To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I'm putting aside fiction for a while, I recently started "Chaos: Making a new science" 
by James Gleick, it's a pop science intro for Chaos Theory but a well-researched one which doesn't fall into quackery. Also thanks to our !mathematics friends for their textbook recommendations
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I've been reading this for the past 2 weeks. Some days I read 30 pages, some days I read up to 80. It's 900 pages total (excluding acknowledgements, bibliography, glossary, etc), so I'm only about halfway done. I intend to hunker down and read at least 70 pages each day to finish sometime next week
It's good, though it's very dense
. It details a lot of the historical context behind Kissinger's opinions and tries to show how his world view shifted throughout his life. I'm finally at the point in his life where he begins to find his own voice 
and publish papers or articles with unique, semi-controversial opinions. For example, in the early 1950s he says "local wars" with the looming threat of nuclear force 
would better subdue the Soviet Union than "containment," which he felt had proved ineffective and would lead to all out war being needed to stop the spread of communism 
I'd recommend it as long as you're genuinely interested in Kissinger and have a good attention span
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