Steven Ashley Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

Steven Ashley on X

Freelance sci-tech writer/editor SciAm, NYT, BBC, NOVA, PNAS, NSci, PS, AutoEng, Hakai, FQXi, NBC Modernist Cuisine: 2012 James Beard Award Cookbook of the Year

17 books

Training to Fly: Military Flight Training 1907-1945

U. S. Air Force

Steven Ashley

Ukrainian pilots are already training to fly F-16s, report indicates. “Based on the concept of the Ukrainian Air Force development, we are looking for a multi-role aircraft during the first phase. It cld be some variant of the F-16 fighter jet...” (D) https://t.co/5BINQiqrhO

Paperback, 2015

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Elon Musk

Vance

Steven Ashley

How a Kiwi dishwasher engineer named Peter Beck built Rocket Lab into a challenger to SpaceX... Book excerpt from When the Heavens Went on Sale, by Ashlee Vance (B) , https://t.co/CStW8UMtsz https://t.co/Vw3OAZWjni

Paperback, 2018

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book

What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait

Eden Collinsworth

Steven Ashley

Nice exposition of Leonardo da Vinci's painting methods... From: "What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo da Vinci’s Most Mysterious Portrait" (2022) (BT) https://t.co/ILrbfid5QS

Hardcover, 2022

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Written World and the Unwritten World: Essays

Italo Calvino

Steven Ashley

Over the centuries the habit of reading has transformed Homo sapiens into Homo legens, but this Homo legens isn’t necessarily wiser than before. -- Italo Calvino (ParisReview) https://t.co/d5HYt2juUP

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Statistics Behind the Headlines

A. John Bailer

Steven Ashley

How can journalists improve their use of statistics in their reporting of the world around us? Discussion of a new book: "Statistics Behind the Headlines" (BBC: More or Less) https://t.co/mKWfYbdlh1 https://t.co/6wj4enQSl6

Paperback, 2022

$36.99$18.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach

Ashlee Vance

Steven Ashley

Paperback, 2024

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert A. Caro

Steven Ashley

Robert Moses was a clear racist, but the Jim Crow bridge story in Robert Caro's "The Power Broker" is probably false, historians say... (WP) https://t.co/sDxHjKqBZg

Paperback, 1975

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System: Unlimited Potential--Limited Resources

Timothy P. Albers

Steven Ashley

The USAF flew an E-8C JSTARS Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft over eastern Ukraine for the first time to gather detailed intelligence on the continuing Russian troop buildup in the Dombas region... (CNN) https://t.co/0ESiY3oocp

Paperback, 2012

$57.95$32.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)

The Iliad

Homer

Steven Ashley

A Roman villa containing a rare, well-preserved mosaic depicting Homer's Iliad has been found beneath a farmer's field in Rutland, Midlands, UK. Historic England called it "one of the most remarkable and significant ever found in Britain..." (BBC) https://t.co/VtnwiHbbXR https://t.co/whlYCUnI8r

Paperback, 2024

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation: Florida

U S Fish & Wildlife Service

Steven Ashley

Telltale python prey -- possums and raccoons w/ GPS collars that emit wireless warnings that they've been eaten -- are helping Fish and Wildlife Service hunters track down invasive snakes in the Florida Keys... (WP) https://t.co/FzLbOWxMKY

Paperback, 2015

$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book