Interesting books
Philosophy
Transformative Experience by L.A. Paul
Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming by Agnes Callard
Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke
Africa
Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa by Joanna Davidson
The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa by Calestous Juma
Shifting Cultivation and Secondary Succession in the Tropics by Albert O Aweto
Cracking the Code: The Confused Traveler's Guide to Liberian English by John Mark Sheppard
The Cassava Transformation: Africa's Best-Kept Secret
History
The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century by Robert B. Marks
The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853-1937 by Kenneth Pomeranz
Reform in Sung China: Wang An-Shih (1021-1086) and His New Policies by James T.C. Liu
The Religious Ethic and Mercantile Spirit in Early Modern China by Ying-Shih Yu
Treason By The Book: Traitors, Conspirators and Guardians of an Emperor by Jonathan Spence
Pedagogy
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures by Eric R. Kandel
Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning by George Polya
The Power of Mathematical Visualization by James Tanton
Make: Calculus: Build models to learn, visualize, and explore by Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron