What is Real?
My current listen on Audible: What is Real? by Adam Becker. Description: “Every physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity’s finest scientific achievements. But ask …
Recommended Books
The Tao of Wing Chun
And before the book What is Real, I listened to the Tao of Wing Chun. Good book. Interesting stuff. Description: “Wing Chun is the most …
Advanced Histories of Philosophy
Some excellent histories of philosophy, from what I am told by good authority. I have known about those of Windelband for decades; I need to …
Good Grammar Book
A recommended book on writing, composition, and grammar is Writing and Thinking by Foerster and Steadman. I finally looked it up on the Internet Archive, …
Fire-Hunter by Jim Kjelgaard
Fire-Hunter by Jim Kjelgaard is a good book about a man and a woman in prehistoric times who get kicked out of their hunter-gatherer tribe …
Recommended: “The Boy Mechanic”
The Boy Mechanic: Things For Boys To Do is a good book from Popular Mechanics in 1913. (Also on The Internet Archive.) There is also …
The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of American Aviation by Quentin Reynolds
This book does a good job of showing — in a general, introductory way — the inductions the Wright Brothers made and the skills they …
20th Century High School Biology Textbooks Reviewed and Ranked
The website Textbook History is a good resource for old biology books. Ronald Ladouceur provides: A database of 82 American high school biology textbooks, from …
Breck Bartholomew Natural History Books
Interesting Website here. It discusses and links to lots of books and scientific work about animals we’d otherwise not know about. Rare Natural History is part …
Resource For Old Textbooks
In the document Early American Textbooks, the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, of the US Department of Education, says: Nothing gives us insight into …