What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier
10 best books like What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier (James Gleick): Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, 1971-1984, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, 1421: The Year China Discovered America, The Secret Commonwealth, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850, Aristotle in 90 Minutes, Game Over: Jerry Sandusky, Penn State, and the Culture of Silence, Ten Acres Enough: The Classic 1864 Guide to Independent Farming, Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000, The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal & the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
| Author | Van Burnham |
| ISBN | 0262024926 |
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Arts & Entertainment : Book Review
No Quarter
By Glenn Dixon • December 7, 2001
If you think videogame history is in its infancy, just get a load of videogame historiography. Stick to the stuff in English and it makes for a mighty short bookshelf:...
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
| Author | Jared Diamond |
| ISBN | 0739467352 |
"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years."
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of...
1421: The Year China Discovered America
On 3/8/1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" & unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. When it returned in 10/1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving...
| Author | Philip Pullman |
| ISBN | 1448194512 |
It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey.
It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end...
| Author | Brian M. Fagan |
| ISBN | 0465022723 |
The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how this altered climate affected historical events, and what it means for today's global warming. Building on research that has only recently confirmed that the world endured...
| Author | Paul Strathern |
| ISBN | 1566631254 |
Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, from speculations on the nature of the soul to meteorology, poetry and art, and even the interpretation of dreams. Apart from mathematics, he transformed every field of knowledge that he touched. Above all, Aristotle is credited...
| Author | Bill Moushey |
| ISBN | 0062201131 |
The shocking details chronicling how a beloved coach and esteemed university became enmeshed in one of the worst scandals in U.S. sports history
It's a scandal that began in a place called Happy Valley. But it's not as happy as it once was, as the child-sex-abuse charges against a longtime coach...
When author Edmund Morris left the Philadelphia business world in the early 1800s and bought a small farm in the New Jersey countryside, he was so pleased with the results of his venture that he decided to tell others how he accomplished it.
His simply written chronicle — one of the most popular...
| Author | Barry W. Cunliffe |
| ISBN | 0300119232 |
In this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe reframes our entire conception of early European history, from prehistory through the ancient world to the medieval Viking period. Cunliffe views Europe not in terms of states and shifting political land boundaries but as a...
| Author | Robert L. O'Connell |
| ISBN | 1400067022 |
A stirring account of the most influential battle in history: For millennia, Carthage's triumph over Rome at Cannae in 216 BCE has inspired reverent awe. It was the battle that countless armies tried to imitate, most notably in World Wars I & II, the battle that obsessed military minds. Yet no general...
