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I read this excellent book a couple of years ago:

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande.

And I've just discovered a video that pairs nicely and may inspire you to read the book, if you haven't already.

Direct Link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/being-mortal/

Here is the summary from the PBS website, so you can determine your interest level:

FRONTLINE follows renowned New Yorker writer and Boston surgeon Atul Gawande as he explores the relationships doctors have with patients who are nearing the end of life. In conjunction with Gawande’s new book, Being Mortal, the film investigates the practice of caring for the dying, and shows how doctors — himself included — are often remarkably untrained, ill-suited and uncomfortable talking about chronic illness and death with their patients.
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Putin's Labyrinth, subject there should be fairly obvious. Hellova guy, that one.

Also, What Went Wrong by Bernard Lewis, about how the once dominant Muslim world of the middle ages watched the West steadily eclipse the world of Islam in various capacities, right up to present day. Good, but I feel like Lewis could write volumes on any one of the angles he takes in the book, instead of the ~180 pages for the lot of them. But there is only so much time, I suppose.

p.s. I LOVE this thread! Keep 'em coming!
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"The Blue and the Gray" by Thomas B Allen. A book about the Civil War.
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Recently finished One Man's Wilderness by Sam Keith and Richard Proenneke. Wish I had the skills to build a life in the wild.

About to shift to some heavy reading with The Complete Calvin and Hobbes. :-D
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Psalms.

Trekking the Everest Region by Jamie McGuiness.
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"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.

Really good book - true story.

http://rebeccaskloot.com/
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Ulla wrote:"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot.
My wife is reading this right now and raves about it! I'll probably read it soon too. It's also recently been made into a movie.
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Just started "The Magnificent Mountain Women : Adventures in the Colorado Rockies" Very inspirational to read about some of the OG bad-ass women in Colorado mountain history. I will strongly suggest this to anyone who is intrigued by climbing history in Colorado.
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When you think you know anything about something as apparently mundane as Crows, think again.

Crows and Ravens are smarter than quite a few people that I have worked with over the years.

In the Company of Crows and Ravens
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I'm reading Gerry Roach's Transcendent Summits. I can't say enough about how good this book is.

Did you know he was kicked out of the Colorado Mountain Club in the 1950s for passing up the inept leader on a climb? That's right. For going ahead of (and inadvertently embarrassing) the leader, they kicked him out!
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Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of guidebooks about the sawtooth range and the surrounding crags of Boise, ID. It takes some research but this area is truly a diamond in the rough. I really think it has the potential to be a more promising place to learn “the craft” than Colorado.
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highpilgrim wrote:When you think you know anything about something as apparently mundane as Crows, think again.

Crows and Ravens are smarter than quite a few people that I have worked with over the years.

In the Company of Crows and Ravens
I recently heard about how crows can remember faces, from generation to generation, for good or bad - like it’s almost taught from generation to the next. Really interesting.
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