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John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Fred Kaplan. An admiring look at a somewhat neglected president. Well written but could have been cut somewhat from it's 700 pages.
The Recursive Universe by William Poundstone. About recursion; quite a bit about the Game of Life that was invented by Conway.
Gridlinked by Neal Asher. Far future SF, part of the polity series. Pretty good but a little confusing
How not to be wrong: The power of mathematical thinking by Jordan Ellenberg. Ways that people misuse mathematical arguments and how to set them right.
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a forgotten genocide by Gary Bass. I doubt that Nixon and Kissinger have many fans on this site, but this is a new chapter in their infamy (at least, to me). They not only did nothing to prevent the Pakistani genocide of the Bengalis, they did a great deal to promote it. Yet we hear very little about it. This book helps to correct that.
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