Author: Michael Magoon
Blogger on History, Technology & Progress.
Author of the "From Poverty to Progress" series of books. Available on Amazon.
Book Summary: “The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire” by Kyle Harper
Book Summary: “A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations” by Robert Bryce
Book Summary: “First Farmers” by David Bellwood
Book Summary: “The Age of Wood” by Roland Ennos
Book Summary: “The Box: How the Shipping Container…” by Marc Levinson
Book Summary: “How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800” by Jonathan Scott
Book Summary: “First Migrants: Ancient Migrations in Global Perspective” by Peter Bellwood
Book Summary: “Evolution of Human Societies” by Johnson and Earle
Book Summary: “The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change a Culture…” by Lawrence Harrison
Book Summary: “Scale: The Universal Laws of Life…” by Geoffrey West
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Book Summary: “Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matter More than Your Own” by Garett Jones
Book Summary: “Righteous Mind: Why People Are Divided by Politics and Reason” by Jonathan Haidt
Book Summary: “Is There Anything Good About Men?” by Roy F. Baumeister
Book Summary: “Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson
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
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