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Geopolitics & Semiconductor Engineering·2022
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By Chris Miller
An extraordinary exploration of the global semiconductor industry, explaining how microchips became the world's most critical resource and the foundation of modern military and economic power. A must-read for understanding silicon manufacturing supply chains.
Enjoyable Books
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
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How Big Things Get Done
How To Build A Car
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
The Innovators
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
SHELF I: TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION
Steve Jobs
Elon Musk
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
SHELF II: BIOGRAPHY
Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design & Evolution
The Design of Everyday Things
The Practical Guide to Design Theory
SHELF III: SCIENCE & CREATIVITY
The Martian
Dune
Brave New World
1984
SHELF IV: SPECULATIVE FICTION
The Great Gatsby
The Metamorphosis
In the Penal Colony
The Judgment
White Nights
So Late in the Day
SHELF V: LITERARY FICTION
Reading List
✶ a particularly good read
- Soft Robotics: Building Machines From Soft Matter Mihai Duduta
- This Is for Everyone Tim Berners-Lee
- The Design of Everyday Things Don Norman
- Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making ✶ Tony Fadell
- Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life Stephen J. Campbell
- So Late in the Day Claire Keegan
- Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
- In the Penal Colony Franz Kafka
- The Judgement Franz Kafka
- The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici ✶ Christopher Hibbert
- Ghost Circuits Thrishantha Nanayakkara
- This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Quantum Drama ✶ Jim Baggott & John L. Heilbron
- Flights of Fancy Richard Dawkins
- Dune ✶ Frank Herbert
- Oppenheimer: American Prometheus ✶ Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
- Apple in China ✶ Patrick McGee
- The Great Gatsby ✶ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Innovators Walter Isaacson
- White Nights Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Brave New World Aldous Huxley
- How Big Things Get Done Flyvbjerg & Gardner
- Nineteen Eighty-Four ✶ George Orwell
- The Martian Andy Weir
- Chip War ✶ Chris Miller
- The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
- Harry Potter collection J.K. Rowling
- Elon Musk Walter Isaacson
- Project Hail Mary Andy Weir
- The Road to Reality Roger Penrose
- Brief Answers to the Big Questions Stephen Hawking
- Physics of the Future Michio Kaku
- How to Solve It George Pólya
- Space Tim Peake
- SPQR Mary Beard
- Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann
- Tony Ryan: Ireland’s Aviator Richard Aldous
- Research Design John W. Creswell
- Babel R.F. Kuang
- Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Middlemarch George Eliot
- Ulysses James Joyce
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
- Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
- The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
- The Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Poirot Collection Agatha Christie
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy ✶ J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
- Born to Run Michael Morpurgo
- Roald Dahl collection Roald Dahl