Ask HN: The Code Book by Simon Singh but for Other Fields?
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Eric Dolan's books have been good, in my experience:
Leviathan is about the whaling industry; Black Flags, Blue Waters about America's pirates; Fur, Fortune, and Empire about, well, the fur trade
Siddhartha Mukherjee's books 'The Gene', 'Emperor of all Maladies', 'The Song of the Cell' all mix biology and history with lots of detail and are easy to read.
Thanks, will try them out.
Hit the nostalgia note on that one!
I read that just after it came out ... maybe 25[ish] years ago?
In the same field, you should read David Kahn's The Codebreakers
I read that just after it came out ... maybe 25[ish] years ago?
In the same field, you should read David Kahn's The Codebreakers
I knew I read it my first semester in college .. didn't realize it came out the same year :)
So it's just under 24 years ago, not 25
So it's just under 24 years ago, not 25
Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
Already read the first two. Heard about the third one.
Will give the last two a try.
Thanks.
Will give the last two a try.
Thanks.
And this book is also rich in history and anecdotes.
What are some other books that are like this, but for other fields?