Recently I completed 50 blog posts on books. Most of them are reviews while for some, I wrote in the format of ’10 things I have learnt from this book’. I started writing on books from 2019 during my Masters. Ever since moving to Canada my access to books has greatly increased. First I had access to the books on the University campus then the local library networks. I took library cards from every city I lived in. First it was Vancouver; Vancouver Public Library, then Kelowna; Okanagan Regional Library and finally Langley; Fraser Valley Regional Library. Most of the below books are from these libraries.
Listing out the books below with links:
- Maphead
- Mad like Tesla: Underdog Inventors and their Relentless Pursuit of Clean Energy
- The Castle of Otranto
- Clean Car Wars: How Honda and Toyota are winning the battle of the Eco-Friendly Autos
- Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey
- Let it Shine: The 6,000-year story of solar energy
- Saladin: The life, the legend and the Islamic Empire
- The Engineer in History
- Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century
- China Syndrome: The true story of the 21st century’s first great epidemic
- Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
- At the Mountains of Madness
- How to be an Explorer of the World
- A Concise History of Canada’s First Nations
- Invention by Design: How Engineers get from thought to thing
- The Third Industrial Revolution: How lateral power is transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
- Coal
- A Brief History of Creation: Science and the search for the origin of life
- Simply Electrifying: The Technology that transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
- Apollo’s Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings
- Cool: How Air Conditioning changed everything
- The Battery: How portable power sparked a technological revolution
- Built: The hidden stories behind our structures
- Genghis Khan: and the making of the Modern World.
- After Cooling: on Freon, Global Warming, and the terrible cost of comfort
- Jerusalem: The Biography
- Insane Mode: How Elon Musk’s Tesla sparked an Electric Revolution to end the Age of Oil
- the intel trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Any Grove built the World’s most important company.
- Einstein’s Fridge: How the difference between Hot and Cold explains the Universe
- The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
- How to avoid a climate disaster: The solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need
- The Story of Buildings
- The Age of Wood
- The Last Days of the Incas
- Jungle of Stone: The true story two men, their extraordinary journey, and the discovery of the lost civilization of the Maya
- Conquistadores: a new history of Spanish discovery and conquest
- The Great American Railroad: The History of Trains in America
- Building Canada
- Space Race: The epic battle between America and the Soviet Union for dominion of Space.
- White Mughals: Love and betrayal in eighteenth century India
- Lords of the Deccan: Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas
- Forgotten Muslims Empires of the South India: Bahmani Empire, Madurai, Bijapur, Ahmadnagar, Golconda & Mysore Sultanates
- The Nuclear Barons: The chilling story of how a small band of scientists, generals, politicians, and businessmen created the life-and-death issue confronting us today…our nuclear world.
- How big things get done: The surprising factors that determine the fate of every project, from home renovations to space exploration and everything in between.
- Espana: A brief history of Spain
- The First Shots: The epic rivalries and heroic science behind the race to coronavirus vaccine
- How We Learn: The surprising truth about when, where, and why it happens
- The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a culture of tolerance in Medieval Spain
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