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I've been reading this book Kraken. It's about cephalopods mostly so it might be more specific than what you're looking for but it's quite good.

There is also Alien Ocean. Someone recommended it to me and I would like to read it but there is no ebook version so I haven't read it.

If you find anything good let me know would you? I'm interested in this sort of reading as well.

It's weird how science is being used to promote the cause of "justice" over that of knowledge, and that very badly indeed.

For example, while Christakis is right in pointing out that humans share 99% of their DNA with each other, that does not make us significantly similar. We also share 92% of our DNA with a mouse. Small initial differences can add up to large outcome differentials; just ask any meteorologist.

Moreover, if the review is anything to go by, very important social adaptations are shrugged off here as anathema to a "better society", seemingly without much thought as to why they exist. The most important of these adaptations being in-group preference, which has been with us for a lot longer than any other of Christakis' social suite apart from parent-offspring bond, which is effectively the basis for the warm and fuzzy parts of the social suite--but also in-group preference. So it seems that what's at the bottom of the social suite is exactly what's holding "justice" back. This does not bode well for "justice", because traits don't persist for immense stretches of time for no reason at all; they do so because they are adaptive.

I haven't read the book though, so I can only base my impression off the review. And my impression is that it would be wise to pair this with the much more radical and controversial, though paradoxically, the utterly mainstream and impeccably sourced, book of the same name.

Untold History of the US does a pretty good job of this, but I won't say it's a particularly fun read.

There is this trilogy that looks good to me:

https://www.amazon.com/Pax-Britannica-Trilogy-Farewell-Trumpets/dp/B0000COIG4

Side comment: Will we be reading Niall Ferguson's recent biography Henry Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist after this one? As a counterweight to Chomsky, it contains enormous amounts of Kissinger's deep thinking on the conduct of diplomacy and foreign policy.

https://www.amazon.com/1968-Year-That-Rocked-World/dp/0345455827

I don't know for sure if this would have what you're looking for.

Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday
https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Peter-Gawker-Anatomy-Intrigue/dp/0735217645

It's about Peter Thiel bankrolling Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. Read it in a few sittings.

This is the list I have right now, but I might take something off before tomorrow.

Walden – Henry David Thoreau

The Blind Watchmaker – Richard Dawkins


The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains – Nicholas Carr

Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics – John J. Mearsheimer

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster – Svetlana Alexievich