As a sort of companion to the previous post:
What’s the last book you read because it connected to your job in some way?
I’m being a little more restrictive in the phrasing of this one, because I don’t want to get a whole bunch of journal articles and arxiv links in the comments, so let’s keep this to published books.
I’ve been doing more work-related reading of late, for a variety of reasons. Why the Sky Is Blue was work-related, in the sense that I was sent a review copy because of this blog. My other recent work-related read was Jennifer Ouellette’s Black Bodies and Quantum Cats, which I read in large part because she visited Union last week to give us a couple of really excellent talks, despite the fact that she was getting over a cold, and had almost totally lost her voice.
It’s important to note that just because I read it due to a work connection doesn’t mean that the book was work to read. On the contrary, it was a good deal of fun– she runs through many of the best anecdotes in the history of physics, and provides engaging descriptions of the science and the people involved. She also finds an amazing variety of connections between historical events in physics and more recent pop culture, which adds to the fun.
So, what’s the last book you read as part of your job?