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Isaac, I love you for starting this thread. I'm frantically writing all these books down in my journal so I can download them to my Kindle when I get a chance.

My suggestion:

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
And the rest of that series. Perfect for a robotics trip.

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Me, too!

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I am reading Joel Rosenberg's Inside the Revolution to my family (they actually requested it) as we travel. We may get through it this season!

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Carolyn, Ender's Game is pretty epic.

I would also highly recommend The Last Lecture. Even if you've already read it. There's so many good thoughts packed in there.

Launching a Leadership Revolution by Chris Brady and Orrin Woodward. Discusses their model of 5 levels of leadership, including a historical example of each level.

Tribes by Seth Godin is a great corollary to Tribal Leadership. It takes some of the network relationship concepts and applies them in more of a motivational, short story fashion.

I'm also currently reading The Rhythm of Life by Matthew Kelly. It's taking a while to get through, but it is certainly powerful.

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Friedenthal came by and gave a lecture to my SysE Modeling class a couple of months ago. Smart guy and a good communicator. It's a good thing he's on the OMG standards board for SysML.

My book for the flight and downtime will be
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information in an effort to make the displays I work on more intuitive. It may also help with my PowerPoint skillz :rolleyes:.

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Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

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Will probably finish up American Creation by Joseph J. Ellis (the Revolutionary and aftermath period is a favorite history bit of mine), and start Making Money by Terry Pratchett. If I'm not LANing.

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Last three issues of:
Popular Mechanics
PC World
Inc.
currently receiving them because I had to use up some airline miles before they expired and never get a chance to read magazines.

However.....after explaining to person beside me what FIRST and robotics is, falling asleep and being waked up every two minutes for about half an hour, waiting in line to go to the bathroom and doing some much needed maintenance on my blackberry.....I may get through a few articles in one of the above mags! :)

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Waldo & Magic, Inc. is a book containing those two novellas, one science fiction, one fantasy, by Robert A. Heinlein.

These stories are from the early 40s and it's amazing how the principal theme has developed. Decide for yourself if it's happening now.

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"The Body Has A Head" is by Gustav Eckstein Just the ticket to take your mind off Aluminum, cRio, pneumatics and . . . . wait, maybe it won't. The link contains the back cover's text. Just the book an engineer needs to read.

Someone leaving from BDL or greater Hartford area is welcome to digest my copy. PM me soon.

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Since it is also one of my favorite movies...

October Sky

Definitely something for any STEM mind to read and watch. I honestly love it. I try to get as many kids on the team to watch this as I can.

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My World History and Chemistry book... anyone want them... ill give them to you for free... trust me, i don't want them

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US History for me. ;)

Also, Looking for Alaska by John Green. Probably my favorite of all time

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Isn't that the really, really weird book by Poe's brother?

Ender's Shadow is even better, IMO. Great series.

One of my favorite books ever. So, so very brilliant fiction.

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Let's see, books I love that I'd like to share:

John Adams (biography) by David McCullough -- absolutely brilliant.

Crown of Stars (6 book fantasy series) by Kate Elliott.

Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle -- postapocalyptic fiction at its very best.

Great Physicists by William H. Cropper -- an absolutely wonderful set of mini-biographies of the men and women who shaped and reshaped physics, from Galileo to modern day.

A Song of Ice and Fire (series, unfinished thus far) by George R. R. Martin. Very violent and stunningly well-written.

Neverwhere by Niel Gaiman (*everything* by Gaiman is worth reading, but I particularly recommend this, American Gods, and Anansi Boys)

Whiskey Sour by J.A. Konrath (whimsical detective fiction)

Afraid by Jack Kilborne (pen name of JA Konrath -- horror, quick read and not too deep)

Anything and everything by GK Chesterton, especially The Everlasting Man, Heretics, Orthodoxy, What's Wrong with the World, Eugenics and Other Evils, The Man Who was Thursday, and -- who am I kidding, everything the man wrote.

The Repossession Mambo by Eric Garcia -- Eric was a frat brother of my brother Jake at Cornell, and "Jake Freivald" is a character in the book, as well as the recently-released movie "Repo Men" based on the book. Grotesquely violent and filled with black, very funny humor. Eric also wrote the rather brilliant book Matchstick Men, that has a Nicholas Cage movie that is nearly but not quite as brilliant based on it.

Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony by James T. Cushing (not at all for the layman, but a great read for those interested in both physics and philosophy. If you aren't already well versed in both, don't bother.)

Black Sun Rising (and it's sequels, fantasy) by C.S. Friedman

The How to do it Book of Beekeeping by Richard Taylor, Organic Beekeeping by Ross Conrad, and The Backyard Beekeeper by Kim Flottum... If that's your kind of thing.

And of course, for those with access to the internet, I suggest reading my one published short story, A Taste for Life, at http://www.flashfictiononline.com/f2...-freivald.html -- along with dozens of other great short stories at flashfictiononline.com /shameless plug

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It's Steven Levitt. And yes, it's quite entertaining as long as you don't take it too seriously. Also, everything by Malcolm Gladwell is quite readable and interesting. For even more nonfiction goodness, try Predictably Irrational for some fascinating pop psychology. Oh, and I should also mention that Physics of the Impossible is one of those books that is so good that you wont even realize that you're learning.