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Connections James Burke examines the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the major technological advances of today.
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold Celebrating the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths, Mythos breathes life into ancient tales—from Pandora's box to Prometheus's fire.
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else How should a democracy choose its representatives? How can you stop a pandemic from sweeping the world? How do computers learn to play Go, and why is learning Go so much easier for them than learning to read a sentence? Can ancient Greek proportions predict the stock market?
The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable Not all geeks are created equal. While many of the mathematicians and software engineers on Wall Street failed when their abstractions turned ugly in practice, a special breed of physicists has a much deeper history of revolutionizing finance.
Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November 1956, the twin crises of Suez and Hungary pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict and what many at the time were calling World War III. Blood & Sand is a revelatory new history of these dramatic events.
Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined In this sequel to the bestselling Mythos, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry moves from the exploits of the Olympian gods to the deeds of mortal heroes.
A History of Economic Thought As the Great Recession taught us in the first decade of the twenty-first century, the history of economic thought can have wide-ranging practical applications.
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar
Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion Science and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?

Categories → #history

Connections James Burke examines the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the major technological advances of today.

Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold Celebrating the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths, Mythos breathes life into ancient tales—from Pandora's box to Prometheus's fire.

Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined In this sequel to the bestselling Mythos, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry moves from the exploits of the Olympian gods to the deeds of mortal heroes.

A History of Economic Thought As the Great Recession taught us in the first decade of the twenty-first century, the history of economic thought can have wide-ranging practical applications.

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar

Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion Science and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?