Categories → #nonfiction
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the FutureAfter doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?
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The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the WorldOliver Morton's 'The Planet Remade' dives into the complex world of geoengineering, exploring its potential as a tool to combat climate change but also highlighting its inherent risks and uncertainties.
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The One Thing You Need to Know: The Simple Way to Understand the Most Important Ideas in ScienceRather than trying to bend your mind around all the vast and confounding details of things such as gravitational waves, electricity and black holes, wouldn’t it be easier to understand just one central concept from which everything else follows?
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Universe in Creation: A New Understanding of the Big Bang and the Emergence of LifeWe know the universe has a history, but does it also have a story of self-creation to tell?
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Beautiful, Simple, Exact, Crazy: Mathematics in the Real WorldTwo mathematicians explore how math fits into everything from art, music, and literature to space probes and game shows.
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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are MadeDeveloping video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. Blood, Sweat, and Pixels reveals how bringing any game to completion is more than Sisyphean—it's nothing short of miraculous.
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The Story of America: Essays on OriginsIn 'The Story of America', Harvard historian and 'New Yorker' staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories - from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address - to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over the centuries, Americans have read and written their way into a political culture of ink and type.
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Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital ResourceTurn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our relationship with water, David Sedlak explains in this enlightening book.
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Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business StrategyBoth successful entrepreneurs and chess grandmasters have the vision to look at the pieces in front of them and anticipate their next five moves.
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You ThinkFactfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.