David Friedberg Book Recommendations

A gripping tale unfolds within the Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone. Corleone must stand with only his singular drive to protect his family's honor and power with the ultimate costs when the peace of his empire is shattered. Loyalty, ambition, and treachery shine a dark light on the intricate code of conduct of the mob vividly at odds, one with the other.

From "Lifespan," David A. Sinclair (Harvard Medical School) dives into the radical scientific study of aging. He postulates that the process of aging is a disease, which, like any other, is treatable and reversable. This groundbreaking book opens new doors on possible lifestyle choices and on enhancements to technology that might extend the human life span. The author presents compelling research on how changes in our genes may allow humans to hold back the clock of aging to live longer and healthier lives. It challenges the traditional views on aging and suggests a future where living well into our hundreds might be a reality.

In this enlightening book, the author argues how the world is in fact getting better, not worse, thanks to values of the Enlightenment such as reason, science, and humanism. He provides abundant data indicating improvement in health, wealth, safety, peace, and happiness which run contrary to the prevailing negativism in today's media. The book calls on its readers to appreciate the strides made by humanity and keep on supporting Enlightenment principles in order to correct present and future ills. It is a very persuasive appeal for optimism and reasoned thinking in a world that all too frequently tends towards pessimism.

The book logically scrutinizes historical patterns with a view to making future forecasts of the global economy while providing insight into rising and falling nations, producing a provocative discussion about both economic cycles and geopolitical shifts, and offering strategies for navigating today's changing world order.

Meets the current challenge of climate change by providing the viewer effective steps in which one could cut carbon emissions. Through scientific research and technological innovation, it is an effective example of how environmental catastrophe can be avoided, focusing on collective action and policy change.

A collection of portraits and stories that celebrate the many roads American immigrants have traveled in their pursuit of freedom, dignity, and self-expression, united by principles of hard work and shared values, fulfilling and enriching the ongoing American story of people living life in different ways than from their countries of origin.

What is the most fundamental question that biology had to answer-how life had arisen and had been surviving on Earth? Trace where the source of the energy that starts life powers is in search of the magic role mitochondria play in fueling the existence and evolution of complex life.

Examine the annals of Bell Laboratories, whose innovations were unparalleled and whose single greatest contribution to technology and society remained untethered. It gives insight into the environment, the culture and dynamism that brought changes to our modern world with revolutionary discoveries.

It tells history and opens up a vulnerability of the electrical grid that lies in the heart of modernity but is also finding its way into those foreseen ways of future renewable energy. It discloses how much effort it costs to present mechanisms and physical principles in such a bright and exciting way.

This is an inside look at the American prison system; everyone entering it gets to feel and understand what it has to offer. It highlights the reform that needs to be affected, exactly because of the exposure of prison conditions and realities in a convict's life, while documenting changes that must be made in order to remedy the penal system at large.

It describes how such an invention could shake the whole wide world. Hager draws on scientific revelatory findings and gripping history of a process that has strived toward feeding billions.

"Titan" is the biography of one John D. Rockefeller, Sr., founder of Standard Oil Company, America's first billionaire and patriarch of a dynasty that remains one of the most powerful business institutions on earth. From his humble beginnings to building an oil empire that literally monopolized American industry, Rockefeller's life was one of relentless ambition, controversy, and philanthropy. Economically and socially associated with the legacy, clearly comes out through this story of wealth and power.

Chronicles the discovery of a device that allows access to all of Earth's past history, changing society as well as personal relationships, focusing on matters of secrecy and history. It involves themes of secrecy, history, and what exactly describes human condition while combining science fiction with philosophical and evocative questions.

Explores the marvellous and sometimes horrifying world of parasites. Zimmer reveals their complex life cycles and how they affect ecosystems and human health in fundamental ways that directly challenge our perception of life and its evolution.

Chronicles the life of Thomas Edison, focusing on his inventions and the impact of his work on modern society. There in detail is how Edison with his genius and perseverance made it possible for modern technology to be born.

Based on a new set of physics principles, the book explores for life's origin, a phenomenon it refers to as its "origin". England develops a new integrative framework for the understanding of life's origins as both science and philosophy, wherein it is investigated how life can indeed arise from nonliving matter.

Every organization wants to have an identity—helping it stand out and be distinct from the competition. Wheeler and Meyerson forge a theory of "branding" that offers a framework of the brand-building process itself with identification of specific methodologies through which compelling brand images can be imagined and created. Focuses on the process through which truly revolutionary discoveries are made.