Favorite Books and Recent Reads of
Donald H. Marks, physician and scientist (MD PhD)
Reason, ethics, healthcare access⚕️, 3rd generation veteran
You can follow my personal readings of books📚 on Goodreads @DHMarks
Physics, Science
A Brief History of Time, and Brief Answers to the Big Questions. by Steven Hawkins. A little on the obtuse side, definitely not brief, but thought-provoking
Biochemistry, by Lehninger.
Cosmos, by Carl Sagan
Gödel, Escher, Bach, by Hofstadter.
The ABC of Relativity, By Bertrand Russell.
Principles of Internal Medicine, Harrison.
The Innovators: how a group of inventors hackers geniuses and geeks created the digital revolution, by Walter Isaacson
The Truth, Fake News, Manipulation
The End of Reality. How 4 billionaires are selling a fantasy future of the metaverse, mars, and crypto, by Jonathan Taplin. My review and summary of this interesting and informative book can be found at http://dhmarks.blogspot.com/2024/02/r-eview-of-end-of-reality-by-johathan.html
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination. Sheera Frenkel.
How Fascism Works, the ultimate road map for us to avoid, by Jason Stanley.
How Life Imitates Chess, making the Right moves from the board to the boardroom, by the brilliant Gary Kasparov, who IMO understands the context of everything.
The Battle for your Brain: Defending the right to think freely in the age of neurotechnology." @NitaFarahany
The Cruelty is the Point: the past present and future of Trump's America, by Adam Serwer
Twilight of Democracy: the Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, by Anne Applebaum. She lived with the subject and knows what she's talking about
The Mind Illuminated, by Culadasa. John Yates.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, by Julian Jaynes
The Age of the Spiritual Machine, and The Age of the Thinking Machine, by Kurzweil
Fiction
Charm School, and The General’s Daughter, fiction by Nelson deMille
Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov, fiction by Dostoyevsky
The Client, by Grisham
Undermoney, international political and financial fiction by Jay Newman. Link to my book review https://bit.ly/3Fa4wqb
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak
Atlas Shrugged, and Fountainhead. by Ayn Rand
All works by Shakespeare.
The First Circle, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Presumed Innocent, fiction by Scott Turow. Easy fun reading with spicy use of colloquial
War and Peace, and Anna Karenina, greatest fiction by Tolstoy.
Economics, International Relations
Danger Zone, The coming conflict with China, by Brands and Beckley. 2022. Review at https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/book-review-danger-zone?utm_source=pocket_mylist
Losing the Long Game: the false promise of regime change, Philip Gordon
On China, Does America Need a Foreign Policy?, World Order, and Kissinger on Kissinger, all by Henry Kissinger.
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail, Ray Dalio, 2021.
Shadow State: murder mayhem and Russia's attack on the west, by Luke Harding
Three Dangerous Men: Russia China Iran and the rise of irregular warfare, by Seth Jones
Capital in the 21st Century, by Thomas Piketty
Sold Out, by James Rickards. 2022. Sold Out: How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy. Review
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/james-rickards/sold-out-supply-chain/
Henry Kissinger and American Power: a political biography, by Thomas Alan Schwartz
10 lessons for a Post-Pandemic World, by Fareed Zakaria
Kissinger on Kissinger, and Reflections on Diplomacy. Lord and Kissinger. BTW, if you think I am obsessed with Kissinger, which I am not, then in all fairness listen to my podcast on the subject http://bit.ly/3jlf76x
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, by Peter Zeihan, 2022.
Accidental Superpower, 10 years on. Peter Zeihan
History
The Ascent of Man, Bronowski
The Fourth Turning is here, Howe
Imperial Hubris: why the West is losing the war on terror, Michael Scheuer
Dossier : The Secret History of Armand Hammer, by Edward Epstein
Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley, by Williams
The New Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the Age of color blindness, by Michelle Alexander
The Age of Revolution. Fareed Zakaria
Religion, Philosophy
No Other Gods, by Ana Lyons-Levy. A modern reinterpretation of the 12 commandments, putting them into more appropriate context
Jews don't Count, by David Baddiel
Artificial Intelligence
The age of AI and our human future. Kissinger, Schmidt, Huttenlocher
The Coming Wave. AI, synthetic biology and a new dawn for humanity, by Mustafa Suleyman.
Politics
The end of reality. Jonathan Tapin. my review and summary https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yNM0aRr21piS3umlGvMlYuAn2w86ODrPPsZhsZOW3KI/edit?usp=drivesdk
The Wires of War: technology and the global struggle for power. By Jacob Helberg
Our Time is Now: power purpose and the fight for a fair America, by Stacey Abrams. By today's standards and examples, she and Al Gore never should have conceded.
Twilight of Democracy: the seductive lure of authoritarianism, by Anne Applebaum
After the Apocalypse: America's role in a world transformed, by Andrew Bacevich
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate, by Al Franken. IMO, he gave up too easily
The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and his world, by Barry Green
Losing Military Supremacy: myopia of American strategic planning, by Andrei Martyanov
Making sense of lossNo death, no fear.
The beauty of what remains. How our greatest fear becomes our greatest gift. Stephen Leder.
Medical Fiction Books I have written, under the nom de plume of Dimitri Markov
BloodBird: When the organ isn’t the only thing transplanted. https://amzn.to/35MAhlN
Vera Mortina: When the patient is not the sick one! https://amzn.to/2P0Qv4T
Her Charm Was Contagious: A dangerous doctor and a patient who just loved everyone to death! https://amzn.to/2MVC7Iw
The Surrogate: The Surrogate: A young woman trapped in the greed and power of the IVF industry amzn.to/2FSzyDv
Transit States, collected poetry of DH Marks https://amzn.to/2MuJN5j
List of my (Donald H. Marks) favorite movies:
Additional writings of Donald H. Marks, physician-scientist
Reliable news sources I personally use http://bit.ly/3kECPvr
Fake News: Everything You Need to Know http://bit.ly/345cj95
Best Online Free Fact-Checking Tools http://bit.ly/3H97I44
Fact-Checking: The Ways We Can Fight Fake News http://bit.ly/3qudEyX
Infodemic: the epidemic of information http://bit.ly/3fV7BgN
The Curious Case of Deepfakes http://bit.ly/3GZJdXhn
My personal list of Red Flags, Dog Whistles, Buzzwords, Hot Button words and meaningless caricatures that will drive toxic algorithms to heat and twist elections and trigger hatred on social media. http://bit.ly/3TcuT4I
Einstein, Relativity and Relative Ethics https://bit.ly/3gWWH9t
What I Haven’t Told My Family on the Meaning of Time. https://bit.ly/374cpzJ
Jonas Salk, Polio Vaccine and Vaccinating Against Hate, https://bit.ly/3xjtosh
My ever-updating fav list of coffee shops and espresso blends and locations https://bit.ly/3IkqOHE
Elitists Neocons Neolibs, oh my. What are they, who are they, and why should I care? http://bit.ly/3LMrs0e
Undermoney. Techno economic political thriller by Jay Newman. Reviewed by Donald Harvey Marks https://bit.ly/3Fa4wqb
How Woke can we be? The meaning of Woke https://bit.ly/3Fd7fPy
A Brief History of Time, and Brief Answers to the Big Questions. by Steven Hawkins. A little on the obtuse side, definitely not brief, but thought-provoking
Biochemistry, by Lehninger.
Cosmos, by Carl Sagan
Gödel, Escher, Bach, by Hofstadter.
The ABC of Relativity, By Bertrand Russell.
Principles of Internal Medicine, Harrison.
The Innovators: how a group of inventors hackers geniuses and geeks created the digital revolution, by Walter Isaacson
The End of Reality. How 4 billionaires are selling a fantasy future of the metaverse, mars, and crypto, by Jonathan Taplin. My review and summary of this interesting and informative book can be found at http://dhmarks.blogspot.com/2024/02/r-eview-of-end-of-reality-by-johathan.html
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination. Sheera Frenkel.
How Fascism Works, the ultimate road map for us to avoid, by Jason Stanley.
How Life Imitates Chess, making the Right moves from the board to the boardroom, by the brilliant Gary Kasparov, who IMO understands the context of everything.
The Battle for your Brain: Defending the right to think freely in the age of neurotechnology." @NitaFarahany
The Cruelty is the Point: the past present and future of Trump's America, by Adam Serwer
Twilight of Democracy: the Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, by Anne Applebaum. She lived with the subject and knows what she's talking about
The Mind Illuminated, by Culadasa. John Yates.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, by Julian Jaynes
The Age of the Spiritual Machine, and The Age of the Thinking Machine, by Kurzweil
Charm School, and The General’s Daughter, fiction by Nelson deMille
Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov, fiction by Dostoyevsky
The Client, by Grisham
Undermoney, international political and financial fiction by Jay Newman. Link to my book review https://bit.ly/3Fa4wqb
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak
Atlas Shrugged, and Fountainhead. by Ayn Rand
All works by Shakespeare.
The First Circle, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Presumed Innocent, fiction by Scott Turow. Easy fun reading with spicy use of colloquial
War and Peace, and Anna Karenina, greatest fiction by Tolstoy.
Danger Zone, The coming conflict with China, by Brands and Beckley. 2022. Review at https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/book-review-danger-zone?utm_source=pocket_mylist
Losing the Long Game: the false promise of regime change, Philip Gordon
On China, Does America Need a Foreign Policy?, World Order, and Kissinger on Kissinger, all by Henry Kissinger.
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail, Ray Dalio, 2021.
Shadow State: murder mayhem and Russia's attack on the west, by Luke Harding
Three Dangerous Men: Russia China Iran and the rise of irregular warfare, by Seth Jones
Capital in the 21st Century, by Thomas Piketty
Sold Out, by James Rickards. 2022. Sold Out: How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy. Review
Henry Kissinger and American Power: a political biography, by Thomas Alan Schwartz
10 lessons for a Post-Pandemic World, by Fareed Zakaria
Kissinger on Kissinger, and Reflections on Diplomacy. Lord and Kissinger. BTW, if you think I am obsessed with Kissinger, which I am not, then in all fairness listen to my podcast on the subject http://bit.ly/3jlf76x
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, by Peter Zeihan, 2022.
Accidental Superpower, 10 years on. Peter Zeihan
The Ascent of Man, Bronowski
The Fourth Turning is here, Howe
Imperial Hubris: why the West is losing the war on terror, Michael Scheuer
Dossier : The Secret History of Armand Hammer, by Edward Epstein
Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley, by Williams
The New Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the Age of color blindness, by Michelle Alexander
The Age of Revolution. Fareed Zakaria
No Other Gods, by Ana Lyons-Levy. A modern reinterpretation of the 12 commandments, putting them into more appropriate context
Jews don't Count, by David Baddiel
The age of AI and our human future. Kissinger, Schmidt, Huttenlocher
The Coming Wave. AI, synthetic biology and a new dawn for humanity, by Mustafa Suleyman.
The end of reality. Jonathan Tapin. my review and summary https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yNM0aRr21piS3umlGvMlYuAn2w86ODrPPsZhsZOW3KI/edit?usp=drivesdk
The Wires of War: technology and the global struggle for power. By Jacob Helberg
Our Time is Now: power purpose and the fight for a fair America, by Stacey Abrams. By today's standards and examples, she and Al Gore never should have conceded.
Twilight of Democracy: the seductive lure of authoritarianism, by Anne Applebaum
After the Apocalypse: America's role in a world transformed, by Andrew Bacevich
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate, by Al Franken. IMO, he gave up too easily
The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and his world, by Barry Green
Losing Military Supremacy: myopia of American strategic planning, by Andrei Martyanov
BloodBird: When the organ isn’t the only thing transplanted. https://amzn.to/35MAhlN
Vera Mortina: When the patient is not the sick one! https://amzn.to/2P0Qv4T
Her Charm Was Contagious: A dangerous doctor and a patient who just loved everyone to death! https://amzn.to/2MVC7Iw
The Surrogate: The Surrogate: A young woman trapped in the greed and power of the IVF industry amzn.to/2FSzyDv
Transit States, collected poetry of DH Marks https://amzn.to/2MuJN5j
Reliable news sources I personally use http://bit.ly/3kECPvr
Fake News: Everything You Need to Know http://bit.ly/345cj95
Best Online Free Fact-Checking Tools http://bit.ly/3H97I44
Fact-Checking: The Ways We Can Fight Fake News http://bit.ly/3qudEyX
Infodemic: the epidemic of information http://bit.ly/3fV7BgN
The Curious Case of Deepfakes http://bit.ly/3GZJdXhn
My personal list of Red Flags, Dog Whistles, Buzzwords, Hot Button words and meaningless caricatures that will drive toxic algorithms to heat and twist elections and trigger hatred on social media. http://bit.ly/3TcuT4I
Einstein, Relativity and Relative Ethics https://bit.ly/3gWWH9t
What I Haven’t Told My Family on the Meaning of Time. https://bit.ly/374cpzJ
Jonas Salk, Polio Vaccine and Vaccinating Against Hate, https://bit.ly/3xjtosh
My ever-updating fav list of coffee shops and espresso blends and locations https://bit.ly/3IkqOHE
Elitists Neocons Neolibs, oh my. What are they, who are they, and why should I care? http://bit.ly/3LMrs0e
Undermoney. Techno economic political thriller by Jay Newman. Reviewed by Donald Harvey Marks https://bit.ly/3Fa4wqb
How Woke can we be? The meaning of Woke https://bit.ly/3Fd7fPy
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