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Means of ascent by Robert A. Caro (The Years of Lyndon Johnson ;)

Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #5)

The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series.

A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest …

The years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro

Inventor of the Future by Alec Nevala-Lee

From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary …

Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #4)

Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a …

Faraday, Maxwell, and the electromagnetic field by Nancy Forbes

From the Introduction...

It is almost impossible to overstate the scale of Faraday and Maxwell's achievement in bringing the …

Devil Take the Hindmost by Edward Chancellor

How Iceland Changed the World by Egill Bjarnason

Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #3)

For generations, the solar system — Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt — was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The …

The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop

The Expanse Boxed Set: Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War and Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey

A must read for people who like science fiction and space. It takes place in our solar system about 300 …

Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty is a 2021 book by Patrick Radden Keefe. The book …

The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stoll

In the days when the presence of a computer did NOT presume the presence of a network (they used to …

Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots by James Suzman