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I need some new books to inspire me. Suggestions? Last few science book were great.

Bill Egan replies:

Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy by Dave Oliver.

Laurel Kenner adds:

Sue Stuart-Smith: The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
William Logan: Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees
Thomas Sowell: Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Michael Brush suggests:

The Gene
The Emperor of all Maladies
Why We Sleep

Henry Gifford offers:

Buildings Don’t Lie, Better Buildings by Understanding Basic Building Science: The movement through buildings of heat, air, water, sound, fire, light, and pests. By…well…Henry Gifford!

Big Al recommends:

Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

Re Riemann, 3Blue1Brown has a great bit to enhance the visual:

Visualizing the Riemann zeta function and analytic continuation

A reader writes:

Major Transitions in Evolution: Maynard Smith & Szathmary
Indra's Pearls: Mumford + Series + Wright
Coe/Stone: Reading The Maya Glyphs
Fred Schwed: The Pleasure Was All Mine
Japanese Tales: Royall Tyler
African Folktales : Paul Radin
Ernst Haeckel : Art Forms from the Abyss
Owen Jones: The Complete Chinese Ornament
Trigonometric Delights : Eli Maor
Voices from the Whirlwind - Fenc Jicai
The Cowshed - Ji Xianlin
Rural Worlds Lost - Jack Temple Kirby

Paolo Pezzutti enjoyed:

Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command

Laurence Glazier adds:

Emily St John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility. Sequel to her earlier The Glass Hotel, which was partly about a Ponzi scheme.

And Brandon Q. Morris, physicist sci-fi writer.

Peter Krupp writes:

Here are two science books that I found fascinating focused on quantum physics written by one of the great contributors to the quantum theory of computation, David Deutsch.

The Fabric of Reality (quantum theory - many world interpretation, quantum computation, epistemology, and much more).

The Beginning of Infinity (the nature of scientific progress, how it has accelerated in the past few centuries).


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