
Author: Michael Magoon
Author and blogger on History, Technology & Progress.


Book Summary: “Alchemy of Air” by Thomas Hager

Summaries of Top Ten Books

Book Summary: “The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution” by Cochran & 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” by Charles Murray

Book Summary: “Energy Transitions” by Vaclav Smil

Book Summary: “Prime Movers of Globalization” by Vaclav Smil

Book Summary: “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves” by Matt Ridley

Summary: “The Prize” by Daniel Yergin

Book Summary: “Power over Peoples” 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” by Daniel Headrick

Book Summary: “Tools for the Job: A Short History of Machine Tools” by LTC Rolt

Book Summary: “Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read” by Stanilaus Dehaene

Book Summary: “Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850” by Joel Mokyr
