Storia do Mogor; or, Mogul India 1653-1708 (vols. 1 and 2), Niccolao Manucci, (trans. William Irvine, John Murray, 1907).| www.thepsmiths.com
Imperial China: 900-1800, F.W. Mote (Harvard University Press, 1999).| 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
We try pretty hard to review good books we think are worth reading.| www.thepsmiths.com
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit, Ashley Mears (Princeton University Press, 2021).| www.thepsmiths.com
The Education of Cyrus, Xenophon (trans.| www.thepsmiths.com
This is an excerpt from the draft of my upcoming book on great founder theory. It was originally published on SamoBurja.com. You can access…| Medium
The Variational Principles of Mechanics, Cornelius Lanczos (University of Toronto Press, 1949).| www.thepsmiths.com