Do you think I’ll come out more educated than I went in?
So here I am, shut up in a hospital room for a week. I’ve got my laptop and BlackBerry, but i’ve also brought plenty of reading matter to try to stave off the boredom, so on top of my locker I have several books which I have started, but am nowhere near finishing:
- The Undercover Economist: Tim Harford
- A History of God: Karen Armstrong
- The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing: collated by Richard Dawkins
- 1001 Days that shaped the World: edited by Peter Furtado
No politics – I’m getting that from the web.
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Comments
28 August 2010, 7:37 pm
That does sound rather educating. The Undercover Economist is good, but the best of the “popular economics” books is also one of the earliest: Steven Landsburg, The Armchair Economist http://www.amazon.co.uk/Armchair-Economist-Economics-Everyday-Life/dp/1847395252/ (Though I think his chapter on environmentalism is unnecessarily dismissive the rest is excellent.)
May I also shamelessly plug my LDV post on why Lib Dems should support free schools? It comes with an eight-page evidence review attached
I thought you might be interested from some of your previous blogposts on schools.
And get well soon!
01 September 2010, 9:41 am
Impressive! I’m amazed you can concentrate on all of that given what you are going though. I’m looking forward to reading the reviews.