I’m currently reading The Case for Space by Robert Zubrin and it’s really good. You can tell the guy dedicated his career and life to really thinking about how humans might live in Space, whether that be on the Moon, Mars or in the Asteroid Belt.
I recently read Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoğlu and that was also very good, it explained the shortcomings of other theories such as the geographic determinism espoused by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs and Steel although I think Why Nations Fail was a bit repetitive at times.
Not necessarily a favorite, but the next to last one I read recently was Hollywood’s Copyright Wars by Peter Decherney, which was a fascinating historical overview of the emergence of today’s film/tv copyright situation in the United States.
It doesn’t get deep into the differences between the U.S. and Europe, but it does highlight them and it’s interesting how they initially caused a delay in international agreements. I’d have to review it, but as I recall it had a fair amount to do with the creators ceding rights to businesses vs. retaining them respectively.
How Music Got Free
Yeah, it was a good nostalgia trip back to the days of LimeWire and Kazaa. When you didn’t know if the_kids_arent_alright.mp3 was going to be The Offspring or a Bill Clinton speech…
The last non-fiction book I read, that I enjoyed, was The Winter Fortress by Neal Bascomb. It’s about a team of saboteurs hiding out from the Nazis. They were instrumental in delaying Hitler from creating the components necessary to make nuclear weapons.
Into Thin Air was a great read! I also highly recommend Devil in the White City.
Anything by James Rebanks. His two books are on my mind a lot. It’s about sheepherding in the fells of England.
