Category: Book Summaries
Summaries of books related to the content of this blog.
Book Summary: “The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective” by Robert Allen
Book Summary: “Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment” by Ahmet Kuru
Book Summary: “The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis” by Ruth DeFries
Book Summary: “A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History” by Nicholas Wade
Book Summary: “Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700” by Ron Harris
Book Summary: “Asia’s Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization” by Alice Amsden
Book Summary: “Military Revolution and Political Change” by Brian Downing
Book Summary: “Temperate Forest Biomes” by Bernd H. Kuenneck
Book Summary: “Ethnic America: A History” by Thomas Sowell
Book Summary: “Natural Gas: Fuel for the 21st Century” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “Expert Political Judgement: How Good Is It?” by Philip Tetlock
Book Summary: “The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet” by Ramez Naam
Book Summary: “Big History and the Future of Humanity” by Fred Spier
Book Summary: “The Origins of Political Order” by Francis Fukuyama
Book Summary: “Emerging Africa” by Steven Radelet
Book Summary: “Lineages of the Absolutist State” by Perry Anderson
Book Summary: “Abundance: The Future Is Better than You Think” by Diamandis and Kotler
Book Summary: “Factfulness: Why Things are Better Than You Think” by Hans Rosling
Book Summary: “Enlightenment Now” by Steven Pinker
Book Summary: “Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know” by Bailey and Tupy
Book Summary: “Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity” by Francis Fukuyama
Book Summary: “Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World” by Niall Ferguson
Book Summary: “Introduction to Biomes” by Susan Woodward
Book Summary: “Future Perfect: The Case for Progress In a Networked Age” by Steven Johnson
Book Summary: “Accidental Empires: How… Silicon Valley Make Their Millions” by Robert X Cringely
Book Summary: “Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity ” by Pluckrose & Lindsay
Book Summary: “Big Is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business” by Atkinson and Lind
Book Summary: “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956” by Anne Applebaum
Book Summary: “Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire” by Wallace and Erickson
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
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