion.com)
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