With some leisure, I plan to read a bit. Here is my tentative “stack”:<\/p>\n
– The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined<\/a><\/p>\n – Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850<\/a><\/p>\n – Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding<\/a><\/p>\n – Mirroring the Past: The Writing And Use of History in Imperial China<\/a><\/p>\n – Meditations<\/a><\/p>\n – Consolation of Philosophy<\/a><\/p>\n I also plan on browsing more of Brian and Deborah Charlesworth’s magisterial Elements of Evolutionary Genetics <\/a>, and my friend Joel Grus’<\/a> Thinking Spreadsheet<\/a>. I’m skeptical that I would prioritize fiction, but if I manage to read some, I’ll try and finish The Sacred Band<\/a>, the last in David Anthony Durham’s Acacia<\/a> trilogy.<\/p>\n What are you reading for the holidays? (and if you aren’t reading for the holidays, why are you spending your marginal time reading this blog!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With some leisure, I plan to read a bit. Here is my tentative “stack”: – The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined – Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 – Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding – Mirroring the Past: The Writing And Use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57130"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57905,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57130\/revisions\/57905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}