Thanks to a number of you purchasing books from amazon.com via this blog (every time someone clicks a link to an item on amazon and buys something I get a small percentage of the sale) I've got a substantial gift certificate to pick up a few new titles. During the past month, though, I've been literally waist deep in books at times and haven't given much thought as to what I should pick up next. I already have plenty that I'm interested in to choose from but I thought I would open up this thread for any recommendations you might have. What should I round out the summer reading before heading back to the lecture halls in a few weeks?
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What else is there to say? Lyndon Johnson may have done a powerful amount of good for civil rights but his legacy went down the Vietnam toilet. He was a big fool who listened to the wrong people, people who told him to push on.
If you are old enough to remember the War in Vietnam, you remember escalation. If you missed it, you'll get George Bush's version tomorrow night. So what could be more appropriate than to bring back the classic song about escalation, Pete Seeger's Waist Deep in the Big Muddy.
Ouch. I know I am going to catch hell for posting this, but it is too interesting to pass up. Devendra Singh from UT performed a search of British literature from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
Biologist Henry Hespenheide sends along this shot of several ant-mimicking beetles and their Cephalotes model:
Two that I'm very excited about, although I can't *recommend* because I haven't read them yet:
Nudds and Seldon's "Fossil Ecosystems of North America"
and
Richards' new Haeckel biography "The Tragic Sense of Life"
I'd be interested to hear if others have already picked these up and what they think. I'm planning on getting them from the library but they're both being "processed" (ah, summer at the university library) so I might break down and actually buy them...
I'm getting books from Amazon.com, too. National Geographic Dinosaurs and Dinosaurs: The Complete Up To Date Encyclopedia For Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages
These are great awesome books I highly recommend anyone to own copies of.