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Books recommended by Matt Ridley from nytimes.com
This source supports 10 books recommended by Matt Ridley, including The Martian, The Double Helix, The Hockey Stick Illusion, and 7 more.
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The Martian
“I loved the fact that the hero never once implies that it's courage, spirit and faith that saves him — as so many modern books and films would do — just lots of practical tinkering and problem-solving”
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The Double Helix
“[This book] gave me the important message — which my teachers had somehow mostly missed telling me — that science is not a catalog of facts, but the search for new and bigger mysteries.”
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The Hockey Stick Illusion
“It's a great piece of detective work on a key scientific blunder, based around the work of Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, and it forensically dismantles the mistakes that led to people believing they had at last found evidence that current climate change is unprecedented in rate or scale in this millennium.”
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One Summer
“A charming account of the events of 1927 in America is told with [Bill Bryson's] usual dry wit.”
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Into The Silence
“The account of the 1920s Everest expeditions, ending in Mallory and Irvine's disappearance high on the mountain in 1924, is interwoven with the World War I back stories of each participant, in a truly original way.”
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Dynasty
“It's fascinating on how, inch by inch, Augustus and his successors surreptitiously turned a republic into an autocracy.”