What are you reading? Jan 12, 2011

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Wednesday January 12, 2011 · 3:03 AM PST

2011/01/12 · 03:03

For those who are new ... we discuss books. I list what I'm reading, and people comment with what they're reading. Sometimes, on Sundays, I post a special edition on a particular genre or topic.

cfk has Bookflurries on Wednesday nights, with links to lots of other diaries about books and reading on daily Kos .

If you like to trade books, try bookmooch

Just finished

The First Rule by Robert Crais. Another in the Joe Pike series. Violent, intricately plotted, well written. Full review:

A Whisper to the Living by Stuart Kaminsky. The latest and last of the Porfiry Rostnikov novels. A police procedural set in contemporary Moscow. Full review

Now reading
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the dark ages by Chris Wickham. A really good history of Europe and western Asia, from 400 to 1000 AD.
This one is more or less on hold. I need to pay more attention to it to keep track of all the unfamiliar names.

The Great SF stories volume 1: 1939 ed. by Isaac Asimov and Martin Greenberg. I have this whole series on my shelf and I think I will re-read them

The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton. Far future science fiction of the space opera variety. Just started, but I am putting this on hold a bit.

Best Writing on Mathematics 2010 by Mircea Picci. A collection of articles about mathematics. Most of them are really great. Math lovers will want this one.

Seeing Further: The story of science, discovery and genius at the Royal Society ed. by Bill Bryson. A collection of essays about the Royal Society. Bryson wrote brief introductions to each.

Just started

A re-read of Foundation by Isaac Asimov. One of the great series of science fiction. Hari Seldon sets up a foundation to collect human knowledge and shorten the interegnum between the current galactic empire and its rebirth.

Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases ed. by Kahneman, Slovic and Tversky. A collection of now classic works on how people reason under uncertainty.

And some technical books for work:

Introduction to Statistical Mediation Analysis by David MacKinnon

and

Foundations of Factor Analysis by Stanley Mulaik

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