Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
8 best books like Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness (Donald L. Barlett): D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012, The Best American Short Stories 2014, Howard Hughes: The Untold Story, Samuel Adams: A Life, Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
| Author | Stephen E. Ambrose |
| ISBN | 0743449746 |
It is the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and brought up in the bitter realities of the Depression of the 1930s that this book is about. The literature they read as youngsters was anti-war and cynical, portraying patriots as suckers, slackers and heroes. None of them wanted to be part...
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
| Author | Nick Bostrom |
| ISBN | 0199678111 |
The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains.
If machine brains one day come to surpass human...
“Undeniably exquisite . . . The essays in the collection [are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.” — Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
“A stimulating compendium.” — Kirkus Reviews
Pulitzer...
| Author | Dan Ariely |
| ISBN | 0547799535 |
The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special...
| Author | Jennifer Egan |
| ISBN | 0547819226 |
“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” — Shelf Awareness for Readers
The Best American Short Stories 2014 will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize...
| Author | Peter Harry Brown |
| ISBN | 0306813920 |
Howard Hughes was one of the most amazing, intriguing, and controversial figures of the twentieth century. He was the billionaire head of a giant corporation, a genius inventor, an ace pilot, a matinee-idol-handsome playboy, a major movie maker who bedded a long list of Hollywood glamour queens,...
| Author | Ira Stoll |
| ISBN | 0743299116 |
The gripping story of the man who was the American Revolution’s moral compass—Ira Stoll tells readers who Samuel Adams was, why he has been forgotten, and why he must be remembered. Thomas Jefferson called Samuel Adams “truly the man of the Revolution.” Adams, filled with religious...
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
| Author | J.E. Gordon |
| ISBN | 0306812835 |
In a book that Business Insider noted as one of the "14 Books that inspired Elon Musk," J.E. Gordon strips engineering of its confusing technical terms, communicating its founding principles in accessible, witty prose.
For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges don't collapse...
