Interviewer
Philip Schneider
Interviews by Philip Schneider
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1
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
by Francis Fukuyama -
2
Seeing Like a State
by James C Scott -
3
The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics
by Edna Ernestine Kramer -
4
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams -
5
Finite and Infinite Games
by James Carse
The best books on How the World Works, recommended by Venkatesh Rao
The best books on How the World Works, recommended by Venkatesh Rao
Armed with one of the 'big histories' currently in vogue, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and a tome about how modern maths came to be, you too can get a grip on how the world works. Tech blogger Venkatesh Rao chooses some good books for those who agree with Socrates that 'for a human being, the unexamined life is not worth living.'
