My books of 2020

Every year I like to look back over what I’ve read and make some recommendations. Here are five that stand out from 2020, and you’ll find them all in a list at Earthbound Books. (Here for US readers)

Affluence Without Abundance, James Suzman

An anthropological study of the the Ju/’hoansi people of Botswana, better known as the Bushmen. Until their way of life was destroyed by colonialism, war and prejudice, it carried on more or less unchanged in 150,000 years. “If the ultimate measur...