She’d do well to read “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t , and Why It Matters” by Steven Koonin. A great book, IMHO. Far from being a high-school drop out, Koonin is a MIT Ph.D who served as Undersecretary of Science in the Obama administration and did a stint on the UN IPCC environmental panel. Turns out everybody is a little bit right and a little bit wrong on the climate debate. But folks are too busy screaming at each other and gluing themselves to stuff to think about it rationally.
I suggest caution when reading this book, Mr. Koonan chery picks data and is often misleading. He has an agenda. But it is good to be exposed to various points of view.
He is certaunly bright, a theoretical physicist. He was also BP’S (the oil company) chief scientist.
Unfortunately, I don’t get Amazon Prime Video on my cable service.
I’ve been a fan of the novels since they first came out and thought I’d read all of them. Then I visited my daughter for Thanksgiving and she gave me a couple of novels one of which was One Shot. As it turns out this seems to be the exception because I definitely haven’t read it before.
I think One Shot was one of the first in the series and was originally published quite some time ago; which might be one of the reasons you missed this one.
A questioning perspective (if not outright skepticism), is an important key to learning, and the acquisition of wisdom; as opposed to the mere accumulation of information.
It’s a weird book, in its way and in its time (early Depression) a sexy book. . . but I may not finish it. I’m more looking forward to the reprinting of the book before it (I believe), “How Like A God” which is being reprinted this spring. That is a murder story. . . written entirely in the second person. Creepy and innovative for its time.
Time’s Echo: The Second World War, The Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
With a critic’s ear, a scholar’s erudition, and a novelist’s eye for detail, Eichler shows how four towering composers—Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Benjamin Britten—lived through the era of the Second World War and the Holocaust and later transformed their experiences into deeply moving, transcendent works of music, scores that echo lost time. Summoning the supporting testimony of writers, poets, philosophers, musicians, and everyday citizens, Eichler reveals how the essence of an entire epoch has been inscribed in these sounds and stories. Along the way, he visits key locations central to the music’s creation, from the ruins of Coventry Cathedral to the site of the Babi Yar ravine in Kyiv.
