Stephen was working on it before he died, and it has been completed in collaboration with his family, friends and colleagues.
Non-fiction
“Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination”
If you would go by some popular science magazines and conventional wisdom – when it comes to differences between men and women science is settled. We know exactly what the differences are, what are the strong points of being a man and what are the strong points of being a woman.
One of the things that has great potential to irritate is the denial of fundamental, proven scientific truths. A lot of confusion can come from the fact that a scientific theory is very different from the regular understanding of the word “theory”.
This time in the Book Recommendations I will be talking about a fascinating, heartbreaking book that touches upon a topic which many of us have a problem facing – the human-induced disappearance of species from Earth.
21 lessons for the 21st century by Yuval Noah Harari. It’s a great book by a brilliant…
WHY are you “automatically” good if you do certain things, we might ask – or we might dismiss such a question with a thought of the sort “because stealing is against the law”. Ok, but what about lying? Or cheating, for that matter? Are the answers always so clear? What about if you’re lying, cheating or stealing to prevent or stop a greater injustice?
This book was first published in 1975, and it’s considered by many to be profound and groundbreaking. And with good reason. Let’s explore some of these reasons here and try to look at why is it so profound, why after 45 years it’s still very relevant and why you should read it.