RHP's Reading List
The case for space - Robert Zubrin
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Range, David Epstein, Generalists as opposed to Specialists, https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Range
Dead Mountain, “Oh nice. More on Steinbeck later. The book is called Dead Mountain. About a group of Russian hikers in 1959 who were misteriously killed in the Northern Ural Mountains in the winter. It starts with a criminal investigation and ends with a scientific explanation.” -Jon Orr
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin
Genly Ai is an emissary from the human galaxy to Winter, a lost, stray world. His mission is to bring the planet back into the fold of an evolving galactic civilization, but to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own culture and prejudices and those that he encounters. On a planet where people are of no gender--or both--this is a broad gulf indeed. The inventiveness and delicacy with which Le Guin portrays her alien world are not only unusual and inspiring, they are fundamental to almost all decent science fiction that has been written since. In fact, reading Le Guin again may cause the eye to narrow somewhat disapprovingly at the younger generation: what new ground are they breaking that is not already explored here with greater skill and acumen? It cannot be said, however, that this is a rollicking good story. Le Guin takes a lot of time to explore her characters, the world of her creation, and the philosophical themes that arise.
If there were a canon of classic science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness would be included without debate.
Takeover - Viguerie
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform since Sputnik - Chester Finn (2008)
The Road Not Taken - Max Boot (2018, CIA in Vietnam)
Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It, by David L Bahnsen (2018)
How we know what isn’t so: The fallibility of human reason in everyday life - Thomas Gilovich
Carmilla: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10007/10007-h/10007-h.htm
Bernard Cornwell - Richard Sharp series (2012)
Predictable Irrationality (2009) Meditations on Hunting; Ortega y Gasset, Jose
Bambi Syndrome; Natural History,June, 1993
Game Management; Leopold, Aldo
Hunter's Heart; Petersen, David
New Women of the Ice Age; Discover, April 1998
Insightful Sportsman; Williams, Ted
The Little Ice Age - Fagan
A Cook's Tour, Anthony Bourdain
Last days of last island, Bill Dixon
Isaac's Storm, Erik Larson
The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown. Here's how., Danie Coyle, recommended for shooters, read it twice.
The little book of talent: 52 tips for improving your skills, Daniel Coyle
Novel recommendation: The Ballad of Perilous Graves.
Double Entry, how the merchants of Venice created modern finance.
Retribution, Prit Buttar, Soviet Riposte 1943, https://www.amazon.com/Retribution-Soviet-Reconquest-Central-Ukraine/dp/1472835328
Calculus Reordered by David Bressoud
Bonus: Where Is My Flying Car? By J. Storrs Hall via Stripe Press
Ignition, An informal l history of liquid rocket propellants by John D Clark, “Most entertaining chemistry book ever” - Scott Manley
A book on how the Marshall Plan was accepted in the US.
Special Functions for Engineers and Applied Mathematicians, Larry C Andrews
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire Hardcover – January 24, 2017
by Stephen Kinzer (Author)
ARI WALLACH, author of “Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs — An Antidote to Short-Termism”
Thomas Winslow Hazlett
The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone
Dragons Egg, Robert Forward, science fiction
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
Anton Myrer’s 1968 novel, Once an Eagle, contrasted the Army career of the obsequious Courtney Massengale with that of the muddy-booted warrior Sam Damon. In The Centurions, Jean Lartéguy’s classic 1960 novel about the French campaigns in Indochina and Algeria, one character wishes there could be two distinct armies—one for display in polite society and one engaged in the dirty business of winning battles.
A World of My Own (The single-handed, non-stop circumnavigation of the world in Suhaili) -Knox-Johnston, Brian
High Conflict- Amanda Ripley
