Non-fiction Recommendations
PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:17 am
I searched this board but I can't seem to find this thread...although I kind of have the feeling that I started it already? Anyway, I've hardly read any non-fiction and I would like to.
Here are two that I would recommend to the highest degree:
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond. Jess, this is one for you, and anyone interested in race, history, anthropology, and the like. He covers all of human history from a scientific point of view and manages to keep it as entertaining as it is insightful.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down:A Hmong Child, her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, Anne Fadiman. It's a medical anthropological book, which sounds dry, but I actually cried at the end of it, it was so moving. I know people deplore the state of journalism these days, but this book is a model of what a good journalist can accomplish, if he or she has an equal degree of empathy and objectivity.
Any recommendations?
Here are two that I would recommend to the highest degree:
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond. Jess, this is one for you, and anyone interested in race, history, anthropology, and the like. He covers all of human history from a scientific point of view and manages to keep it as entertaining as it is insightful.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down:A Hmong Child, her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, Anne Fadiman. It's a medical anthropological book, which sounds dry, but I actually cried at the end of it, it was so moving. I know people deplore the state of journalism these days, but this book is a model of what a good journalist can accomplish, if he or she has an equal degree of empathy and objectivity.
Any recommendations?