Book suggestions by Bill Gates.
Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens- A brief History of Humankind.
Both Melinda (Gates) and I read this one, and it has sparked lots of great conversations at our dinner table.
Harari takes on a daunting challenge to tell the entire history of the human race in just 400 pages.
Although I found things to disagree with- especially Harari’s claim that humans were better off before we started farming.
I would recommend sapiens to anyone who’s interested in the history and future of our species.
How not to be wrong –the power of mathematical thinking –Jordan Ellenberg
“ Ellenberg , a mathematician and writer explains how math plays into our daily lives without our even knowing . In some places the math gets quite complicated, but he always wraps things up by making sure you’re still with him.
The –Bully Pulpit- Doris Klarns Goodwin-winner of the pulitzera prize.
I’m especially interested in the central question that Goodwin raises. How does social change happen ?
Can it be driven by a single inspirational leader or do other factors have to lay the groundwork first ?
Eradication –Nancy leys stepan. This book “ gives you a good some of how involved the effort to eradicate a disease can get and how many different kinds of approaches have been tried without success you come away from it with a clearer sense of what the world has learned about getting rid of diseases and how we can use that to guide the effort to save even more lives.
The sixth Extinction : An unnatural history- Elizabeth Kolbert “Unlike a lot of people who write about the environment, Kolbert doesn’t resort to hype.
She just lays out the facts and wraps them in memorable anecdotes. It’s a sobering but engaging and informative read”