Greg P started reading Empire of the Sum by Keith Houston

Empire of the Sum by Keith Houston
The hidden history of the pocket calculator―a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went …
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The hidden history of the pocket calculator―a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went …
A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization.
For readers of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs and Chris Miller’s Chip War, a riveting look at how Apple helped build …
"In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian ... Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the …
This brilliant, multi-million-selling biography is now the inspiration for a major Steven Spielberg film starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
Team of Rivals …
In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an …