491 sats \ 5 replies \ @Fabs OP 8 Jan \ parent \ on: I'm not the brightest bulb out there, help me change it. BooksAndArticles
What makes these so important?
Particularly for Guns, Germs, and Steel, and 1491, these books changed the perception of what precolonial America was like and how it was conquered. They also added a lot to the public understanding of what other civilizations had been like pre-European colonization.
Jared Diamond (the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel) also wrote Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which I found very interesting.
Also, I realized while typing this reply that I haven't read Sapiens, but I have heard it's very good.
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If you have ever watched the old TV show, Connections by James Burke, you'd love The Discoverers by Boorstin. Basically showing you how inventions lead to inventions that lead to discoveries. He has more series out, but these was super to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Boorstin
Also if you can find old books by Eric Sloane, they are super books to help you learn visually. His weather book is great to help you learn the weather. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Sloane
Oh, I forgot, if you love the outdoors, Natural Navigator by Tristen Gooley. https://www.naturalnavigator.com/tristan-gooley/
OK... enough. I'll hop off my reading soap box now.
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Some of my favorite books have titles like History of Mathematics or History of Economic Thought, so I'm making a mental note of The Discoverers. The sequence of how ideas and innovations spread and built on each other is really fascinating.
Have you read H.G. Wells' A Short History of the World? I have a sense you would enjoy it. It has a much more integrated narrative flow than most big picture history books.
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Have you read H.G. Wells' A Short History of the World? I have a sense you would enjoy it.
Welp... into the queue it goes. I have an overseas trip coming up and needed something to read. And I see it is on Gutenberg. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35461 Thanks.
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