Matt Ridley Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Biologist | Author of Red Queen, Genome, Rational Optimist, and Viral: The Search for the #OriginOfCovid: https://t.co/wHGfoouaqx
Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
Bill BrowderMatt RidleyFreezing Order by @billbrowder is a fascinating and frightening book. Also a useful road map for navigating the obstacles we face in trying to take on an even bigger totalitarian regime in Viral. https://t.co/tSyv1tQ61E
Paperback, 2023
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Stalin's War: A New History of World War II
Sean McMeekinMatt RidleyIt was not till I read Sean McMeekin's excellent book Stalin's War that I realised that Russia invaded almost as many countries as Germany in 1938-40: Japan, Finland, Poland, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
Paperback, 2022
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara DemickMatt RidleyTruly extraordinary of the @BBCNews. They might try reading Barbara Demick's fine book about the last major N Korean famine "Nothing to Envy". https://t.co/rMEzCK9NpD
Paperback, 2010
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How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
Matt RidleyMatt RidleyThe great Gordon Moore has died at the age of 94. Pioneer at the heart of the silicon revolution. In my book How Innovation Works I described how he was an unusual innovator in being easy-going, quiet and non-migratory: https://t.co/okCWJpbUWV
Paperback, 2021
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Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca
Ferdinand MountMatt RidleyI have just finished reading a very, very good book. Gasp-inducingly surprising again and again. Funny. Lyrical. Grand. Ingenious. Mysterious. Sad. Gripping. It's about an aunt. It's true...in the end. It's called Kiss Myself Goodbye, by Ferdinand Mount.
Paperback, 2022
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Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19
Matt RidleyMatt Ridley"The case for and against is put very succinctly in Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley. But you would have to be very close-minded not to entertain the possibility that [it began with a lab accident]." https://t.co/MWsCZsyXXW
Paperback, 2022
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The Descent Of Man
Charles DarwinMatt Ridley"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." Charles Darwin, in the Descent of Man.
Paperback, 2017
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Viral
Alina ChanMatt RidleyRT @RupertDarwall: Alina Chan & Matt Ridley's Viral makes for compelling reading as an evidence-led account of the most important subject o…
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