Imperial China: 900-1800, F.W. Mote (Harvard University Press, 1999).| www.thepsmiths.com
Becoming a barbarian; an ideological revelry; lockdown; sweetgrass and banana leafs; crankiness; delightful animals; to the mountains| Dan Wang
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age, Eric Berger (BenBella Books, 2024).| www.thepsmiths.com
The Albigensian Crusade, Jonathan Sumption (Faber & Faber, 1978).| www.thepsmiths.com
Sick Societies: Challenging the Myth of Primitive Harmony, Robert B.| www.thepsmiths.com
Our universe is fractally strange, and so are our societies. This is a post dedicated to works of non-fiction which, if you close your eyes or change the names, give the same imaginative thrill as the most daring speculative fiction.| www.thepsmiths.com
The Spirit of the Mountains, Emma Bell Miles (James Pott & Company, 1905).| www.thepsmiths.com
Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food, Fuchsia Dunlop (W.| www.thepsmiths.com
The Education of Cyrus, Xenophon (trans.| www.thepsmiths.com
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century CE to the Third, Edward N.| www.thepsmiths.com
Science in Traditional China, Joseph Needham (Harvard University Press, 1981).| www.thepsmiths.com