books for the summer
Who has not seen the TED talk ‘Why are they watching me, if I am nobody?’ either 'Do schools kill creativity?' ? These brief conferences, conducted by experts in a specific field, help, in a concise and rapid way, to generate debates, expose cases and propose solutions to the problems. conflicts of our century.
TED, An acronym for “Technology, Entertainment and Design”, it has become a major event with the motto “Ideas worth spreading” **(Ideas worth spreading)** by banner.
Now the team TED has compiled 24 books that its experts recommend , all of them under 200 pages, to the delight of our summer reading.
Fiction and literature, graphic novel, history and science, creativity, social conflicts, memoirs and essays and poetry, 24 titles for all tastes.
We have to nourish ourselves with the books we can in summer...
FICTION AND LITERATURE
1. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (Edited in Spain by Siruela). the story of several family summers, slow, calm , where two generations (grandmother and granddaughter) enjoy a Finnish island. Shhh… perfect for reading to the rhythm of your breath (recommended by Linda Liukas , author of 'A delicious way to teach children about computers'). BUY: €12.30.
two. The Vegetarian, by Han Kang (Edited in Spain by :Rata_). The pages of this book go further, far beyond a meat-free diet. It is the depersonalization of a woman subjected to her husband. She decides to leave the meat as she decides to stop being "animal" to become a vegetable. Recommended by Ann Morgan , author of TED Tal 'My year reading a book from every country in the world'. BUY: €18.52
Photo by Larm Rmah on Unsplash
Asian woman among the vegetation
Asian woman among the vegetation
3.** Late fame, by Arthur Schnitzler (Cliff Editions) **. Mr. Saxberger waits at home for the days to pass, until a fan shows up at his door, an admirer of his work who encourages him to write again, perhaps to recover that passionate collection of poems he wrote in his younger years ? Maybe… Recommended by Daniel Suskind, author of 'Three myths about the future of work (and why they are false)'. BUY: €11.40.
4.Frankenstein, Mary Shelley. “Recently I was drawn to read this masterpiece again, because I am studying how microscopic organisms live and behave…”, he says. Simone White , author of the talk 'The wonderful world of life in a drop of water'. And of course, Shelley's book is "for him", exploring in its pages the moral limits of scientific research. BUY: €8.74
5. Facsimile of Alejandro Zambra (Sixth Floor Editions). A set of stories that, following the structure of the Chilean government ‘verbal aptitude tests’ which were made from the 1960s to the early 2000s, plays with different genres and formats to deal with all kinds of problems in society. Recommended by Jonathan Marks, author of 'In Praise of Conflict'. BUY: €13.30
The challenges of aging and the challenges of reinventing yourself at a certain age
HISTORY AND SCIENCE
6.**Aaaaw to Zzzzzd: The Words of Birds: North America, Britain and Northern Europe by John Bevis (no Spanish translation)**. A hilarious book with which you will learn the sounds of birds transcribed with onomatopoeia. Recommended by rebecca kleinberge , author of 'Why we don't like the sound of our own voice. BUY: €17.98.
7. A Mathematician's Apology, by G. H. Hardy (Capital Swing Publishers). comment David Brenner, prescriber of this book and author of the conference ‘A new weapon to combat superbugs’, that his favorite quote is the following: “A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a ‘maker’ of patterns. If his patterns are more durable than theirs, he is because they are made with ideas ”.
8. Sensitivity and intelligence in the plant world, by Stefano Mancuso (Galaxia Gutenberg publisher). A simple question launches already from the cover: are plants intelligent? This book collects the latest research on those species present daily in our lives and which we label as immobile... and if not? Recommended by Sugata Mitra, author of 'Building a School in the Cloud'. BUY: €13.77
the power of plants
9.**The Future, by Nick Montfort (no Spanish translation)**. How do we imagine the future? How would we like it to be? What role does science fiction play? All the answers are answered in this book, recommended by raphael arar (author of 'How to teach computers to make sense of our emotions').
10.**15 women who made art and made history (in this order), by Bridget Quinn (no translation into Spanish)**. A shout out to historical sexism and a way of putting a name and a face to those works of art that we have always liked (yes, their authors are women). It is recommended by Caroline Paul, author of 'To raise brave girls, you have to encourage them to adventure'.
GRAPHIC NOVEL
eleven. Batman, Year One, by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli (DC Black Label editions). A classic in which we follow agent James Gordon in his first years serving the city of Gotham. Of course, a certain Bruce makes an appearance... Recommended by Chipp Kidd (Author of 'Designing Books Isn't Funny. Well, It Is'). BUY: €33.25
12. A Cop on the Moon, by Tom Gauld (Salamandra Graphic publishers). Says Safwat Saleem, who has recommended this book and author of the conference 'Why I keep talking even when they make fun of my accent', that the most important thing about this graphic novel is the silences and the great freedom it brings to the imagination. A police officer on a lunar colony... you can imagine, right?
The Who's Who of Women in Art in Bridget Quinn's Book
CREATIVITY AND ADVICE
13. Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets, and Philosophers, by Leonard Koren (Renart Publishing). Wabi-Sabi is that atypical characteristic, perhaps incoherent, or even incomplete, but which gives full meaning to what we understand as Japanese beauty. That is what the author seeks applied to any field of creation. Entrepreneurs, are you there? recommend the book Ari Wallach, author of the TED Talk 'Three ways to plan for the very long term'. BUY: €11.40
14. Wisdom of Improvisation, by Patricia Ryan Madson (not translated into Spanish). Or how to enjoy life and even your work, all from the perspective and methods of improvisation theatre. Recommended by Lisa Dyson , author of the talk 'A forgotten technology of the space age can change the way of cultivating the land'.
fifteen. If you want to write… Branda Ueland (Publisher Magoria) . The perfect book for those who suffer before the blank page; a call to calm and a walk through the long and sometimes hard creative process. Recommended by Sebastian Wernicke, author of the lecture 'How to use data to make a successful TV show'. A recommendation from Shivani Siroy , author of 'A smart loan for people (still) without credit'..
Where to look for inspiration and how to manage it
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
16.**Between the world and me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Editorial Seix Barral)**. An epistle from a father to his son. Ta-Nehisi uses these pages to think and make people think about race in the construction of American identity and society. And so she transmits it to everyone who wants to read it and, of course, to her son. BUY: €17.10
17. We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Random House Publishers). A wonderful case: how a TED talk became a book. Perhaps because the subject required it, perhaps because these types of books are never too many. Without pretense or niceties, Adichie imagines a world of real equality. Recommended by Mandy Len Catron , author of the talk 'A better way to talk about love'. BUY: €5.60
18. Aging in Contemporary Society, by Daisaku Ikeda, President of the Soka Gakkai International Buddhist Organization . Getting old seems to be forbidden. Ikea talks about the challenges over the years, as well as the opportunities. Who recommends this book? Paul Tasner, Author of How I Became an Entrepreneur at 66.
How to grow old in contemporary society
MEMORIES AND ESSAYS
19. Proxies, by Brian Blanchfield (no Spanish translation). This set of essays is as varied as it is crazy, fun and sharp. Any topic imaginable serves Blanchfield to wonder how ideas get into our heads. he recommends it Oscar Schwartz, author of 'Can a computer write poetry?'. BUY: €14.50.
twenty. The sense of wonder, by Rachel Carson (Publisher Encounters). Have you ever laughed or been touched by children's questions? They who are surprised by the smallest thing, by those things that we adults are already aware of... Carson notices this to talk about nature and the need to take care of it and transmit the love for her to our children. Recommended by Emma Marris, author of the talk 'Nature is everywhere, we just have to learn to see it'.
twenty-one. If this is a man (Auschwitz trilogy), by Primo Levi (Austral publisher). Primo Levi's trilogy is a radical testimony about how inmates in concentration camps were dehumanized during the Nazi Holocaust, his experiences and memories are as raw as necessary. recommended by r Deborah Lipstadt, Author of 'Behind the lies of Holocaust deniers'. BUY: €12.89
children in nature
22. A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf (Publisher Austral Singular). Something as simple as your own space, a place to be, think, have privacy. For something so basic a revolution begins. Only then does feminism make sense. Recommended by Sofia Jawed-Wessel, author of 'Lies explained to pregnant women'. BUY: €10.40
POETRY
23. Take this stallion, by Anaïs Duplan (no Spanish translation). Duplan's magic lies in her ability to make us think with each poem. She even if she talks about the Kardashians. The meaning between the lines, delicious, demanding, revolutionary. Recommended by Siyanda Mohutsiwa, of the talk 'How young Africans found a voice on Twitter'. BUY: €14
The importance of a room of your own
24. The colloquy of the birds, by Peter Sis (edited by Sexto Piso). It is a magical book: in it, Sis gives life and color with his illustrations to the poems of the Sufi mystic Farid ud-Din Attar; a journey through the adventures of the human being, his weaknesses and his strengths. Recommended by Nabila Alibhai, author of 'Why People of Different Religions Paint Their Houses of Worship Yellow'. BUY: €22.70
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