Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come

By Richard Preston (2019) Pages: 369, Final verdict: Great-read The ebola epidemic of 2014 sent shock waves of terror across the globe. As the virus spread with unstoppable force across West Africa, the world was flooded with images of the people covered in full body suits, plastic tents turned into... Read more

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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

By John Carreyrou (2018) Pages: 320,Final verdict: Should-read She was once dubbed the next Steve Jobs. Amassing a fortune once estimated in 4.5 billion USD, Elizabeth Holmes and her biotech startup Theranos were the darlings of Silicon Valley. But then, following an investigation done by John Carreyrou and... Read more

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The Shortest History of Europe

by John Hirst (2009) Pages: 193, Final verdict: Great-read I think we all know a bit of European history. It all started in ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. The fall of the Empire gave birth to the Middle Ages, which ended with the Renaissance, where a bunch of art... Read more

History

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

By Yuval Noah Harari (2015) Pages: 450, Final verdict: Great-read Ever since Sapiens: A History of Mankind [https://www.betaglyph.com/sapiens/] came out in 2014, Yuval Noah Harari has taken over the world of publishing by storm. Sapiens, which we reviewed last year, recounts the history of our species... Read more

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Sapiens: A brief history of mankind

By Yuval Noah Harari (2011) Pages: 443, Final verdict: Must-read How did our species come to dominate the world? What were the decisive factors that turned insignificant descendants of apes into an intelligent and social species capable of travelling to faraway lands, assert its dominance worldwide, and even adventure into... Read more

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