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Author: Michael Magoon

Blogger on History, Technology & Progress. Author of the "From Poverty to Progress" series of books. Available on Amazon.
April 20, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Cousins’ War: Religion, Politics, Civil War, and the Triumph of the Anglo-America” by Kevin Phillips

April 19, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Energy and Civilization: A History” by Vaclav Smil

April 16, 2021April 16, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics” by John Mearsheimer

April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Ethnic and Cultural Diversity by Country” by James Fearon

April 14, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Understanding Human History” by Michael Hart

April 13, 2021April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Inventing Freedom: How the English… Made the Modern World” by Daniel Hannan

April 12, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Where Wizards Stay Up Late: Origins of the Internet” by Hafner and Lyon

April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 Michael Magoon

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April 9, 2021April 11, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “An Introduction to Agricultural Geography” by David Grigg

April 8, 2021April 11, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Agricultural Systems of the World: An Evolutionary Approach” by David Grigg

April 7, 2021April 11, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Food, Energy and Society” by David and Marcia Pimentel

April 6, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers” by Robert Kelly

April 5, 2021April 8, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Horses at Work: Horses in Industrial America” by Ann Norton Greene

March 31, 2021April 16, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Geopolitics in Late Antiquity” by Hyun Jin Kim

March 30, 2021April 11, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “A History of World Agriculture” by Mazoyer and Roudart

March 29, 2021April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Rulers, Religion, and Riches” by Jared Rubin

March 25, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Camel and the Wheel” by Richard Bulliet

March 23, 2021April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error… ” by Jim Stanzi

March 22, 2021April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “A Culture of Growth” by Joel Mokyr

March 17, 2021April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The WIERDest People in the World” by Joseph Henrich

March 15, 2021April 16, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire” by Kyle Harper

February 16, 2021April 19, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations” by Robert Bryce

January 27, 2021April 11, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “First Farmers” by David Bellwood

January 26, 2021March 18, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Age of Wood” by Roland Ennos

January 26, 2021April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Box: How the Shipping Container…” by Marc Levinson

January 25, 2021April 8, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800” by Jonathan Scott

January 25, 2021April 13, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “First Migrants: Ancient Migrations in Global Perspective” by Peter Bellwood

January 15, 2021April 11, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Evolution of Human Societies” by Johnson and Earle

January 15, 2021April 13, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change a Culture…” by Lawrence Harrison

January 15, 2021April 8, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Scale: The Universal Laws of Life…” by Geoffrey West

January 9, 2021April 10, 2021 Michael Magoon

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December 7, 2020April 13, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matter More than Your Own” by Garett Jones

November 28, 2020April 8, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Righteous Mind: Why People Are Divided by Politics and Reason” by Jonathan Haidt

November 22, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Is There Anything Good About Men?” by Roy F. Baumeister

May 21, 2020March 18, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson

May 20, 2020March 18, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Emergence: the Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software” by Steven Johnson

May 19, 2020April 11, 2021 Michael Magoon

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May 19, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World” by Deirdre McCloskey

May 18, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World” by Deirdre McCloskey

May 18, 2020April 19, 2021 Michael Magoon

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