I very much enjoy reading non-fiction books and magazines. I have compiled a Non-Fiction Reading List of books (currently a list of over 310) that I have read or used and recommend. The List includes links to the homepages of some of the authors. I have also been trying LibraryThing.
I am currently reading:
"The War That Ended Peace - How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War" by Margaret MacMillan - I have reached page 296
"The World - A Family History" by Simon Sebag Montefiore - I have reached page 277
"New Zealand's Foreign Service A History" - edited by Ian McGibbon - I have reached page 108
I have finished reading:
"Mission Economy - A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism" by Mariana Mazzucato
"Four Years a Prince of Tonga 1806-1810" by T. L. P. Lavulo
"How the World Ran Out of Everything - Inside the Global Supply Chain" by Peter S Goodman
"East Wind, Rain - The Intimate Account of an Intelligence Officer in the Pacific 1939-49" by Elliot R. Thorpe
"Harrier 809 - Britain's Legendary Jump Jet and the Untold Story of the Falklands War" by Rowland White
"Golf Science - Optimum Performance from Tee to Green" edited by Mark F. Smith
"Colonialism - A Moral Reckoning" by Nigel Biggar
"Politics on the Edge - A Memoir from Within" by Rory Stewart
"How Big Things Get Done" by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
"Slouching Towards Utopia - an Economic History of the Twentieth Century" by J Bradford DeLong
"On the Record" by Steven Joyce
"From the Pilot's Seat - Kiwi Adventurers in the Sky" by Fletcher McKenzie
"Blue Blood - the inside story of the National Party in crisis" by Andrea Vance
"Yes, Minister - an insider's account of the John Key years" by Christopher Finlayson
"Railways & The Raj - How the Age of Steam Transformed India" by Christian Wolmar
"The Square and the Tower - Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power" by Niall Ferguson
"Bullet Magnet" by Mick Flynn
"Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy" by Tim Harford
"First Victory:1914 - HMAS Sydney’s hunt for the German raider Emden" by Mike Carlton
I have been reading:
"The Death of Expertise - The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters" by Tom Nichols - I have reached page 26
"Superforecasting - The Art & Science of Prediction" by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner - I have reached page 126
"Falling Upwards - How We Took to the Air" by Richard Holmes - I have reached page 58
"Why Nations Fail - The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty" by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson - I have reached page 76
"Thinking, fast and slow" by Daniel Kahneman - I have reached page 29
"Bailout Nation - How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy" by Barry Ritholtz with Aaron Task - I have reached page 63
"The Art of Strategy - A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life" by Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff - I have reached page 36
"Animal Spirits - How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism" by George A. Akerloff and Robert B. Shiller - I have reached page 28
"The Accidental Guerrilla - Fighting small wars in the midst of a big one" by David Kilcullen - I have reached page 74
"The Civil War - 2" by Shelby Foote - I have reached page 523
"Public International Air Law" by Paul Stephen Dempsey - I am reading it out of order and am at page 664
"Ideas - A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud " by Peter Watson - I have reached page 100
"A Perfect Mess - The Hidden Benefits of Disorder" by Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman - I have reached page 29
"The Toyota Way - 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer" by Jeffrey K. Liker - I have reached page 118
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