Thankful Musgrave 🦃 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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I found SEA OF TRANQUILITY by Emily St. John Mandel to be good.

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Listening to Vaclav Smil’s Energy and Civilization and…does it ever get good or is it just one long sequence of tracing “progress” and unnecessarily converting things into joules?

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uh does anyone have ... access to Shackleford, A History of the World Tourism Organization

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Timely... 'War' does not present a comprehensive view of the battles in Ukraine and the Middle East that partly inspire its title. Instead, this is Woodward’s attempt to establish what it means to be worthy of the great responsibility of running a great power.

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Someone needs to read THE GREAT SOCIETY SUBWAY The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro (Creating the North American Landscape) https://t.co/X3kiOGLNh2 https://t.co/RKukiCeq4N

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Guy who’s only read one novel, WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS by JM Coetzee: getting big Waiting for the Barbarians energy looking at this empire

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“I want new FIREFLY from Joss Whedon!” The monkeys paw curls https://t.co/wAxIWridmW

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Listening to Vaclav Smil’s Energy and Civilization and…does it ever get good or is it just one long sequence of tracing “progress” and unnecessarily converting things into joules?

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A bit of personal intellectual history: one of the very few books I’ve ever read about the Supreme Court was A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE SUPREME COURT, and boy did that sour me on the Supreme Court, which it turns out was a useful introduction to US courts https://t.co/K05nyvVKLa

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@zfurnas magazines of ideas (FA, FP, JOD) Podcasts Webinars/seminars (depending on how you code) YouTube (rarer but think about Mark Blyth's "austerity" thing)