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When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut — science, history, quantum mechanics, mathematics, biography, philosophy, ethics
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson — computing, history, technology, mathematics, physics, artificial intelligence, evolution, princeton, biography
The Rub of Time by Martin Amis — essays, literature, politics, culture, biography, personal experience
The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts — biography, american history, business, technology, automotive, industrial revolution
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester • 2008 — biography, history, china, science, innovation
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya • 2021 — biography, mathematics, physics, computer science, game theory, quantum mechanics, nuclear strategy, artificial intelligence, history of science
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson — technology, innovation, computing, digital revolution, collaboration, history, biography, internet, personal computers, software
The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments by Adrian Bliss • 2024 — history, humor, satire, biography
The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop by Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. — music, jazz, history, culture, race, biography, creativity, innovation
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin • 2005 — biography, history, politics, leadership, lincoln, civil war, american history
Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness by Walter Isaacson — leadership, history, biography, politics, strategy
Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon by Brian Clegg — physics, science, biography, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, maxwell, demon, victorian, mathematics
Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus by Gene Santoro — music, jazz, biography, history, culture, race, creativity
Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography by Ian Carr — music, jazz, biography, history, culture, race, innovation
Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson — biography, politics, diplomacy, foreign policy, history, realpolitik
Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products by Leander Kahney — design, apple, biography, technology, product design, industrial design
Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway by Siobhan Roberts — mathematics, biography, game theory, creativity, artificial intelligence, cellular automata, infinity, games, science
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer — music, jazz, fiction, biography, culture, creativity
Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes by Clifton Fadiman, André Bernard — biography, history, literature, anecdotes, human nature
Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding Boltzmann's Entropy by Eric Johnson — physics, biography, entropy, thermodynamics, anxiety, science history
American Sketches by Walter Isaacson — biography, leadership, history, politics, creativity, journalism, america, founding-fathers, foreign-policy, science, technology, einstein, franklin
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman — biography, information theory, claude shannon, bell labs, mathematics, computing, artificial intelligence, cryptography, technology history
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan • 2024 — music, jazz, biography, history, culture, race, addiction, creativity, collaboration, innovation