I like books like this, where they try to give you an overview of various fields but from their own personal framework of beliefs. I enjoyed it.

The Alchemy of the Air Thomas Hager’s book may have been one of my favorite non-fiction reads. The topic is fairly niche: this book is about the history of the Haber-Bosch process, a technique which allows us to fix nitrogen from the air. This process is essential to sustaining life on earth via fer...