Carbon: One Atom's Odyssey
John Barnett and Roald Hoffman
5 on Amazon
5 HN comments
Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
Stephen E. Ambrose
4.6 on Amazon
5 HN comments
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
Serhii Plokhy, Ralph Lister, et al.
4.7 on Amazon
5 HN comments
507 Mechanical Movements
Henry T. Brown
4.5 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
Jeremy Narby
4.7 on Amazon
4 HN comments
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
Scott Galloway, Jonathan Todd Ross, et al.
4.5 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Stone
William Hall
4.8 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It
John Yudkin and Robert H. Lustig
4.7 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Jungle: A Photicular Book
Dan Kainen and Kathy Wollard
4.9 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Signals and Systems
Alan Oppenheim, Alan Willsky, et al.
4.1 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Radiant: Farm Animals Up Close and Personal (Farm Animal Photography Book)
Traer Scott
4.8 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World
Joan Druett
4.5 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
Michio Kaku
4.6 on Amazon
3 HN comments
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
John Rumble
4.6 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World
Josh Tickell and Terry Tamminen
4.8 on Amazon
3 HN comments
dustinupdykeonFeb 1, 2018
"Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death."
simochonNov 18, 2016
* "The Elements Of Computing Systems", by Nisan and Schocken
Accompanies www.nand2tetris.org and leads you through implementing logic gates, a CPU, Assembler, right up to a functional computer, with the help of simulator software on a PC. Fascinating, but requires 100-200 hours to complete all the exercises.
* "The Rosie Project", by Graeme Simsion
Easy to read novel about a man searching for a wife, as recommended on Bill Gates' blog
* "Island Of The Lost", by Joan Druett
A true story of survival after being shipwrecked on a remote island
* "River Town", by Peter Hessler
The experiences of an English teacher who spent two years working in China
billbrownonDec 19, 2017
1. You Have the Right to Remain Innocent: great advice that I had never seen anywhere else (except his video that started the whole thing).
2. The Vital Question: good overview of origin of life research.
3. Fragment: hard science fiction (is that the term?) that delved into evolution and dovetailed with some of the reading I had been doing around that subject.
4. The Science of Navigation: delved into the wonder of current navigational technology and how we got to here.
5. The Lost City of the Monkey God: bought on a lark, made me realize that archaeology can still find new things nowadays.
6. Island of the Lost: historical account of two shipwrecks on the same island at the same time that knew nothing of each other.
7. Protecting the Gift: another eye-opener about being more aware of the ways people _can_ prey on children.
8. Wondrous Contrivances: how people reacted to new techologies in the past.
9. Rig Ship for Ultra Quiet: submariner's account of life during a Cold War operation.