Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?

Re:Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field ... by alexashka on Sunday March 27, 2022 @05:34PM (#30824371)

I think there ought to be a book that explains how the modern world works at large, that'd include many many fields of study and explain how they all work together.

I'm not aware of anything of the sort. If anyone else knows, let me know :)

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Re:Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field ... by talliedthoughts on Sunday March 27, 2022 @05:48PM (#30824488)

Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but I found this entertaining:

How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39026990-how-to-invent-e...

It's written in a comedic style, and takes you through what you would need to build to "reimplement modern civilization" if you found yourself stuck back in time.

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Re:Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field ... by marttt on Monday March 28, 2022 @02:15AM (#30827625)

Maybe try "Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It" by David Fleming. Really interesting structure; basically it's, indeed, a "dictionary". Took the author more than 30 years to write (sadly, he passed away before finishing it entirely). Amazing effort, really.

About David Fleming and the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fleming_(writer)

Apparently there's also an online version of the whole work: https://leanlogic.online/

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