Böcker

Jag har varit väldigt dålig på att läsa böcker på sistone, men nu tänker jag ändra på det! Kom på när jag satt i laboratoriet och väntade på en analys att jag har så jävla tråkigt, började genast tänka på böcker och hur bra det vore att ha en fin bok att läsa just då. Efter lite undersökning så beställde jag dessa från adlibris:

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1998 it won a Pulitzer Prize and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book and produced by the National Geographic Society was broadcast on PBS in July 2005.

Jared Diamond said an alternative title would be A short history about everyone for the last 13,000 years.[1] The book attempts to explain why Eurasian civilizations (including North Africa) have survived and conquered others, while attempting to refute the belief that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate in environmental differences, which are amplified by various positive feedback loops. When cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example Chinese centralized government, or improved disease resistance among Eurasians), these advantages were only created due to the influence of geography and were not inherent in the Eurasian genomes.

Women is a 1978 novel written by Charles Bukowski, starring his semi-autobiographical character Henry Chinaski. In contrast to Factotum, Post Office and Ham on Rye, Women is centered around Chinaski's later life, as a celebrated poet and writer, not as a dead-end lowlife. It does, however, feature the same constant carousel of women with whom Chinaski only finds temporary fulfillment. In the book, Chinaski's nickname is Hank, which was one of Bukowski's nicknames. At times, Women has the tendency to become chauvinistic. But 'Women' focuses more on the many dissatisfactions Chinaski faced with each new woman he encountered. Aside from Chinaski's discontent, Bukowski added a certain comedic flair to his novel that may expose some women to the way a man sees the world.

The Master and Margarita (Russian: Ма́стер и Маргари́та) is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics[1] consider the book to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, as well as one of the foremost Soviet satires, directed against a suffocatingly bureaucratic social order.