A collection of 40 posts
This book deals with poverty and race, the difficulties of growing up poor, the joy of finding your people and your calling, the excitement of achievement, and the complications of fame. Reading it will make you take a hard look at your life, and that's never a bad thing.
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Stick and Rudder is the first exact analysis of the art of flying ever attempted. It has been continuously in print for thirty-three years. It shows precisely what the pilot does when he flies, just how he does it, and why.
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A Desolation Called Peace is the spectacular space opera sequel to Arkady Martine's genre-reinventing, Hugo Award-winning debut, A Memory Called Empire.
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.
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In 1417, a man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery... He was Poggio Bracciolini, the greatest book hunter of the Renaissance. His discovery had been almost entirely lost to history for more than a thousand years.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolitics are mapping our future.
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Before there was money, there was debt. Since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods. It is in this era that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
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