{"id":4461,"date":"2017-12-13T11:53:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T16:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=4461"},"modified":"2017-12-13T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T16:56:09","slug":"a-very-short-holiday-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/a-very-short-holiday-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"A very short holiday reading list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"images-assets.nasa.gov\/image\/PIA04595\/PIA04595~orig.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nasa.gov\/details-PIA04595.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4467 size-medium\" title=\"NASA\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2017\/12\/PIA04595_small-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Winter in Mars North Polar Region Download\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2017\/12\/PIA04595_small-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2017\/12\/PIA04595_small-401x300.jpg 401w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2017\/12\/PIA04595_small.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The holidays are right around the corner and it is a great time to catch up on your reading. Although, sometimes it is nice to keep it short. I have got a recommendation that might do the trick:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/proxy.library.mcgill.ca\/login?url=http:\/\/www.veryshortintroductions.com\/\">Very short introductions<\/a> from Oxford University Press. There are hundreds of e-books in this series, with titles in health and medicine, science and mathematics. It also includes very short introductions to topics like ageing, egyptology, and Alexander the Great.<\/p>\n<p>If you are very, very short on time, we also have a nice collection of audio books on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/find\/ebooks\/overdrive\">OverDrive<\/a>\u00a0that you can listen to on the go. For example, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/mcgill.worldcat.org\/oclc\/985444578\">Astrophysics for people in a hurry<\/a>, by Neil deGrasse Tyson (a New York Times Bestseller).<\/p>\n<p>Happy [very short] holiday reading!<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/images.nasa.gov\/details-PIA04595.html\">Winter in Mars North Polar Region<\/a>\u00a0(NASA)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays are right around the corner and it is a great time to catch up on your reading. Although, sometimes it is nice to keep it short. I have got a recommendation that might do the trick:\u00a0Very short introductions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/a-very-short-holiday-reading-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[142,9,94],"class_list":["post-4461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-e-audiobooks","tag-e-books","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4461"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4475,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461\/revisions\/4475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}