Category: Book Summaries
Summaries of books related to the content of this blog.
Book Summary: “Cousins’ War: Religion, Politics, Civil War, and the Triumph of the Anglo-America” by Kevin Phillips
Book Summary: “Energy and Civilization: A History” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics” by John Mearsheimer
Book Summary: “Understanding Human History” by Michael Hart
Book Summary: “Inventing Freedom: How the English… Made the Modern World” by Daniel Hannan
Book Summary: “Where Wizards Stay Up Late: Origins of the Internet” by Hafner and Lyon
Book Summary: “An Introduction to Agricultural Geography” by David Grigg
Book Summary: “The Agricultural Systems of the World: An Evolutionary Approach” by David Grigg
Book Summary: “Food, Energy and Society” by David and Marcia Pimentel
Book Summary: “Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers” by Robert Kelly
Book Summary: “Horses at Work: Horses in Industrial America” by Ann Norton Greene
Book Summary: “Geopolitics in Late Antiquity” by Hyun Jin Kim
Book Summary: “A History of World Agriculture” by Mazoyer and Roudart
Book Summary: “Rulers, Religion, and Riches” by Jared Rubin
Book Summary: “The Camel and the Wheel” by Richard Bulliet
Book Summary: “Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error… ” by Jim Stanzi
Book Summary: “A Culture of Growth” by Joel Mokyr
Book Summary: “The WIERDest People in the World” by Joseph Henrich
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
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
