{"id":17192,"date":"2021-01-04T18:36:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T23:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=17192"},"modified":"2021-01-04T18:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T23:36:50","slug":"nonfiction-books-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/nonfiction-books-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonfiction books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an update to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/nonfiction-books-4\/\">this<\/a> list.<\/p>\n<p>Best of the best<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last Chance to See&#8230; \u2013 Douglas Adams &amp; Mark Carwardine<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/fail-at-almost-everything-and-still-win-big\/\">How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big<\/a> \u2013 Scott Adams<\/li>\n<li>The Roving Mind \u2013 Isaac Asimov (%)<\/li>\n<li>1984: Spring \u2013 A Choice of Futures \u2013 Arthur C. Clarke<\/li>\n<li>The Ancestor&#8217;s Tale \u2013 Richard Dawkins (%)<\/li>\n<li>The Eco Wars \u2013 David Day<\/li>\n<li>Collapse \u2013 Jared Diamond (%)<\/li>\n<li>The Third Chimpanzee \u2013 Jared Diamond (%)<\/li>\n<li>Celebrations of Life \u2013 Ren\u00e9 Dubos (%)<\/li>\n<li>Reflections of Eden \u2013 Birut\u00e9 M.F. Galdikas<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/blink\/\">Blink<\/a> \u2013 Malcolm Gladwell<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/david-and-goliath\/\">David and Goliath<\/a> \u2013 Malcolm Gladwell<\/li>\n<li>Outliers \u2013 Malcolm Gladwell<\/li>\n<li>The Tipping Point \u2013 Malcolm Gladwell<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/what-the-dog-saw\/\">What the Dog Saw<\/a> \u2013 Malcolm Gladwell<\/li>\n<li>Through a Window \u2013 Jane Goodall<\/li>\n<li>The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight \u2013 Thom Hartmann<\/li>\n<li>Manufacturing Consent \u2013 Edward S. Herman &amp; Noam Chomsky<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/final-report\/\">Final Report<\/a> \u2013 Rick Mercer<\/li>\n<li>The Last Lecture \u2013 Randy Pausch<\/li>\n<li>Beyond Civilization \u2013 Daniel Quinn<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/the-invisibility-of-success\/\">The Invisibility of Success and Other Investigations<\/a> \u2013 Daniel Quinn<\/li>\n<li>Amusing Ourselves to Death \u2013 Neil Postman<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/mind-over-medicine\/\">Mind Over Medicine<\/a> \u2013 Lissa Rankin, M.D.<\/li>\n<li>Drumbeat \u2013 Boyce Richardson, ed.<\/li>\n<li>The Demon-Haunted World \u2013 Carl Sagan (%)<\/li>\n<li>Why Do People Believe Weird Things \u2013 Michael Shermer (%)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/word-by-word\/\">Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries<\/a> \u2013 Kory Stamper<\/li>\n<li>Good News For a Change \u2013 David Suzuki &amp; Holly Dressel (%)<\/li>\n<li>Inventing the Future \u2013 David Suzuki<\/li>\n<li>Indian Givers \u2013 Jack Weatherford (%)<\/li>\n<li>Native Roots \u2013 Jack Weatherford<\/li>\n<li>What Would You Do? \u2013 John H. Yoder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Runner ups<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/gold\/\">Gold<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 Isaac Asimov<\/li>\n<li>The Great Ape Project \u2013 Paola Cavalieri &amp; Peter Singer, eds. (%)<\/li>\n<li>The Secrets of Star Trek: Insurrection \u2013&nbsp;<span class=\"kno-fb-ctx\" data-ved=\"0CGoQ2kooATALahUKEwiS9ojItO3IAhWB8x4KHZUECbg\">Terry J. Erdmann<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/moonwalking-with-einstein\/\">Moonwalking With Einstein<\/a> \u2013 Josh Foer<\/li>\n<li>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future \u2013 Michael J. Fox<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/talking-to-strangers\/\">Talking to Strangers<\/a> \u2013 Malcolm Gladwell<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/why-we-make-mistakes\/\">Why We Make Mistakes<\/a> \u2013 Joseph T. Hallinan<\/li>\n<li>The Roswell UFO Crash \u2013 Karl K. Korff<\/li>\n<li>The Language of Night \u2013 Ursula K. Le Guin<\/li>\n<li>Adventures in a TV Nation \u2013 Michael Moore<\/li>\n<li>The Education of Koko \u2013 Francine Patterson &amp; Eugene Linden (%)<\/li>\n<li>Technopoly \u2013 Neil Postman<\/li>\n<li>If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways \u2013 Daniel Quinn<\/li>\n<li>Kanzi \u2013 Sue Savage-Rumbaugh &amp; Roger Lewin (%)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/in-the-beginning-was-the-command-line\/\">In the Beginning&#8230; was the Command Line<\/a> \u2013 Neal Stephenson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/some-remarks\/\">Some Remarks<\/a> \u2013 Neal Stephenson<\/li>\n<li>Eats, Shoots and Leaves \u2013 Lynne Truss<\/li>\n<li>What Makes This Book So Great \u2013 Jo Walton (%)<\/li>\n<li>Firefly: Still Flying \u2013 Joss Whedon et al<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Best books on teaching<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Excellent 11 \u2013 Ron Clark<\/li>\n<li>How to Talk So Kids Can Learn \u2013 Adele Faber et al<\/li>\n<li>Beyond Discipline \u2013 Alfie Kohn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Best autobiographies &amp; biographies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Star Trek Creator \u2013 David Alexander<\/li>\n<li>I. Asimov \u2013 Isaac Asimov<\/li>\n<li>Beam Me Up, Scotty \u2013 James Doohan &amp; Peter David<\/li>\n<li>Gene Roddenberry \u2013 Joel Engel<\/li>\n<li>Warped Factors \u2013 Walter Koenig<\/li>\n<li>Beyond Uhura \u2013 Nichelle Nichols<\/li>\n<li>I Am Spock \u2013 Leonard Nimoy<\/li>\n<li>I Am Not Spock \u2013 Leonard Nimoy<\/li>\n<li>Becoming \u2013 Michelle Obama (%)<\/li>\n<li>From Sawdust to Stardust \u2013 Terry Lee Rioux<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/leonard\/\">Leonard<\/a>&nbsp; \u2013 William Shatner &amp; David Fisher<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek Memories \u2013 William Shatner &amp; Chris Kreski<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek Movie Memories \u2013 William Shatner &amp; Chris Kreski<\/li>\n<li>To the Stars \u2013 George Takei<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(%) Some books I didn&#8217;t read cover to cover but I read a significant portion and still wanted to mention them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an update to this list. 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