Recommended book: “Miracle in the Andes”
In 1972 a plane transporting 45 people crashed in the Andes. Many of them died in the accident or some days after.
During 72 days the survivors had to fight against temperatures reaching -40º, with very few clothes, no food, no water, and knowing that nobody was searching for them anymore.
“Miracle in the Andes” tells this poignant story through the eyes of Fernando Parrado, one of the survivors that undertook a 10 days high-risk expedition trough the snowy mountains in order to find rescue. Fernando Parrado writes this story in 2005, 33 years after the crash.
You certainly know the famous movie “Alive” that was produced in 1992. But it’s only when you read this book that you begin to understand what really happened in the heart and minds of these guys, and how willpower, courage and love saved 16 of them.
Below is also a good documentary made in 2007: “Stranded: I’ve Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains”, with interviews of the survivors.
Recommended book: “The Selfish Gene”
“We are survival machines, robots blindly programmed in order to perpetuate the existence of selfish genes we hold in our cells.”
In his book “The Selfish Gene“ Richard Dawkins goes further in the theory of evolution and supports the gene-centred view of evolution which holds that evolution is best viewed as acting on genes and that selection at the level of organisms or populations almost never overrides selection based on genes.
Richard Dawkins is a zoologist specializing in animal behavior as well as evolutionary biologist. He’s also known as a militant atheist, strongly defending his rational views of existence. In 2006 he wrote “The God Delusion” where he explains with practical examples why a supernatural creator certainly doesn’t exist…
Recommended book: “¿Y después del petróleo, Qué?”
In this book Juan Rosell gives a complete overview on the global energy supply as well as the economic and ecological issues for the countries.
…for a better understanding of the current debate on energy!
“¿Y después del petróleo, Qué?” Luces y sombras del futuro energético mundial
Recommended book: “The World is Flat”
The World is Flat: The Globalized world in the twenty-first century, by Thomas L. Friedman.
Really interesting book on how IT is giving the world a new shape, interconnecting people and companies like never before…