Interesting Books

A few books I've found worth reading, across the fields I keep returning to.

Philosophy

• Transformative Experience — L. A. Paul
• Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming — Agnes Callard
• Naming and Necessity — Saul Kripke
• David Hume on Miracles, Evidence, and Probability — William L. Vanderburgh

Africa

• Children's Work in African Agriculture: The Harmful and the Harmless — James Sumberg and Rachel Sabates-Wheeler (eds.)
• Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa — Joanna Davidson
• The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa — Calestous Juma
• Shifting Cultivation and Secondary Succession in the Tropics — Albert O. Aweto
• Cracking the Code: The Confused Traveler's Guide to Liberian English — 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 — Robert B. Marks
• Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time — Reinhart Koselleck
• The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself — Andrew Pettegree
• The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853–1937 — Kenneth Pomeranz
• Reform in Sung China: Wang An-Shih (1021–1086) and His New Policies — James T. C. Liu
• The Religious Ethic and Mercantile Spirit in Early Modern China — Ying-Shih Yu
• Treason by the Book: Traitors, Conspirators and Guardians of an Emperor — Jonathan Spence

Pedagogy

• Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures — Eric R. Kandel
• Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning — George Pólya
• The Power of Mathematical Visualization — James Tanton
• Make: Calculus — Build models to learn, visualize, and explore — Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron