The Sun's Heartbeat by Bob Berman explores the rhythmic pattern of solar activity and its impact on Earth's climate and civilization. Berman highlights the correlation between the sun cycle, solar flares, and the solar magnetic field every 11 years, highlighting how these events influence our planet's weather patterns, technological infrastructure, and even human behavior.
Over the last few weeks I have been reading The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz and it has helped me with struggles I knew I was having but couldn’t previously explain. To be honest, I thought that the topic of choice and how too much is bad was a little narrow, and that an entire book didn't need to be written about it, but I was wrong.
This book is all about what it means to truly be a Christian and live a Christian lifestyle. It focuses on three different principles: be with Jesus, become like him, and do as he did. The book is broken down into these three parts and through both real world and biblical examples tries to explain and show what life as a Christian should look like. The book focuses on discipleship and what it means to be an apprentice of Jesus following his ways and practicing life as he did.
The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs by Tristan Gooley Nonfiction – a guide rather than a story The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs is a collection of information, tips, tricks, and diagrams put together with the intent of introducing the reader to the concept of natural navigation: how to gain insight and knowledge from what we can observe in the world around us.
If you are into true crime and are looking for a compelling, nail-biting, and somewhat gruesome story, The Want-Ad Killer by Ann Rule is the book for you.
Enrique’s Journey tells a story about the immigration of a young boy (Enrique) who was separated from his mother as she looked for job opportunities in the United States. After longing for his mother for years, he decides to make the journey to find his mother. Alongside the storyline, Nazario explains the difficulty many children like Enrique faced when attempting to immigrate to the U.S. and how they overcame them.
Toxic, radioactive material infecting girls, mostly teenagers, daily, without the girls knowing about it. In The Radium Girls, the horrors that girls who worked in radium factories faced in the 1920s in Orange, New Jersey, and Ottawa, Illinois. These factories used radium to create watches that had glowing dials, and the young girls working there painted these dials using a method which involved them putting the paintbrushes in their mouths.
In Without You, There Is No Us, Suki Kim shows us a world most would consider psychological warfare. Inside one of the most elite schools in Pyongyang, Suki Kim teaches English in a world of censorship from not only her Supervisors but also her peers. Suki finds herself bonding with her students which only makes being under the umbrella of the DPRKs watchful eye even more painful. This book gives you the suspense of a mystery and the fear of a horror book…except it’s not fiction.
The Prince is a political treatise written by Niccolo Machiavelli during his time imprisoned, following the wars in Italy in the 1500s. He wrote this book as a gift to his captors: the de’ Medici family. The main purpose of the book is to inform rulers how to gain power and, most importantly, maintain power at any cost. The book covers how to conquer foreign lands, how to maintain control of your lands, how to deal with your army or traitors, how to behave with people of different social statuses, etc.
Rich Dad Poor Dad is a financial book that teaches the reader how to be financially independent. It follows the narrative of the narrator showing the financial choices of his poor dad (his real dad), and his rich dad (his best friend's father). It talks about different topics on how to build wealth and gives simplified ways to understand how making money works.
