Reality meets Idealism: my current summer reading

What I have in hand and should be reading for my own and the world's betterment:

Thanks Paul Levy for lending me this one.



But the reality is, I'm making an extra trip before leaving town to pick up this book, because I can't find it anywhere in the house and I'm ... not desperate, but... anxious to keep reading in the series:

So much for betterment.