Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
6 best books like Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens (Andrea Wulf): The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, Chaos: Making a New Science, Showa, 1926-1939: A History of Japan, Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success, The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life: Volume 1, Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
| Author | James Gleick |
| ISBN | 0375423729 |
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
The...
Chaos: Making a New Science
| Author | James Gleick |
| ISBN | 0140092501 |
Few writers distinguish themselves by their ability to write about complicated, even obscure topics clearly and engagingly. In Chaos, James Gleick, a former science writer for the New York Times, shows that he resides in this exclusive category. Here he takes on the job of depicting the first years...
Showa, 1926-1939: A History of Japan
| Author | Shigeru Mizuki |
| ISBN | 1770461353 |
A fascinating period in Japanese history explored by a master of manga
"Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan" is the first volume of Shigeru Mizuki's meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth-century Japan. This volume deals with the period leading up to World War II, a time of...
Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success
| Author | Kerry Patterson |
| ISBN | 0446573914 |
A stunning new approach to how individuals can not only change their lives for the better in the workplace, but also their lives away from the office, including (but not limited to) finding ways to improve one's working relationship with others, one's overall health, outlook on life, and so on.
For...
The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life: Volume 1
| Author | Drunvalo Melchizedek |
| ISBN | 1891824171 |
This book is out there. Drunvalo tells you everything, the secrets of the past and the future for only $25 US. He describes in full detail what will happen when we move into the fourth dimension. He explains why an ancient race of aliens mined for gold in Africa and created humans as slaves (to fix their atmosphere...
Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation
| Author | Alan W. Watts |
| ISBN | 1577312147 |
"You must understand that in meditation, we are concerned only with what is, with reality, nothing else. The past is a memory. The future, an expectation. Neither past nor future actually exist. There is simply eternal now. So don't seek or expect a result from what you are doing. That wouldn't be true...
