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Hacking investigates the early history of ideas concerning probability and inference from statistical data.

For my money, there just aren’t many non-fiction subjects that are as interesting as the theory of evolution. With twists, turns, and mind-blowing revelations Darwinism fascinates and enlightens.

This book introduces sexual selection theory, a branch of evolutionary theory invented by Darwin but only recently coming into its own.

Miller argues that much of what is unique about the human mind is a product not of natural selection for survival, but of sexual selection for reproduction.

A very good introduction to the Middle Ages, from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance.

Using historical sources and the Bard’s own writing, Greenblatt speculates on how Shakespeare came to be one of history’s great playwrights.

Mallon surveys diarists and their writing over the centuries.

The author recounts his cross-country trip with the brain of Albert Einstein. Special appearance by William Burroughs.

I thought it wouldn’t live up to the hype, but it did. Excellent.

A pretty decent novel about uncovering a code in a five-hundred year old novel. Except that the codes used would easily fall to modern code-breaking techniques without the need to solve the puzzles.

An account of Stewart’s time as a civilian administrator in the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.

A former park ranger recounts his time on the American River in Northern California.