Month: May 2020
Book Summary: “Emergence: the Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software” by Steven Johnson
Second Top Ten Books to Read
Book Summary: “Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World” by Deirdre McCloskey
Book Summary: “Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World” by Deirdre McCloskey
Top Authors to Read
Book Summary: “The Gap: Science of What Separates Us from Animals” by Thomas Suddendorf
Book Summary: “The Story of the Human Body” by Daniel E. Lieberman
Book Summary: “Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity” by Hausmann, Hidalgo et al
Book Summary: “People, Plants and Genes: the Story of Crops and Humanity” by Denis Murphy
Book Summary: “Alchemy of Air: … the Scientific Discovery that Fed the World” by Thomas Hager
Summaries of Top Ten Books
Book Summary: “The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution” by Cochran and Harpending
Book Summary: “Ingenium: Five Machines that Changed the World” by Mark Denny
Book Summary: “End of the Old Order in Rural Europe” by Jerome Blum
Book Summary: “Power to the People: Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries” by Kander et al
Book Summary: “Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence…” by Charles Murray
Book Summary: “Energy Transitions” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “Prime Movers of Globalization: The History of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves” by Matt Ridley
Book Summary: “The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil…” by Daniel Yergin
Book Summary: “Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments and Western Imperialism…” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “Technology: A World History” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “Transforming the Twentieth Century” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “When Information Came of Age: … Age or Reason 1700-1850” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “Tools for the Job: A Short History of Machine Tools” by LTC Rolt
