Favorites

1. Humanity from a Planetary Perspective — History as undirected evolutionary process.
2. History of European Morals — A tremendous history of morals from a stodgy aristocrat.
3. How History Gets Things Wrong — Rosenburg explaining how narrative history is a fiction we use to comfort ourselves.
4. The Assassins’ Gate — America in Iraq: motives, execution, and what came after.
5. The Master and His Emissary — The risks of one side of the brain controlling human culture.
6. The Selfish Gene — A book that changes the way you view the world whether you want it to or not.
7. Balkan Ghosts — Kaplan’s travel-history written just in time to be read by Clinton attempting to understand the Balkans in the 90’s.

Programming for technical writing, or Currently reading for books I’ve finished recently that need reviews 😅