1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus By: Charles Mann 2006 541 pages Mann draws on recent scholarship to offer a radical picture of American history before the arrival of Columbus. This book tours major American civilizations arguing for their sophistication and scale. Mann builds a case for extensive settlement across the continents starting over 30,000 […]
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto By Stewart Brand 2009 336 pages Brand, the founding editor of the influential Whole Earth Catalog charts a new course for he 21st century environmental movement taking a pragmatic approach to many issues dogmatically dismissed by traditional greens. Cities, Nuclear, and Genetic Crops have been derided as the cause […]
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street By Justin Fox 2009 400 pages A history of the Rational Market hypothesis. Chronicles the first rigorous use of mathematics and game theory to study economic behavior, the people who did it and its effects on financial markets. Documents […]