Nonfiction Advisory
The Knowledge
Lewis Dartnell identifies the scientific and technical knowledge that could help a community recover essential systems after a severe civilizational disruption.
Worth Reading
Independent reading selections for creativity, craft, curiosity, and meaning.
Worth Reading is AuthZ’s shelf of independent reading selections, not a collection of literary essays. We choose books that help people create, develop their craft, follow their curiosity, or find language for questions that matter to them. Each note explains what a book might make possible in a reader’s life.
All recommendations and reflections represent our own opinions. AuthZ accepts no payment, review copies, affiliate commissions, or other consideration for these selections. Entries do not link to retailers, publishers, libraries, or other acquisition services.
Nonfiction Advisory
Lewis Dartnell identifies the scientific and technical knowledge that could help a community recover essential systems after a severe civilizational disruption.
Nonfiction Advisory
Nassim Nicholas Taleb challenges our confidence in forecasts and asks readers to take rare, high-impact events seriously.
Nonfiction Advisory
Jacob Bronowski follows the development of human knowledge to show science as an imaginative and ethical practice, not a collection of facts.