
Bill Gates ne-a obișnuit deja cu câte un set de cărți ce le recomandă odată la câteva luni. Și de data aceasta a postat un articol pe blogul lui în care recomandă câte cinci cărți pentru lectura de vară. Fiecare dintre acestea reprezintă în viziunea sa povești ce merită citite și din care cu toții putem avea de câștigat.
Așadar, haide să vedem împreună ce cărți recomandate de Bill Gates să mai adăugăm bibliotecii noastre.
1. Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric, Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann
About: ”GE electrified America, powering everything from lightbulbs to turbines, and became fully integrated into the American societal mindset as few companies ever had. And after two decades of leadership under legendary CEO Jack Welch, GE entered the twenty-first century as America’s most valuable corporation. Yet, fewer than two decades later, the GE of old was gone. Lights Out details how one of America’s all-time great companies has been reduced to a cautionary tale for our times.”2. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, Elizabeth Kolbert
About: ”Now she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we’ve had on the atmosphere, the oceans, the world’s forests and rivers – on the very topography of the globe. In Under a White Sky, she takes a hard look at the new world we are creating.”3. A Promised Land, Barack Obama
About: ”In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.”Vezi preț pe eMAG Vezi preț pe Cărturești
4. The Overstory, Richard Powers
About: ”An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.”Vezi preț pe Libris Vezi preț pe Cărturești
5. An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives, Matt Richtel
About: ”Richtel effortlessly guides readers on a scientific detective tale winding from the Black Plague to twentieth-century breakthroughs in vaccination and antibiotics, to the cutting-edge laboratories that are revolutionizing immunology. The foundation that Richtel builds makes accessible revelations about cancer immunotherapy, the microbiome, and autoimmune treatments. An Elegant Defense also captures in vivid detail how these powerful therapies, along with our behavior and environment, interact with the immune system.”

