Abstract
Nature regulars give their recommendations for relaxed, inspiring holiday reading and viewing — from climate-change history to Isaac Newton the detective.
Highlights
You don’t need a computer to relish passages such as the opening of ‘Los Angeles Against the Mountains’, in which viscous mud quickly fills a house and presses an apparently doomed family against the ceiling
DAVID POEPPEL In Praise of Idleness: And Other Essays by Bertrand Russell Routledge Classics: 2004
The over-stimulation of the stimulus package should be balanced with a break from the academy — with philosopher Bertrand Russell
Summary
You don’t need a computer to relish passages such as the opening of ‘Los Angeles Against the Mountains’, in which viscous mud quickly fills a house and presses an apparently doomed family against the ceiling. Nature regulars give their recommendations for relaxed, inspiring holiday reading and viewing — from climate-change history to Isaac Newton the detective. SUSAN SOLOMON The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate by David Archer Princeton University Press: 2008.
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