What the Committee on Conscience Staff is Reading
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut. In memory of the recent author (Jackie Scutari).
Be Not Afraid, for You Have Sons in America: How a Brooklyn Roofer Helped Lure the U.S. into the Kosovo War, by Stacy Sullivan (Bridget Conley-Zilkic).
The Somulus Option, by Samuel S. Hallman (John Heffernan).
Watching and listening to TEDtalks. Most recently: Hans Rosling explain how the Gapminder project brings United Nations data to life to understand our changing world; Larry Brilliant discuss the successful World Health Organization campaign to eradicate Smallpox; and James Nachtwey talk about his decades as a war photographer (David Klevan).
David Howarth, 1066: The Year of the Conquest. A concise, lucid history of the Battle of Hastings, rich in anecdotal detail. Howarth relies on the few medieval sources available to reconstruct the events leading up to and the consequences of the famous battle (Matthew Levinger).
Be Not Afraid, for You Have Sons in America: How a Brooklyn Roofer Helped Lure the U.S. into the Kosovo War, by Stacy Sullivan (Bridget Conley-Zilkic).
The Somulus Option, by Samuel S. Hallman (John Heffernan).
Watching and listening to TEDtalks. Most recently: Hans Rosling explain how the Gapminder project brings United Nations data to life to understand our changing world; Larry Brilliant discuss the successful World Health Organization campaign to eradicate Smallpox; and James Nachtwey talk about his decades as a war photographer (David Klevan).
David Howarth, 1066: The Year of the Conquest. A concise, lucid history of the Battle of Hastings, rich in anecdotal detail. Howarth relies on the few medieval sources available to reconstruct the events leading up to and the consequences of the famous battle (Matthew Levinger).
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