Bill Gates has been writing for some time in which his own personal blog where he not only gives his opinions and expresses himself on a wide range of topics, especially those that have to do with technology and also, the environment , but also recommends every Christmas a series of readings and now he has also done the same for these next summer holidays. Let’s know next, the 5 books that Bill Gates recommends reading for summer 2021.
The 5 books that Bill Gates advises to read for the summer of 2021
According to Gates himself, the ones that we leave you next are the best readings for this summer. A series of choices “that speak of the complicated relationship between nature and man ” Books that he has chosen because, as he explains on his blog: ” everyone’s life has been altered by a virus, or perhaps because I have spent so much time time this year talking about how to avoid a climate disaster .
These are the 5 books that Bill Gates recommends us to read this summer:
- Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric (Turn out the lights: pride, enthusiasm and falling GE) Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann: a book detailing the success and subsequent problems of the US giant General Electric, recommended by the former CEO of Microsoft to anyone in a leadership position. , leadership towards employees or other people;
- Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert , defined by Gates as “the most direct examination of” humanity versus nature among her recommendations, is a book about people trying to solve problems caused by people, including interventions by people. geoengineering and other solutions in the relationship between man and nature;
- A promised land of Barack Obama, a book written by the former president of the United States that talks about his life in the White House from the first weeks, through the mission that led to the assassination of Osama bin Laden in 2011, described by Gates as a “fascinating look at how a country should lead in difficult times”;
- The Overstory by Richard Powers : The only novel among the recommended books, according to Bill Gates, is “one of the strangest books I have read in recent years” and deals with the lives of nine people who they connect with nature, specifically with trees and forests, offering an extreme but romantic and passionate vision of the need to protect forests;
- An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives, by Matt Richtel, a book written before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Bill Gates, which extremely validly explains how the immune system works and also all the advances made in the last 10 years by the scientific community.
The hope of the American philanthropist, who recently divorced his wife Melinda, is to awaken the interest of passionate readers, always ready to live new experiences with books never heard before.
