Well, that was a fast read. While we were at TAM6 earlier this summer, someone recommended Neil Shubin’s Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. Shubin is one of the discoverers of Tiktaalik, thus the title and motivation for the book. Plus, everyone seems to be talking about Sonic […]
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The first Schmierer-recommended book on Iraq I picked up was The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, by The New Yorker writer George Packer. The book starts of with a great job of explaining the political history of the neoconservatives (neocons) prior to the Iraq War and their involvement in the rationale behind the war, then […] Jeffrey Sachs’ The End of Poverty was the third title we read in our book club. The book was easy to read, contained no religion-based arguments, and appeared to have been written for people with very little knowledge of economics and very little knowledge of world history. Since I am trying to improve my knowledge […] Our political/historical/diplomatic reading club read Arts of Power: Statecraft and Diplomacy for our second title. I chose this title rather quickly, based on its short length and its presence on a Highly Recommended Reading List from work. The book was described by one book club member as “a core text.” I think they described it […] The retired military friend who recommended Ghost Wars also suggested Iraq: Policy and Perceptions by Richard J. Schmierer as a good primer on Iraq. The author is a member of the Senior Foreign Service with extensive experience in public diplomacy in the Middle East. The book offered a wide survey of the issues related to […] |
