Member: danielx
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About meBipedal primate with the physiology of a large tropical mammal; species origins, Africa; interests, varied.
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About my libraryMy online listings are a virtual library of books that I've read, most of which reside in my home library. A minority are books I've not finished. Outside of fiction (and I love the classics!), areas of special interest include evolutionary biology and the history of science. However, I also like to read world history, politics, and biography. In addition, I have special interests in the writers Somerset Maugham, Booth Tarkington, and Sinclair Lewis.
Books are rated within their genres (since to do otherwise would be to compare everything to William Shakespeare and Charles Darwin). Listed dates usually indicate date of publication of the original work.
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Favorite authorsJane Austen, Peter J. Bowler, Janet Browne, Vincent Bugliosi, James M. Cain, Robert A. Caro, Raymond Chandler, Noam Chomsky, Joseph Conrad, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Jared Diamond, Charles Dickens, Will Durant, Bart D. Ehrman, E. M. Forster, Nicci French, Rebecca Goldstein, Stephen Jay Gould, Bill Griffith, Matt Groening, Ernst Haeckel, Dashiell Hammett, Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Henry Huxley, James Hynes, Robert G. Ingersoll, Ian Kershaw, Paul Krugman, Gary Larson, Sinclair Lewis, W. Somerset Maugham, Daphne du Maurier, Ernst Mayr, Ian McEwan, George Orwell, Marge Piercy, Steven Pinker, Robert J. Richards, Matt Ridley, Mary Roach, Bertrand Russell, John Steinbeck, John Sutherland, Booth Tarkington, Trevanian, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Alfred Russel Wallace, H. G. Wells, Edward O. Wilson, Tom Wolfe, Carl Zimmer (Shared favorites)
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Currently readingThe Rough Guide to Evolution (Rough Guide Science/Phenomena) by Mark Pallen
The Darwin Experience: The Story of the Man and His Theory of Evolution by John van Wyhe
What Paul Meant by Garry Wills
The Dawn of the Deed: The Prehistoric Origins of Sex by John A. Long
The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense by Michael Shermer
Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory by Robert J. Richards
Tree Thinking: An Introduction to Phylogenetic Biology by David A. Baum
Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle by Douglas John Emlen
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard
The Happy Hollisters on a River Trip by Jerry West
The Scandal by John Grisham
History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction by Mark T. Gilderhus
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