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Book I’m Reading Bird has produced a thorough work here; the audiobook edition was gripping. I am now more informed about Oppenheimer the man: what drove him (according to his writings), what he produced, and how he thought. Unfortunately, one of the biggest lessons learned here was how a government bent on proving what it…
This is the first material I’ve read on Oppenheimer, the scientist who led the Los Alamos teams of scientists in developing the atomic bomb. This biography has good ratings on Goodreads, so I thought I’d try it. Oppenheimer was a…complicated human being.
This one was given to me while attending the OneAccord conference in North Carolina in October. So far, it’s excellent. I’ve learned several counter-intuitive ideas so far, like this one: “The donor who just gave is the most likely donor to give again shortly thereafter.”
God gets His work done using the funding of His people. It is a privilege to invite people into His work through giving!
I started this one while driving on the way back from Cedarville University’s fall career fair with a coworker, Mike Tapia. Isaacson is phenomenal here, as always.
This one was given to me by a dear friend — my mother-in-law. I love reading nearly as much as she does. She’s given years of her life to nurturing a love for books in those she loves.
Dorsett here dives into the little-known history of the chaplains who served in the various branches of the US Military in the Second World War. I had no idea the number was so large but, by 1943, the US armed forces had 12,000,000 men and women in their ranks.